The Armour Archive

Abaddon

I wouldn't mind seeing some pics.
Email me at:
Robmayo@hotmail.com

Abaddon

Now I want both an ahlspeer and a gudentag!

Abaddon

Museum replicas has both a haladie in thweir catalog as well as some sort of madu clone, made with a buckler and apparently the same blades used for the twin-bladed haladie. It looks pretty neat, in truth....but I think even they have placed it near the back of the catalog with their fantasy and eth...

Abaddon

Liebaart , For give me if I am misinformed but the Goedentag seen on this site seems more like an ahlspeer (eel spear) to me. http://www.liebaart.org/goeden_e.htm While it is conceivable that the two weapons were closely related in origin, the goedentag was described in usage as more of a hammer......

Abaddon

You are divorced and your ex-wife pays YOU money? Are you an armorer or a demi-god?
In any event you are my new hero.

I always likd that line from the John Wayne movie "McLintock!":
Divorce? What's that? Is that what you call it when you pay a woman not to live with you?

Abaddon

I would suspect that the cost in modern hardwood to do them in one piece would be prohibitive. As long as they are soldily made with good quality wood, I am in. I am assuming of course that you are modeling them closely after the ones seen on Conquest ? That is really my only exposure to them, so wh...

Abaddon

Yep!
Sasuke has it right.
That was:
www.bestarmour.com/

Check out their gauntlets as well.
It's just stellar stuff.

Abaddon

Yep!
I would like one.
But I would like to see how they turned out first.
Email me when you get pics.
Is the handle and the block with the spikes inset intregal or are they separate pieces?
How are they put together? What kind of wood?

Abaddon

Here's some pics of a klap from an armorer whose work I am rather fond of...

[img]http://www.bestarmour.com/Slap%2015%20a.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.bestarmour.com/Slap%2015%20b.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.bestarmour.com/Slap%2015%20e.jpg[/img]

Abaddon

So what all, so far, has sold?

Abaddon

I would like to see some pics of the surcoat and shield. Or is that the shield with the COP?
I am interested in the Gambeson too.

Email sent.

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Abaddon

How about this?

[img]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-5/204428/Surcoatsolution1.gif[/img]

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Abaddon

I looked into fishing lure spoons about four years ago, but I could never find anyone who sold them cheaply enough to make the scale mail idea feasible. Lures are a perfect solution to scales, as they come in just about every leaf and spoon shape imaginable, with ridged and even scaled surfaces them...

Abaddon

I think that is just a reflection.
They look great. How much money would it take to get you to make another pair for me?

Abaddon

I sure would like to see pics of the pike.
-Rob

Robmayo@hotmail.com

Abaddon

I would think that one would want to use two layers of fabric in the construction...leather, linen or hemp for the inside structural layer and velvet for the outside aesthetic layer. I simply wouldn't trust velvet alone to hold up long under the weight and stress put on the plates, especially if use...

Abaddon

Shoe lasts?
Are we talking about pattens here?
What exactly are shoe lasts?
Got any pics?

Abaddon

GASP!...pant pant.

Must...see...PICTURES!

Abaddon

Sorry.
My new email is at:
Robmayo@hotmail.com

Abaddon

I am going to offer you two things; advice which is probably not worth crap, and a possible order for goods (if you can do it). If I were you I would take half of your 3 grand and buy a CAD assisted laser cutter. One of those robot-arm thingamajigs that you design things on the workstation and then ...

Abaddon

I'd like to see the list of stuff thee guys offer...or maybe a link to their catalog.

Abaddon

Something to think on....I know that it has kept me from getting a tattoo. On every crime show on tv...America's Most Wanted, etc...the first thing they tell you about the wanted person is the kind of tattoos he or she has. Now I am not suggesting that you or I would ever commit a crime wherein law ...

Abaddon

My, oh my... What fragile egos everyone has today. There's almost a mathematical precept here for how annoying amatuer scholars can be; The amount you know about any one subject is inversely proportional to the likelyhood that people would want to converse with you about it. Another could be; Specia...

Abaddon

My opinion....take it for what it is worth: Don't bother with 8in1, simply do 4in1 with thicker gauge wire and keep the inside diameter small...like Middle Eastern maile...that is a large enough pain in the tuckus as it is. I haven't noticed that 8in1 is twice as strong as 4in1 although it is exactl...

Abaddon

It occurs to me (as if anyone cared) that if you could find a short length of square steel tubing with the same inside measurements as the wood you used, you could use it as a telescoping sleeve and make your stand portable. What I mean to say is that it would basically fit together like a fishing p...

Abaddon

I recommend CLANG for the sabatons. I had him make me some sollerets that turned out fantastic. I hear he lost some of his hair during their construction though. I think he has a picture of them on his website. Yep...here it is: http://clang.adkinssoftware.com/ http://clang.adkinssoftware.com/custom...

Abaddon

I bought a full set of hardware for a sword belt from StudBuckle a few months ago. I was very happy with everything and would gladly "do bidness wid the man" in the future. I put the whole thing together in about ten minutes, once the leather was stained. I tell ya, there is nothing better than a pe...

Abaddon

Shoes and boots of course...but to be fair there are a lot of sites out there that offer those already. Affordable boots then. One thing that I have looked for and could not find anywhere (other than at certain Ren Faires) was period knapsacks and satchels and haversacks. I am not talking about thre...

Abaddon

Pilum?!
It damn near wrecked 'em!

Abaddon

Well then Ed, you are "tunic-free". I'd say that Karen lived up to her part of the bargain. Just so's you all know, Karen made me an arming cap and gambeson w/extra sleeves (short and long)...and it looks great. Of course I didn't rush her either. That's the problem with cottage industries...busines...

Abaddon

But what if you have genital warts?
I really wouldn't recommned any duct tape down there.

Abaddon

Guns, crossbows, pretty much any weapon that trumped the Japanese armor of the day was discouraged. Why? Because the Samurai had to be the top of the line in warriors and warfare. A gun could kill a Samurai even in the hands of a peasant. Unacceptable. Completely unacceptable. The guy trains for twe...

Abaddon

Well....to be fair the Japanese themselves thought that the European tactics were superior. They patterned (half-assedly) their own armor and weapons after much that the Europeans had developed earlier. China was another major influence on them, but they in turn were being influenced by the West as ...

Abaddon

I love it.
I just wish you hadn't primed it.
I am weird I guess...I'd snmply rather see a little rust than a helm covered in modern-looking paint.
It plasticizes the look of it and ruins the illusion.

Abaddon

Welcome!
I like the sallet you are working on.
What is the styel of the other helm going to be though?
I do not recognise it.