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Baron Alcyoneus

And it isn't that different than Gotz von Berlichingen's.

Here is a prosthetic metal arm from around the time of Gotz von Berlichingen, though it is not his:
http://kanhom.com/2009/05/12/medieval-p ... -1-germany

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From Trajan's column

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... column.jpg

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Actually, Mike, I know a guy that owns a prosthetics shop and I talked to him about the work because a place near me was taking applications. He said that my armoring experience would actually come in useful in the trade. I already understand that things need to work like the human body does, and ho...

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The pieces from Dura were cuisses.

Cuirass comes from the French word curie (leather/hide).

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And I thought that fashion came from the Renaissance (fair).

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I bet you hear the voices too...

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Jess wrote:I am glad everything has been resolved satisfactorily.

It isn't resolved until the check arrives, and is cashed.

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The rattan had not been treated, the marshal was wrong in that. One layer of blue foam may not be enough to make it a legal mace, though. If you need 1/2" of progressive give, you can't get that unless you can compress that 1/2" layer of foam to 0" I can put rattan splints on my mace, I'm sure that ...

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None of the pictures will load for me, although David saw them.

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They are still using them in the 16thC.

Siege of Florence
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... rence1.jpg

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I'm told that it is not hardened.

I'm not connected with ZWA, so contacting them direct is your best bet, for any that are wondering about replacements, etc.

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Do an image search on Google for the Battle of Pavia, c1525. The French lost.

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Attention: Zen Warrior Armory's "Cut and Thrust Hard Shell Hood", found at: http://www.zenwarriorarmory.com/catalog.php?item=258&ret=catalog.php%3Fcategory%3D49, has been inspected by Eyrny Ormarrsdottir at Pennsic, and found NOT to meet Society requirements for cut and thrust combat, because it con...

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Probably Paypal, but it will be a couple days before he can start on it. He has to get back from Pennsic and get his son into school, etc. I'll call him in a couple days to remind him, he's pretty tired right now, and only half way back from the war.

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Aluminum. They are formed so that unlike a number of brig gorgets I've seen, they conform to your body rather than stick out horizontally from the back of your neck. But you probably noticed that from the pictures.

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I don't think he got it from Price, if anything he might have got it from the old Middle Kingdom Hammer.

It is $75, plus shipping of course, I just got a text from him.

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I pad my elbows. If I'm wearing a pourpoint, the forearms might have a layer of batting in them.

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Do you have any info on it at all? My bet is no earlier than Victorian.

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There is a seller on ebay that carries new stakes like this that are cast and need finished.

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Gordon the Grey wrote:Could use concrete faced with stone,,speed whole thing up alot ,,cut down on skill level and numbers needed to bulild. as Maeryk says stone masons are not cheap !!!!

http://castlemagic.com/

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CP is "commercially pure", or so I'm told. 6AL4V is heat treated.

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Glendour's: http://web.archive.org/web/20041009163146im_/http://www.talonarmory.com/products/bodyarmor/gor-brig-1-tn.jpg http://web.archive.org/web/20041009163146im_/http://www.talonarmory.com/products/bodyarmor/gor-brig-2-tn.jpg http://web.archive.org/web/20041009163146im_/http://www.talonarmory.co...

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I was at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in KC today, and looking at an early 15thC wood carving from Flanders, and noticed something. On each of the men wearing mail, the artist had made a cut in the wood to mark the rows. The mail would curve one way, the cut, curve the other way, another cut... http://i...

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Glendour could make one for around that price range, I think. I haven't asked what he's charging these days, but he's at Pennsic. I'm not sure how much luck I'll have reaching him until he's on his way back.

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If I'm using longsword/BS, my gauntlets I use for rattan. If I'm using something more along the weight of a Schlager, deerskin roping gloves.

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Thomas is right. Not all kingdoms allow thrusts to anything but the face. Also, there may be a minimum length on a blade to use it for anything other than thrusting.

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I have a map of Scotland printed in Nuremberg dated 1715. Someone underlined the names of a few of the places in ball point pen.

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Another thing I see done that can be considered skirting the rules is to step in and use your shield to push the other guy's out of the way. I would suggest checking with your local marshal and veteran fighters as to what is/not acceptable. Wouldn't that be like banning hitting people with a sword ...

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To make it limiting it to period tools and methods at any kind of speed would likely take hundreds or thousands of hands. I don't think that is going to happen. Even with modern tools and equipment, it would probably still take a long time. This place took 14 years or so to get it to its current poi...

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What would you put in those game bags, baby mice?

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You'll notice that those don't pass the elbow. It wouldn't work very well if it did.

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What purpose would those small pouches serve in hawking? I've seen a number of pouches with multiple smaller pouches, but they're often described as money changer's pouches.

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The decoration on the various bits makes me think that it was made OOP.

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benz72 wrote:
Jean Paul de Sens wrote: Or make it a perquisite of rank

If you have achieved X award in your kingdom, you may choose to not wear Y if you please.

JP

That is the first I've heard of such an idea. After the initial negative reaction I reconsidered and am curious what effect that would have.

Ask a Duke.

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Cool!

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