The Armour Archive

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Mittens and clamshells pretty much fall into the same category from what I have seen. 16 ga. stainless sounds fine. The mousepad goes between the glove and the metal.

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Quick answers

Gambeson went under armour and wasnt too thick, Jacks were made as cloth armour and were regularly up to 20 layers thick.

The coat of plates can be anything from a ver few (such as the 6 you are talking about) up to over a hundred.

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How much is shipping running? Trying to get an estimate for someone who might be making some leather lamellar.

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I definately agree, my setup (that is about to be made) is going to be 4-5 layers of cotton batting on the body, and about 2-3 down the arms. There is just lacrosse arms and a kidney belt (that might get replaced by plastic pouch bits). I have worn two or three layers of clothing (simulating multipl...

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The best mantra for this thread though, has to be:

If you have a 4" square of skin that isnt scarred somehow, by the time you are 50, you havent been living." Told to me when I was working out at a camp 50 hrs a week and living outdoors the entire time. Duct tape and scrap paper were bandaids.

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I seem to remember us discussing this very pic a loooonnnggg while ago, and most people thought that the whole was because the stomach was protected by the high saddle, and the chest wasnt. Also brought up because of the mirror imaging as an example of really shiny "chrome" armour.

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Sir Gaston wrote:Could be...but you can't unload a sword!

I just had a mental image of a bad hollywood version of someone hitting another with a sword, and the blade flying off (think using a United Cutlery on a stump!) and them just holding the handle. Does that count as unloading the sword?

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I had a pair of 3/4 legs that were sticking. Borrowed a ball pein, couple of good whacks later, they were fine. Never thought anything of it.

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Hey audax, I just found your sig line funny, because the guy in the pic is known as the Phoenix of Sol Haven, after falling face first when firewalking two years ago. The gauntlets are red with black phoenix's on them.

Oh, and Bump for HotW.

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As a particular sidenote (and if the author wants me to delete this thread to prevent sidetracking, please PM me), how many people look at it differently when they are fighting S&S vs spear, polearm, etc. I personally have no problem hitting the dirt but that is because I am a S&S wall-grunt, throug...

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Anyone wondering about Dan's gauntlets, they are da bomb. I know one guy around here who has a pair that have seen a LOT of service, and they still rock. I keep trying to talk him into letting me mess around with them, but they never seem to leave his body or armour bag. This is a great pic of them ...

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Hey Irish, you up for getting a pair and then letting the rest of us know if they are SCA legal, or easily modified? I agree, my jaw just about dropped when I saw them, and again when Lloyd posted the price. Why, oh why, did Beathan have to do this now? His queue is going to be stacked up for months...

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I personally have not bought anything from them, but have heard nothing but good things about them. You might have a bit more luck cross-posting in the Classifieds section. From what I have heard, I would not hesitate to go with them at all, and I might soon be in contact with Beathan about a custom...

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Never fought in a Crown, so cant answer the first three. I currently fight in bare Society minimums, but have a maille hauberk that is getting modified to fit right (adding slit and edging in leather). I have no problem wearing 30 lbs of "useless" weight, because I want to look accurate for what my ...

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Any evidence to period sunglasses?

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I think it was Fiachna that proposed a scenario where everyone had to bring a stuffed "person" (stuffed with batting or straw) with them and when they died, they would run out, grab their "second" and throw him roughly where they were (or stay until Hold was called, and then the Hold lasted long eno...

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You might be suprised how much of a difference it makes if you put a string around the neck and cinch it after you have it on. It pulls most of the weight off your arms and onto your shoulders. Just a suggestion from someone who is starting to get used to wearing maille.

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Anyone know how much weight one would need for leather lamellar? Might be helping someone with doing a full shirt with spaulders and arms/skirt (Byzantine)

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Depends on what you want to use for the maille. If you are simply doing butted, you can get a 1/4 mile of 17 ga. wire from Home Depot or 14 ga. from a farm store for just under $20. You then have to wind it into rings, cut those off, and then weave your design and style (aka. Euro 4-1, byzantine cha...

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Yeah I had gotten the front and back part down, now I am just trying to understand how much people have taken out to make the slit. Was it simply II or ^ going down? or some combination of the two?

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12th century in the Holy Land. I know that butted isnt period but it was something that I could actually afford while vastly improving the look of my fighting kit.

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Is ^ how it hangs normally with only taking out a couple of rings width, and the weight of the maille drags it apart? Because if that is the case, it would seem that the shirt would "overlap" when laid out. Is this correct or am I just way off base? Do people take out triangles or just vertical rows?

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Is it just me, or does the inside of the shovel face look kind of demon-ish and evil? Kind of like (

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Thanks guys, I was really wondering how everyone made them hang closed while fighting. I will try making the back slit less than the front. So just take out a couple of rings width, see how it closes and go from there?

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Hey all, I just picked up a butted maille hauberk from Von Sussen at GW, and am starting to actually getting a chance to modify it to fight in. Right now, there are no slits and it just hangs straight down. I have heard varying opinions on how wide these are supposed to be and how high. It is 8mm ri...

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Duke Max leaps quite often. It is really deceptive and you usually dont realize he is in the air until you hear the thunk against the back of your helm. . Sir Kenneth also had a "Flying Weasel" attack a while ago, which started out about 8 ft away from the opponent and waited for Lay On, and the opp...

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Hey guys, I have a friend who is looking around for his first helm out of loaner. I can only remember a few armourers, and cant find the thread that has the alternatives. Trying to keep him out of a spuntop. His MAX upper range is 200 but is really looking for something around the 100-150 range. Con...

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And for the later periods, you must have been of noble birth to compete in a tournament. I am all for the not so much nobility (especially at wars). Once I get the three or four new guys here at Georgia Tech sufficiently reined in to be authorized, we have started to figure out how to do pitchforks,...

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This Gulf Wars, when trying to get into the breach, we ran into about four scutums bottling up one doorway. I see Murdock (no not the one on this board, early Murdock), rap a couple of times with his sword and proclaim, "Hey, will you let us in? " This started the entire taunting every time we waite...

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Would green duck heads be allowed, as compared with the mundane modern duck-head brand?

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Edited: Sorry, the person made payment on them today and I am shipping out tomorrow.

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Personally, I wasnt trying to say this guy was a fraud or not, just posting what looked like a discrepency (if I actually had 6000 laying around, it would be worth a question in an email). It seems to be legit, but we wont know unless someone steps up and buys it. Anybody? Come on, you know you want...

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Dont commas for international numbers mean the same as periods for US style? If so...

stands 1,83 cm tall

would mean it would be under an inch.

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You could try sewing the straps onto the leather. There might be a small problem with riveting through links, but if you laid the links flat, you could probably take some sinew or waxed linen thread and sew it on. Not sure exactly how strong it would be though. What are you strapping on your hauberk?

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I have been hit in the back once, but I was charging through the opposing shieldwall, and I think someone just took a potshot at me as I went by (someone I didnt hit).

Where does the slit go?

First Helm Options wanted