The Armour Archive

temazur

Remember, you can't push furniture or boxes up against the side of your tent. It will cause the water to wick through. Nothing should touch the sides of your tent (Or so I am told...I haven't tried it to test the rumor). As a former An Tirian, let me assure you that this is 100% true. :D -Derian. I...

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I want one.

Tracy

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Oh yeah, I had a guy with a split ring japanese hauberk explane to me that japanese mail was so well tempered that it could stop musket balls He looked somewhat dumfounded when I asked about the impact (ft lbs) tranmitted into his body. I didn't want to point out that a musket ball can fragment qui...

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I'd happily pay $40-60. It's custom work. If it were off the shelf, it'd be happier with it closer to $30-40.

It looks good.

Tracy

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You can be effective loosing volleys with fewer people. Yesterday, at out monthly drill, we began expanding on manouver of archers with pikes, and volly firing, both in offensive and defensive actions, volly fire, advance closer to contact, loose more vollys, then pikes and archers move to contact,...

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I'm just chuckling while I picture someone following Maeryk's advice and fielding a unit of 200+ archers for the field battle at Pennsic. :) Honestly, I think that'd be awesome to see. And man alive would I be glad to have a shield that day...! I dream of this day. I want to see one battle where we...

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Milan,

My wife is doing coursework in locksmithing right now. I showed her this thread and she loved it! Once we have access to work area for projects again she's determined to give it a shot.

Great work!!

Tracy

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I wear one. I've found having the metal cop one size higher helps - mine fits snuggly in the cop and doesn't have a problem. I've been thinking about shovel greaves, though, and how that would interace with the brace. I think you'd just want to fan out the top a little bit and it would slide right o...

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Here's a link to the PDF:

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:hG ... cd=1&gl=us

temazur

Thank you, gentlemen, for making up my mind. During my downtime, I've decided to start the slow rebuild of my kit. I'm almost, but not quite, starting back at square one. I've been stuck at the crossroads of pure sport vs pure period vs SCA safety. I adore my cheater-maille. It needs a bit of work (...

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Because of work, mostly and sometimes $$. For the past four months or so, I was working a crappy swing shift with split days off that were never weekends. Our local fighter practice is on Monday's @6pm. The Pittsburgh practice is on Sundays in the afternoon (though it's almost an hour and a half dri...

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she encountered an opponent who sluffed three face thrusts, each slightly harder than the last. I hate to say this, but I ran into it a lot. Most of my face thrusts are up close and personal butt spikes. I can usually see the helm move when I hit them, what with being about 5 inches from their face...

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I enjoyed the CA part. I only got ganked by an archer once, but I got to see one archer make an 30 foot long shield wall cower whenever he nocked an arrow. Next year, if they do a woods battle with combat archery, I want to authorize in it just for that. Not to be the "oh, I'm an oh-so-cool sniper" ...

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I have to admit that it certainly looked like what happens to a town after a full-scale battle is fought in it! We destroyed most of it!!

It was cute to watch the fencers fight in it before the heavies, too.

Hildegard

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I completely missed it.

I came down with a fever Wednesday and couldn't fight the rest of the week.

Hildegard

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It just came across the AEfemalfighters list that Her Majesty, Sir Kolfinna, Queen of Caid, will be joining us for the battle!!

W00T!

Hildegard

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Correction: Castle battle is on Wednesday, no Thursday.

And, Aethelmearc has declared for the East this year.

Hildegard

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This came across the AEfemalfighters list, for anyone who's interested. I plan on participating. :) "Her Sylvan Highness, Morgen, Princess of Aethelmearc, invites all women of arms to join her on the field for the Castle battle. It is Her Highness' wish to assemble a unit of rattan fighting women to...

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For the lazier among us: Does anyone sell a good period liner? I just finished a Valsgarde 6 helm kit and I'm having a devil of a time padding it to where it looks good. I hate blue foam and will go in search of kayak foam this weekend, but I'd rather have a nice, washable liner. (even better, I'm i...

