Well I'm not likely to go for a sword at all. I may get a dagger but the plan now is to make a reproduction of an extant 12th-13th century bronze mace fragment which I may or may not be purchasing. http://medievalwares.com/images/7471.jpg Then I'm trying to find sources for 12th century spear varian...

I've played around with boiled leather a bit, my current armor for heavy fighting is about half hardened and half not. I've used wax on everything which was successful, hardening with water was very fiddly and always turned up seeming like it was scorched and brittle instead of nicely durable. For w...

Alright, the easiest will probably be leather clamshell gauntlets. Just search around for patterns, this one looks good though there aren't pictures of a set actually being made. http://www.bladeturner.com/pattern/clamgaunt/clamgaunt.html If you're really getting into the fighting with wasters, ther...

It just depends on your skill level and the type you want to construct. Do you mean like steel hourglass gauntlets or something of hardened leather? Techniques of Medieval Armor Reproduction by Peter Fuller details the construction of hourglass gauntlets and it seems to not be terribly difficult, ju...

Well there's Southern Indiana Pipe and Drums, I know one of the guys in that group who was a teacher at my high school. He does some WW2 reenacting too.

Yeah, I turned up at my first fighter practice in the fall of '10 with a 6-1 large ring hauberk, pembridge helm, gambeson, and shield which I had made already. <.< I'm one of I'm sure a small number of individuals who have been given a note on a high school report card which stated "Spends too ...

I've seen most of these shops and the makers in person. Billy and Charlies is really good, the best pewter I've seen and they're a really nice pair of people. I have a belt from them that I wear every day since it's two hundred years on past my persona. Their prices are pretty good and straightforwa...

It really depends on what you want. This here is a fairly good price for a whole belt and strapend though you may be able to find the fittings for about $8 apiece. http://www.revivalclothing.com/talbotspremiumsimplethinleatherbelt.aspx These are clearly more detailed and are from a different time pe...

Thank you everyone! Pictures? Alright, here you are. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19219622/100_0579.JPG This is what I have which is correct for my persona plus a bit more. Missing from this image is a ceramic cup which I purchased at pennsic which is the only item which I did not personally research but...

Here are the best instructions for hosen I've found, I'll be patterning and cutting out my pair today or tomorrow. http://www.scribd.com/doc/7676396/Making-Medieval-Cut-Hosen This website is great for most any materiel culture you could think of, I'm drawing a few sources through it for my bags and ...

Hello there everyone, Greg has been trying to get me involved with you guys and it's looking appealing so I may as well put together an account so I'm not some random guy showing up for the rest of you. I'm deadextra, or Ben if you prefer. I've been making armor for about five years off and on and I...