[MR] make your own armour cheap or free!

[BARY SEARS]

Sounds like a University track, all in one.  Or, let me invite you to come up to Bright Hills for its annual Garb Wars.  We usually hold it in May.

Barre fitzRobert of York
Baron of Bright Hills
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Wendelken 
  To: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org 
  Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 1:05 AM
  Subject: [MR] make your own armour cheap or free!



  Vladimir and I have a standing offer for those who want to get equipped
  in reasonable looking gear inexpensively.

  We'll open up our shop and show you what you need to know in order to
  make your own basic gear.

  You either:

  a) pay for the materials you use, or
  b) make two sets and give us one to sell for the cost of both sets of
  materials.

  For example, making a helm will cost you between $15 and $20.

  A helm, legs, arms, breast and back plate, half gauntlets and gorget
  will cost you less than $100 in materials.

  Or, if you make two sets, it won't cost you a thing.

  You get the satisfaction of learning how to make your own armour, making
  it, and showing it off to your friends.
  We get a new friend on the fighting field.

  Making reasonable looking armour just isn't that hard.
  Vladimir made his first helm with a whopping 15 minutes of instruction.

  The nice thing is, when you want to get fancier armour, you can either
  come back and make yourself a better set or buy one from somewhere else.
  Then you can sell the kit you made for what it cost you to another new
  fighter!

  If you don't live near us, arrange to come down for a weekend to get
  started.  You'll cut out the pieces and learn how to shape them.
  We'll send you home with a stump for dishing the metal, your pieces and
  patterns, and the necessary rivets to fasten them together.  You can
  finish it with simple tools you can easily borrow or buy if you don't
  already have them. (A ballpean hammer, a drill, a few clamps, and a
  piece of metal to pound rivets against.)

  Contact Info:

  Andras Salamandra and Vladimir Davidovitch
  David Wendelken and John Bailey
  818 Azalea Drive
  Fayetteville, NC 28301
  910 677 0495
  davewendelken at earthlink.net




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