
South Tower Armouring Guild is a Canadian based "mom and pop" business,
registered in Ontario. We have been in business since 1989, and we make
and sell suits of medieval style armour, swords, daggers, and chain mail.
Brenda and I (Bill Fedun) have been working carefully to expand the service
side of our business during this entire time, and generally speaking, we
have been successful. In 1995, thanks to Robert Turner of Ottawa,
we went "on line" with our web site and later on, in 1999, Peter Westergard
of Leonardo's Dream Works did a complete makeover. We keep adding
interactive "stuff" to our web site...for instance, the library (accessible
through the "Visit Other Lands" link as well as a library link on the main
page), and would like to get some games and things as well. I am
open to suggestions!
We finally have a showroom...it is above our shop. Gary Walker and Brenda and I built a two story shop on my property which sees a lot of use. Finally we have winter heat, lots of light, and opportunity to take pictures of the stuff we make. In the downstairs shop, we try to satisfy a miriad of clients each with their own ideas and dreams. I have been attempting to balance the creativity of custom work with the economies of scale of producing a viable shop "line" of products, and THAT is a long ongoing process! We have been keeping our backlog under 4 weeks (mostly) though of course in the summer months,(June, July and August) we can't promise we will make up items until after the show season....which is to say sometime in September. This is because we are away doing the summer shows. Many people's first exposure to the South Tower world is the Ontario Renaissance Festival we do every summer!
If you do wish to visit our showroom, it is open by chance or appointment
at 2708 Albert St. in the Village of Metcalfe, about a half hour drive
south of Ottawa in Ontario Canada.
Call first, make sure I am here....(613) 821-1846.
Yours in Chivalry...
Bill Fedun