The Armour Archive

JPT

William, Outstanding, I'm really glad that you like them. Please don't feel bad about the price. I'm the one who set it. I got what I wanted and felt comfortable with out of them. I do have on request for everyone who has purchased pieces of the kit. Please if you would take a picture of what you do...

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The gorget is in the box and my wife will take it to FedEx today. I'll have a tracking number for you later today.

JPT

Hal, The ones I made were from a modified version of the pattern on the archive. The only thing I see is that you reversed the overlap on the toe piece to the first lame. That would make it act wierd when you were trying to bend it. The shaping is lovely though. Here's a pic of mine for reference. [...

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Helmet, breastplate, arms, legs and spaulders sold pending payment.

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Gorget sold, going in a box today.

Still available.

Pigface bascinet
Churburg breastplate
14th Century Arms
14th Century Legs
Mitten Gauntlets

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Ashi, I responded to your PM. Also, The finger gauntlets are sold pending payment. The sale will go on as long as it takes, so if you want me to quit pestering you BUY MY STUFF AND GET IT OUT OF MY WORKSHOP !!! *grins* Seriously I do want to thank everyone who has purchased parts from this kit and o...

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William, Boxed them for you last night, they are in my wife's car to be shipped this morning. Still on the list of available armour from this kit. 1 - Very spiffy bascinet with a center pivoting pigface visor, vervailles and a camail of 14ga 3/8" butted maille. 1 - Churburg style segmented breastpla...

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Stephen, Thank you that means a great deal to me. If there's something else in the kit that you'd like to have I will be happy to work out a good deal for you. Everyone who has shipments coming. Everything got delayed a day but it is on the way. We had a rather windy visitor named Ivan come to visit...

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Stephen,

I'm very sorry, I sold them to someone else. Mea culpa, you actually asked first. I'm afraid that all I can do at this point is appologize. I am truly sorry.

JPT

Maille hauberk is shipping today (Friday 17 September 2004)

Brass trimmed crusader knees and elbows and sabatons are shipping today (Friday 17 September 2004)

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* UTTERLY SHAMELESS BUMPITY BUMP BUMP BUMP *

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The plain crusader knees and elbows are sold pending payment.

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The brass trimmed knees and elbows and the sabatons are sold pending payment. Still remaining Pigface bascinet with vervailles and camail Churburg style breastplate Spaulders Arm harness Leg harness Gorget Fingered Gauntlets Mitten Gauntlets Plain Crusader knees and elbows Just to answer a question ...

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The maille hauberk is sold pending payment. Yipeeee !!!

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Matt, There's another person who's expressed interest in the mittens, but if they turn out to not want them they're yours. William, Everything is mild steel and mirror polished. Everyone ... The parting out has begun, but I will still make deals if someone wants multiple pieces. *note* the arms and ...

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Ok, here we have pictures of the pieces that I didn't have pics of yesterday. [img]http://www.forgewyrks.com/Portals/488a446e-4586-4c72-8f30-29cc2039cfbf/Photo_091504_001.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.forgewyrks.com/Portals/488a446e-4586-4c72-8f30-29cc2039cfbf/Photo_091504_004.jpg[/img] [img]http://www....

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For those who have expressed interest in pieces from the kit, what I'm going to do is give people until the close of business Thursday to express interest in the whole thing, and if nobody wants it then the pieces are up for grabs. Maghus, I didn't see an email about the maille hauberk, will look ag...

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I will go take pics of the crusader knees and elbows (both sets) and detail pics of both sets of gauntlets. Look for them Thursday morning central time US.

Checking email now.

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I'm 5'10" and a bit under 200# and it's plenty big on me.

Just so you know it's long sleeved and slit front and back.

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Thank you, I am really pleased with how it came together. It's a bit of a wrench to sell it, but I don't need it and I do need the space it's taking up at the moment.

JPT

Some of you may remember the 14th century harness I was building in the late spring early summer. As things have transpired I will not be needing it and would like for it to have a good home. As such the whole thing alone with a few bits and bobs must go. Price list with links to pictures follows, a...

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Murdock,

When are we talking about doing this?

Cailean

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Bronze wheel pommel and crossguard ???

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Addendum.

Would love to come to Montgomery on Sunday but I'm headed to GA to work on my greaves.

The project on top of the list is to get my SCA transitional plate harness done so I can get on the field in it the first week of July.

Other things come after that.

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*laughs* I was teasing about the hard kit. Actually, I wasn't planning on wearing my plate. I was going to do an infantry kit anyway. (maille over gambeson with a kettle hat, sword, buckler and glaive / bill (tbd)) The buckles are ALL going to be changed presently anyhow. I have to pull all of the l...

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Yuppers, basically you're replacing the polishing step with a painting step.

Cut
Edge
Shape
Fit
Punch
Fit again
Assemble with bolts
Fit again
Disassemble
Polish / Paint
Assemble with rivets
Fit again
Strap
Wear

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Murdock,

I'd be all over it ... Will my hard kit pass muster ???

and I'm just a little ways north of you ... Now if we can get Duke Gareth into transitional plate ...

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Thanks Ogier, I am very much looking on the first one as a prototype. I'm not planning on being on the field in this harness until July so it's not a panic situation ... yet ...

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I wanted to toss a couple of words in here about Lewis Moore at Knight's Armoury as well. I cannot thank him enough for all the help he's given me in getting my harness done. He certainly could have made a whole lot more money off of me by selling me stuff but instead he opened his shop to me and do...

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Inside yourself, in the same place where you found the tranquility in painting. When you started painting you were tense because you didn't believe. Through repetition you saw that you could control the paint and put it where you wanted it. That knowledge gave you tranquility. The same is true of fi...

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You are most welcome fair lady, I am most happy to be of help in any way I can.

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Murdock, While I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. A number like that can be daunting to someone who doesn't even know if this is really for them. I want to see people in better harness, for cryin' out loud look at what I'm building for myself, but my point is inclusion and teaching, not exclu...

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Akmatov, Heh heh heh ... I once bought a frame for an 8' X 5' trailer from a friend for $60 for the frame, springs, axels. All I needed was the box. So I said to myself self, since I can make it how I want what do I want it to look like? Self said, "Make it look like a medieval strong cart" So here ...

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The last remaining piece of the puzzle for my harness is the greaves. I would like to make full cased greaves to go with my leg harness and sabatons. I left the greaves for last because they scare me. I've been working with Cad's pattern trying to understand how to shape them correctly and I've had ...

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Gads man you've murdered that cabbage !!!

Sorry you caught me in a whimsical mood. Really pretty pictures. Nice stuff all the way around.

Pictures for those who requested them

For Sale 14th century transitional harness

Cased greaves suggestions requested