The Armour Archive

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Check out the American bent wood box tradition. They bot steam bend, and work green, using a foked and shaved over lap fastened with copper nails. I believe the frames of the sewing boxes from Oseberg were done just the same. In addition, traditional composite bow makers from Korea bend fairly thick...

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whatever you decide, Nino, let me know!

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Have to check with my wife, but i am interested!

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Dude, I will take it! pm me payment details

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Helmet liners for Bascinets: Where do I get them? Need a source for liners to complete my helmets. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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Having been one of the pioneers of viking roundshield use in An Tir, i would say roping the edges does indeed make your plywood last longer in An Tir. It might make no difference elsewhere, but if Duke Thorin or duke Davin slug your shield full tilt it will come apart. The method the gentlemen descr...

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Try these: using 19th century recipes little changed from the Renaissance. <triedandtruewoodfinish.com> I have had great luck with these in restoration and new construction, especially with SCA woodwork. I highly recommend these products and the company!

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Duke Radnor invented the bunny-round: a round shield with ears. Used it to force his trainees to block decisively.

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uhhhh...exactly what i said!

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I have the Harbor Junk version which actually works quite well. I was surprised. It works on .040 1050 and makes nice smooth curves: The downside is that it--like all English Wheel work that is not on .025 aluminum--is slow. Dreadfully slow for the impatient among us. I think smoothing the roughed o...

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From what I have seen there are several, contemporary AND descendent, types of sabaton overlap. I think the earliest attested to is found in Thordmann Armor from the Battle of Visby where the sabatons are simple curved plates overlapped forward from the ankle and articulated on leathers. Many 14th c...

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I started out using files to clean up and deburr the edges of Beverly Shear cut pieces. Files are fine! Always clamp the workpiece in a vice...AND FOR GOD'S SAKE GET SOME GOOD FILES!. It makes all the difference: go to Ebay and look up http://www.ebay.com/usr/herajane. That seller has lots of top qu...

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Notice the Don's bazubands, brigantine surcoat and bevor!

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Training for the apocalypse! Start them early!

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run a grill underneath. cheekplates ground against that. latch in front.

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yup! what price?

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I will do it.

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i will take the stakes! where do i send money?

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Plattnerie Stallari now in Livermore CA. Jeff Williams, owner, armorer.

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It is not the wood that determines the efficiency (measured by handshock, cast, arrow speed) of a wooden bow, but the design of the bow. The English style Longbow (not the modern American Longbow) is widest and thickest at the grip and generally tapers evenly (more of less) to the nock. The design u...

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perfect for the garments lined in mail, attested to in the 2nd and 3rd crusade Muslims, and occasionally in Europe

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There were multiple layered silk bullet "resistant" vests in the late 19th and early 20th century. Widespread use among dignitaries in the age of anachists (the mad bomber what bombs at midnight!). The Archduke was wearing one in Sarevo--too bad he got hit in the face.

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Have your hardening experts take, 1060,1075 etc. to 32-38 Rockwell--it will be springy and will, in fact, bend if
hard enough, but will not shatter.

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Cool Beans! You will be getting some orders from the Court of The Lord and Lady of the Mists, here in the West! The fleur and alphabet belt studs are to squee for!

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So...I have wondered how stop ribs were handled on covered plates: The are applied! Hallafrikinlueja! So, second problem: Were they applied OVER the finished cover? Thanks Mac and all for these illuminating--literally--facts that those of us unable to see, photograph or touch the originals have neve...

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WARNING WARNING WARNING! I GET NOTHING BUT MALICIOUS WEBSITE NOTICES AND MALICIOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS! NO GO THERE DUDES! I will no longer check out the FORGE OF SVAN website. I urge you all to do the same. Had too much trouble lately with downloaded viruses. I pmed Svan about it if in fact is someon...

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WARNING! I GET NOTHING BUT MALICIOUS WEBSITE AND SYSTEM INFECTION OFF THESE LINKS! WARNING! Mod (jt) here. The links appear to have been removed as the sale completed (??) but in any event, the seller asserted that his site is not infected. It's always possible that a person here could have his site...

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you bet! sleeves, voiders, skirts, standards. let us know when prices are available!

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i will try this Mac! also when i tried to get to the bries pattern site i got a femdom site. interesting but not what i was looking for!

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i didn't know there were that many turkish composite bows left in the world! i know thousands of modern bowyers would love to see--handle--document those bows! son of a beach!

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Studies of early wills (1190-1250) clearly shows that for inheritance purposes, all parts of the hauberk could be willed separately: including, but not limited to, sleeves, paunce, coif, skirt. Just pointing out that they may always have been considered dismountable, even if the hauberk was all of a...

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Arm armor now known as 'Bazubands' were common in the 14th Century in Germany: that low profile arm harness showing longitudinal riveted bands at the wrist, half covered by mail sleeves and showing no evidence of elbow cops. Several Sleeping Guards of the era plainly show strip armored bazubands poi...

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I have used a Whitney-Jensen/Roper Whitney #5jr for ohhhhh, i don't know, longer than my squires have been alive. I have punched 3/16 in in 16 ga (.0625) all that time. It will not punch that in 14 ga (0725). I regularly buy new punches--the dies can be sharpened by chucking the die in a drill and s...

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