The Armour Archive

Forj

No problems, I would be more than happy to send a copy. I'm even thinking of uploading it to our local WMA clubs site. It's mainly the reproduction rights that would be the problem. I figured any personal photos people on this board had would be the easiest to obtain permission for, and since it's p...

Forj

I'm in the middle of writing up my masters thesis on the Reproduction of Late 15th Century German Armour steel, and I'm needing some photos to make it look pretty. Does anyone have some photos that I could use with permission? Or know where I can get some? It's mainly the permission to use that is t...

Forj

I'm not mkaing it for SCA play because I don't play with the SCA I was just heading off arguments on construction. I plan on adding a backspike to the lower "clip", for hooking shields with. Yes, it is indeed from Eduard Wagner's Medieval Costume, Armour and Weapons. How accurate/useful have others ...

Forj

Haha, Falchion-on-a-stick is what I titled the thread when I posted on Swordforum

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No other sightings there either

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Forj

I came across an interesting polearm in a book the other day. The book is basically just line drawing copies of arms and armour from statuary, artworks, and manuscipts. This particular drawing was sourced from Viollet le Duc, who was a Victoriaan architect IIRC. The caption in the book says it is a ...

Forj

Wyrm: Yeah, I spotted you a while back, been meaning to drop you line sometime, but never got to it. What part of NZ are you from? I'm from Hamilton, I've played with The Shire of Cluain a couple of times, been to St Johns the last two years, if that means anything to you As for the sphere tipped sp...

Forj

Hi Wyrmspleen I run a small steel WMA group here in NZ, separate from NAAMA, and our rules for all weapons are 10mm points and 3mm edges, minimum. We also have reasonable force rules. Our spears that fit this description have proved safe over about a year of use (we had one that got a little thin :S...

Forj

Found this myself a couple of days ago. I can highly recommend it. They also have secondary source articles written on the subject in modern times, but its the primary sources that I have been working my way through

My new sig came from an account of the Battle of Stamford Bridge

Forj

One source of cheap, eaily worked metal, if you have geek friends, is old computer cases. I have 9 of them sitting out in my shop, waiting to be turned into various light gauge armour pieces. All free. Can be a pain to weld though, so rivetted construction would be a better choice. For ideas on mass...

Forj

Your number 1 there Noe seems to be the main issue. I'm not fighting them, I'm creating situations for them to learn from. Glad to hear its not an isolated phenomenon! One issue I am concerned with though, is this really an effective means of teaching them? Are they being "babied" by having us not f...

Forj

I guess newbie really is the wrong word. Its not so much the new newbies. Those I can play with http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif I try not to, but I think we all do it to some degree. Its the ones who I've been teaching for a year, who haven't the knack that others do, so aren't quite deve...

Forj

Does anyone else find that when you are teaching a newbie ( in a fight situation, not training or drill), that you keep getting hit in stupid ways? That you're toning your fight down so as to not simply blast through them, but so much you get gacked really easily sometimes? ------------------ Aww, c...

Forj

Every "staff" that I can think of on a Middle Ages battlefield had some sort of spiky/choppy thing on the end...

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Aww, come on...a little pain never hurt anyone...

Forj

Does anyone know of any weapons that *weren't* used in war/battle? Or at least were unlikely to be carried? I can think of quarterstaff, but thats about it. Every other weapon I can think of, while not necessarily often used in every combat, was carried at some point in time. ------------------ Aww,...

Forj

Hi Ed. Just a brief comment, I once put up a site with blue on black writing, and people have some difficulty reading it. Apparently males in particular have trouble with the combination. It looks cool though, and I've never had a problem. YMMV. Good luck, site looks pretty decent so far. ----------...

Forj

Well, I'm no "great" sword smith, but I've made a few http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif . First, obviously, you need a forge. These are easy to make, all you need is some pipe, a hairdryer, and somethign like and old bbq or car wheel hub. Take a look on www.anvilfire.com. In fact, thats whe...

Forj

Thanks for the kudos Tasha http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif . Sorry, no, any moves at the moment seem most likely to be Australia, Britain or Canada. You could start something like this yourself easily though. This time last year, we were ust a bunch of mates I was showing how to fight. We...

Forj

A follow on thread from my other post, I thought it would be useful to share our training methods. Not personal, but how we train our groups, or if you're not the trainer, how you are trained, and the good and bad points of the method. It seems a few Archivers are wanting more formal, drills orienta...

