The Armour Archive

Owen

eh, just run em both down with elephants "ALLAH be Praised!" hehehe jk jk hehehe

It's been tried; we won.
Romans 1, Elephants 0

Owen

Disciplined infantry will defeat cavalry.

Owen

I should have a blue crest by then; the red one got me involved in a couple of "friendly fire" incidents (I'm an Easterner).

And I got greaves!

Owen

It really does not take a Master level work to make simple X chairs, or even convert the wooden campstools found at IKEA with a simple piece of cloth. Either you want to do it or not, that is what it boils down to. No, it doesn't take much skill, or time, to make simple chairs. It doesn't take much...

Owen

umm...that trying, badly, to be Roman.

Owen

I remember teasing Duke Ronald of House Wilmot (his knight) and several other Wilmots unmercifully about this throughout the finals, to the point where Rhys or Mitchell tried to lift me off the ground by my knight's chain to silence me. I did kind of deserve it at the time. I, on the other hand, we...

Owen

Sir Richard- thought about that, but leather thin enough to mold around well and not look like a wrinkled bag would not hold up to getting hit, if simply riveted or sewn on, and I am leary of gluing it one because it would be rather permanant even if it didn't work, and could not readily be replaced...

Owen

I was so appalled, I could not help but stare and was unable to lift my eyes from its unremitting awfulness to see what abomination they had perched atop it.

Owen

Speaking as a well-endowed female fighter, if you've encountered a woman who is uncomfortable in a Coat-of-Plates, then it was probably poorly fitted.

My well-endowed Grainne agrees with you. hers fit and worked great; she decided not to continue due to the difficulty of armoring a pregant lady.

Owen

Boy, have they got that screwed up. I can't even begin to understand why they covered metal with leather. And if I'm looking at it right, they've got the back plates in front under the chest plates, and the girdle plates backwards.

Owen

But currently in An-Tir. It is a requirement now to have your wrist completely covered. Even behind a sheild!!

According to the An-Tir website, hand and wrist armor are at SCA minimum.

Owen

500 pounds of anvil, my biggest hammer, and my scanner...

"Things not to drop on your foot"

Owen

As to the legality of this particular pair: I am suspect of the thumb protection and *I* interpret "outside" of hand and wrist to include top and bottom. I have fought in EGG gauntlets for over 5 years, and have never had an issue with the fact that the hard cuff only goes 3/4 of the way around the...

Owen

Owens plastic gauntlets are much more of a problem from my point of view. They scream exposed plastic to me. He will argue however that Romans did not typically wear gauntlets with the type of harness he had on and that they look better than wearing a later European Medieval gauntlet of steel and t...

Owen

5. Hand and Wrist Armor: The outer surfaces of the hand and wrist of both arms must be covered by one or a combination of the following: a. A metal basket hilt with enough bars or plates to prevent a blow from striking the fingers or the back of the hand. If a basket hilt is used, a vambrace or par...

Owen

Duke Logan- i would have to see the overall effect with them on you to say whether or not i personally would pass them but i suspect i would. but from the picture alone i could not say for certain. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/owenbrau/Kit2.jpg I have been improving the overall appearance o...

Owen

Duke Logan-
these boots are leather/nylon, would they pass? (I'm serious, not trying to make a point or anything)

Owen

As a friend of mine says-

KILT: Slang term used to refer to the death of an individual.
(I done kilt him.)
NOT a garment worn by a 13th century Scot

Owen

A British Jew is waiting in line to be knighted by the Queen. He is to kneel in front of her and recite a sentence in Latin when she taps him on the shoulders with her sword. However, when his turn comes, he panics in the excitement of the moment and forgets the Latin. Then, thinking fast, he recite...

Owen

We really don't know what they were, as only sculptural evidense exists and that is scanty. Mine are hardened leather, attached to a padded vest.

Owen

I think they are rarely used because they are so common; they are still in use, so that makes it look "not medieval" in many peoples' minds. It is by far the simplest tent barring a tarp draped over a line, being a modification of that. I had Tentsmiths put seam striping on mine, it goes a long way ...

Owen

Would they be allowed to put out the pointy sticks?

Owen

Another point- one of the complaint also commonly heard is that CA doesn't hit hard enough; that if it can't hit like a sword thrust then it shouldn't be allowed to be called a "good shot". This makes that even worse.

Owen

Seems some places ARE with death from behind / ground.

So? How often do we need to tell someone that it isn't that way at Pennsic? And for those that simply do not/will not obey, will changing the rules really help?

Owen

The rules of engagement generally are very clear, and explained at great length at larger events like Pennsic. Should the fact that some individuals just don't get it mean we should scrap them entirely?

Owen

I can't say as to why it was originally banned, but as to why it hasn't been allowed since seems simple; there isn't enough interest to get the rules changed. It isn't our game. In some ways, it's like asking why an R/C car racing club doesn't fly planes.

Owen

Pennsic did at one point, but dropped it for, IIRC, a variety of reasons, not least of which being they no longer had the space to do so. I can't say for certain whether it actually helped or not, or whether the use of period tentage increased on its own; I do know that it has gotten better over the...

Owen

Owen

Check out Matt's site, the page on the manica should help. He's built one, and it looks like it could be made list-legal reletively easily. It really only needs to have some of the plates lengthened in order to comply with your kingdom's requirements for covering the points of the elbow. m Now, ther...

Owen

Anger is a weapon, only to one's opponant.

Owen

I seem to remember that it was required that the pultruded extruded fiberglass shafts be covered to protect them from UV degradation per the manufacturers instruction. However when it was found out what we did with them that mandate was laughed at by the manufacturer. Seems that the UV degradation ...

Owen

I'd rather see a well-done Samurai, or Roman, or Ancient Greek, or Mayan, than yet another generi-Celt.

Owen

Shoulda seen the Marshal that was about to give me shit one time!

Owen

The poles should be painted or taped to protect the material from UV, to extend the life of the weapon.

Owen

I used to do mine up with brown duct tape and silver tips. That meant it looked like almost every other one out there, and after the second one was stolen (at least one deliberately, bot by accident), I took to taping them in bright, unique patterns. Current one is green and orange spiral with a blu...