Trying the link again: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/pr ... -equipment
Yes, it would be useful to have a good date (or dates) on her source material; the next step.
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- Tue Aug 30, 2022 7:28 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking Arms and Armor, Again
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11450
- Mon Aug 29, 2022 8:52 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Viking Arms and Armor, Again
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11450
Viking Arms and Armor, Again
Don Stallone, one of our very-long-time Longship Company and Markland members, forwarded the following link on what arms and armor were required on Viking Age levy ships: https://www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/.../weapons-and-equipment This is from the Viking Ship Museum at Roskilde in Denmark. Seems tha...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 4:56 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: English "Hangers" Around 1580-1615?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 13298
Re: English "Hangers" Around 1580-1615?
Swords & Blades of the American Revolution, by George C. Neumann has a number of pictures of English hangers that we used to liberate ourselves from said mother country. Also, of note, there is some confusion with the terms "cutlass" and "hanger" being used interchangeably during the same period. "N...
- Mon Jan 17, 2022 10:47 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Experment: Case Hardening Mild Steel
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7028
Re: Experment: Case Hardening Mild Steel
Excellent work!
- Sun Jul 04, 2021 8:54 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: How to clean a mail shirt
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3296
Re: How to clean a mail shirt
Clean, dry sawdust has been recommended. Some woods may be better than others- hardwood vs. pine? (Pine sap on your mail-sticky!) Avoid anything acidic, like black locust.
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:24 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Unknown Breastplate
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4180
Re: Unknown Breastplate
Mail refurbishing- Because washing the blood off of the loser's mail makes it easier to sell. [Joke!}
- Fri Feb 19, 2021 8:25 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: A Short Round Cloak with Embroidered Collar
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6215
Re: A Short Round Cloak with Embroidered Collar
Wonderful work, and fascinating to watch your progress and skill.
- Tue Jan 05, 2021 3:27 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: New Metropolitan Musem bequest promissory
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2016
Re: New Metropolitan Musem bequest promissory
Once the plague has faded, this would be a good excuse to get some of the Armour Archive members together! I'm game, and can take the train!
- Sun Oct 11, 2020 1:31 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pewter stuff...
- Replies: 153
- Views: 70034
Re: Pewter stuff...
Hay; Mac:
Your spoons are drunk!
Your spoons are drunk!
- Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:07 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: If you were building a castle!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12238
Re: If you were building a castle!
BarnHingesSingle_09142020 (2)_sm.jpg I haven't seen it carried to any logical conclusion, but if it had sufficient land and facilities a halfway decent castle would make an ideal anchor for a continuous Medieval/Renaissance fair. Every weekend (or one weekend a month, or variations around holidays)...
- Tue Sep 01, 2020 1:53 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: If you were building a castle!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12238
Re: If you were building a castle!
For an historic continuation of the "Z" plan, see Bents' Old Fort National Historic Site in Colorado. Stone- It's nice if the site can be quarried, or quarries are nearby. That's one of the reasons I advocated timber castles in my first post on this thread. Also, there seem to be a hack of a lot mor...
- Thu May 21, 2020 2:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I made a 3d helmet!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1232
Re: I made a 3d helmet!
" 'Cause 2-D helmets just don't fit very well!"- Mon Dec 30, 2019 11:02 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximilian I
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14503
Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili
Still waiting for my friends to download their pictures, BUT... One of the questions that came up among us was: "How do they keep the armor so d@mned shiny?" When I was working on museum storage facilities in the NPS we were pretty exacting about balancing humidity for various classifications of art...
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 3:41 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximilian I
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14503
Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili
Lastly, three lance points from seriously large, heavy lances:
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 3:39 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximilian I
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14503
Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili
Here are some more; a wrench to go with an armor for bolting it together:
- Mon Dec 23, 2019 3:36 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximilian I
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14503
Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili
Okay; plese remember that these are specialized "snapshots" and in low light without a flash. My friends got some nice shots of the armors, but I figure I can't beat the catalogs, so I concentrated on a few tools and other items of interest. If you p.m. me, I can send the full-size (but still blurry...
- Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:33 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximilian I
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14503
Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili
I made it! There was a "Christmas Season" bus trip run by our local (60 miles south of DC) Parks and Recreation group, and I and four friends took it at $90 each. Instead of Christmas shopping and gawking at tall buildings, we hied off to the Met and spent about four of our seven hours time-on-targe...
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:53 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Shaved Heads in the 14th Century
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1266
Re: Shaved Heads in the 14th Century
Or lice?
