myArmoury.com - A bit plaintive...

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Wed 13 Jul, 2005 5:59 am

Patrick Kelly wrote:

That's very nice Russ!

Your work is really coming along.

Thanks Patrick! I'm really trying to do a full court press to come up with information to try to make my work more accurate from a historical perspective as well as try to make sure that I'm putting out a quality product whether historical or not...

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Lee O'Hagan

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Posts: 529 Location: Northamptonshire,England

Wed 13 Jul, 2005 12:53 pm

Hey russ,
that new pic you posted looks pretty nifty,is all the belt work your own too,looks a good amount of detail involved in the set up,
is it an A+A sword,
bear in mind your gonna have to update the site more reguler now :cool:

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Russ Ellis

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Wed 13 Jul, 2005 1:09 pm

Lee O'Hagan wrote:

Hey russ,
that new pic you posted looks pretty nifty,is all the belt work your own too,looks a good amount of detail involved in the set up,
is it an A+A sword,
bear in mind your gonna have to update the site more reguler now :cool:

Hey Lee,

Yes, it's a German Branch sword. I purchased the belt fittings since I'm not set up for casting (yet). Unfortunately that particular source dried up too so I'm afraid that belt as constituted is a one off :( Unless I can find another source of course. Like I said those metal bits are the BANE of my existence.

Yeah I'm going to try to keep the site up a bit better now. I did it in frontpage for that very reason. I know I know it's a chintzy way out for all of you purists out there but it's EASY and will allow me to quickly do updates. I've made a resolution to add at least one review a week to my review section too...

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Chad Arnow

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Posts: 9,545 Location: Dayton, OH

Wed 13 Jul, 2005 1:20 pm

Russ,
Jody Samson's name is spelled "Sampson" on your review page. :)

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Lee O'Hagan

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Posts: 529 Location: Northamptonshire,England

Wed 13 Jul, 2005 2:27 pm

:cool:
Any thoughts on the wax carving and casting route,for the heavier fittings,
there's a few fittings outlets out this way but the shipping tends to knock the good deal side,
be very cool to see more reviews of the stuff your working on, even on a monthly or quarterly basis, ;)
anything up and coming in exotic woods or that stabilized wood i keep seeing here and there,

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M. Taylor

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Posts: 128 Location: Chesterland, Ohio

Wed 13 Jul, 2005 4:21 pm

Looks like an A&A German Branch Sword. Oh, I see Russ responded while I was typing my message. Russ, did you touch up the hilt at all or is it stock? That scabbard is beautiful; it's such a unique color. Did you dye the leather yourself or was it pre-dyed?

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Chuck Perino

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Posts: 107 Location: Roseburg, Oregon

Wed 13 Jul, 2005 4:54 pm

Looks great Russ!

I like to see my old Atrim scabbard that you made for me as an example of the 1st step in your "evolution" as a scabbard-maker!
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Your newer stuff looks great!

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Edward Hitchens

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Posts: 819 Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Wed 13 Jul, 2005 8:57 pm

Hey Russ. I took a look at your site. Wow! :surprised: Some very exquisite scabbards you have there! Today, I just ordered an Albion NextGen Fiore; she'll likely need a nice comfy scabbard so you may hear from me whenever that may be. Keep up the great work, bud! -Ted

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Russ Ellis

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Thu 14 Jul, 2005 6:17 am

Chad Arnow wrote:

Russ,
Jody Samson's name is spelled "Sampson" on your review page. :)

Dohp! <Slaps self in head> I swear I have some sort of mental block about spelling his name right. I did get the pictures on the site last night, but I've got to fix those links and now it seems some spelling (thanks Chad! :) ) tonight.

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Russ Ellis

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Thu 14 Jul, 2005 6:19 am

M. Taylor wrote:

Looks like an A&A German Branch Sword. Oh, I see Russ responded while I was typing my message. Russ, did you touch up the hilt at all or is it stock? That scabbard is beautiful; it's such a unique color. Did you dye the leather yourself or was it pre-dyed?

Nope it's all stock and it's very nice! It's the only production sword I'm aware of with a "caned" grip. Thanks for the comments on the scabbard it was predyed. I can do the dying I've got all the stuff, but typically I don't bother... practically any color you want is readily available predyed without the mess!

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Russ Ellis

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Thu 14 Jul, 2005 6:23 am

Re: Looks great Russ!

Chuck Perino wrote:

I like to see my old Atrim scabbard that you made for me as an example of the 1st step in your "evolution" as a scabbard-maker!
[ Linked Image ]
:p

Your newer stuff looks great!

Hey Chuck, good to hear from you, yeah I guess you sort of have the "amphibian" line... :) For those of you who don't know Chuck was my very first customer ever. He took a chance (at a discounted rate) on allowing some guy to try to scabbard up his sword for him.

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Nathan Robinson

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Posts: 11,553 Location: San Francisco

Thu 14 Jul, 2005 6:26 am

Russ Ellis wrote:

it was predyed. I can do the dying I've got all the stuff, but typically I don't bother... practically any color you want is readily available predyed without the mess!

That depends, of course, on the type of leather you're using. Personally, I wouldn't use the garment leathers that are available pre-dyed, as they're quite wrong for something attempting to be historic. I'd avoid the chrome-tanned (or whatever that is) altogether and go for a hand-dyed vegetable-tanned any day. Garment leather screams "couch!" to me. But that's just me :)

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Russ Ellis

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Thu 14 Jul, 2005 6:26 am

Edward Hitchens wrote:

Hey Russ. I took a look at your site. Wow! :surprised: Some very exquisite scabbards you have there! Today, I just ordered an Albion NextGen Fiore; she'll likely need a nice comfy scabbard so you may hear from me whenever that may be. Keep up the great work, bud! -Ted

Thanks for the vote of confidence Edward! :) Which reminds me I need to send you a pm on another matter...

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