The Armour Archive

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I prefer hand-cranked forges with *good* blowers. You don't get tired, and your work doesn't burn while you leave the hair dryer on while chatting.

That said, sometimes having a hairdryer on a variac is nice.

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Dante della Luna wrote:You're a viking right? Challenge some dude to a judicial duel or something...

Frieman, you wanna holmgang, i'll bring a pelt we can fight on

my sword and board will be worthy by next pennsic.

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Drachenwald. Fighting with you guys was SO. MUCH. FUN. I run with the east kingdom northern army 3rd div, we chatted a few times at war. seriously: Drachenwald spears rocked, unit cohesion was excellent, and having your prince (?) screaming orders from the side in the bridge battles in swedish was ...

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Is this what you intended? http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4014/photonha.th.jpg yup i flipped my anvil too. I think i mean to say 'a mullet of four points elongated palewise': is that correct? If so, it's a fine design, and would be blazoned: Per bend sinister embattled sable and checquy azure a...

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ya know, it's weird. I was writing the original post out in interpretation and then doublethought myself. d'oh. did i get the blazon in the right order? i wasn't sure if, on a divided field, you state all the fields and then all the charges, or you group the charge with the field on which it lays.

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I am sketching out designs for a potential coat of arms. I like the look of a field chequy azure and argent, but: 1. Given a chequy field, how do you lay a charge on it while following the "no metal on metal/color on color" rule? 2. Given a checquy field, how do you divide a shield while f...

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just watch out for those heron-mark swords...

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I have seen 12 aimed shots in 30 seconds from a 36-lb recurve, at 20 yards. Nothing scored outside the blue (on a standard SCA target archery target). That archer claims to have done 14. Once. With a crossbow, he can do 8 or 9 in 30 seconds. I don't know the draw weight, but it can be hand-cocked. R...

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http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=90277

this thread should answer most of your questions.

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Current melee rig. The ring belt is nonstandard, i had the center pin of my belt buckle rupture the day before: http://hphotos-snc1.fbcdn.net/hs121.snc1/5212_632173956322_16107221_36796177_2025873_n.jpg and just for giggles, this is me two years ago in my first non-loaner armor: http://img21.imagesh...

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Seconded. Picked up the second-to-last of his unclaimed lo-pro kidney belts during move-in weekend at pennsic, wore it all week. Loved it.

So far, torvaldr has armored pretty much all of me except my helm, chest protection, and cup.

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haha, nice.

we shoudl start an "archive injuries" thread. I'll put my hand-in-a-cast up too.

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Vladimir wrote:dunno, I almost never use sword and shield. My sword has a hilt and pommel anyway.

I have a buddy who's personal best was 5 shots with a mace in one second. That was against a static target though.

As they say in the less kind and gentle parts of the internets: pics, or it didn't happen.

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Your Grace,

This is bloody brilliant. Thank you. If you're at pennsic, i'll be looking for you

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my boss cut clean through the bone on her thumb with a chef's knife. she recognized the ER attending surgeon's name because he wrote the chapter on hand surgery in her anatomy textbook. No scar! but her husband doesn't let her cook anymore, she's only allowed to play with pewter and power tools...

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OK so East Kingdom old timers will probably recognise the guy he also wore a heavily embrodered sark, and great kilt with the japanese hauberk Could be the fellow i'm thinking of. Particularly if he has a yap-dog. then again, i only hang out with EK oldtimers from time to time, i'm not actually one...

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mordreth wrote:I had a guy with a split ring japanese hauberk....

non-fighter round mound in his forties

I have this irrational instant-wince that happens every time i see an "armor as garb" individual at SCA events who really obviously doesn't fight.

does that make me a bad person?

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Chaperon. The height of fashion in mid-15thc. Burgundy.

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Heading out on Friday. I'll be there through pack-up. We'll see about pickups. I'll be there for every battle. Orange spear, east kingdom pennon, possibly also one in purple and silver of a cat. Depending on the color of your tape, you'll get to see it up close and personal . Armour: CLANG greathelm...

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the arab thing for arabs The keffiyeh and agal are, oddly, quite difficult to document. I tried, because it's a great thing to have during general holds in battle, but...couldn't nail it down to earlier than mid-17th c, and even that is hazy. For europeans? Liripipe hoods. Soak one in water, and it...

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Baron Alcyoneus wrote:Aren't tongs Project Number One for all new blacksmiths?

S-hook, round these parts.

(tongs are second

)

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agreed. Usually it's easier to just make tongs to fit your work, and reshape/remake as needed.

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"purses in pieces" has an illustration of a man on a bench wearing what looks for all the world like one of the nike sack bags (http://tinyurl.com/mmymoa) but without the swoosh.

perhaps it is the one currently being discussed.

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just picked up a pound of rings and a riveting tool. I figure i'll need them with the hauberk i just bought...

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jealous here. I've been looking for a chunk suitable for turning into a dane axe. I figure steeling a weld that long will serve as a mark of my competence as a smith - but it's a long way coming. I haven't forge welded different alloys together yet, but i'd like to get my hands on the stock anyway, ...

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dude, i made a alejandro sigfile? wow. i'm all flattered!

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So lets take this in a different direction now; how do you not stink like a total beast during an entire week of fighting in the same gambeson? Or do you simple deal with it? Letting it dry all the way out - as much as possible given weather, etc - helps a great deal, and for a weekend event, is su...

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everyone knows spears are just extra long arrows with low draw weight.

cheaters

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crotch and armpits are really good ways of making the very thick fighter take shots, though.

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D. Sebastian wrote:Marshal should have been brought to a Marshals Court for ruling.

This.

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I'll post once my maille gets shipped. My current kit is one of those "time periods in a blender" kits

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Wow, and I thought it was goofy that I got "tennis leg" when I (stupidly) tried to wrap Sabah by tiptoe! Skier's thumb kind of makes sense, but why gamekeeper's? gamekeeper's thumb is the old name for skiier's thumb. From when they used to sling a brace of birds over their shoulder and ca...

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Cyanoacrylates are in use as internal surgical adhesives, and have been for some time now. short-chain copolymers, like the ones found in superglue, are mildly cytotoxic (they kill cells), thus the irritation. For surface injuries, I don't care, but i wouldn't go supergluing your kidneys anytime soo...

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Isabella E wrote:Organic is a terribly misleading term that's not very well defined anyway.

why, molecules that contain carbon atoms, of course!

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Seconded. McDavid gear is pretty dang awesome, and this is a good deal, as the only thing i complain about is the price

heraldry composition question: checky fields?