The Armour Archive

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There is the Lubbeck wa/pp/enrock and the like, which appears to have been intended to be worn under a breastplate, but from the discussion I think that may be a different type of garment than what the OP means?

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Now the good part is that your undergarments for wearing with the armor are not going to change too terribly much. You'll still have an arming jacket (length and cut will echo the doublet of the day) to which your harness (and potentially mail voiders as well, in the 15th C) will be attached. Paddin...

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As said above, the barbute would place you pretty solidly into the 15th C (though apparently the first use comes up in an inventory in 1407 according to wikipedia). You'd be in the age where the uncovered breastplate and fauld are common. Also, while the Churburg 13 is cool looking (and very, very, ...

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I figured there had to be a reason, thanks for the info!

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I would have said chicken hat. But what caught my attention more was just below that. The block his sword and kick him in the nuts plate. Oh, that's hardly unusual. There are a number of plays in which a kick/knee to the groin is described. Heck, it's even called out as one of the "places [to strik...

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Found a link to the Getty image I was thinking of:

http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/art ... 115,0.6203

Seriously: Duck Hat. Perhaps more charitably (but not much): Swan Hat.

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Oh man, pretty much every hat worn on the Italian penninusla from about 1350-1500. Favorites are the giant bag hat worn in one fresco of John Hawkwood (IIRC), and the cap worn by Federigo da Montefeltro in pretty much every image of him, and the dude wearing the duck-hat in Fiore's Getty MS. The Cha...

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I'm going to pipe up since I'm one of the guys Josh bouts with fairly frequently nowadays. Both of us are of a similar mind: protect as a backup plan, control is the primary. We get some welts and bruises, occasionally cuts. Like a cross I took to the knee (I was a hero before :P) (and yes, I and a ...

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Glad to hear you're back!

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those are nice looking. Thanks for the update! Part of me did like the ball point, if for no other reason than it gave a bit more protection around occularia, but a rubber blunt on these would probably do the same thing without having too many ill effects. I'm assuming this'll be like the armoured b...

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Thanks!

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Figured this would be as good as any place to ask:

does anyone know of a source for blunt & ball point steel spear heads like the old Rega Anglorum ones from revival.us?

http://revival.us/regaanglorumtypespearhead.aspx

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FrauHirsch, There is a color (not wood-cut) figure that can be found on lots of "history of the kilt" web sites, which is purported to be from the 1590s, but none of the places I've seen it cite the original provenance of the image. Stylistically, it looks about right for marginalia of the period. ...

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well, just my .02: but most of those indicate a globose breastplate with mail and not a corrizina or similar torso armor.

The other comes down to dating and the question of if the date on the effigy reflects the effigy's creation or the death of the person, and what the effigy styling was based on.

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There is another video on the MLive site, this from the initial pass of spears: http://videos.mlive.com/kzgazette/2013/05/trial_by_combat_with_spears_at.html To give some context: we were going to 5 blows with each weapon. We'd decided that Jesse and I would end it with a dramatic throw and visor l...

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Sounds like there will be a writeup with more details of the duel presentation forthcoming, hopefully within a week or so.

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To add onto Gwen's info, based on my own experience: - Blocks: you can create a 'temporary use' one pretty easily by taking some of the ~2" insulating foam sheeting from a home depot/lowes/etc type of place. Basically: cut it to a rough shape (say a series of progressively smaller roughly oval shape...

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*resurfaces after a long absence* So oddly enough, we came to find out that while Tasha and I may not have ever met, we had certainly exchanged a number of posts here. Scandalous! I have heard rumor of a couple people with video of the La Belle demonstration and the Duel. I am not yet sure when/how ...

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doesn't the usual word of warning regarding primary sources, particularly those of clergy complaining of the excesses of the populous, apply doubly here? in other words - much like some of the mens fashions of the 15th C (short doublets with a giornea, I'm lookin at you), the crotchety old dude prob...

