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by Alex Baird
Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:19 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

Now there are many kingdoms some of which do not have fencing. By creating a fencing peerage you are forcing fencing on those kingdoms. There is one of nineteen which doesn't have fencing. How does giving out Peerages for rapier in the other 18 "force" the last, Calontir, to make any such...
by Alex Baird
Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:16 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

kenrickb wrote:
Yes

Kenric, East


Why?
by Alex Baird
Fri Sep 19, 2008 11:49 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

So yes I still consider rapier to be in its toddler stage. When will it reach adult stage? I can think of at least two examples right off the bat. When the following is the norm not the exceptional standard: 1. No 3 weapon masks and hoods are worn by anyone who has been fencing for more then a year...
by Alex Baird
Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:24 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

Only recently has Atlantia fully switched to schlager blades (and by recent I mean within the last several year.) And only really recently did Atlantia and other kingdoms start to adopt Cut & Thrust rules. (A system that is still no where near wide spread) So compared to rattan fighting, rapier...
by Alex Baird
Fri Sep 19, 2008 4:18 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

We have bare AoAs, AoA level awards, bare GoAs, GoA level awards... why aren't bare PoAs ever given? Is there a reason other than tradition? The break in the pattern interested me. Because it is so specified in Corpora. The following institutions are established for all kingdoms in the Society. A P...
by Alex Baird
Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:33 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

From what I have seen the other 18 kingdoms can't agree on a cohesive award structure for Rapier anyway. I beg to differ. The Grant level rapier communities are far more cohesive than the GoA level rattan communities. The majority have the same award by treaty, and the rest have Orders that are com...
by Alex Baird
Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:25 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

Were I an Archer, I would not want to be sharing a circle with a rapier fighter, nor would I want them commenting on prospective Archers as candidates. Were you a Master calligrapher, would you find sharing the circle with Master bards equally as undesirable? Would a Master smith have no valid inpu...
by Alex Baird
Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:20 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

A separate peerage for rapier? Maybe someday. It might be best to wait until an activity is legal and recognized in all kingdoms before working on a new peerage. Having no rules/marshallate to play under in Calontir is a bigger problem than no peerage IMHO. Why? If TRMs of Calontir decide to never ...
by Alex Baird
Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:07 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: apartment pell
Replies: 13
Views: 301

Hmm. Sort of like wanting to practice the bagpipes, without a lonely moor? My immediate idea would be a tightly rolled and taped carpet remnant, suspended between heavy bungees to hooks in the floor and ceiling. Dunno if that would muffle the sound enough, but you could take it down when not in use....
by Alex Baird
Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

Baron Alejandro wrote:Brother Alex is wise, and I should pay heed to what he says; it will make me smarter.



You make me blush.:oops:

By the way, did you realize that you qualify for the Legion of Alexanders?
by Alex Baird
Thu Sep 18, 2008 9:52 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Steel fighting video from "The Fete of the Sabaton"
Replies: 29
Views: 583

But what on earth is the distinction between a "percussive cut" and a "hack" or a "hit" ? As the term is used in the rapier context, a percussive cut is one that hits and slides, as opposed to a "draw" which is laid on, then slid. A hack would be a strike wit...
by Alex Baird
Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:37 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Steel fighting video from "The Fete of the Sabaton"
Replies: 29
Views: 583

Also if Alex or someone could tell me if the standards in Caid allow for similar combat? Absolutely. Two main paths currently. With steel, it would fall under the C&T rules, under the office of the Kingdom Rapier Marshal. The second path is the "unarmored combat" form being run as a r...
by Alex Baird
Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:34 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

If they're that good laurel them it's a skill and an art That's one option. Another option is: knight them; it's a demonstration of martial prowess on the field. Take, for example, a person whose ability to tilt, joust and fight from horseback is astounding. Would not that person be representative ...
by Alex Baird
Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:25 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4380

Getting a peerage for being a "master" knife thrower just starts to sound like something more akin to a Thieves Guild in Waterdeep than in an attempt at an accurate re-creation of the Middle Ages. As opposed to, say, singing? Weaving? Running tourneys or wars? "Peerage" in the S...
by Alex Baird
Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:59 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 750

jcesarelli wrote: That way you can have a boars head erased with wings around it and have it be correct.


I thought that "erased" meant shown in profile. Is this not a boar's head cabossed?
by Alex Baird
Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:39 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Living history trestle table tops.
Replies: 27
Views: 607

Well, how about a historical compromise fellas.....what about furniture taken/plundered from local homes, local villages, castles etc. Wont work if your campaigning in the middle of the Sahara but its more than plausible for any scenario near a village, town, etc Speaking of which, and to return to...
by Alex Baird
Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:08 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Lanyards
Replies: 67
Views: 1737

Rapiers are generally gripped with one or two fingers over the quillons. It's actually fairly hard to wrench one out of that grip. The finger-over grip was the reason that forward ring started to appear on hilts to protect it from cuts. I find that a trigger around my index finger on my rattan sword...
by Alex Baird
Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:25 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Made a pencil holder...
Replies: 29
Views: 410

Cat wrote:
Do you happen to have a link where I could find some more medieval looking floral/viney designs? I looked around, but didn't find much that was useable.


[img]http://www.kb.nl/galerie/100hoogtepunten/09_72a22_6r.jpg[/img]
I am using this one to base a scroll off of.
by Alex Baird
Sun Sep 14, 2008 9:23 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Garters
Replies: 56
Views: 1344

Donal Mac Ruiseart wrote:Get the name right!

