Thanks, Brandr!

There are things I want to change, but the helm isn't one of them.

My wife and I were playing pass-the-baby, so a few buckles are undone and things are bunching where they shouldn't, but here are a few pics, as requested...

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Point of order- I was under the impression that bretache referred to the actual plate nasal used in this configuration, and not just the technique of pinning the camail up over the nose. Am I wrong? I've seen it used interchangably for both the plate or the camail triangle, but that doesn't mean it...

Cet, Mighty Demigod of Buckets!

I'm chasing my one year old around right now, so I'll try to get a photo of it on in the next day or two. When I first picked it up and tried to put it on, I said , "Uh-oh. Uhh, did I send the measurements for my arm or something!?" but it just took a minute to figure out the trick. I aske...

Many months ago I had a Knuut aventail sitting around without a helmet to put it on and decided to commission a stainless cervelliere for SCA combat. So I started shopping around, asking reputable armourers to see if they were interested/available. The kicker was I wanted to have a mail bretache tha...

Funny you guys should ask about this. I'll be posting a review of a cervelliere that Dave Rylak/Cet just made for me, hopefully tonight or tomorrow, once I snap some photos and my one year old takes a nap so I can write the thing up! The abbreviated version is this: the helm rocks, the price was mor...

Suppsed to be anti-inflammatory.

This is only one study, but this doc found little evidence that it did a whole lot.

http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/ab ... 02.02011.x

Still, that was only one particular kind of bruising, so maybe not analagous to getting hit really hard with a big stick.

I must have an excess of R2 D2 receptors because you lost me at "Planck".

That said, it is aninteresting article.

The Dutch don't get as much love as they should.

Atzinger Shield Works -- Inspire and be inspired Atzinger Shield Works -- The best continue to get better Atzinger Shield Works -- Be the hero you've imagined Atzinger Shield Works -- Return with your shield or on it, but either way, do it in style! Atzinger Shield Works -- Or do you just enjoy look...

I'm guessing "Annulment"

"It severs the ties that bind."

I am jealous beyond words. Oh, wait, I found a couple: You. Bastard.