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CiaranBlackrune

I love this one.

SCA - Gulf Wars 2013 Chivalric Champions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tkAV4nDCo

CiaranBlackrune

You know what the most awesome part of the SCA is? The wonderful people who insist on telling you how to play your game.

My lack of armour hurts your feelings? Makes baby jesus cry?

GOOD.

CiaranBlackrune

What crown tournies really need are an oddsmaker and a bookmaker.

CiaranBlackrune

You know what's really messed up? People in Caid act like nothing ever happened.

CiaranBlackrune

As fast as that sold I wouldn't be handing out my patterns and process... I would be making more to sell!

CiaranBlackrune

Scale cuisses, sabatons, vambs, shoulders, skirts/faulds.

I am going to look like a lizard in my new armour!!!

CiaranBlackrune

Thanks, Mansur. Not being out there I don't have any idea of how people are fighting these days.

CiaranBlackrune

Holy crap! Jethro got a new helmet! Looks great, man!

CiaranBlackrune

Make sure you are using a 5mm nut. The threads will seem off if you are trying to use a standard nut. I had the exact correct nut. The nuts threaded right on without any issues on SOME, and on others,only went on maybe half way. I checked for cross threading, size, everything. After inspecting the ...

CiaranBlackrune

My one and only crown I challenged Duke Guy. (For the non Caidans, he is a Caidan legend of heroic proportions) I strutted up (make sure you strut, but don't George Jefferson it. ) and interrupted the convo he was having with Duke Ivan and challenged his ass. He whomped me but neither he nor Ivan ev...

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This will be my first crown tourney. Now the big question, Who should I choose for my first fight (and why)? Stride boldly to the front of the line and pick the biggest, baddest duke up there. Die gloriously. Why? Because it's bold. Because that duke will never forget your name. Because it's bold!

CiaranBlackrune

I used icefalcons steel threaded vervells. I took them to my grinder and ground the sides flat (the vervells are round/spherical) so they looked a little nicer, then sanded and polished them. They work great. The only thing about them is that the threads on them are.... cheap. Some nuts went right o...

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I will casually say Conrad or Sven will take it.

CiaranBlackrune

Thomas MacFinn wrote:Fewer flat shots.

Pell work.

Now you don't need a new basket hilt.

You're welcome.

CiaranBlackrune

I would also be down for a mild set.

CiaranBlackrune

Sounds good! I love round robin or bear pit style tourneys where you get all you can fight. Conditioning really shows by the end. Nothing worse than a double elim and done. Some of us like double elim. It's a traditional tourney format for many sports and games. I do like the occasional bearpit or ...

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The only way you are going to make a helmet without making a shit ton of noise is to buy the top premade. Even then, you're going to have to pound out the lower half.

CiaranBlackrune

Cap'n Atli wrote:
Baron Eirik wrote:I will note that the OP has not posted anything else here since his second post.

Maybe he was kidnapped by pirates, or eaten by bears!

If it's the former, give him a year or two and he will return as a scottish ninja.

CiaranBlackrune

I am still not sure why any of you actually try to reason with the puppet troll accounts. They're just trolls trying to get a rise out of everyone. Same old trolls. Can't even think of a new diatribe.

CiaranBlackrune

Ironmonger, Ironmonger, Ironmonger. Munitions Bascinet, with grill $135. Bomb-proof. Made to size. Cheap. Safe. Accidentprone makes a good starter helm too.(He's here on the Archive, but I don't think he has a web presence.) But seriously, it's your brain. Get something made specifically for the ac...

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The helmet itself is OK for SCA. They tend to run a bit small so get the xlarge. I had one. Made a grill for it but never wore it on the field. Eventually I sold it. But it seemed heavy enough.

CiaranBlackrune

If money isn't an issue I would have more than one. For practice/regular use I would use linen linen and linen. For tourney I would use silk for the shell.

CiaranBlackrune

I don't know who Aveloc is. Or really much about his reign or what he did. I guess I just have the basic curiosity as to whether or not the Royal Porn was actually any _good_? I was at a party where they showed it. I have never seen a room full of people more turned OFF than that room of people wat...

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Fuckit, lets do war crowns. Isn't that what got Aveloc R&D'd? I *LOVE* the idea of a Crown run along the lines of a Warlord tourney - beat a fighter, they are now on your side, now you and your new guy go and fight another pair - if you win, they are now on your side, and so on... It won't happen, ...

CiaranBlackrune

That is frikkin sweet.

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Roland Brokentooth wrote:
takaetun wrote:Please tell me that Byzantine cross thing above Jacques head in that first photo is a pole weapon...
It was and it was awesome. I was very happy it was on our side.

That thing is awesome!

CiaranBlackrune

These discussions keep coming up over and over again. The one thing that I'd like to point out is that what you need to charge to make it worth your while and what you can get people to pay are two very different things. You not only need to figure out how much you need to charge, but whether what ...

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The SCA will never be as a whole a vehicle for accurate historical re creation. It was never that. It won't ever be that. Get over it already. If you want something more authentic go do it or start it. Plenty of people have. If you want more authenticity in the SCA stop bitching about it and cultiv...

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No matter what I am doing, making or fixing, I charge a minimum of 20 dollars an hour for my time. I should charge more. I don't itemize, unless it's something like replacement parts in a PC I am not making a profit on. If you ask me to make you a pair of shoes I will give you a price for what you w...

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Very few take the field looking like they stepped out of a museum. I guess Caid is fortunate: [ Caid isn't THAT fortunate. We have our share of horrible horrible armour too. This post/thread sounds like yet another SCA bash thread.... I met mean people. I was told I look TOO good. You don't fight a...

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You can heat color steel to a nice gold in an oven.

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Wear a little padding and the maile works just fine. It takes up enough of the blow so you don't get broken. Whether or not one sees mail as acceptable depends on how much or how little they want to feel the blow. Legally you'll need a kidney belt or some such. I have a linen "vest" that has pockets...

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I didn't sew or tack my rawhide edging on. First practice I went to and the grass was all wet. I laid my shield down between fights as we do, and the rawhide absorbed water and deformed. Eventually it shrunk, ripped and fell off.

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I have no skin in this game either way. I am a live and let live kind of guy, and I am no longer active in the SCA. That said.... Non same sex couples have entered, fought, and at times won for years. At least in the Middle. Examples of actual winners include: Nathan/Kirsten Valerius/Fern I assume ...

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So a black leather covered bascinet. My new persona will be The Gimp.

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