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Does anyone know or know anyone else who sales vervalles? (My name for them is camail lugs) Thanks for reading!

http://www.argentcompany.org/

Go to the Argent Company Store, sword belt accessories. (It wouldn't come up when I tried it at 5:20.)

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Virtus vincit invidiam
"Virtue overcometh envy"

Johann,

Anshelm Arms sells vervelles. Check them out at:

http://www.anshelmarms.com/bascinets.html

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-Tonwen
Gyldenholt, Caid

Johann,

I have some brass fittings which I refer to as "proto-vervelles". I don't know what they were originally made for, but they look a lot like a vervelle. They have a 1/4" cube head on a threaded post. The threaded post is hollow and the hole extends up into the cube, but not out the top. To make them into vervelles, you drill a hole across the cube and bevel the two top corners parallel to the hole you drilled. Mount them by either drilling a 3/16" hole and peinning them into it or by drilling a smaller hole and threading the hole (5mm x 0.8mm, I think...) and screwing the vervelle into the threaded hole and peinning it in place to secure it.

If you are interested, I can send you a sample. I have been selling them un-modified for $0.25 each. $5 would get you 20 of them, which should be enough for a helm.

- Scott

Mandrake Armory has some nice vervelles in (?)bronze. I picked up a handful at Pennsic.

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"Or, a pall inverted surmounted by an orle Azure counterchanged"

Someone posted a few weeks ago about some sort of brass lug that you needed to drill out one end and then it made a decent vervelle. Since we don't have a search function, maybe they will repost?

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Chance Wheeler
DarkMoon Armory
http://www.chainmaile.com

I've bought several sets of vervelles from Mandrake and they work great. Nice craftsmanship and well priced.

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Stefan of Kiel

If you can't use finese, then make a mess.

well.....


If you dont have the cash for some of the 1.50 each type then you may want to look for these:

www.woodcraft.com
sells "Shelf pegs with a brass coating 1/4 thick side 3/16 thin side. a pack of 20 cost right at 3 bucks.

to make them work stick the skinny end in your drill and use a file to curve over the edge. then drill a 1/16 OR 1/8th hole in the side.

Ive used these on three helms and they look fine but alas theyre not brass inside theyre steel once the coating is polished off. I leave the coating on to keep the rust factor down in the crevace and touch paint the inside of the hole before and after peening down the end.

I think the Leather Factory had some sort of belt buckle stud that some one was using once. You had to drill out the hole yourself.

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Krag von Berghen
KragAxe Armoury

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