The Armour Archive

chris19d

14th C styled knife/sheath $30 + shipping (should just fit in a small flatrate) I can't remember where I got the knife originally, the sheath is hand made by me, and fits the knife well,retains the knife if held upside down, but draws easily. http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/chris19delta/67c...

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Got it yesterday and flipped through it quickly (due to work haven't had a chance to read it fully), its a quality book as is typical of Tom Leoni and Freelance. Def worth picking up if you have an interest in Italian Rapier.

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In my (limited) experience, the major cause of darkwood tip failure is using the improper size. If they slide easily onto your blade, you're using the wrong size. Using larges I'd destroy a tip a week (fighting 2-4 times a week) after switching to smalls I haven't had to replace a tip.

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Ordered.

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Actually, I myself would prefer a thicker glove for fencing. I have an early hilt, 2 rings, and while I'm learning, I'd like to protect that index finger from snipers. I've had deep bruises from rapier (kinda fun, honestly), but nothin' hurts quite like taking a yard of steel on the nail of your in...

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Got the pattern yesterday, could use some advice on fabrics. (both what to use and where to get it)

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you can always face the COP with something nice like velvet, used a grey velvet for mine and it came out really nice.

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A lot of the flanged maces have poky bits that could cause problems if your not trying to damage people for reals, that's probably what hes talking about.

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I ordered that pattern today, planning on having 2 sets made, a regular doublet from the pattern and having the 2nd made up to look like a cloth jack (3 layers in the torso and 2 layers in the arms so i don't run into blow calling or heat issues) as rapier armor, and wearing it over a shirt thinking...

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I agree no need for another category of weapons.

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What do i want out of a tournament? To fight, preferably repeatedly pretty much any format that maximizes this = win. Also space for pickups.

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I get what your saying but imo would've been better handled via PM.

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nm noticed the size

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Dansknecht wrote:Sorry about the digression. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Don't mind it at all, the more little stuff I know and can get right the better.

chris19d

So you've *never*heard anyone say "I'm entering this tournament as a warm up for Queen's Champion"?

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Are you thinking of Reconstructing History's Elizabethan Common Man pattern? I *think* that has venetians, and the venetians seem to be a little more common for lower-class men than the trunkhose. yea, I think that's the one I was looking at. I've seen the borderer's website and have a copy of Stee...

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The most obvious accessory is the horse. You're basing your aesthetic on stuff you'd be wearing to fight on horseback. Just sayin'. ;) Trunkhose, paned or otherwise, are most appropriate. Roomy breeches often called Venetians are less appropriate, but are also seen. Tall, period-appropriate riding ...

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for fighting garb I'm going for the boarder reaver look, a pseudo jack of plates (with no metal to avoid any issues feeling hits) with the arms designed to look like the jack of plates is worn over a cloth jack or arming coat eventually I'll be getting a perfplate faced morion or burgonet so at some...

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sword and buckler may work well for you, especially using the buckler to protect your sword hand, similar to how it's used in the I33 system

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Skip over the pluderhose if you want a specific impression. They seem to have remained pretty firmly in Northern Europe with the exception, in artwork, of a scarce few enterprising fellows from the icy North sticking out like a sore thumb elsewhere. Yea I'm trying to be as specific and accurate as ...

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but is it really OK to suck? That's just wrong-thinking I can't understand people who accept mediocrity (or worse). I'm not a skilled fencer, (and the more work I put into learning, the less I realize I know) but I put as much effort as I can into improving. For me learning, improving and then exec...

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The last 10-15 years of the 16th C. No, I have neither of those books may have to pick them up if no one I know has a copy....

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I'm working on putting together garb/rapier armor for a 16th C middle class lowland scots persona, (like a lords retainer in status) I've figured out what I'm doing for the torso, I'm trying to figure out what would be appropriate legwear. Most of the paintings I've seen are of higher class people, ...

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http://i941.photobucket.com/albums/ad259/chris19delta/LOL1.jpg?t=1320433972 English, last quarter of the 14th C. Heres the most recent pic of my kit, (the covering on the shield has been fixed since then) and my giant list of things im less than satisfied with. I'm working on a set of temporary spl...

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Clay, I would enjoy seeing you on the BOTN team. Any updated pictures of strongman events that you can post here? If I remember you are 6'9" and 350 lbs of muscle BEFORE putting on armour. And you are used to shield bashing. -Aaron How much muscle does the armor add? depends are we talking terminat...

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BdeB wrote:All we needed was a 'how to make armour' by Dark Victory, or "basic accounting" by Brian Price and we will be good to go!!!

LMAO

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This discussion is getting heated for what seems like no reason. Jonothan would like a way to determine on the field what material a weapon is made out of (we can determine rattan with reasonable certainty by visual means). Omarad feels that there is no concise way to determine that with the pletho...

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I'd like to see both armor and soft kit reviews in the new subform

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I agree with Johnathan on this, there's too much variability in the physical properties of the material and no way to reasonably differentiate between the different variants of the material to ensure that any particular stick is the correct version of the material.

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Most rubber cleats I've seen aren't fun to get stepped on by either I know it sucked when I played baseball.

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There's a guy on my local list selling off all his rapier gear, If you'd like I can PM you his contact info.

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Actually since madu's didn't exist in medieval Europe, a medieval European would hae a very high chance of surviving being attacked by a non existent weapon

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Since the assumed armor standard includes a maile drape over the face, short of sticking it in someones eye I don't see it working that well. (especially at the force level that the majority of the society calls a face thrust at) Unlike the majority of other forms people don't pick up a madu because...

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I'd really like madus to go away they're silly, if you look at a real one the pokey bits are horn and wouldnt have any effect on a warrior wearing the assumed armor standard (I haven't done a test of a historically constructed madu vs riveted maile over a gambison if anyone else has I'd love to hear...

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That was a serious suggestion, include articles on garb/armor in the kingdom newsletters

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