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New armour!! Armour repairs!! Armour maintenance!! All this and more too... If any of it catches your eye email us. This armour is designed not only for display, but also for use in historical re-enactment.

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Gothic elbow and vambrace.

The vambrace is heavily worked and comes from the late Milanese rather than the German tradition. It is available as either a full vambrace as shown or as a half vambrace with just the lower section.

Price: Vambrace (full) $95
Half-vambrace $65

Elbow: with heavily worked fan $50 each

Item #: AGSA

Gothic half gauntlet

To match and complement the gothic vambrace, this half gauntlet is heavily worked and is strong and light...as well as being difficult for the eye to focus on when it is moving.

Price: $80

Item #: AGHG

Item #: A6MP A set of stepped pauldrons with a difference. Extra neck protection, coupled with a large dose of presence, all in one piece of armour.

Price: POA

These are a development of the Mark V gauntlets, built for use with two-handed swords, polearms etc. These also fit behind a shield very nicely, allowing you to wear a small buckler and still wreak havoc with that rattan claymore.

Item #: A6MG Price: POA

A light but strong vambrace, it offers protection but without the weight. These can be fitted to attach to either of the elbow cop styles on offer.

Item #: A6PV Price: POA

Leg armour, with high-density plastic cuisses covered with leather (your choice of colour). The kness fully articulate, and are remarkably comfortable to wear. These are ridged, and features rivetted cuisses.

Item #: A6LH Price: $210

Leg armour fit for a King... well, ok, a baron. The Baron of Stormhold to be exact. (Stormhold being a group in the SCA) These legs are of similar manufacture to the example above, but with the addition of a sunburst on each fan, as it is the chief charge of his arms.

At Riverforge we can make your armour not only functional, but decorative as well. Feel free to ask about any ideas you might have for embellishments, or let us make suggestions that will help personalise your armour.

Item #: A6LB A happy Baron
Price: as pictured $220.
Price will vary based on your requirements

Not all shields are created equal. At Riverforge, one thing we've learned from our experience on the field is that shields are heavy, unless of course you choose to make them out of something other than wood.

Historical solutions involved wicker or cuirbolli, neither of which stands up to the rigors of constant re-enactment usage. This is where the use of high density plastics come into their own.

Whether your shoulder is too worn out to carry your favourite old wooden shield, or you just feel like having something light to keep those archers at bay, these shields are brilliant to use (the editor has one, and will sing its praises loudly to anyone who'll listen)

By the way, yes, we can make them in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Item #: APS1 Price: start at $80 without shield box

This is the new Riverforge arm harness Mark VI, here shown with the plain half gauntlet (for use with basket hilted swords), a full vambrace, round dished elbow cop, and ridged pauldron. (The helm shown is not of Riverforge manufacture.)

Item #: A60A Price: POA

The full vambrace, and the rounded elbow cop. This cop is a great alternative to the more pointed elbow cop in the Mark V harness.

Item #: A6VE Price: $75

Designed to act as a basket hilt for your shield hand, this shield box fastens to the inside of your shield and provides a rigid handle. Available in several designs. (The more observant will have noticed that this is the type of shield box fitted to the heater shield shown earlier)

Item #: A6SB Price: $45

The rounded elbow cop. This cop is a great alternative to the more pointed elbow cop displayed in the Mark V section.

Item #: A6RE Price: $35 each

This is a half gauntlet, designed to protect your hand whilst using an SCA sword fitted with a basket hilt.

Item #: A6HG

Price: $35 each as pictured

single ridge: add $12

finger ridges:add $30

The ridged pauldron, which completes the new arm harness. This can also be provided without the ridge, in a similar style to the other pauldrons displayed below.

Item #: A60P Price: $140 (pair)

The following contains the older Mark V harness.

A sallet helm with brass tracery. Fitted with visor. Quick release mechanism. Openfaced. This helm had seen over a year of use by the time this photo was taken, so that should help show you what it can put up with and still come out looking great.

Item #: A50H Price: POA Click here for a frontal view

This is a pointed elbow cop, with brass tracery. Usable for re-enactment.

Item #: A50E Price: POA

Articulating full gauntlet with brass tracery. Usable for re-enactment. (from the webmasters experience, a very solid, protective gauntlet)

Item #: A50G Price: POA

A pauldron, with brass tracery. Articulated, designed to be attached to either a breastplate, or more commonly, a gorget.

