The Armour Archive

If you still have those bascinets i want one.

If you can get it shipped by gulf wars i'll mail ya a check if not i could pick it up from ya there.

Yeah and when are you going to have more mail in stock? I need an aventail!!

The helm is showing as "In Stock" on this page:

http://www.forth-armoury.com/Product_Catalog/Helmets/hounskull/hounskull.htm

It appears that you can order online there.

Regards,
Jean Richard
Ansteorra

Thanks, Jean. Yes, all the helms are in stock and ready to ship. However, I will not be at Gulf Wars, I don't think.

If you order one, you will certainly have it by Gulf Wars, though! (more like within 3-4 days! )

I will have more maille and do-it-yourself supplies ready in about 2 weeks or less.

Steve

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO by birthday is march 8th!!!!!!! i'm gonna order some mail if its in stock!! (think voiders and skirt think voiders and skirt!!)

SOFC i'm trying to order a helm from ya

I can't get the online ordering to work, i'm clicking but it won't open

Can i call ya?

Hi Murdock!

Sure thing - 334-328-2434. However, I just tried it (on the hounskull basinet), and it works fine - the shopping cart pops up in another window - do you have pop-up-stopping software running?

Steve

A littlebit off topic, but the period liner that you have on your website, do you fight sca in that?

Edward

Unfortunately, I haven't fought SCA combat in a few years now, and I've never fought in that helmet with that liner. I do not think I will, either - the points that gather in the top of the helm are too narrow, and leave gaps where my head could come in contact with the metal. The liner needs to be re-done. It was a prototype.

Steve

Having finally strapped and padded the helm I got from Steve earlier this month, I got smacked about in it a bit last night.

Oh Joy! Oh Rapture! Come to my arms my beamish Boy, Caloo Callay! Oh Frabjous Day! (He Chortled in his Joy...)

Needless to say It was Very sexy....

A little light for use in Wars, to my mind, But a-tourneying we will go.

I have built four liners for SCA combat using the ideas that steve presents on his site. They are very comfortable. Mine are an evolutionary process, the MKI used open cell foam as the padding and so far the most comfortable when worn for extended periods of time. But its protective value tended to fail with hits on the higher end of the spectrum. The MKII used felt carpet underlayment, it was fantastic for teh duration of pennsic soaking up sweat and impacts like a champ. But the felt compressed pretty quickly and needed replacing by the early fall (about two months of moderate use). The MKIII was an abysmal failure using blue walmart foam. The MKIV uses the same principal as the previous edition but the foam is a denser closed cell and I have added four layers of terry cloth to the mix, all quilted into a heavy canvas liner. It is comfortable and works well, except for very high end shots. I have found that the suspension leaves some space between the helmet and the helmet side of the liner. My physics is a little rusty, but my sense of what is happening is that the mass of the helmet is allowed to accelerate over that space between liner and inner surface of the helmet rather than continuously compressing padding and thus reducing the inertia? that is transferred to ones skull.

I turned off the pop up blocker and it works now.