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Antique Armour For Sale
This extremely rare embossed French cuirass shown below is dated around 1560-1570 and is all yours for just $38,000 over at the faganarms website.What do you think of this piece of armour? Please leave a comment below.
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Leather Armour Or Something Else?
One of our readers sent the email below today asking if we could help identify the object in the photo’s. Given we have thousands of visitors interested in armour I thought I’d open this request up to everyone.
Please read the email and leave a comment if you know what it is,…
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How To Make A Sword
The videos below show how to make a sword. In fact it’s no ordinary sword, it’s a pattern-welded sword with a serpent at its core.
I really enjoyed the videos below created by Niels Provos and wanted to share them with you here, Niels is a brilliant security researcher in his day…
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How To Cast A Bronze Sword
Neil Oliver experiments with traditional methods of making a Bronze Age sword just like in ancient times.
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEWIuyeNp2k
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Henry VIII Secrets Revealed Thanks To Armour
Photo credit goes to Collette Mason who took a trip to the Tower of London recently. Thanks for allowing me to post it!
A study of armour worn by Henry VIII around 1540 revealed by the end of his reign the King’s vital stats were a whopping 52 inch waist and 53 inch chest, pretty amazing…
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Shield of Sidhe
I wanted to share this with you because, well.. it’s a cool design!
The main shield is made from plastozote foam, with a fibreglass core and then latexed.
Then the figure was cast in poly rubber. The hole that the figure sites in is a rubber negative casting so that it fit…
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Critical Hit While Sneaking
Beebichu taught herself how to sew and use photoshop because she loves cosplay, she normally likes to make pottery but as you can see there’s no pottery here.
It’s a great photo of Nightingale Armour that Beebichi created and there are many more like it at her site so take a break…
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Cuir Bouilli Hardened Leather Armour
Cuir Bouilli Hardened Leather Armour Making Technique
by David Friedman
We’d like to thank David Friedman for granting us permission to re-publish this fine article on techniques of making water hardened leather armour. (see also: Beginner’s Tips for Leatherworking)
Some years ago, I…
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Armour Stand Construction
Armour Stand Construction
by Eric Slyter
Quite a few people have asked how to build a display stand so that they may show off their armour at their home, event or wherever. I have an armour stand that I designed that has served me very well for quite some time, and is simple in it’s…
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Armour and Armor 