forging armor

[Speedmouse]

there is a lot on here about forging swords and knives and all manor of weapons but why are there no threads on armor? is there anyone on here that makes armor, this is just a curiosity because i enjoy perving on all the swords and axes and knives but there is no armor D: lol

[Jeff Lodge]

I know in the past a lot of people looking for Armour work have been pointed to http://www.armourarchive.org/
The reason being that they have a large wealth of knowledge already gather at the site, so no real point to have it recreated here.

[iron woodrow]

there is some armour, but have you searched for "armor" or "armour"? i will be posting some shots of a great helm i am working on, in a week or so.

[Maillemaker]

there is some armour, but have you searched for "armor" or "armour"? i will be posting some shots of a great helm i am working on, in a week or so.

Well, that's why he can't find any! All of the content is spelled wrong! :)

[ThomasPowers]

A lot of folks really into armormaking use the continental spellings like maille to differentiate from postal mail or armour to differentiate from armor---tanks, etc.

The armourarchive predates IFI a long time though a lot of the earlier stuff was lost in a crash ten? years ago.

I send folks from here over there for armour stuff and send folks from there over here for blacksmithing stuff.

Note that some of the high end armourer's---like Ugo (has done Negroli quality work! http://www.ugoserrano.com/armourphotos.html ) stop by over there just like we have had JPH stop in here. We don't see some of the greats in maille research as much anymore over there as we do at academic conferences and on TV nowadays; but a lot of their early work is still in the archives.

Rater than watering down 2 sites; I prefer to leave each one to their specialties