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mld, October 21, 2003 at 5:50:00 AM CEST

Valentine Armouries



Rob Valentine is the driving force behind Valentine Armouries, with hundreds of suits of historically accurate armour under his belt, several books on the nearly lost art of fabricating armour, and a thriving business.

He's also a genuinely nice guy, and a regular at my famous Saturday night Food-For-Alls. After I stopped by to see him in his new digs, the first thing he asked me after we exchanged greetings was, "When you making tacos again?"

Poor guy lives in Canada. Probably hard to get a decent taco up there. :-)





A helm in progress

This year the faire moved him into a new space, (the old SCA space) where patrons can not only see him or one of his other armourers work at creating items such as the gauntlets you see above, but also take a tour of a museum of the history of armour development.



Rob wearing one of his uber-cool custom gauntlets

 
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