The Armour Archive

Last night I was helping a good friend put together his new leg-harness "system", and while we were roughshodding this BS together, I realized that I HATE armouring!! I despise it!! Everything we try to do to get things to work is so wrong, wrong, wrong. I wish I didn't know any better.
Arming clothes- that's the key. You can't get them! When you can- you wait for years and then they break the bank! There is no way to win. Doomed to suffer SCA armour forever!! Arrrggghhh! I have to win the Lottery.
-V

I hate to say it, learn to sew. Even a straight cut, commercially quilted fabric psuedo arming doublet is better than virtually any cludged SCA solution.


Alail/Scott

You are right. I hate you.
-V

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Alail/Scott</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I hate sewing. Yet I have to learn how. I have come to learn that this is the only way I am ever going to be able to afford the aketon/paaded cuisses I want and still be able to buy my helm, greaves, rerbraces, couters, polyens etc, etc. Did I mention this takes a LOT of money to do? *grumble*



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I grow strong again!
Warcry of the clan Ewan
Ewan of Loch Fynne

It's the classic "Time or Money" dilemma. You can lay out $3000 for a full kit and (probably) have it assembled in a few weeks, or you can make it yourself for about $200 in your "spare" time.

Does anyone have any "spare" time? Send it to me if you're not going to use it...


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"Or, a pall inverted surmounted by an orle Azure counterchanged"
mka: Sam Pearce

Vitus,

I think what we really need are good clearly written examples or pictures of what these clothes look like. My soon to be wife is a professional seamstress by trade and is excellent at adopting patterns from period illustrations and other works. I just don’t have access to them. She’ll be taking commissions every summer (her theater job is at the university and she gets summers off), but we need to find good patterns or illustrations for her to work from.

Logan

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Does anyone have any "spare" time? Send it to me if you're not going to use it... </font>

Get some government grants, go back to college, and abracadabra, you have hella free time. Oh, and manage your free time wisely. You want to keep the grades at a reasonable level that you will not get kicked out, and still recieve government money, but not so much that you cant armour just about any time you want.

anything specific youre looking for vitus? ive got a few good homemade patterns and such lying around the farm. if your looking for a pourpoint, im working a pattern up right now. i cant afford to have someone make stuff for me either.

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Johnathon
pax, pax, est non mi pax

The equation is that you can have an item/task done in the following ways:

Good, Fast, Cheap... Pick any 2. It definately wont be the third.


-+G

Vitus,
That's why you buy armour from me.
-Cad

Vitus,
That's why you buy armour.
from me to.


AB Hammer