Forj

Great, thanks. Its not a period I'm greatly familiar with. I'll tell him its ok now

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Forj

Like it says, quick question for a mate. He's going to make a CoP, and was thinking Great Helm to match. I told I wasn't sure about that. I'm still not sure.

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Forj

Well, she wasn't at this weeks practice, but there's plenty of reasons for that. The method I use to train large groups of mostly newbies, with a few experienced people, is certainly drill based. We have two trainings a week, a Wednesday training, and a Sunday free-style. The training is broken into...

Forj

Actually, we have a "blow with authority" system not too dissimilar to the SCA, so the pain response can be used http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif We have "light" blows and all. So we do actually make significant contact, we just obviously can't power up as much as you can in the SCA (which...

Forj

Ok, I've got a problem, and hopefully you guys will be able to help me out. I've had a woman join our club recently, she's been to two trainings so far, but has a rather annoying attitude of not accepting what i have to teach her. She questions perfectly reasonable concepts. Now, I like my students ...

Forj

A curious detail I have noticed, is that in all the woodcuts and period illustrations I have seen of landsknechts, the few that are wearing armour do not appear to be wearing any sort of padded undergarment. Instead, it is simply worn over their usual puffed and slashed. Does anyone know the reason ...

Forj

Yep, thats it Alcyoneous, ecept the subtitle here is "masterpieces by European Craftsmen from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century". Rather appropriate, I think, some of the cap-a-pied kits are amazing. Mr Studs is actually described as "embossed", so i assume it was hammered outwards. A ratehr ...

Forj

Thought you lot might be interested in these. Found a decent book of arms and armour in the library in the nearest city. It had some pictures I'd seen before, but never so large, so I scanned em. Put them up on a website http://forj.20m.com/ so I could share them. Explaination on site. Enjoy http://...

Forj

I'd suggest noting just that on the front-page for the patterns. Just to say what size they are *intended* to start out as. I knew that it had been mentioned before, but I couldn't remember what had been said, and it was only in another posted thread, not a central location. It'd be nice if it could...

Forj

Actually, I find that few of the patterns on the archive have an effective scale. It is hard to tell what size they should be printed, especially from a program that has a print scale applied to every print. Does anyone know what scale these should be printed at to get them to the right size? ------...

Forj

To my knowledge, anyone actually in front of the camera has real armour etc. Only extras in the background had the plastic stuff. As to aluminium, probably almost as cheap, but plastic pipe would be cheaper to buy, could be bought as is (wire needs coiling, thats an extra processing step), and would...

Forj

Hjalmr: OUr group has taken to using video replay to look a faults. We usually had one person sitting out the training, so they took the video. Since I'm the only trainer at the moment, it alosmeant I got a look at people other than the ones I was training right at the moment. Video is a really grea...

Forj

First thing, are you working hot or cold? Working hot, then a pipe is possible, if you can forge weld, but I'd harldy think it worth the trouble. Working cold, a pipe is a very bad idea, give you a wacking great defect running the full lenght of the blade. Go get yourself some spring steel http://ww...

Forj

Thanks guys, spot on. Didn't take too much to wrap my brain around your description Freiman.

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Forj

I am trying to re-work and old helm a friend made before I knew anything about this kind of stuff. This is my first helm, and I need to re-strap it. I've seen/heard some good ideas for chin straps but I can't remember the details. Can anyone give me some hints? The current strapping is really uncomf...

Forj

Yet another method, if you have the means of heating a piece of metal to red hot or preferably greater. Take a suitable piece of metal, that will fit into whatever you are going to use to brace it, heat it up, and then carefully hammer one of your rivits into it. Viola, perfectly matching depression...

Forj

The proper way to carburise steel is to pack it in a carbonaceous substance, and the bake it at about 930C for about four hours. You can vary time and temperature to control case depth. Guess who's just been studying this? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif . Actually, this will be part of...

Looking for photos of armour in and out of use

Provenance for a Polearm?

Its a good site so far...

Getting Gacked by newbies...

Non-war weapons

So, how do you train in your group?

Was a Great Helm worn with a CoP?

Training a problem Newbie

Landsknecht armour worn without padding?

Some Armour pics I scanned

Helmet Chin Strap