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- Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:17 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: been in the hospital
- Replies: 7
- Views: 922
Re: been in the hospital
What ho, fellow sick buddy!
- Thu Dec 05, 2013 2:25 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3215
Re: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
Dang, thanks for the heads-up, Haroun!
- Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:49 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3215
Re: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
Well, this is certainly a dog-pile of lovin' on Dave.
Wonder if the OP will ever come back to the thread.
Wonder if the OP will ever come back to the thread.
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 11:26 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3215
Re: Negative Reveiw on Rough from the Hammer
I have to echo accdntprone. Did you contact Dave, or did you just jump online here to kvetch first?
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:49 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I need to know how to lace LAMELLAR ARMOR
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1660
Re: I need to know how to lace LAMELLAR ARMOR
I noticed that, but it's a damned long paper.
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 11:59 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I need to know how to lace LAMELLAR ARMOR
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1660
Re: I need to know how to lace LAMELLAR ARMOR
I'd love to download that article, but I'm not joining the site to do it.
- Sat Nov 30, 2013 10:54 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: CoP styles
- Replies: 63
- Views: 2661
Re: CoP styles
It's Mongol.
- Mon Nov 25, 2013 8:55 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5815
Re: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
And don't forget the Irish cream!
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:19 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5815
Re: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
All the notes -- all the text, including captions -- is the authors' stuff. The only thing the artists do is the paintings, based on detailed notes and pictures supplied by the author.
- Sun Nov 17, 2013 3:06 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Okegawa do test fit...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1686
Re: Okegawa do test fit...
Yes, I'm hoping he writes up a tutorial on how he did it.
- Fri Nov 15, 2013 11:27 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Okegawa do test fit...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1686
Re: Okegawa do test fit...
Lookin good. Oh... the back should overlap the front on the right side.
It looks great.
It looks great.
- Wed Nov 13, 2013 1:39 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5815
Re: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
Padraig O wrote: Is it just me, or are your eyes glowing red in this photo? Real "Big Trouble in Little China" action there.
It's just a "samurai hate ninjers" thing.
- Tue Nov 12, 2013 1:03 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Japanese Family names
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1529
Re: Japanese Family names
Surname. Surname.
You'd do it in the Japanese order; surname first, given name last.
You'd do it in the Japanese order; surname first, given name last.
- Sun Nov 10, 2013 11:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: A nice article on basic armour construction.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1097
Re: A nice article on basic armour construction.
Man, I used to have this.
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:04 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Okegawa do test fit...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1686
Re: Okegawa do test fit...
Looking good, man. Nice color, too. Mmm.
- Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:00 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Curious Corazzina
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1627
Re: Curious Corazzina
As far as I'm concerned, this is as reliable as the Bashford Dean 'reconstructed' "corrizone", until a picture or two showing the object before restoration, and showing what remained of original construction details comes to light. I agree completely. That said -- I'd love to see the Met photos of ...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 11:07 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Is this really a samurai shield?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3890
Re: Is this really a samurai shield?
Takeda Shingen at Kawanakajima: http://www3.sympatico.ca/iaido/statuetakues.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3151/2892151670_d9e6f78a7c_z.jpg http://rlv.zcache.com/takeda_shingen_and_uesugi_kenshin_kawanakajima_poster-r5e60d33a8ee5474da19939cacd7ca890_wvs_8byvr_324.jpg It's been a famous scene for ...
- Tue Oct 29, 2013 10:50 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Japanese Family names
- Replies: 19
- Views: 1529
Re: Japanese Family names
*Most* samurai family surnames are locatives -- the towns where the founding member settled, etc. If there's a town name, you can probably bet that someone somewhere used it as a surname. Some of the biggest names, even (for example Ashikaga, Tokugawa, Mogami, Takeda, and Shimazu) all took their sur...
- Sun Oct 27, 2013 11:11 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: interesting take on armor
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2464
Re: interesting take on armor
Smilingotter wrote:That reminds me - I'm about due to watch "13th Warrior" again pretty soon.
Okay, that's some funny stuff right there. Nicely done.
- Sat Oct 26, 2013 3:49 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: No Halloween costume this year (well......)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1345
Re: No Halloween costume this year (well......)
You STILL suck.
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:44 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Quick question for Baron Effingham...or anyone else!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1152
Re: Quick question for Baron Effingham...or anyone else!
I'd leave it alone for a day or so. If it's still tacky then... don't know what to say.
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:14 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Quick question for Baron Effingham...or anyone else!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1152
Re: Quick question for Baron Effingham...or anyone else!
Love that color.
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 2:26 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 114057
Re: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
They're WONDERFUL things.
I'm still trying to decide about a lathe.
I'm still trying to decide about a lathe.
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:44 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 114057
Re: Mac's new chest. More than meets the eye.
What Maeryk said. I have a full woodshop setup (complete with dedicated mortiser), less a lathe.
- Thu Oct 24, 2013 8:46 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Another Samurai question
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3121
Re: Another Samurai question
.... I.... Damn. You know, I really hadn't stopped to think about it. It's always been cited to me as tip of the sengoku, and given the nature of the thing (cheap, fungible) I am not surprised that I can't think of any surviving -- PROVABLE 16th C -- tatami dô. I'd have to spend a lot more time star...
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 2:33 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Battlefield video will never be the same...
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2866
Re: Battlefield video will never be the same...
'Cause it's funny to do...?
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:25 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Is this really a samurai shield?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3890
Re: Is this really a samurai shield?
Kuji fights (fought?) in Japanese armour using a large slightly padded war fan as his "shield" (a deflecting tool, really).
Then there's THIS, which they DID do:
Yes, that's his kabuto.
Then there's THIS, which they DID do:
Yes, that's his kabuto.
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 9:13 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: interesting take on armor
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2464
Re: interesting take on armor
That's priceless, man.
- Wed Oct 23, 2013 1:51 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Another Samurai question
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3121
Re: Another Samurai question
That's also Edo. You don't have to use *any* (well, much...) lacing. Make a solid okegawa dô. You can even suspend the kusazuri on fabric panels -- a very rare, but documentable, technique. The only place you'd need lacing would be the kusazuri, sode, and shikoro. An alternative to this would be a s...
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Quick question for Baron Effingham...or anyone else!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1152
Re: Quick question for Baron Effingham...or anyone else!
Indeed. There's quite a range. My particular favorite is a color I can only describe as "ripe tomato red" .
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 3:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Another Samurai question
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3121
Re: Another Samurai question
It is an assumption, yes, but it's not one formed in a vacuum. We *know* Nkante (well, not personally), and he's in the SCA. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that questions on armour are, therefore, predicated on SCA bases. :shrug:
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 10:47 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Another Samurai question
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3121
Re: Another Samurai question
Bingo.
- Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:02 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Another Samurai question
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3121
Re: Another Samurai question
What Alcy said.
Has nothing to do with Edo hatred. (I *like* some Edo armour.) But if you're making armour for the SCA, copying stuff from post 1600 is right out.
Has nothing to do with Edo hatred. (I *like* some Edo armour.) But if you're making armour for the SCA, copying stuff from post 1600 is right out.
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 2:38 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5815
- Mon Oct 21, 2013 10:05 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5815
Re: Osprey Publishing books: why the hate?
You're not the only one.Glen K wrote: God help me, it really is.
(PP -- thanks for the kind words. )