**Mom throws away your cardboard helmet and sends you to a boarding school.** **boarding school has metal workshop** **makes metal armor and becomes medieval equipment historian** Happy now mom?

"My arms, when I was 17, must have been a fair bit thinner, because these are really, really tight on me, and I'm not wearing anything underneath this." LINDYBUFF

School: Y'all can wear whatever on sunday. Lindy: *Armour*

What's truly impressive is that he can still fit into armor that he made at age 17...

the seductive wiggle of a ww1 tank crewman

"So I looked down on the ground and thought 'Good lord, a ring !'". Which is how Lindybeige became the Lord of the Rings.

The cardboard age is one of the lesser known epochs of British history. Was it accurate to the period?

He's like Sonic the Hedgehog. Just losing rings every time he gets hit lol.

I think hearing a Brit say "Just because you see someone reasonably well protected, doesn't give you an excuse to wallop him" while wearing armor seems hilariously English.

"No, we're British; gorget." It wouldn't be a Lindy vid without a subtle crack at the French. Only about 6 minutes in and I'm already satisfied. Well done.

"I lost loads of rings when fighting" This guy is like sonic man

"Don't use galvanised wire" he says, as I continue weaving maille with a box full of galvanised wire rings

Lindy made an entire suit of armour in his teens... I've failed at life

I can listen the ramblings of this man for hours.

Gary Gygax would call that "lindy-mail"!

There is actually a hell of a lot of Indo-Persain mail that looks a lot like this. Ranging from 15th century Iran to 19th century India. The Ottomans used this phenotype (for lack of a better word). We've even seen some examples of mail similar to this in the Philippines. Yours really is very similar to a lot of those. Side-by-side (as apposed to over lapping) many small plates, with holes along the edges, incorporated into a shirt of mail. There wasn't a whole lot of standardization there either. Or rather we see a vast amount of variation across different places and times. A lot of it does look like amateur modified mail where someone just put small plates wherever they thought they needed more protection. Even to the extent of a lot of it having on the fly cheat repairs. The near-east, and south-east had been doing basically what you'd done with this for 100's of years. Your shirt wouldn't have been out of place from the 15th century - the 18th century, east and south-east of the Mediterranean. Of course it probably would have been considered a poor mans make shift armour then as well. There is really only two major differences between yours and a lot of those found from those times and places 1) A lot of the plates were dished to some degree. 2) A lot of pieces have engraving on the plates (entire scripts, or one-off repetitive phrases). But yours still falls mostly in-line with a good chunk of the plainer low budget examples we see.

Still more authentic than 90% of stuff seen in movies and games. I'll send a thumbs up back in time to the young Lloyd.

Of course when they were making Excalibur they thought, "what would be a good font for our credits of our movie based on medieval legend?" "Oh just go with some groovy Austin Powers font that looks good"

Lindybeige: aims at 5th or 6th century armor, makes 19th century tank crewmen armor

"its a bit of a cheat, its not authentic", Lindybeige, If their armor was falling apart and they had some wire to try and repair It with, I bet they would ;D

I can't stop staring at the space that's missing a ring in the middle of Lindy's chest.

"Gorgeeeee? No... We're English, Gorgit!" XD

D&D official term. : Lindymail

Maybe they didn't extend the nose-guard because then they'd have to take off their helmet to eat. You know, in case you're fighting during lunch or whatever. Edit: oh, you just mentioned eating in that thing, too.

You even got a peasant shirt too, Lindyman, do full cosplays!

All maille is butted once you sit on it...

He was young and he needed the armor.

10:42 "flapage"

belly dancing at 10:21

I don't suppose you could review cardboard armour and I talk about the advantages and disadvantages? No? In reality I imagine it might be quite efficacious!

10:24 *grabs the stack of singles and makes it rain on Lloyd* Oh yeah, shake it.

Beige's like a smart manchild. I love it.

imaging 15 yr old lindy with that hairline and beard

But the real question is: is it teaproof?

"I was 17, and the internet... well, nobody had even thought of it. And I was at a school in the middle of the country. I didn't have access to the information. I had what was in my head, what I'd seen in movies and experimentation to go with. (Points to his body)" Is that bit about armor or early erotic experiences at boarding school?