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Geoffrey Trease's 'The Condottieri: Soldiers of Fortune' discusses in a more balanced manner a few more notable mercenary company captains than Saunders' book (which also focuses rather heavily on a somewhat questionable connection between Catherine of Siena and Hawkwood) 'Vendetta: High Art and Low...

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Kel, I'm quite sure that the bear pauldron are way later, their shape closely resemble later pauldron, and the bear as a friend told me is made with a technique used later (it's not etched or chiseled , if I don't remember wrong it's made of dots done with a pointy chisel). I recall reading this so...

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Yeah, Luca. Me too. Once I build it I'm going to fight David Farrell in his. :wink: Wow - apparently I've gained some internet fame (or at least my harness has :P ) Kel, that would be awesome. I think Sean Hayes is thinking the same thing. I don't really have much more to say, other than that I hav...

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The Westland/Revival low boots have a clinch-nailed sole. This is part of why they are so expensive to get repaired. Not sure why, but it is. I had a cobbler basically tell me that it is because he'd need to make a new sole (because it isn't a standard shape he can buy from his usual dealer), take ...

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I recently received a copy of Christian Tobler and crew's new poleaxe DVD made available through Freelance Academy Press ( http://www.freelanceacademypress.com/poleaxedvd.aspx ), and figured I would post a review of it for those interested. Overall, I think the quality is excellent compared to other...

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Thanks for the help, is there anyone who knows a SCA armorer who makes a helmet like this? when I got my S-18 made, it was an outstanding custom job by a guy named Oleg Yanchuk in the Ukraine - he goes by Eisenberg here. I think one of the guys from Windrose is making one too. I don't think anyone ...

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Ideally, and this would be a several year project, I want to be able to fight heavy SCA combat looking like this: http://www.fioredeiliberi.org/image/fiore4.jpg and do SCA cut-and-thrust in something closer to civilian clothing with pieces of the SCA hard kit. I want to be able to dress as both a s...

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James summed it up nicely. The outfit in the image is just likely incorrect or an amalgam of things that aren't quite right. The fellow is definitely wearing a red sleeveless and collarless doublet over a white garment (can't tell if it is just a loosely fit white collarless doublet or shirt because...

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For those of us without the book - is the image you are talking about from a painting or some other primary source (if so - what is it)? or is it a modern image? I haven't seen much in the way of solid evidence for widespread use of sleeveless doublets in 15th C Italy. I believe there may be a few e...

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I hate to do this, because it may sound a bit harsh... but here it is: I agree - folks buying an item or taking many photos of it and reverse engineering it then undercutting the original maker is a nasty thing to do. But as far as I am aware (not very knowledgeable on this) - there is a legal route...

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based on historical manuscripts, the length could vary a great deal but there were some general trends. In the early part of the 15th C, axes tend to be depicted between about 4' and 6', while in some MSs from later in the 15th and into the 16th they are illustrated as being 6'-8' in length (approac...

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could you post some other angles of the arms, and maybe some wrist, forearm and elbow measurements?

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if you want something off the shelf (sorta) - the late 14th C arm and leg harness by Jeff Hedgecock is pretty darned close to what is displayed with the S-18 suit (the arms have their own number, but I can't recall it off hand - I think 22): http://historicenterprises.com/vambraces-italian-circa-138...

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The downs are that I think the material it is made with is in general too thin (I'd prefer it to be double-layered), and the bottom tends to wear out (it is sort of a rubberized fabric that cracks and flakes off with time and use). These have to some degree been corrected with more recent models. -...

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I bought one a couple of years back (no more than 2 though), and tend to cram the thing to the gills - so I am not surprised that I've had to re-sew the zipper seam. Other folks in my group who don't cram as much gear in have had much better luck. The ups are the length (the opening top is great for...

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Milesent, that is some amazing work.

I've actually sent that on to a mailing list I am on as an example of what an illuminated MS could look like when it was new. So often it is hard to get a true appreciation of the work that went into them from the greatly aged surviving pieces.

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