The Armour Archive

Johannes

Count the number of links on the top row, then divide by four to give your your locatin quarters. Divide the mail into 4 equal quarters by tying string to the link. Tack the 4 quarters to your attachment strap at the proper spot (the face opening gets defined first), then adjust the link spacing as ...

Johannes

Depending on the dates, I'd like to try to make this one. June is busy next year, though.

Johannes

I hadn't thought of it in respect to the SCA cookie culture, but more along the story of Froissart seeking out living participants for his work, and finding even the least of them famous to an extent in their own region. I have never needed an outward sign of my activities, but sometimes it is nice ...

Johannes

thunderwinde wrote:
Murdock wrote:And recruitment for next year is already up and running!!! If you wanna fight for England...LET ME KNOW!!
I shall be fighting for St George again next year... gotta earn myself a garter like we talked about

This sounds promising, want to fill us in?

Johannes

Adam: You and the Priory are missed more than you know, and were discussed at some length this year. If any of you can make the return to the 30, please find a way, your lack has been felt. If any of you is too injured to fight, please attend and act as Kings of Arms. I would heartily echo Johannes...

Johannes

After a few years on the sideline with an injury, I got to fight again this year. This and the deed we fought a couple days later made this my favorite Pennsic in a long time. Adam: You and the Priory are missed more than you know, and were discussed at some length this year. If any of you can make ...

Johannes

Glad to hear it got there, finally! That reminds me I need to order replacement punches...

Johannes

I just use white glue and the wedges to hold these on, if it loosens, drive another wedge in. If it continues to be an issue, try crossdrilling the guard at an angle and then use a shovel rivet from the hardware store for go through the rattan. The angle helps keep the stress of blows from breaking ...

Johannes

So you're comparing a premium machined pommel to our standard cast one in an "unbiased" review of a product you sell? Nice. Our premium turned wheel pommel has an oblong hole and a deeper mounting well, btw and is in the same price range as the Hessen one at a fraction of the weight if you are looki...

Johannes

The welded construction leads me to think Armour Store/ Brand

Johannes

Not one of mine, and doesn't show the signs of Roderick, either, but he was building stuff a long time.

Johannes

That B&W suit is very nice. Hope it finds a home soon.

Johannes

Gregoire, Working off the cuff since I'm not at the office, I believe the tips all come with 6- 1.5" diameter discs of 1/8" thick 2# EVA foam. The discs are meant to be used as needed to make the tip work on various thicknesses of rattan shaft, the larger the shaft, the fewer disks are usually neede...

Johannes

Only for TI, I think he's going to go to round wire to ease the wear on his machines and because it will be more durable. His stainless stuff will still be flat ring. And this could change tomorrow if he decides to keep doing it the old way. I know he had me pull the order feature off his web site a...

Johannes

We discussed it last week, he's probably going to shift away from the flat wire, as it is eating up his link makers something fierce, and durability has been an issue. I know he's tired of fixing aventails that get set over grills, lol.

Johannes

No worries, guys, we know about them having our stuff. We have a number of people who sell our stuff, up to and including Icefalcon, and if their prices are more than a nickel cheaper than ours it is likely that they are sitting on old stock that was purchased before we had to raise prices when new ...

Johannes

The cast ones are mostly in stock, but we are out of the square style for the moment.

Verveilles

Johannes

Looks like we got cleaned out of these at Gulf and Estrella, as I only have one left. They are machined from 6061 and usually shipped with a tumbled finish. The center hole is oblong. I'll be making a restock order very soon.

Johannes

We have a machined flat guard, as well. I designed it for people who were trying to get away from the up sweep. As it turns out, I can't find it on the web site, it may have gone missing on the last site upgrade. I'll see if I can get that straightened out this week.

Johannes

We have those, just not on the web site. Shoot Anita an email: sales@windrosearmoury.com

Johannes

Thanks, guys! The shipping Calculator we use is barely even a guideline, so we try to make sure we do right by our customers. Anita does a great job of keeping everything sorted out (I'll make sure she sees this), and shipping is expensive enough without us helping it along!

Johannes

The pommel hole is just under an inch round, and about 1/2" deep, the guard has a 1 3/8 inch hole (round).

Johannes

I got enough emails about this thread I thought I'd jump in. These fittings have been produced off and on for the last ten years, first by Mandrake Armory, then by us. They were made from a clay sculpted model by a talented craftsperson (definitely not me...) and are lost wax cast by an art bronze c...

Johannes

Windrose makes my favorite ones, but are sadly often out of stock. I have one of the GDFB ones, which can be had through various resellers (I got mine from Therion), and it suffices, but I think Windrose's are superior. Which one are we out of stock on? I'll check our stock. We did just put a bunch...

Johannes

Sorry, Max, as Cet says, I don't come here very often these days. It takes us a lot longer to get home from Pennsic than you East Coast folks, and the clean up takes forever. Just starting to work through all the emails and get caught up, and we have to get ready to go to WMAW in 2 weeks, so we're a...

Johannes

Turns out it was a simple stupid thing, we had a default set wrong. All fixed now.

Johannes

Hopefully that will resolve the web site issue.

Johannes

Rich, Let's schedule some time for a conversation at Pennsic, where we leave the booth and talk uninterrupted. Remember we are in a down economy right now, and try not to let it make a decision for you. TBH, the idea of closing up shop and getting a job with set hours and paychecks I can actually ca...

Johannes

I get the same error typing the site name into the nav bar. I'll look into it this morning

Try this link, it is working for me off the home computer.
http://www.windrosearmoury.com/zc/

Johannes

We've changed servers,as well as upgraded a bunch of things for better security and to make some future things work better. What you are hitting is the old server, which hasn't been turned off yet. I'm sure its a propagation issue, but for my info, how were you trying to get to the site?

Johannes

Gregoire, contact me at the shop and we'll help you out.

Johannes

I thought I should jump in and clarify something, even though it contradicts one of Omarad's statements. We've had lengthy conversations about the tip use on fibreglass, but I may not have been clear in regards to rattan. The 2HTT was originally designed with scalable padding to allow for moderating...

Johannes

Shipping costs are one of the real struggles we go through. If we ship it USPS Priority, it ends up costing only a dollar more than it does First Class, and it is a lot less trouble. If we send it out in a stamped envelope, I can't track it, or I have to send a person to the PO to stand in line. I w...

Johannes

An update: I just got in a pile of these from the cutter, I'll get them shaped up and deburred today. They'll be on the web site by COB.

Johannes

Actually, Corby, we designed them specially for this, have them cut for us, and bend them up here in the shop. I just can't seem to find the last batch of them

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