You would have loved my first grade teacher. She arranged all kinds of medieval fun stuff like a big overnighter feast complete with a knight in armor, and on two separate occasions a dragon hunt and leprechaun hunt. She was really into leprechauns, and did tons of leprechaun lore stuff with the kids. She had a vivid green VW beetle and died her hair green on St. Patrick's Day and said it was her leprechaun playing a trick on her. By far the best teacher ever, hands down.

After you mentioned that rings kept falling off I couldn't keep myself from obsessively trying to find where they'd fallen from.

I thought your new armour was finished when I read the title

The Gyrms called they want their armour back

I just want to say: I like the idea of the ending joke being split in two and this Lego guy obscuring the second part for a brief second.

I love the smell of Lindybeige in the m- That sounds wrong...

I can certainly believe you weighted the armor so accurately you can provide the weight down to the milligram.

When I lived in England, I was in the Sealed Knot , English Civil War re enactments, great fun , cavalry charges ,real horses, plastic swords from the movie Cromwell. I love this guy ,a real English eccentric

I've made some butted mail shirts, and a friend made me a mid-thigh length scale armor by cutting the scaled from black plastic storage bins and tying it all together under the scales. That suit lasted me for over a decade, even though I was always replacing cordage after the first few years.

Lindy you're quite skilled at uploading interesting videos at 11:00pm Australian time.

Armor looks good

Youre "prudish" nature towards sponsors was worth it, great partnership

10:20 EVERYBODY DO THE LINDYBEIGE DANCE!

Servants = good. No man should be without one. :D

Well, that's interesting... I'm currently making a visby coat of plates at almost the same age

I made a full chainmail vest when I was about 14-15, and to make the rings I used an electric drill to wind fencing wire around a long threaded rod supported on either end by a wooden frame and then threaded supported on either end by a wooden frame the resulting "spring" off the rod by reversing the drill. I then clipped each ring from the spring. I made many thousands of rings in this way.

“But it still seems to get plenty of light So I think we’re all right.” Bro was a poet and he didn’t even know it

Lloyd you are my hero although the fact you dont drink tea concerns me deeply :)

What you did growing up is what I wanted to do growing up. Making armor and doing reenactment? Sounds like a blast! Ah, but did you almost cut your friend's finger off with a sword you made?

All three of the Great Courses Middle ages courses are excellent. I think your food observations are the reason for the nose guard stopping where it does.

Awesome seeing the Excalibur (1981) intro!

"I ran out of links" - a part of me imagined you ran out of lives in some Legend of Zelda game...

You still fit into something you made when you're 17? ... I envy you...

Re the nose plate not fully extending to the chin guard, it seems that there would be advantages to having greater exposure of the mouth. It would help with being heard, and it would be easier to get a swig of water, without disarming.

I enjoyed using galvanized for my chainmail, but I used an electric drill when I got tired of manual winding. I did do some work in silver, including a "bird's nest" necklace for my mother, and a belt for myself ... only I'm a lot larger now than then.

You wore that helmet around school...... I bet you were popular

That actually looks really badass

I love it when you ramble on so. Thank you for sharing the stories Lindy.

Your medieval videos are 1000x times better.

lindybeige belly dancing?

8.391459 kg, eh? Is that exact?

This was great. You shouldn't have made excuses for your armor; it was your 1st armor and you did a great job on it, and really thought it through. btw, I'd love to see some videos, if you'd care to cover the subject, on medieval architecture. Not just the great Gothic buildings, but thatch huts and "ordinary" buildings. You describe things so creatively and with such enthusiasm.

twisting the ends of mail rings IS authentic, examples where even found on the Mary Rose.

My favorite part of your videos is where you trail off explaining things like the part about the dark ages.

When I close my eyes, I can imagine Basil Fawlty. You have the same style of speech I think. John Cleese's speech is so similar to yours. Always a joy to see a new video from you, thank you!

