The Armour Archive

Aaron

Good Afternoon, I found this article interesting. https://heritagesciencejournal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40494-020-00407-x Abstract Individuals buried in two 17th–18th Century private chapels, each attached to a Franciscan Friary—one in Italy the other in Denmark—have been studied and sam...

Aaron

Wow! That's a beautiful suit and I like the backdrop in the photography too. I don't play in the SCA anymore or fight in armour, but you tempted my lizard brain who still thinks I'm 20-something instead of over 50. Thanks!

Aaron

I like how it's listed under cycling. Well, with drivers around here I think a highly reflective suit of stainless, surgical steel that is hardened might be a good plan sometimes when I'm bicycling. However, it would make me a bit slow pedaling uphill I think. Maybe I can play the theme music to Ex...

Aaron

Scammers likely copy only the very best armouring projects that are photographed in the best ways. My armouring projects were fun but no scammer will ever copy a photo of my work and claim it is their own. It is a microscopic and sick sliver lining to the mushroom cloud of unethical scamming that is...

Aaron

It is an old thread but a fun thread. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=86544&hilit=Uranium+kuwait Good luck! Thanks! I remember reading that thread back then! Completely forgot about it. It is dated and everyone that posted rotated back out of here. 8) Z Yeah. Any report o...

Aaron

It is an old thread but a fun thread.

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=86544&hilit=Uranium+kuwait

Good luck!

Aaron

Just walk into court in winter while wearing the hoodie and explain that it is your soft kit.

Aaron

For those who need a hoodie and want to feel like an knight in armour for a low price.

https://www.amazon.com/Knight-Hoodie-Me ... odie&psc=1

Aaron

It could be amusing to build a "prisoner" out of water balloons, and then the jail-breakers outnumber the guards 3-to-1, but the jail-breakers have to get the "prisoner" out of the jail without hurting him. Of course, because the "prisoner" is being held for ransom, the guards can't kill the "prison...

Aaron

You did well for 20 years though. That's good. I figured out based on my armouring skills that I wouldn't last 20 minutes. I'd have to sell my products for less than the cost of the raw materials. Armouring seems to be inspired artistic madness, and I like watching it. But I could never join the mad...

Aaron

Good Afternoon, Given that there are a number of professional historians on the Armour Archive, I thought this report would be of interest. The graphics alone are interesting. https://www.historians.org/wherehistorianswork I put it into Historical Research because it is research into the work histor...

Aaron

I don't need it. I can't afford it. However, it is beautiful and at an excellent price. Thank you for the pictures and temptation.

Aaron

Beautiful!

Aaron

Aaron, I built and sold stuff to supplement my income to buy toys or to pay the bills when I was between jobs. My wife had Medical benefits so that was not an issue. I would never do this as a permanent, sole form of income. It was easier back 20, 25 years ago before production became world wide an...

Aaron

No idea.

Illusion Armory always seemed a tad fishy to me.

Aaron

Wear on their minds. Not even something I've considered.... You are thinking in multiple ways at the same time. You are converting a 2D metal sheet into 3D useful art based upon the client's vague descriptions of their daydreams. You have to budget in your health, time, equipment, etc... I think it...

Aaron

Hi, It has been a while. My business was Rough from the Hammer which made armour parts. I sold the business to Cet (David Rylak) in 2002. The finished armour I made was mostly sold through Ice Falcon. Did you make a living wage being an armourer? Living wage in this case is defined as living over t...

Aaron

Wait until you are 21. :wink: - Scott When I went to Pennsic, it was almost rated G. I just fought, showered, ate, juggled and slept. Pennsic is what a person makes of it. Some have a XXX Pennsic, and some like me have a Pennsic that is more in line with a Scooby Doo episode. At Pennsic you will st...

Aaron

Sean Powell Joined: Sat Jul 13, 2002 2:01 am Thomas Bloodworth Posted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 1:00 am Arthur Bloodworth1 Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2018 5:10 am “And nearly sixteen years later, here I am.” Damn, I think I have athletic cups older than you. Come to think of it, the belt I'm wearing at work today...

