Armored Combat Resources

• The Armour Archive A great general resource. Check out their Armouring Essays the Discussion Area and the great Armoury Links as well as Armour Construction Links to a wide variety of "how to" articles.
• Sword Maiden a meeting and discussion area for women fighters.
• Perfect Armor helped inspire me in my leather work.
• Anglesey Photo Gallery is the largest collection of pictures of SCA fighters (and others) I know of anywhere.
• Highland Arms sells reasonably priced riveted mail and the cheapest good basket hilts I know of.
• Welded Chainmail.com sells the stuff I wish I had. Nicer, more expensive.
• Le Jue de la Hache examines medieval techniques of fighting with pole arms.
• Academy of European Medieval Martial Arts is another medieval fighting organization with very different rules.
• Fighting in Armour has interesting insights.
• Angus Trim Direct Swords these are the best real swords any of us will likely ever be able to afford. I have one.
• SmugMug - Skorri's photo galleries Skorri comes out to our Thursday practices some times, and he takes some nice pics.
• http://leatherfactory.com/ There's a Tandy Leather in Richmond, but ordering from them by web is cheaper than the gas to get there. Good service.
• Gothic Eye Picture Gallery of Knights Pretty pictures.
• Frappr! Find a knight near you.
• Historia vivens 1300 Gorgeous armor and other materials from 1250-1325. Not a sales site, a german recreation group.
• William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry Best intro to the Greatest Knight Who Ever Lived

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