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Owen

I think it looks pretty neat, for what it is. As a piece of costuming, it'd be great for fantasy/Vampire LARPS, etc. Why denigrate this guy's obvious skill, just because of the medium he chose? Steel is cheap, too, do you charge based on the material cost alone? $180 for 50 hours of work is cheap. -...

Owen

Will there be the traditional feast this year?

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Just as devil's advocate gere, but why should I pay $20-$30 for a set of cops instead of $10, if they are essentially the same? My reenactment Roman helmet (Imp-Gal Type H, Aquincum pattern) is from India. Instead of paying a craftsman $600+, and waiting a year or more, I paid $275, and got it in tw...

Owen

I misread the rules, it seems. In that case, I have to say that I'd still be annoyed if an opponent delayed a fight because he had to put on armor. I certainly wouldn't fight without real armor under the shield. Not that I use a shield all that often. ------------------ Owen "Death is but a doorway-...

Owen

SCA armor standards require the arm armor under a shield to still meet minimum; ie., an elbow cop, hand and wrist armor. Unless they have a shield basket, they can fight with the armor they're supposed to be wearing.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

There's a reason for that, Caesar.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

I don't know about the thread, but I can recommend Tentsmiths and Panther, from personal experience.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

One of Kaffa's fighters is a small scary lady, all of 5" or so, maybe 100, and true fighter spirit. I have physically flung her with a polearm shot, and she bounces right back up. She gets in your face, not because she needs to reach you, but because she likes it. We call her our Psycho Chihuahua. A...

Owen

What an idiot. As a spearman, I know that most fighters are just itching to get us back, given the chance. I go straight down, yelling my head off, "DEAD!", when I'm hit. Once the tables have turned, a spear that appears to not take shots is in trouble, and is going to get pummeled. ----------------...

Owen

Yep. I love my job.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

There's a term I learned from doing R/C aircraft; "Stand-Off Scale". It means it looks good from a distance, but the details aren't perfectly accurate, like no cockpit detail. I like it. The SCA is stand-off scale medievalism. Not perfect, not intending or intended to be perfect. The social aspects ...

Owen

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Make sure it's a *magic* beer that will help him commune with his crystals! </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Right, no beer for you! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/tongue.gif ------------------ Owen "Dea...

Owen

I like you, Jean Paul. Kaffa will give you beer at Pennsic.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

That's good. The kicker has also been when someone does all those things, and then complains when we keep hitting him. The worst example I've ever seen was a man who, after getting killed, proceeded to walk off the field, through OUR lines, shoving his way through with his sword over his head yellin...

Owen

I never said it shouldn't be on the field. I said I thought it was ugly. I also think it looks not particularly effective; why carry that extra weight up so high, when it doesn't seem to do anything useful like redirect a blow? I'm not bothered when people wear inauthentic armor. Besides, if the ugl...

Owen

I prefer helms that use modern adaptions such as bargrills for open faced helms, in the interests of safety, to purely fantasy helmets. I don't find things like bargrills as jarring as things like this helm.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Too often I see people "die offensively" by continuing to propel themselves forward, staggering several more steps before dropping. Your forward momentum isn't that great, unless you keep moving your feet. You stop running, and collapse, you go straight down and maybe slide a little, not continue to...

Owen

Crystoll- if you die THAT way towards MY line, I'm gonna clobber you until you actually hit the ground and stop moving. I HATE that sort of ploy; you are DEAD, and cannot take ANY action whatsoever except to fall down. "Die Aggressively" my ass; it's cheating. ------------------ Owen "Death is but a...

Owen

My primary objection is that the bugger is UGLY. That, and it reminds me of a BattleStar Galactica Command Cylon.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

[This message has been edited by Owen (edited 05-05-2002).]

Owen

The concept that this helm is somehow better than a bargrill on an otherwise authentic helmet simple boggles the mind.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

One of my old suits is a Sir Jeffrey (from back when it was Squire Jeffrey) special- upholstery velvet and canvas over plastic. It worked great, wasn't too hot even with the padding under it (you need that). As Chef said, the trick is to make sure it fits right, "off the rack" doesn't work. --------...

Owen

By not defining the hand as a legal target, it is by definition not one.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

At least part of it, to me, is that under our rules, it would be unfair for my opponent to offensively use something (his hand) that I can't hit. My first reaction certainly would be to either pry the weapon loose, where we have no way of determining if a "real" weapon would have injured him in the ...

Owen

You know, this arguement lost its charm about the fiftieth go-around.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

I hope you don't mean ME, Khann. Feel free to smack the half-naked celts, but leave that model alone!

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Murdock- if you look at that auction, and the first thing on your mind is documentation, you REALLY need to take some time off...

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Brent- I forgot the http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif also, where do I send your significant other's sympathy card? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif bad taste I can handle, really ------------------ Owen "Death is but a doorway- Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Iain- That's what I like about unpadded poles; it's a spear I can whack with.

Brent- WAY too much information.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Knuut- do you do custom work, or is this an existing shirt? How much?

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

like this one?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=860572643

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

nice work

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
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Owen

1 1/4" of foam does not compress 1 1/4", but less. It must be at least 1 1/4" thick, and give 1/2". The 1 1/4" DOES refer to the thicknes, or length, NOT the diameter, which is specified elsewhere as either 2" for regular, or the diameter of the weapon for low-profile. ------------------ Owen "Death...

Owen

I wear mail for my body, but in SCA combat, I need to wear extra protection under it. Currently, I have a plastic breastplate with wrap plates, but I am working on making a leather reinforced padded garment.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

that's rather a personal question, isn't it?

Donasian- 5 1/2" is average...

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"

Owen

Beer and savory toasted cheese.

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Owen
"Death is but a doorway-
Here, let me hold that for you"