- Sun Nov 17, 2019 1:49 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: If you were building a castle!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12238
Re: If you were building a castle!
Marshal: Ringwork, longhall, done! :wink: Many castles were fortified private residences, so they served double duty. Castellated mansions were mansions with some castle dress-up; but a livable castle was a defensive position with accommodations. Dig out some decent books on both via the Inter-Libra...
- Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:13 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: If you were building a castle!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12238
Re: If you were building a castle!
We have a small ship and a ship's boat; that keeps us busy enough. If my neighbor stopped renting my fields for crops, I might contemplate a small timber castle.
- Fri Sep 06, 2019 5:24 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: If you were building a castle!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12238
Re: If you were building a castle!
Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, Ireland
- Sun Sep 01, 2019 4:45 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximilian I
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14503
Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili
Man, right in the middle of my busy season, my season got busier. I need to dig up some traveling companions if I can pull this off.
- Tue Aug 27, 2019 8:03 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: If you were building a castle!
- Replies: 36
- Views: 12238
Re: If you were building a castle!
I would consult "Timber Castles" by Robert Higham and Phillip Barker, and build the smallest example I could find reasonable historic data on. Maybe something from the early Norman period, or a tower house in a ringwork, or equivalent.
- Sun Jun 09, 2019 8:17 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximilian I
- Replies: 31
- Views: 14503
Re: At the Met: Last Knight:Art, Armor,&Ambition of Maximili
After I get past summer, I need to figure out how to get to the Met in October!
- Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:16 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Baltimore Arms Fair 2022
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9744
Re: Once again, time to attend the Baltimore Arms Fair - 201
I should be wandering through with some friends. I'll keep my eyes peeled for your table.
- Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:04 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Graveslabs/ Effigies/ Epithaphs Thomaskirche Leipzig
- Replies: 1
- Views: 513
Re: Graveslabs/ Effigies/ Epithaphs Thomaskirche Leipzig
"Don't they look natural."
- Sun Sep 30, 2018 7:03 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: So who isn't going to Pennsic and why?
- Replies: 97
- Views: 9907
Re: So who isn't going to Pennsic and why?
I skipped Pennsic so I could go to Worldcon 76 in San Jose, California via Traincon! From DC to Chicago to San Jose and back again by rail. I've seen a lot of the country at 30,000' but never crossed it at an altitude of 12' before! I was able to show my work in the Art Show with the Oakley Forge Co...
- Fri May 11, 2018 10:59 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Some whimsy - Goblin armour
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4277
Re: Some whimsy - Goblin armour
I like it!
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:14 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Baltimore Arms Fair 2022
- Replies: 34
- Views: 9744
Re: Once again, time to attend the Baltimore Arms Fair - 201
I got there with a couple of our LSCo crew, but managed to miss you. Maybe next year.
- Mon Apr 16, 2018 1:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I made my little daughter a Gothic half-harness.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2678
Re: I made my little daughter a Gothic half-harness.
Wonderful work. My poor, deprived kids had to make do with mail.
- Mon Dec 04, 2017 9:53 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Top Ten Easiest Armouring Projects?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2129
Re: Top Ten Easiest Armouring Projects?
"4) Spangen helm of any type. (4 fat triangles and 3 strips dished)" - Sean Powell
Also, make a preliminary model or two out of "shirt cardboard" to see how it all goes together; and then you can disassemble for a pattern. A good "band helm" is an excellent start for any early medieval kit.
Also, make a preliminary model or two out of "shirt cardboard" to see how it all goes together; and then you can disassemble for a pattern. A good "band helm" is an excellent start for any early medieval kit.
- Wed Oct 04, 2017 3:04 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New Nova: Secrets of the Shining Knight
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6298
Re: New Nova: Secrets of the Shining Knight
On tonight (Wednesday, 10/4/17) on our local DC, MD, VA PBS stations.
- Wed Sep 06, 2017 7:54 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Gokstad ship chests with bound corners?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2143
Re: Gokstad ship chests with bound corners?
New one on me; I'll check my sources,,,
- Fri Aug 25, 2017 8:44 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: visor without a helmet?
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1925
Re: visor without a helmet?
Notice that it's mostly the "losers" wearing this rig?
- Mon Jul 17, 2017 9:46 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Game Theory: Who Would Win -- Samurai, Knight, or Viking?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2468
Re: Game Theory: Who Would Win -- Samurai, Knight, or Viking
Who wins? The producer and the backers, of course.