The Armour Archive

Karl Helweg

ahh so you self claim your self a member I was waiting on my offer that I couldn't refuse hmmm NotDukeOlaf2 - Your kit looks good. Didin't you fight in the pas d'Armes down at Ft. Defiance? Some blued/black puldrons or spaulders would look good on you too. BTW is the titanium pauldron wearing fight...

Karl Helweg

My current "flying" armour with pas parts and my war armour:

Karl Helweg

I can see definite improvements since Coronet. Waiting to see how you do those tricky scale shoulders.

Karl Helweg

What kind of armour are you looking at buying? $1,000. more seems like a lot but stainless is not only lower maintenance, able to hold more resale value, but just plain tougher. I have known folks who had super nice mild steel armour and took wonderful care of it but in the end something always seem...

Karl Helweg

I need help finding period art/carvings of vikings holding hands. Like in a dance. Does anyone have any such images?

Karl Helweg

Earl Duncan - I also have trouble wearing a breastplate. My scrawny chest needs to move more in a fight that breastplates allowed. Then I took up kendo and noticed that the particular cut of the do wasn't interfering with even two-handed weapons. I copied that basic shape with better results than I...

Karl Helweg

1) Set up an armouring night for folks to repair and upgrade. 2) Some of the better armouring advice I've heard is to "always make at least two of everything" so that you have a chance to immediately apply what you are practicing and so you have a second to barter off to lazier fighters. G...

Karl Helweg

I have met a few bowyers here who use Pacific yew to make longbows which are usually closer to American flat bows. It is lighter in the hand than English yew but shoots "rubbery" or "sluggishly" compared to my English bow. Now the local bowyers are talking up Sitka spruce which i...

Karl Helweg

Ron Palmer Smugglers Gap Epple Bay Avenue Birchington Kent CT79HT Tel 0848-42999 Horned tipped, laminated extremely accurate copies of the Mary Rose yew longbows. Very reasonable but it has been a while since I bought one of his. Despite all the claims people make online I have not seen a better bow...

Karl Helweg

I really didn't need that mental image....

Karl Helweg

Aramis10 I have had to help with similar projects for similar people. Buy a box of nice rivets. Brass maybe. Take it all apart. Plan to try everything folks have listed here (Col. Brassy, steel wools, emory paper, etc....). I would start with old rags soaked in vinegar layed over it for a night. I ...

Karl Helweg

I am searching for period art of vikings/norse holding hands in any way that might imply a bransle type dance. It seems to me that I have seen such a thing in a carving....

If you have trouble posting any such artwork here please send it directly to my e-mail: THEKarlMarx@cs.com

Karl Helweg

http://vertexind.com/

This Col. Brassy is basically a liquid sandpaper that works on most metals including rusted steel. I've been using the same bottle for several years now to start restoring really bad swords and armour.

Karl Helweg

Angus do you have a current or "before" picture of your gang to post so that we can see improvements as they happen?

What personae are you all going for? Is this a war gang for Pennsic or a tourney company?

Karl Helweg

Nice looking arms. You know some of Talbot's bronze rosette rivets on the pauldron cup would really be over the top and have you tried "Y" straps in the elbows to hold them in place better and cut in less? What sort of body armour are you working with? SO are you selling/trading any of the...

Karl Helweg

Bokalo's stuff does need some finishing and some is just useless to me but he's cheap and an honest broker. Check out #735 and imagine a little buffing out and matching pauldrons: m SO when are you post some pictures of your aluminum stuff? Now tht we have an indoor practice area I might even get to...

Karl Helweg

Aluminum can be made to look a lot like polished steel. Most of this harness is aluminum with some stainless, mild, and a tiny bit of titanium. I scarfed some old aircraft aluminum rivets from a mechanic at the local airport and they work very well for articulation, metal-to-metal, and metal-to-leat...

Karl Helweg

The enjoyablepart is tricky but try Osprey's Armies of the German Peasants' War 1524-26 and The French Religious Wars 1562-1598.

Karl Helweg

http://www.madmattsarmory.com/inv_legs.php

Mad Matt might be a place to start since he's close. It seems that there might be a fellow in Memphis who had some inexpensive ones too. I'll post them if I find them again.

Karl Helweg

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Sodalis_Coq_et_Coq/

http://www.romans-in-britain.org.uk/arl ... lasses.htm

I mailed the recipes. The copy is a little hard to read since the original was printed in brown ink. A friend over in Wales getting her degree on Roman tin/lead trade in Britain recommended the above sites too. Good meeting you too.

Karl Helweg

http://romanarch.blogspot.com/

http://www.romanarmy.com/cms/

Karl Helweg

SO what day might you actually know who all might or might not be in the "first half?"

Karl Helweg

We needed indoor practice space more like 7-9 months out of the year here and have finally found it through the "Community Schools" program of volunteer classes. It is also called "continuing education." So we now offer a "SCA Sword Fighting" class open to anyone over 1...

Karl Helweg

Ok, it was good to see you in the list.

Just like I predicted, I forgot the cook book. Please e-mail me your snail-mail address and I'll send you the recipe section. THEKarlMarx@cs.com

Karl Helweg

Yes, I have been "entered." I would assume that you might be too? Did I mention that our Earngyld Fighter Practices start up the Tuesday AFTER this? Feeling just a tad out of practice. At least I have made a little progress on my "flight armour." Don't suppose you might have any ...

Karl Helweg

Even after tracking down a phone number(s) it is "no longer receiving messages."

I don't suppose that anyone sees Mark Preist on any regular basis?

Karl Helweg

Are you going to be at Coronet this weekend? If so, I have a copy of Marian Woodman's recipe book that I can bring up for you to look over.

Karl Helweg

It is a great example of an ugly but period helm. I actually am fond of the Coburg bascinet.

Karl Helweg

great example:

Karl Helweg

This seems to be going more towards soft kits so this is my Lady Elise and myself:

Karl Helweg

I need to take some new pictures to show improvements to my Landsknecht kit. Obviously I do not tie my tassets down but as bad as this looks it is hardly noticable when I fight. Oh yes, do you all like the "marshal" we found for the tournament?

Karl Helweg

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=48171

Karl Helweg

http://cgi.ebay.com/SCA-Armour-Hilts-Bu ... p1638.m118

Karl Helweg

Baron Martin Thursthammer (formerly of Erngyld now An Tir) made all of this himself:

Karl Helweg

My understanding is that Germans (HRE) were proud of their relatively high literacy. At least there was less stigma attached to literacy in the HRE. There was however Schriebers attached to the staff just in case. By the early 16th century and the death of Charles the Bold the Burgundian Empire had ...

Re: offer ya can't refuse

"finally"

looking good

stainless

Help needed viking art

kendo

start

options

old contact

head bleach

big picture

Help needed viking art

Col. Brassy

science

sexy

finishing

aluminum blues...

enjoyable?

nieghborhood

might help too

newest archeology

half&half

Indoor

answered one...

yes

thanks again

Coronet?

coburg

great example

soft kit...

Landsknecht

belt plaques

Anyone dealt with these folks?

Baron Martin Thursthammer

German poetic....