It's the Ancient and Ignoble Order of Incendiary Anal Orifices.


Ol' Donal Mac had an award,
A-I-O-I-A-O!
by Alex Baird
Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:57 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Lanyards
Replies: 67
Views: 1737

Caid's rules mandate them on single handed weapons. VII. WEAPONS STANDARDS A.2. Primary weapons used single-handed shall have a wrist strap (or equivalent restraint) which will keep the weapon from leaving the immediate area of the user. Restraints are not required on hafted weapons used single-hand...
by Alex Baird
Thu Sep 11, 2008 9:17 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Great Western War?
Replies: 33
Views: 1108

The site is nice, grass and mature trees on a small lake. Weather last year was warm days and mild nights. Somewhat humid by California standards. There were perhaps 80-100 merchants last year, and 6 or so food booths. Fast food about 6 miles off site, or restaurants in town. The fighting is general...
by Alex Baird
Mon Aug 25, 2008 12:18 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Armor Repair Toolbox contents?????!!!
Replies: 8
Views: 193

In addition to what Donal listed:

Side cutting dikes
File
Small washers
Bird blunts (for rapiers)
Mini hacksaw frame with coarse blade for rattan
"Speed" (tinning) rivets
Pre-cut straps to match my buckle sizes
by Alex Baird
Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:09 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Repairing hole in vellum
Replies: 21
Views: 237

Okay, here is a picture of the hole in question. Note it is about the size of a silver dollar.

Image
by Alex Baird
Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:51 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Repairing hole in vellum
Replies: 21
Views: 237

Thomas Powers wrote:Can a seal be placed there?

Thomas


Now there's a possibility...
by Alex Baird
Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:34 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Repairing hole in vellum
Replies: 21
Views: 237

Alex, if the scroll turns out to be unsalvagable, I would be glad to buy it from you, depending on style of calligraphy, so you can recoup part of your losses. Thanks, but the vellum was supplied to me by the person I'm doing the work for. If it turns out unsalvagable, I'll give over the unfinished...
by Alex Baird
Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:20 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Repairing hole in vellum
Replies: 21
Views: 237

Repairing hole in vellum

So, there I am, halfway through a scroll on real goatskin vellum, when I set it aside to go on vacation. While gone, the housesitter leaves on a light, which the cats promptly knock over on the table. The upshot is, I now have a 3/4 inch hole burned through the vellum in the upper margin. If this we...
by Alex Baird
Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:31 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Wow....WTF.....
Replies: 605
Views: 13961

You guys are a fantasy game that is historically inspired that has nothing to do with medieval/renaissance martial arts and you have a made up peerage system. Not slighting the SCA, but isn't that the truth? It's not bad, it just is what it is. Doug, just because everyone else on this thread decide...
by Alex Baird
Thu Jul 31, 2008 9:10 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: New device design
Replies: 22
Views: 299

My advice for any graphic like this, is to print it out and hang it up where you will see it every day. See if you still like it in a month. Critique wise, I don't care for "color" next to "color". The hues are different, but the values are similar, and so not easy to distinguish...
by Alex Baird
Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:08 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Wow....WTF.....
Replies: 605
Views: 13961

All of my early success with two-handed swords in SCA combat I attribute to a book called Three Elizabethan Fencing Manuals which I found in the library of the University of Louisville in 1986 or 1987. I see from Google that the book -from which I copied all of Giacomo di Grassi- was printed in 197...
by Alex Baird
Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:35 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Change in Principal Kingdoms for Estrella War 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 243

Anyone have an idea what? The preemptive denial of admonishment made me wonder a little bit, that makes me wonder more. Especially since treaty negotiations haven't begun yet AFAIK. Yeah, well, that's one of the bones of contention. They have started, without any of the Heirs who will be sitting in...
by Alex Baird
Wed Jul 16, 2008 6:12 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Change in Principal Kingdoms for Estrella War 2009
Replies: 9
Views: 243

Things are apparently afoot with the current treaty negotiations. The populace in Caid is being asked for input by TRM Edward and Mora regarding some aspects of the proposed treaty, which may effect Caid participating as a Principal as well.

Nothing set in stone yet...
by Alex Baird
Thu Jul 10, 2008 8:56 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Equestrian Combat in bc?
Replies: 1
Views: 57

I believe that THL Donwenna La Mareschale is the person to contact in An Tir regarding equestrian activities.

http://www.lanceofstanne.com/donwenna.html
by Alex Baird
Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:30 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Outfitting for Rapier Cut and Thrust combat
Replies: 24
Views: 415

I am trying to figure out the difference between cut and thrust and normal rapier fighting. Essentially, C&T allows percussive cuts. Regular rapier only allows for draw cuts and thrusts. C&T makes for a more realistic form in which to explore those parts of the period manuals which deal in ...
by Alex Baird
Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:51 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Outfitting for Rapier Cut and Thrust combat
Replies: 24
Views: 415

When the cut and thrust rules were first being tested, there was a requirement for protection over the collarbone area, usually in the form of a Spanish style gorget. It was later dropped as a concern, but it is something you may wish to consider until you get up to speed. Also, your arms will be ta...
by Alex Baird
Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:25 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do folks repair rips on canvas shields?
Replies: 22
Views: 538

Has anyone considered using kevlar or other aramid fabrics? Kevlar is not permitted in the making of SCA fencing gear, because it degrades in UV light. It might be okay under a layer of paint, and if it fails on a shield, nothing too bad will happen, but I dunno if it would be any more durable than...

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