The Armour Archive

Greetings!

Awhile back I think I remember someone posting a link or email for a gentle (back East?...) who made and sold t6 Alum. shield blanks.

Am I just daft and making stuff up, or does this person truly breathe and live?

Micah

Mandrake armoury sells them, and gives good service, too...

www.mandrakearmory.com

http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/004235.html

[This message has been edited by Brodir (edited 05-22-2001).]

Thanks,

You both rock!

Micah

Here's another place you may consider:

By My Hand Designs Shield Page.

Been using Master Jamie's shields for years---purt-damn-near indestructable. Besides, $45.00 per shield is rather hard to beat.


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Robert Coleman, Jr.

The Noble Companie and Order of St. Maurice

Those who beat their swords into plowshares end up plowing for those who don't.

[This message has been edited by Templar Bob/De Tyre (edited 05-23-2001).]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Templar Bob/De Tyre:
By My Hand Designs Shield Page.
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Now if his site only worked in Netscape and no just IE....


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Yehuda ben Moshe
mka Juliean Galak

JGalak:

Took the liberty of doing a cut/paste from their page:

<B>SHIELDS
We make shields for use in Western martial arts activities specifically SCA-style foot combat. They are made of 5052 H38 aluminum that is .100" thick. We have two styles.

Round-about 26" wide and domed so that it is 3 or 4 inches deep. It rides well on the arm and can be strapped or used with a boss.

Everything else. We can custom cut a shield for you using our pre-rolled stock of shield blanks. The blanks are 48" tall and about 28" across the inside and 30" as measured over the face. They are curved 4"-5" deep.

We have done heaters, kites, coffins, Byzantine, scuti, and ovals and every one was custom cut to the patrons requirements. Please contact us to discuss your needs.
Pictures coming soon.


PRICING
Round- $45 plus shipping
Custom cut $45 plus shipping

As you can expect By My Hand Designs, having no control of conditions or manner of use, can not be held responsible for accident or injury incurred while using these items</B>




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Robert Coleman, Jr.

The Noble Companie and Order of St. Maurice

Those who beat their swords into plowshares end up plowing for those who don't.

Good day all-
Does anybody know why Netscpe Navigator does such a poor job of interpreting HTML?
OK that wasn't fair but I spent a long time and lost some hair figuring out HTML on my own for the site and made an effort to not get fancy so that I wouldn't run into this problem. All of the manuals warn that X,Y,or Z won't work with some of the browsers. I never figured that the incompatibility would be this bad so I am open to suggestions.


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Captain Jamie

not that I particularly care about aluminum shields one or t'other, but how come no one has jumped on this as "unauthentic", as opposed to plastic threads which get boatloads of negative posts?

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Owen:
<B>not that I particularly care about aluminum shields one or t'other, but how come no one has jumped on this as "unauthentic", as opposed to plastic threads which get boatloads of negative posts?

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Because aluminum has been around forever just like the nickle in stainless steal.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Tim:
Because aluminum has been around forever just like the nickle in stainless steal.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

And perhaps also because, in regards to these shields, they are almost always painted and/or covered up so nobody can really tell.

Then again maybe it is because that metal, even not a period metal, still looks more like metal than plastic...

Re: Nutscrape.

The deficiency is due to the company relying on a marketing strategy of "Microsoft is evil" rather than one based on the quality of the product. According to my tracking software, the percentage of users [hitting my site] running MSIE has slowly but steadily risen over the past couple yerars. It's over 90%, last I checked.

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<B>Gundobad,
Wise Ogre Armory
Wise Ogre Pic of the Day
Wise Ogre Armory T-shirts & more</B>

There are three kinds of people - commonplace men, remarkable men and lunatics - Mark Twain

A position worth taking, is worth defending.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">
And perhaps also because, in regards to these shields, they are almost always painted and/or covered up so nobody can really tell.
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Well, that's true of the more considerate plastic weareres too. Some of the people have surcoats so all-encompassing you can't see the plastic (and the bits that stick out are metal/leather).

Templar Bob:
Thanks for reposting the info, but I already got it, the site works fine in IE, I just prefer Netscape....

Gundo:
IMHO, the problem isn't with netscape, but with people using non-standard IE-only HTML, coding to a specific browser instead of to a universal standard. (If anyone wants to pursue this discussion further, let's please take it to the off-topic board).



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Yehuda ben Moshe
mka Juliean Galak

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Captain Jamie:
<B>Good day all-
Does anybody know why Netscpe Navigator does such a poor job of interpreting HTML?

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Jaime,

As a dedicated Netscaper, I checked out your code. It seems you were not explicit in separating the links from the text, so the interpreter pasted them on top of each other. IE will interpret different from Netscape, that is for sure. I have simplified the code and put things in a table - this verison works great in Netscape


Oops, I pasted the code here, and the ubb software barfed on it, so I published the code in geocities - I hope I'm not being too forward. Since you used style settings, it will look different in Netscape and IE, but they will work.

Cheers, Lu-shan

http://www.geocities.com/schizeckinosy/shields.html

I ordered a custom cut aluminum shield from By My Hand Designs and it came in the mail last night. It is FREAKING awesome!!! The guy is very fast, very detailed and very accurate. Anybody thinking about purchasing an aluminum shield, definately definately check this place out.

Told 'ja so.

The shield I use for tournaments I've had since 1987. Other than occasionally repainting and re-edging with heater-hose, I've had no problem with them. I have subsequently bought others.

I will eventually rim them with hose and rawhide.

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Robert Coleman, Jr.

The Noble Companie and Order of St. Maurice

Those who beat their swords into plowshares end up plowing for those who don't.

[This message has been edited by Templar Bob/De Tyre (edited 05-24-2001).]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gundo:
The deficiency is due to the company relying on a marketing strategy of "Microsoft is evil" rather than one based on the quality of the product.</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Got that kinda backwards, Gundo... netscape is mostly standards compliant. IE doesn't even try to be (though Mac IE5 is, for some reason). The IE parser has a bunch of extra crap in it (marquee tag, for example) that people are urged to take advantage of to crush competition.

And yes, m$ is evil.


T.Bob, do you have pics of the blanks? Looks like a pretty good price (that's coming from a real tightwad, if you don't know).

Captain Jamie,
I just sent you an email about your shields.