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I guess I'm the Champion for the Wounded Soldier's Family I'll be championing the American Cancer Society. My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer over about a year and a half ago. She's pretty much beaten it, but I couldn't believe the physical cost. I figure that 1000 bouts for ACS is a small tit...

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If they do it again this year, check out the Conjurer's Calvacade if it doensn't interfere with any of your other plans. Lots of talented and very entertaining people. Great close up magic, too.

Hildegard

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The Website will allow prospective sponsors to pledge at different levels to each individual Champion's Charity. It would be nice if each Champion had a dedicated website (a yahoo account would do) that the website could send the pledge info to. freiman What kind of information should be put up the...

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Torvaldr,

Are these still available?

Hildegard

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This is an absolutely enlightening thread. There's a lot here for us new fighters, too.

Many thanks to Freiman and the good gentles who responded to his question.

Hildegardis

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i'll tell ya a great place to fight MILWAUKEE!!! Dudes there are pretty much 4 yes 4 fighter practices a week in the general area!!!! Tuesday in Kenosha Wednesday in Madison (i totally got my ass kicked there tonight, but even getting stomped in Armour is better than sitting on your butt at home :D...

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I use a big ol' bolt from Lowes, made the head smooth, and use that to whack on rings. You put the ring on the anvil, you put the head on the the ring, hold it straight, then whack the threaded end of the bolt with a hammer. Works pretty well for me. I tried just hitting it with a hammer, but I had ...

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I'm curious enough to go weigh my helm tonight. I don't know how heavy it is, but it's heavy enough to make me tip over if I bend too much. Most people pick it up and grunt. I think it almost weighs more than my maille shirt. I guess you could say it's painfully safe. ;) I fought my last event in it...

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But then the Rose Tournament happened. This is just pick-ups and pick-ups. You just walk up to someone and challange them for a rose, and if you lose you deliver a rose to their chosen person (usually their lady). That ROCKS!! Where was this? I want to fight in a rose tournament!!! It's a win-win s...

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Wow!! Thanks for all the great ideas! I think I'll avoid the "AETHELMEARC!" <clang> one, though. Last year I didn't get to fight as much as I wanted, and spent most of the battles doing the "hurry up and wait" thing. I really want this to be an "educational" Pennsic, and the only way to do that is t...

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This about pick up fights, not Pennsic night life. ;) Last year I didn't have time to really try to do any pick-ups. So, how do you do it? I admit I'm a bit clueless. Do you just walk up to random strangers and say "Hi, wanna fight?" Is there a designated area for the random beatings of strangers li...

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Skutai wrote:The Lost Boys Kamikaze battle on Sunday the 13th is always fun. It tends to attract die-hard melee folks.

It's the same time as the Iron Rose Tourney. I really wanted to do both. Guess I'll just make up my mind at the last minute and pick one.

Hildegard

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Newb's opinion here. IMHO, when you take my clean, light shot, what you're really saying to me is "Yeah, I don't think you're capable of getting in a good, hard shot, so I'll just take this one so you have a chance." Insert :x here. I'd rather lose a fight than have question in my mind as to whether...

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But the belief that fighting fighting fighting and "sink or swim" are the way to manage practice is what I referred to. As I mentioned, if the first couple of practices I went to had been like this, I doubt I would have come back. Significant numbers of new people who could be very good require a f...

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To make a unpadded polearm that therefore mimics a "real weapons" handling characteristics only requires buying 1.5" rattan, shaving down the sides of the handle area (which also helps with flat/edge orientation), and then leaving the head unshaved. Whala! Balanced properly (i.e. head heavy), good ...

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Do what you love, patronize the events that have what you love doing. Don't think of it as a reign where you can't compete to become the Rapier Champion. Think of it as an extra six months without the spotlight on fencing to become even better. If your love of this specific game is lessened by the f...

Lady Fighters - Pennsic Castle Battle

Re: Soooo much fighting

Pennsic Pick up etiquette?

Re: not the problem