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Bentz

Albrechtthesilent wrote:How about a trade...I have a kidney I can do without.
That helm rocks. I feel for you.
If I bought this right now, I'd be paying a lot more in lawyer fees for a divorce.

Albrecht

Well, I wouldn't want to disrupt marital bliss.

Bentz

14 guage.

Bentz

fraychef wrote:i wish i was in the market.

I wish you were too!

Bentz

This was a helm Master Cet made for me. I've tried minimum padding and a shoehorn and vaseline, but it's just too tight for my melon. The helm and all Cet's labor (installing vervelles, cutting and dying the leather strap and sewing aventail to it, creating a detachable bretache, answering 10,000 em...

Bentz

Any guys without big melons looking for an awesome helm?

Bentz

Thanks for the replies. If no one sweeps it up, I'll just buy a shoehorn and find a way to squeeze my melon in. Or think small thoughts.

Bentz

OK, a few bites, but no serious interest. So, I assume this is either just bad timing to sell, what with Christmas and a recession around the corner, or I'm overpricing, or both. Given what I paid, does my asking price seem unreasonable?

Bentz

I edited the text a little after realizing it wasn't totally clear...

Bentz

Thanks. I'm totally bummed that I have to set her free, but it's got to happen.

Bentz

It practically breaks my heart, but I have to sell this beauty of a helm. I commissioned Master Cet to make me SCA-legal stainless cervelliere and attach a Master Knuut stainless welded aventail. The only catch was, I wanted the maille drap to be detachable so it could be hooked onto the some hardwa...

Bentz

So if you shank a knight with this, is it a chiv shiv?

Sweet job, Nissan. PM sent...

Bentz

Period handgonnes/arquibus were very dangerous. They could easily explode, killing its operator and/or anyone around them. I shoot a 16th century, 65 cal matchlock arquibus about 30 times a day every day at work. They are not that dangerous, trust me. I can also hit a six inch target nine out ten t...

Bentz

I'm a stubborn bastard and often have difficulty admitting I'm wrong even to myself. Well done admitting as much on a public forum.

Bentz

Kilkenny wrote:
Those vambraces start at $75 a pair with a stamped decorative border in contrasting color to the body. Tooling is at a shop rate of $10 an hour and I give an estimate based on the specifics of the project before I start work.

In all cases, shipping is additional.

Many thanks!

Bentz

And how much would a 14th c inspired pair of vambraces run, with and without tooling?

Bentz

You get out of the SCA what you put into it, why should anyone GIVE you anything? Why should those of us on the outskirts of the SCA who are not invested in the SCA system invest in it. Why should we take time away from our personal pursuits to help better the SCA when many in the SCA aren't willin...

Bentz

Thanks for the replies. I haven't fought in it yet, but the only thing I've noticed walking around with it on is a little "swishy-swooshy" going on. Doesn't seem like it will impair hearing. More like I'm just having a conversation near the ocean.

Bentz

I've always loved the look of mail drapes, but one thing keeps me away: The cost. Okay, two things: The cost and I think that mail would be so damned noisy on the field it'd be hard to hear. I knew a Monol-peer persona that finally got an excellent helmet with mail strung much the same way as with ...

Bentz

Thanks for the tip, Alcyoneous. Certainly worth checking out.

Bentz

Dang. That's what I was afraid of.

Bentz

Ã†iric Ã˜rvender,

Wow. Just... wow.

Bentz

Domnall wrote:CAN WE WAX HARDEN THE LEATHER?

Or deep-fry the rattan?

Bentz

I'm trying to find good sources of heraldry for early-/mid-14th century Germany/HRE. I've looked over the Manese Codex and Zurich Roll of Arms, and I'm curious if there are other good collections/armorials out there (online or in the stacks somewhere).

Bentz

Seems like there's still some interest in cervellieres around here, so I thought this could use a good BUMP...

Bentz

I suppose if you were looking for half-gauntlets that were so amazingly cool and stunning they didn't even need the other half, well, then these would be OK then. If that's your sort of thing.

I'll see his DAMN and raise you one.

Bentz

DeCalmont,

Nice kit. I really like the ailettes. You don't see a lot of those on the field. But I'm not sure the color scheme of black, red and white works

Bentz

Murdock, I sent you a PM...

Bentz

Roibeard MacNeill wrote:Good Lord! The basket in the first picture is Gorgeous!!! Oh I am wicked interested! Hell, I may have my friend headed to Estrella to pick one up for me....

Those make me tingle!

I'm with Roibeard -- that first basket is beautiful! Really nice.

Bentz

Magnus The Black wrote::shock: That is nice!

Thanks. I gave a glowing review in the Classifieds if anyone is interested. Cet did a fantastic job, start to finish.

Bentz

Any photos?

Bentz

I really like your coat of plates. The dags are cool. Steve I'd love to be able to take credit, but Master Geoffrey at GAA Armoury made it before he closed up shop a few years ago. If I had made it you'd be saying, "You're coat of plates is, uh, a coat, with plates. It looks... yeah. Nice lion...

Bentz

Thanks, guys. Cet's helm really pulls it up a few notches. The kit's moving in the right direction, and definitely a lot better than it was a few years ago. But whenever I look at something like the Show Yourt Kit post on the Interpretive Re-creation forum I think, "Hot damn, now *those* are so...

Bentz

VERY nice rig! Why does your nasal hinge look a little "off-kilter?" Thanks. There are plenty of things I'd like to do to imrove it, but it's getting better. About the nasal, it's mostly the way it's sitting in this photo. It was designed so the whole camail strip and hardware can come do...

Bentz

Thanks, Murdock.

Dan at House of the Wolf leather did them. His shop is temporarily closed, but here's hoping for his safe return this fall.

Bentz

There are some seriously gorgeous kits here. Truly inspirational.

The setting for this pic really creates the atmosphere, I know, but I wanted to show off my new helm from Cet, so here you go...

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FS: SS Cervelliere with aventail (SCA) SOLD

Cervelliere with aventail FOR SALE

Re: Why invest in the SCA?

Early- to mid-14th century German heraldry