In December of 2024 the site was attacked, apparently through the "back end" (server side) since two of my domains that were inactive but had wordpress sites when they were active were also compromised. I'm currently deciding whether I try to rebuild here with the Wordpress structure that I had been using, convert to straight HTML which cannot be compromised by wordpress attacks, or change internet providers.
Since the main use of this site was as a reference resource (for me and a number of folks in the re-enactment space) Here is a link to the wayback machine that captured most of the sites contents. and a wayback link to the weblog with most of the recent contents I lost a workshop, but I have the core files that I used to create the webpages. Thanks in particular to Jedd for contacting me on the Armour Archive Forums
So I'm likely to be going back to the early 2000's in the near term, since most of Wordpress created an environment for spammers to try and push the fitness drug of the week. I'll be enabling "inquiries (at) borealissteel.ca" if you'd like to contact me directly, and assembling HTML 2.0 webpages for the archive content. Until then...
please feel free to let me know what you'd like to see here. I think that the immediate need is for a (long) gauntlet tutorial to make gauntlets that don't suck - there are lots of other sites that have instructions on how to build helmets and the like. If there are patterns that you particularly want to see, ping me and I'll see about getting them online (or emailed)
Be well - Scott Martin