The Armour Archive

Varukh

Your wife's helm is beautiful! I am drooling over my keyboard now.

Varukh

thanks for the help guys. I am hoping to try and mail him and see how much it would cost me to get one the same size as the butted one I already have on the helm. Hopefully i can get one reasonably priced so that i can avoid picking up pieces of my maille after every tournament.

Varukh

any chance you could measure that from the top of the maille to the bottom? Just want to see how close it is to the length of the one i already have on the helm. thanks! BTW....that is a sweet helm! From Master Knutt's site: "My long aventails consist of a truncated cone which covers the shoul...

Varukh

Swete wrote:
Varukh wrote:hmmmm....where you getting that at? as it is my helm is probably (just a ballpark guess) close to 15lbs.

It would be from Atlanta Armory here on the archive. It is like Ringmesh and comes in two different lengths

got a price on those? pics? link to the armory/armorer?

Varukh

any chance you could measure that from the top of the maille to the bottom?
Just want to see how close it is to the length of the one i already have on the helm.
thanks!

BTW....that is a sweet helm!

Varukh

any idea how long his short SS aventails are? That is the only one that might be in my price range for now.

Varukh

So as some of you have seen i have upgraded my kit quite a bit in the last week, so now i am letting some older gear go, and some legs that i never have used and have no use for. first up SCA legal helm...bought it used...dressed it up...fought in it for about 7-8 months...got a new one and now i ne...

Varukh

hmmmm....where you getting that at? as it is my helm is probably (just a ballpark guess) close to 15lbs.

Varukh

honestly i have no idea on a price. i have no idea how much he spent for it so if you guys want to just shoot me an offer. I will check on how much exact shipping will be in the morning.

Varukh

So i currently have a butted chain mail aventail on my current helm found here: m and i am having some slight problems with the new helm. I love the look of it and i want to keep the look, but the weight of it is really putting a strain on my neck. My question is what is the lightest gauge wire i co...

Varukh

Now that both my little brother and I have been out of school for quite some time and are both out of the house, my parents are starting to sell off the leftovers from our childhood stay. Recently my parents resurected this axe that my brother purchased at some long forgotten school trip. I was aske...

Varukh

yea....well its a little mangled after this weekends event....picked up chainmaille rings all day long from the aventail. One of these days i have to break down and get welded or riveted maille.

Varukh

that is pretty sweet work there man. makes me want to make another one. What material did you use?

Varukh

finished this one last night.

Varukh

InsaneIrish wrote:Dude, nice. You've come along way from the Birdman look.

thanks.

always looking to improve.

Varukh

that is correct. this is his new Russian helm. Built to last.

Varukh

will try to snap some pics this weekend at Newbie.

Varukh

awesome thread! Great idea. I'm relatively new (1 year fighting) and I am totally inspired! Can't wait to get my new kit finished. should be done by this weekend. Yeah, I am sure you are finished . I said that a couple of times myself. But trust me, you'll always find something to tinker/improve up...

Varukh

So i previously left a review of the helm i received from Hjalmr and a few people asked for pictures of the finished product. Here is what i ended up with after i forced a patina on it, ground down a weld or two, and added chainmaille. I would once again like to say that I am in love with Hjalmr's h...

Varukh

awesome thread! Great idea. I'm relatively new (1 year fighting) and I am totally inspired! Can't wait to get my new kit finished. should be done by this weekend.

Varukh

not really 100% sure. it is just what i have always used. It is what i was told works by other armorers and it has always worked out great for me.

Varukh

i use about 50/50 beeswax/parafin mix. I make a double boiler and let that melt the wax. In the mean time i have my leather in the oven at around 150-175 degrees, just enough that the wax is warm (warm enough that it can still be handled with bare hands). after the wax is melted i remove the wax fro...

Varukh

all i have finished so far this week. Arms, half gauntlets, patina on the clam shell gauntlets and new cuff on the clam shells.

Varukh

yes the edges are flared around the wrist a bit. bigjon i wish i lived a little closer so it wouldn't be such a big deal for me to make it to practices there. As it is now i really have to sweet talk the wife to get out of the house on Sunday afternoon. I will try to make it down in a week or two. y...

Varukh

thank you very much!

They will probably be worn under my tunic, but i thought I'd try to make them nice enough so that if they decided to peak out from time to time, no one would really care.

Varukh

Just finished my new arms. Thanks to Magnus for pointing me in the right direction with the elbow cop pattern. Hand cut, hand stitched, and wax hardened. Hope you like em. http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a152/jdreadrocker/168064_1530359260230_1272183665_31170116_5643293_n.jpg http://i11.photobucke...

Varukh

ARMOURER ERIC wrote:How many do you need?

just a guess...I would say somewhere between 30-40 rivets.

Varukh

anyone have a source for some brass rivets? I recently purchased a helm from Hjalmr and i was considering adding some brass rivets to the helm to make it look riveted, and to dress it up a bit. I was hoping to get them soon but the guy that sells them on ebay will be unable to ship anything till nex...

Varukh

Varukh

Brennainn wrote:I once had an opponent ask me how I wanted to die. I replied with his body at my feet.

That is F-ing awesome!

Varukh

I do take paypal and I sell a mongolian/russian type helmet, but its not in stock so you would have to wait a few weeks for me to make one: m (^_^) Hey Hjalmr....i love this helm and am ready to get mine on the field...but now that you have made it i am afraid everyone is going to want the same one...

Varukh

This thread has been a great teaching tool i am still very new to the SCA and as far as i know and can recollect i have not really committed any fighting sins, but this thread has been a great tutorial and warning on keeping a cool head and keeping the game fun. I came from playing Dagorhir and a lo...

Varukh

the helm looks like this for now.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21215018@N07/5180783694/
Going to put a maille aventail on it, and possibly spiff it up with some brass rivets, and etching if i can find something i like. Going to try a forced patina to try to make the helm look old and used.

Varukh

unfortunately the closest Orchard supply to me is probably the one you go to. lol I'll have to stick with walmart yoga mat for now.

Varukh

I recently got a new helm and i was contemplating doing some etching on it. The only problem is i have no idea what kind of designs would work for a 13th century persona. i have tried to find some designs by google searching, but so far i can find nothing. The only pics i have found are not close up...

helm, arms, hands, and legs for sale...lots of pics

chain aventail question

any interest in this axe?

finished Hjalmr helm/revisited review

new arms. (Thanks to Magnus's pattern help)

brass rivets?

13th century russian designs?