Item #: A50P Price: POA

A vambrace, matching the style of the gauntlet, helm and elbow cop.

Item #: A50V Price: POA

Item #: LKB1 A decorative and functional kidneybelt, suitable for SCA archers

Price: POA

Riverforge is continuing its efforts to bring more choice for you. If there is something specific you'd like that you haven't seen here, email us.

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This Webpage last updated by Tony Birchill, April 2000

	Gothic elbow and vambrace. The vambrace is heavily worked and comes from the late Milanese rather than the German tradition. It is available as either a full vambrace as shown or as a half vambrace with just the lower section. Price: Vambrace (full) $95 Half-vambrace $65 Elbow: with heavily worked fan $50 each
Item #: AGSA


Gothic half gauntlet To match and complement the gothic vambrace, this half gauntlet is heavily worked and is strong and light...as well as being difficult for the eye to focus on when it is moving. Price: $80
Item #: AGHG

	These are a development of the Mark V gauntlets, built for use with two-handed swords, polearms etc. These also fit behind a shield very nicely, allowing you to wear a small buckler and still wreak havoc with that rattan claymore.
Item #: A6MG	Price: POA

	A light but strong vambrace, it offers protection but without the weight. These can be fitted to attach to either of the elbow cop styles on offer.
Item #: A6PV	Price: POA

	Leg armour, with high-density plastic cuisses covered with leather (your choice of colour). The kness fully articulate, and are remarkably comfortable to wear. These are ridged, and features rivetted cuisses.
Item #: A6LH	Price: $210


	Leg armour fit for a King... well, ok, a baron. The Baron of Stormhold to be exact. (Stormhold being a group in the SCA) These legs are of similar manufacture to the example above, but with the addition of a sunburst on each fan, as it is the chief charge of his arms. At Riverforge we can make your armour not only functional, but decorative as well. Feel free to ask about any ideas you might have for embellishments, or let us make suggestions that will help personalise your armour. Item #: A6LB A happy Baron Price: as pictured $220. Price will vary based on your requirements

	This is the new Riverforge arm harness Mark VI, here shown with the plain half gauntlet (for use with basket hilted swords), a full vambrace, round dished elbow cop, and ridged pauldron. (The helm shown is not of Riverforge manufacture.)
Item #: A60A	Price: POA

	The full vambrace, and the rounded elbow cop. This cop is a great alternative to the more pointed elbow cop in the Mark V harness.
Item #: A6VE	Price: $75

	Designed to act as a basket hilt for your shield hand, this shield box fastens to the inside of your shield and provides a rigid handle. Available in several designs. (The more observant will have noticed that this is the type of shield box fitted to the heater shield shown earlier)
Item #: A6SB	Price: $45

	The rounded elbow cop. This cop is a great alternative to the more pointed elbow cop displayed in the Mark V section.
Item #: A6RE	Price: $35 each

	This is a half gauntlet, designed to protect your hand whilst using an SCA sword fitted with a basket hilt.
Item #: A6HG
Price: $35 each as pictured
single ridge: add $12
finger ridges:add $30

	The ridged pauldron, which completes the new arm harness. This can also be provided without the ridge, in a similar style to the other pauldrons displayed below.
Item #: A60P	Price: $140 (pair)

	A sallet helm with brass tracery. Fitted with visor. Quick release mechanism. Openfaced. This helm had seen over a year of use by the time this photo was taken, so that should help show you what it can put up with and still come out looking great.
Item #: A50H	Price: POA	Click here for a frontal view

	This is a pointed elbow cop, with brass tracery. Usable for re-enactment.
Item #: A50E	Price: POA

	Articulating full gauntlet with brass tracery. Usable for re-enactment. (from the webmasters experience, a very solid, protective gauntlet)
Item #: A50G	Price: POA

	A pauldron, with brass tracery. Articulated, designed to be attached to either a breastplate, or more commonly, a gorget.
Item #: A50P	Price: POA

	A vambrace, matching the style of the gauntlet, helm and elbow cop.
Item #: A50V	Price: POA


Item #: LKB1	A decorative and functional kidneybelt, suitable for SCA archers
Price: POA