The Armour Archive

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There is a number of examples, beyond the obvious heraldic embellishments, where rich knights designed and had built armours that where particular to them. Emperor Maximillion and King Henry VIII are particular examples, but there are many. See Toby Capwell's documentary about the English armour wor...

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Going for late 12th early 13th. Would like to add maille camail and maille leggings. I have fought with cross hilted sword but my gauntlets are big, heavy , and ugly.

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What does the pattern for the cloth drap look like? I'm trying to plan one out but am not very good at making patterns.

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I agree that socially younger people thease days have different expectations and are not thrust into an adult role early, if ever, these days. For the most part though basic human behavior was the same then as it is now. Even if they have responsibilities young men, particularly in groups, will act ...

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I recently read "The Time Travellers guide to the Middle ages" and one of the points that I really hadn't thought of before is that the majority of the people were young. Particularly in the noble classes where young men were given great responsibilities at an age where today they would still be con...

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Get one of Windrose's Schiavona basket hilts.

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Take a look at myarmoury.com. A lot of good sword and armour info there.

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http://www.kultofathena.com/product.asp ... pangenhelm

I knew I'd seen it before. Tha fact that is not true spangen construction was awfully suspicious.

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Our belled wedge is set up using this system.

http://members.shaw.ca/uilliam/tentframe.htm

We find it easy to put up and gives us a lot of floor space.

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Duke Thorin was also silver rose in the last Crown tournament.

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Any thing by Sharon Kay Penman.

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There were actually a lot of SCA people who worked on this movie (13th Warrior). I had friends who did a lot of the blacksmithing (the osberg tripod) and there was negotiations for SCA seamstresses to do costuming but it was apperantly not cost effective. From what I heard they started out pretty go...

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A new fighter in our area was looking for a leather jacket to make a coat of plates with. They went to the store and found one that looked like it would do. They picked it up and realised it already had plates riveted in it.

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A picture of my kit from An Tir crown. My lady ensures that I look good upon the field. Plastic basket hilt unfortunaly as I haven't fixed my cross hilt sword yet.

Griffin

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Hmmm, that is interesting as I have seen Alchem swords used in An Tir for both rapier and cut & thrust. I am in Tir Righ and am friends with both the Kingdom Rapier marshal and cut&thrust marshal and that has never come up.

Sir Griffin

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I wear lacrosse gear to which I have added foam on the shoulders and a light gambeson under my maille. I find that works pretty well. Occasionally I will fight without the maille and find that it makes a big difference. It takes a considerable amount of sting out of shots and reduces amount of bruis...

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I say you need to find a better cobler. I just had the heel of the sole repaired on my wife's shoes for $15.

Griffin

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Lovely

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banzaimf wrote:I am the dummy with a pie plate.

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v89/b ... yffn-1.jpg[/img]

Looks like you have me in a nasty spot. Nice pic.

Griffin

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Who needs leg armour?

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That would be very cool, now if only I can find a way to make it to Pennsic.

Sir Griffin

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With mine I first started with a bolt through the holes but it wasn't long before the rattan failed at that point. A friend had his wedged tightly with tape, so I thought I'd try that but I also used a milling machine to make the hole your handle goes through an oval rather then a circle. Now the hi...

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One thing that bothers me is when people defend their obvious inaccuracies or fantasy based items with the statement
"Well we are the Society for CREATIVE Anachronism.".
As if that is some sort of licence to be half-assed.

Griffin

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We did the training with the riot squad 3 or 4 times. I was not at the one that most of these pictures came from though I did participate in the first few. They were very interesting events and a lot of fun, not to mention informative both for us and the boys in blue. One of our fighters was Rcmp at...

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Hmmm I would have figured if anyone was going to lose toenails it would be you:)

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Gambesons are not required for SCA combat as such there are no regulations as to how thick or thin they can be. For most armours they can make wearing them more comfortable and reduce pain and bruising.
One way to make a cooler gambeson is to use natural materials like linen or cotton.

Sir Griffin

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I have been waiting for my new helm but it is taking a long time.

Griffin

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Just to clarify. SCA sanction was pulled do to the site owners insisting that renting the land was contingent on ther being no site fee even though the hosting group had already decided against doing that. There is no policy against free or by donation events.

Griffin
Baron of Lions Gate

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The Knight I was squired to, Sir Oak, has a fixed date of his death, 1066 at Stamford Bridge. As he gets older it is his birthdate that changes.

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The Osprey book, "The Normans" has a couple of depictions of oval or ovalish shields. In the picture of thr Battle of Hastings it shows an infantryman from Maine carrying one " His oval shield appears in a number of places, including carvings from Normandy itself. ( Sources: carved capitals, late 11...

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Hmmm, maybe we could use this as a fund raising effort. Auction off the chance to be the first to fight Arminius when he gets the helm. He will need to step up the practice to be worthy of that armour.
Don't worry Arminius we will help by beating on you at every opportunity.

Griffin

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For the crossguard I used a milling machine to make the hole oval rather then round. This helps prevent much of the spinning they are prone to. The sword is then shaped so it wont go father up the blade then I wind a bunch of tape under it to keep it from slipping down. There is some movement but no...

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Well locally (BC, Canada) we have Sir Geoffry des Rennes. There used to be another fellow but he hasn't been out in awhile. Coincidently they are both armourers.

Griffin

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We have a bell wedge that we made ourselves after many years with a marquee. Actually we know have two wedges (one for us, one for the kids). We use a sawhorse or swingset frame set up. It works great. I can set it up myself no problem but two people is better. With that set up we have plenty of roo...

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