Aaron

Maybe we could see a real artifact next to the fake? There are two problems there... --The first is that the fake in question does not seem to be based on just one original, but is rather a mashup of two or more. --The second is getting images of all of the objects from the same angles. We can only...

Aaron

Maybe we could see a real artifact next to the fake? That would be a great project for a third person with digital editing skills, but by writing so much and posting a photo of the fake next to photos of the helmets that inspired it, he has already been very generous with his time! Oh I agree Mac i...

Aaron

Maybe we could see a real artifact next to the fake?

Aaron

Let's begin by looking at the helmet, and then move on to the bevor. For convenience I will refer to our subject as "lot 174" or just "174" because that is number it had at its most recent auction. It is also Goll 1899, and had formerly been on exhibit at the Higgins Museum, where it was described ...

Aaron

How about the gold trimmed sallet with bevor? I would have been fooled by that one and it is even in an area I have enjoyed studying. It looks usable and I have seen things like it in Osprey paintings. Is this the one you mean? https://i.pinimg.com/564x/15/10/da/1510da66d7257013b5396d879682389f.jpg...

Aaron

Good explanation Mac. Thank you! You're welcome! Perhaps you could do a savage and accurate critique on just one please? While I can sometimes say that I know a piece of armour is a fake, I am focused on usability and some historical knowledge. Maybe.. Which one did you have in mind? Mac How about ...

Aaron

Good explanation Mac. Thank you!

Perhaps you could do a savage and accurate critique on just one please? While I can sometimes say that I know a piece of armour is a fake, I am focused on usability and some historical knowledge.

Aaron

Tom,

Your six year old has a better armourers eye than I do. I can spot some fakes but not most of them. I am still ecstatic when I successfully peen a rivet.

-Aaron

Aaron

Mac, You and some others here have the armouring eye that other like me lack. Perhaps you could put down a small caption on why a particular piece of armour is a fake? I know that Viking helmets didn't have horns and that The 13th Warrior isn't a documentary but I can't spot obvious fakery like you ...

Aaron

Nice work on a worthy cause! And I can get an education on historical Chinese armour!

Thank you!

Aaron

That is beautiful. Thank you!

Aaron

Paying for insured and tracked shipping, and maybe tipping the armourer $20 for the bad review and pain might be a good step to get the helm after these multiple customer generated shipping errors.

Aaron

I miss it too. But I love my wife, kids and brain more. Besides, if I had the money to fight, I could just fund a young, healthy Armoured Combat League fighter and have the tonlet armor of the Chamberlain of Burgundy made for him in spring stainless. http://burgundianhours.blogspot.com/2009/08/chamb...

Aaron

hrolf wrote:I'm happy to have stopped fighting.

Ditto.

Aaron

hrolf wrote:I'm happy to have stopped fighting.

Ditto.

Aaron

Thanks.

Makes me happy that I didn't fight as much as I want too. Work and family got in the way. I'm thankful now.

Element Differences between Nobles and Commoners

Re: selling kit plus more

Re: I have joined the elite Nauticalmart crowd.

Re: Nauticalmart / anyone else bugged out ?

Re: Any "deployed" SCAdians around?

Re: Any "deployed" SCAdians around?

Re: Faux Armour Hoodie

Faux Armour Hoodie

Re: How would you run a jailbreak scenario in SCA Heavy Comb

Re: Armouring As A Career

Where Historians Work: An Interactive Database

Re: Ice falcon Large spring stainless corrozina

Re: FS: White Mountain Armoury Kettle Helm / chapel de fer

Re: Armouring As A Career

Re: Anyone know what is going on with Illusion Armory?

Re: Armouring As A Career

Re: Armouring As A Career

Re: So who isn't going to Pennsic and why?

Re: So who isn't going to Pennsic and why?

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ludicrous Fakes

Re: Ancient Chinese armour research organization

Re: Some whimsy - Goblin armour

Re: John Kellum/ paging you to the courtesy phone

Re: Boston university study on CTE

Re: Boston university study on CTE

Re: Boston university study on CTE

Re: Boston university study on CTE