You are very lucky to have grown up in the area in which you did I was raised in South Louisiana in America. It was a very rural area and to be someone who enjoyed European history Was frowned upon. As a young man I was placed under doctors care for many weeks And had nothing to do. So I decided to make a suit of medieval armor. Mine ended up being mostly chainmail made out of the very fencing wire in which you speak. I had a few books and as there was no Internet to go by I did the best I Could. You should have seen the looks On the Farmers faces as I walked about town wearing it. Thank you so much for your Effort. I love your channel thank you.

I like hearing about the problem solving you went through in making armour. Most things in life are not as simple to make as you would think at first.

Yey for Lloyd

Is it just me or does the helmet remind anyone else of the B Wing pilot helmets from Return of the Jedi? I love the armour though, I'm 17 and I can barely make a fried egg let alone a set of armour.

Love that you were obviously playing RuneQuest in the "Cardboard days"

As a fighter with over 12 years of experience, in a sword and shield style mostly, I must say, good sir, that the gentleman you are talking about at 22:30 is not an idiot at all, and it was you who had been so reckless as to put your teeth in the way of your own shield. Don't blame your own sins on others, and don't keep your teeth in front of your shield rim. Ramming an opponent's shield into their own body is quite a viable maneuver in a proper medieval fight - apart from dealing possible crushing damage to the face and the chest, it may deny the opponent any space to attack for long enough for you to strike them down. With due respect and thanks for your most entertaining content!

"I do remember getting very lucky once, one weekend" ~Lindybeige

Cor! Dawngaurd armour!!

Lindy's home made armor is probably more accurate to real than most shop made armor. I'm sure most people would have resorted to home made, in the past.

I believe it's plaited mail. It certainly does look badass!

10:21 for a sexy dance.

"I'd rather have a broken nose than my head chopped in two, thank you very much" haha this is the most English thing I've heard in a while. (Im American btw)

I'm very impressed. Chain mail seems to be one of the most complicated, and time-consuming things to manufacture - each ring having it's ends hammered flat, drilled and rivetted. Whilst being linked together with others to create a cohesive whole. You said that you just closed the rings - but kudos for that, there must be thousands of them! Nice one, sir.

You remind me so much of the friends I grew up with. Humble, slightly nerdy, intelligent, and very genuine. Please don't stop bud! You totally tap into my inner geek. Cheers and beers from North Carolina!

About the headspoons. Speak to gridiron players about how the use of armour in that sport leads to harder hits. I used to play and there is no remorse about hitting someone as hard as you can when you can in all that padding.

That's some clever armor

I love your segways and tangents, they're exactly like a conversations. You start a conversation with passion and end up somewhere else completely.

The second I heard him say "How could you find out more about the medieval period" I was just like Time for a sponsor

So today I watched a middle-aged man belly dancing on a sofa whilst wearing a suit of armour. How was your day?

Quite decent protection, only problem is the armour keeps falling apart.

Pretty impressive, for something that was basically cobbled together from base principles and presumably a bit of guidance from a teacher/supervisor who was more interested in making sure the weird kid who wanted to make armour didn't chop a finger off than actually helping him make authentic armour.

In Poland we call plates connected with mail rings ,,Bechter" and it was used all the way from 10-18th century in Poland (mostly 10-13th 16-17)

Thank you for gorget! Matt Easton said gorjay on his last video and it made me cringe.

The *DARK* Ages..

Happy to hear the history of your live enactments and armour pursuing history Lloyd. Takes me back happily to Questland days ;)

I got zinc chills from burning galvanizing compound for the very cool green flame and it was brutal but the worst was only a few hours and a half gallon of milk. The armor looks really cool for a kid making it

Can you get through airport security wearing that? Is it Zombie proof? No flap to protect your junk?

I understand the comfy helmet feels, I have a steel helmet from the 60s and I wear it while tending bar at parties and while playing table top games, nice and comfy.

My first suit of armor was made of scrap wood from a house being built across the street and tied it all together with telephone wire. Even made a helmet out of the wood. Ended up having a japanese samurai feel to it.

With the helmet on, it looks like a greco/celt/mogul mash up of a wandering knight errant. Huzzah!