The Armour Archive

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Not much new. I stitched a cross to my surcoat - which made everyone in the household happy.

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Well math was never my strength.

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Double Ditto on that question!

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50 on the wooden heater. seen it in person, its a nice size.

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Regrettably I have not yet achieved a satisfying solution with the chausses I bought from Alfred. I have fiddled with them and the best guess I have is that either they are laced under the foot with a thong running through the links, which works perfectly well if you are walking on grass or in the s...

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Hjalmr if you are using your yahoo account it does indeed have a spam filter buried somewhere in the configurations on the web portal. The messages never reach you because yahoo in their wisdom, think that most users dont want to be bothered with sorting through spam for possible misplaced messages....

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Tasha+

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Your are looking at maybe a third of it in that picture.

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Audax, yes my cuisses are stitched closed at the back seam, making a tube that does completely around my thigh and knee. The top is left open, although I did finish the edges. I have stitched tubes into it and use ABS splints inside. I also quilted in a couple of layers of cotton batting (an old ake...

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Build them like mine. Quilt tubes in two layers of sturdy fabric, wrap around leg, stitch comfortably closed, insert plastic splints. Voila. Comfy, protective, low profile and looks reasonably correct. You can wear them under or over your cuisses as your time frame dictates.

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Looking very good!
What are you doing for a helmet?

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Baron Alejandro wrote:Aeiric, don't worry. Your wedgie will largely be ceremonial.

Ceremonial or not... thats going to smart.

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Is there room on the bench with Gavin and Magnus?

I have beer....

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Anghaus, the Cappa is correct, the knights hospitaller osprey book has a decent illustration by Mcbride I believe. Seaan, shown on our website, wears a very similar robe. He had no trouble fighting in it and aside from the gooby gauntlets looked pretty smashing. Its a great way to hide sinful armor....

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I posted links to some picks on the other version of this thread. Alternatively, my squire brother Eadric wears a short sleeved haubergeon and torvaldr bazubands when he is doing his 13th century impression. They blend in reasonably well. You could wear them under a long sleeved tunic and they would...

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Mine has a full sleeve. Master knut was reluctant to fit mufflers to it without repeated fittings, as he he said "they never come out right". I wear a low profile steel elbow cop under and a kids soccer shin guard on my forearm. Not a huge amount of protection - but so far sufficient for m...

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D.'s shirt was a ziegler product. It was my first shirt and came to me with help from military friends from Germany. Bummer that it has been sold I hope that it is seeing good use on whoevers back it now resides. I am planning on attending the WoH tourney, hopefully with several improvements to my k...

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I wear a single layer linen coif on my dome under my mail coif and ventail, in four year of this I have only ever been cut once by my mail. And that was a complete fluke involving a hard place, a rock and a southbound express.

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Is the spear included in the under 5' rule?

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Use a broken lance in the style that HG Radnor uses.
Some one out there is bound to have pics.

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That is absolutley awesome seeing so many heaumes on the field at once. It looks like a fantastic effort was put into making it a fun day.

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Well technically Ugo and Vrin.
Here is the thread with more Ugolishessnes...
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=94111&highlight=

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The last one is by Ugo.

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try matuls.pl he makes a tolerably decent version of this if memory serves.

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Greetings UntimelyEpiphany, Seaan's used steel gauntlets as a safety measure, they are not correct for the period he is portraying here. But smashed fingers are no fun, similarly my gauntlets are also incorrect. Brother Amos has a very nice looking solution, and I believe if you do some searching he...

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white mountain armoury wrote:Thaddeus made his own helm with some pieces from a kit from Zweihammer Armoury and some pieces of hiw own construction.

Yawp.

And mine is not nearly as pretty as Adam's.

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Well not new kit technically, but a new pic. http://www.stcolin.com/pictures/BaronialBDay08/STONEMARCHE_Raw00331.jpg And I have been wearing those knees for thirty nine years. Oh you were thinking armour weren't you......................................

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Saritor wrote:
Dante della Luna wrote:This all done with the mouse, right?

There's one in EVERY crowd.

With 9664 of us currently registered on this board I suspect we have several, actually.

Dante has been around a ah.... well a while.

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Is there any provenance for Piers. I know many effigies were produced significantly after the death of the person they represent.
This one does appear to have the form of the armours of the fifties though.

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This is mine, it is quite an old photo. Most of the rest of that kit has ceased to exist.
[img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/thaddeus/keene/KEENE9~1.jpg[/img]

I agree about using unique examples of a piece and would like to avoid it if possible.

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I am wondering when the point of the bascinet started to drift towards the back of the skull. I want to rebuild my 14th century kit for the 1350's time frame of the CoTT, but my bascinet has a moderate back point. Its not the extreme cones that you see at the very end of the century. I have been und...

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I also plan to fight for Sir Johannes.

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I have spent far more of the battles in recent years yelling than I have actually swinging a stick. If I am swinging things are either going drastically wrong for us or for them.

When actually in the mess fighting no I dont yell - like Galvyn said I am too busy trying to breathe.

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Rod what and how are you guys attaching your chausses to on the foot?
Mine are still sitting on the workbench because I have yet to figure our exactly how to attach them to my boots or if I should stitch them to a sole of some sort.

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I will post pics of my rig this weekend.

How early are back point bascinets seen?