The Armour Archive

Woodcrafter

Congratulations on returning to what you love. I am 54 and have injuries to my arms to work through. I have found much help from going to the local Massage College and for a greatly reduced cost of normal Registered Massage Therapists, having the students work on me. Plus my wife injured her knee on...

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That is a well executed carving. Too bad about the rest of it.

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It cannot be termed 'knightly' as anyone wore the belt as part of the fashion. The plaques would be hollow, making the belt quite light weight. Some theorize that since it is fashion, it could be set in place with fabric hooks behind the belt. This would keep it in the desired spot. So far there is ...

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I am looking for miniatures for Empire of the Petal Throne (EPT)

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A personally carved cremation urn?

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If you use an electric or manual soldering iron to melt the wax onto the tablet, it will not soak in or run over and stain the wood outside the area.

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Here is a 14th century leather bottle (in the last picture of this photo list) that you might want to add to your stock http://dshill.shawwebspace.ca/photos/view/photosmedieval/ The leather can be seen to be heavily tooled and of course they varied in size. The ends are flat pieces of leather while ...

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I ordered the linen doublet of Charles of Blois to be used as my arming doublet as I did not want padding. It also suffered from the unraveling eyelet problem as I ordered it without buttons. All I did was replace the eyelets by un-stitching them and resewing them by hand as required. The quality of...

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Great news Patrick. I bought one of his first cauldrons. It was requested without tinning on the inside. It has been the cooking workhorse ever since. It quickly heats up, none of this slowly introducing a ceramic pot to the fire. Unlike less accurate cast iron pots, it can be scrubbed out with soap...

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What does the WMA mean to you? Because I would say that is not a Western Martial Arts (WMA) helmet. I certainly looks like an SCA helmet to me.

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The metal needs to be 18 gauge cold rolled, twelve (12) inch diameter, flat faced with a rolled rim. The boss needs to be 18 gauge and five (5) inches across and two (2) inches deep. The boss can be tempered (from the working) but the flat face needs be annealed so that I can drill holes where neede...

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You are using this for SCA combat?

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So if rolling an edge is difficult, what is suggested for an edge finish for a flat faced buckler?

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Emails sent.

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Various people continue to look for an armourer who offers a buckler suitable for I.33 training. The problem with current bucklers is size, weight and grips (handles). A concave buckler looks great, but adds nothing to the training. In fact, it more than likely takes away from the buckler hand being...

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I am also interested in 14th century pole weapons, lets see what you can make, please post a pic when you are done.

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What diameter, what depth, what gauge of metal?

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Thanks Igelkott for the above pics. It proves my original post as right.

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Cut bread on a wooden platter covered with a linen cloth keeps well. But you are not keeping it for a week! A round loaf or french stick will have a hard crust anyways.

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The Archeology of York book, is proof of what woods were common around York at that time.

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It would depend as usual as to what culture and what date you are talking about. In England prior to the 14thc wood items were mostly carved (and probably painted after carving). The 14thc saw just paint as the wood embellishment of choice and then in the 15thc they went back to being carved (and th...

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Very well done!

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It could just be iconic in nature. The Mastermyer tool chest had two different tongs in it.

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I am looking for Sword and Sorcery Volume 2 Empire of the Petal Throne Players book.

Here is your chance to turn old books into cash for armour!

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How can it be new if it is an anthology? Professional scholars know very little about actual swordplay. All they could tell us is where the MSS is from and possibly who wrote it, as well as their version of a translation. As yet there are no modern professional scholars of medieval swordplay based o...

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How about placing your harp on a box to make it the right height?

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I have made these in the past. As I am not set up for mass production, my costs are way more than you will pay for the generic one size fits all piece shown above. The reason they cannot size it to your specifications is that the person is set up to cut only those sizes. It is not a problem with cal...

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Nice pic InsaneIrish, that reconstruction looks very much like how the original would have been built. The extra bar was confusing at first, but now makes sense as it is the tension device. Geoffrey's bed looks very nice indeed. If wedges are not being used to hold the bed together, then you do not ...

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The slack will not immediately return because the last hole is where the knot is tied. If you twist a length of rope, it will eventually kink. But that is not what the rope key is doing. Neither is that what a tourniquet does. The above posted URL about the rope key says that the job is a two person...

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Thanks for the pics Rev, but they are rope keys. They are not tourniquet tightening devices of any sort. When the rope passes on the outside of the rail, the rope key is inserted into the rope and turned to take up any slack. Then the rope key is removed and moved on to the next piece of rope. The r...

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Well Gwen, we cannot use just those two pics as the only historical evidence, the first one has holes along the sides, but does not show ropes coming out of them (this is the one with the net). The second pic shows the ropes passing out of the holes and underneath. Perhaps the first one is a rope be...

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I have never seen one. I doubt they ever existed. Two pole rectangular, sure. Single pole round, sure.

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Yes the ropes are poorly drawn. I have made a number of rope beds and what is pictured would not work well. It looks more like a fish net strung up at both ends more than a rope bed. It could be used as a rope bed with the addition of a mattress. But as has been stated above, if the ropes stretch, w...

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Astounding is right!

The original post had no information to it. It only stated that 'here is a picture for those interested.' I am confused as to what needs defending. How many beds have carrying handles? Or was the original post about clothing designs? Shoes? What was the original point?

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Pole lathe, wheel barrow, single horse cart.

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