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Rainald

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ted Banning: I have a whole pile of dead HF angle grinders... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I guess I have just been lucky with mine, 3 years running and still going strong. Of cour...

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Pics?

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Your everyday copier has a +/-, increase/ decrease size function on it. Print your patterns then copy and change size as needed.

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Sounds kick ass., I'll try and be there if at all possible.

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If you start using the 9' fiberglass use a little moderation with thrusts to the head. I know you guys play a different game...but fiberglass spears hit like a ton of bricks. It would be really eaasy to f*ck somebody up pretty bad if your not careful.

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Please see the sales board if interested.

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great but I would still pad it to be safe. You never know when you might get blindsided in a war by some goon.

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My favorite is timed Bear Pit / Wounds retained / run with what you brung. In other words you win the fight, you stay in. You get armed and and still win the fight, you face the next opponent armed. You want to change out weapons styles throughout the time period, fine, but you can't do it until you...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Noe: Never lost conciousness, but my legs went too rubbery to stand after a pole arm to the back of the head once. That was an interesting experience. <HR></BLOCK...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> #1, I don't pad the sides or back of my helmets, none of them. I wear a high Master Geoffrey gorget, and my helmet connects with my gorget before it hits my head on every blow I have received thus...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Noe: I'm looking for something that won't last through a grand melee. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> How about a layer of the 1/4 plastic cardboard (the stuff Cory used as te...

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I use a very small (at least by meridian standards, not so small in the west) heater. At the last event I went to I think I had the smallest shield there except for one guy with a buckler. Pros- it's fast, packs well, and actually looks about the size of the heaters that you see on effigies/brass ru...

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The usual stuff for me: drilled holes in foot, smashed fingers, cut's & scraped, a couple of wire wheel abraisions, burns. Worst was when my oxygen bottle dishing form fell off the bench onto my foot, that really sucked for awhile. Or maybe when opening the bottle of leather dye and the bottle burst...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Vebrand: Brandr, Friday night fights. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif Vebrand<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> NO! Come on guys, I want to get in on the bastard sword p...

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I own splinted arms, full steel legs, full gauntlets and a 16 ga sugarloaf helm from him. They were all bought years ago and are still in good shape. The gaunts have great articulation but are a little heavy for my taste. The helm is dimpled but what do you expect from 16 ga after years of use. The ...

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There is an interesting article on breastplate ballistic testing using replica period weight/size/shape bodkins and bows in the spring 2002 "Primative Archer" magazine.

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I think some of my SCA gained experience would be of some help compared to somebody with zero martial experience of any kind.

However I'm sure I would quickly suffer the same fate as that unknown crewman on the Star Trek landing parties. A unexpected, gruesome death.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sir Oswald: ....Also, does anyone know how to make the simple knee cops in the archive? i have the metal cut, im just stuck there... Thanks<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If yo...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Halberds: ... Do You have any idea what those squares are on their shoulders and how they are attached? Also what are they made of...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Maybe ailet...

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I think geoffrey scott (westie) fought in a hundred battles at some event awhile back. Then I think there was West-Antir war that had 20 or so battles in a single day.

Of course my idea of fun often entails getting wacked in the head so I could be a little off target.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by mattmaus: ...I canâ€™t understand how a simple request for help would spark such animosity. It is possible that Iâ€™m reading more into it than was intended as well. <HR...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by sedric: ... I think we should make plate immune to CA, unless it hits on the face. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You know some people actually wear full face helms with .5" e...

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CRAP!

It figures, the first big event I get to go to in 5 years and now its supposed to rain thursday and friday.

Rot in hell Isadore!

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From Popular Mechanics "do it yourself encyclopedia" Vol 6, circa 1955: ..."articles of brass may be given a blue or black color by immersion in a solution made by dissolving sodium thiosulphate, 1/2 lb, and lead acetate, 2 oz., in one gallon of water. More lead acetate may be added to increase the ...

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Most hotels have some minimum set up for a gym nowdays. If not the old standbys of pushups, crunchs and strechting routines can't hurt. You could probably pick up some small stuff to pack with you like the spring handgrip deals for hand/wrist/forearm work and maybe one of those bungee cords on stero...

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Anybody from this board going to Diamond Wars this week?.

If so we should all get together, have a brew or two and swap lies.

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#4 I would also like to see archery equipment with some oomph to it allowed. If you can club somebody and leave nice nasty bruises with a chunk of rattan, you should be able to shoot someone and have them feel it. Maybe using something resembling an arrow instead of say a golf tube and a 50-60# bow....

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by mattmaus: ... I've decided that I want to build myself a Maximillian harness (or maybe only a half harness). I'm looking for any REALLY good pics that anyone can offer. I'm laz...

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Cool, I wish I could weld like that, my attempts still look like "chicken sh*t applied with chop sticks" to misquote someone
from awhile ago.

I'm curious why the pic on the left shows a round inside view. I have to really get an oval shape going to try and fit a helm on my skinny noggin.

Rainald

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Clermont: ...Ferric chloride will also work on nickel silver (aka German silver) since there's so much copper in it. Gaston<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> And also aluminum but...

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I prefer a shield basket with a round grip. I like the protection and it never loosens up, which would chang the feel and balance.

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THe book of five rings by Miyamota Musashi

ISBN: 0-553-35170-2

I experienced a significant jump in my fighting once I understood some of the principal ideas in the book.

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A good place to start:

http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001373.html

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Favorite weapon form is bastard sword, especially when it's matched weapons. I think it has the most testostrone level potential, well at least for me.

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Nice Hat!

Why the screen on the eye slots? .

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