The Armour Archive

John Mailer

50 on F

John Mailer

$5 On A
$50 on E
$40 on F

John Mailer

PM sent

John Mailer

That looks kinda like a zen warrior armory helm. I fought in one for a couple years. Fairly durable, rings like a bell.
http://www.zenwarriorarmory.com/catalog ... egory%3D65

John Mailer

Got mine in yesterday afternoon. Good stuff. Time to make some swords.

John Mailer

Interested in the sword. Do you have access to pictures?

John Mailer

Just got mine in the mail today. It is fantastic, and a great price!

John Mailer

My Knight and I at our most recent event.

John Mailer

I bought one of these for gulf wars this year (since blockade runner is about 2.5 hours from where I live), got hit with a relatively gnarly storm the first night with no leaks. I can safely consider this to be one of the very few SCA related purchases I have made that I have absolutely no regrets a...

John Mailer

Me neither, but I figure it will show up in the next day or two. I have faith.

John Mailer

I got my stuff a week or so ago, top notch work as usual, I just got nervous for no real reason.

Thanks for the hard work Frank!!

John Mailer

A while back (couple weeks ago) he made an announcement about joining Duke Icefalcon's team, but I haven't seen anything since.

John Mailer

Thanks for the reply Frank, I apologize for bringing this up on the public forums. I had tried using the contact page on your site but never got a reply back. I was worried that my stuff had been shipped to the wrong address as I was in the process of a move and had both my old and new addresses to ...

John Mailer

The communication I have always had with Frank has been top notch. I am just worried that my order might have gotten misplaced. I wonder if maybe he just has a big backlog at the moment.

John Mailer

Leathercrafts oops.

John Mailer

Barony of the flame is roughly an hour away from your location in Louisville KY. (this is my new group) We hold fighter practice on Tuesdays at 7:30 at an indoor location on the UofL campus. There is also a second fighter practice every other Sunday. at 2:30 in the same location. This Sunday happens...

John Mailer

I thought it was odd too, the last time I placed an order I got communication almost immediately after the payment was received. This time the radio has been silent.

John Mailer

Awesome kit John!!!! It's my understanding that you are wearing your cloak in the female style though. (IF I'm wrong PLEASE correct me) The female style is pinned in the center and worn over both shoulders as you have it. The male style is pinned at the shoulder of your sword side, leaving your swo...

John Mailer

I am hoping to ditch the ring belt soon. Other than that I am pretty happy with the overall look of it.

John Mailer

Just trying to check up, placed an order 3 weeks ago and never got a confirmation email on processing. Hope everything is alright.

John Mailer

Ooops, sorry I missed that, sending pay pal now.

John Mailer

PM sent.... again

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40$ do you take PayPal?

John Mailer

Leave out the holy Land stuff. Why not just have it given to you by an uncle wealthy enough to afford to do so? Giving arms to someone was a recognised way of honouring someone under you while effectively enlisting his loyalty. The family tie would be strengthened by such a gesture, and the gift wo...

John Mailer

The proper length tunic can hide the knees. Though at some point I will be making padded braies to point the cops to with hose over them. The tunic can also cover the arms, which I do on occasion. Hose and/or wraps could cover low profile foam under a rigid plate. Really, it depends on how much pro...

John Mailer

The person you want to represent may not even have had mail at all. It was pretty expensive stuff. At the moment I am justifying the mail with a story that one of my many uncles was a soldier of fortune and had taken it off a dead Saracen raider during his visit to the holy land. I would have recei...

John Mailer

Bari was the last. It fell in 1071. I remember reading that now!! I was just trying to quote from memory and that (obviously) failed me. Not sure what you mean by a Frisian helmet. Did you mean Phrygian, like a smurf hat? If so, that would be fine. I did mean a Phrygian. Duke Ice has it listed as a...

John Mailer

I am familiar with that thread. (When I decided to start researching my persona this was one of the first places I went.) I am trying to set myself up as being some form of minor nobility (very minor) leaving out of Normandy in the year 1046(ish) as a foot soldier with Robert D'Hautville. It is said...

John Mailer

I do have a pair of re-purposed baseball catchers legs that I wore when I first began fighting a couple years ago. They worked alright but I am thinking that they are not really low-pro enough to work as hidden. The pants I wore over them were essentially wrap pants and I really like the more period...

John Mailer

I have found some sources depicting normans in legwraps. The legwraps however are not the worn tightly like the vikings but more loosely (My best guess is that they were more of a fashion thing.)

Any idea on where to get some good low profile plastic armor pieces I can work with?

John Mailer

My time period is mid 11th century italo-norman. (Aiming for 1053 fighting against pope Leo IX at the battle of Civitate under Robert Guiscard). The major issue is trying to figure out what to do with arms and legs for my armour kit. I shattered my left leg in the Army a couple years ago and the SCA...

John Mailer

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