The Armour Archive

Baron Alcyoneus

I use them at least 5 days a week, to hold 737's together while I make them.

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You fencing folks are apparently all suffering from "spear envy".

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To the victor go the spoils!

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PiRho wrote:DUDE!!!!!

Looking great!!

-H

DUDE!!!!!

That's not a dude.

Baron Alcyoneus

I'll have to look later, but I think the suit in the back of A&AotMK has parts that are only 0.020" thick (gauntlets?). There is no way that I'm intentionally going into harms way wearing something that is only as thick as a feeler guage. But if you only have to look pretty, while others ar...

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Andreas Korff wrote:Cians 4-5'' are circumference, not diameter, rendering the staff at 8-11#.

That is still pretty heavy, but....

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About 6 months ago I broke my back (2 minor compression fractures and a broken tailbone) that incidently exacerbated a pre-existing condition. I have a seperation between 2 of my vertebrae in my upper back and will likely have to have a spinal fusion within the next year or so. Duke Eringlen Aldhel...

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My daughter had it shortly after she was born because the intern 'bagged' her. It took a day or two to go away (can't remember, it was nearly 13yrs ago), but her breathing was VERY rapid, and VERY short. They allowed it to go away on its own (air in chest outside the lungs was reabsorbed). If it had...

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One of required 'tools of the trade' for a messenger/herald was a spear, to defend himself from dogs, wild animals, and humans if need be. Take of the sharp tip, and it would probably be about the same length as a quarterstaff. I'd expect 6-7' would be plenty long. I really can't see the size you me...

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Henry VIII could not get his personal suits properly hardened&tempered. They tried, but quality control was not all that great...

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I can get a few varieties for about $7.50/pound or so, but I don't need it that bad.

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It can be hard to breath with PT. Anything that increases the breathing rate would probably be bad...

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I'd hesitate to buy anything w/o looking in a copy first. I picked up one book on Scottish something or other, and virtually every physical object depicted in it was modern reenactor stuff...no original weapons, or anything else...

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I need it!!! Break's over, will pm later.

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Josh W wrote:I confess to disappointment upon noting that sword and shield was overwhelmingly dominant at the only Kansas City practice I attended a couple of weeks ago.

When I manage, I see lots of other things going on there, they must have been getting ready for something, or just an odd day...

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I know someone in the US Military, if they're willing, could it be shipped to them, and have them send it on?

At 6"diameter, 4 pieces would yield about 4.5" on the arc, I think that would be plenty.

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http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&h ... a=N&tab=wi

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Dibs on a piece!

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Very cool.

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I knew it before looking at the file name that you posted with the pics.

But he doesn't look like The Man, way too pretty.

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Yup, what I wear is bulky and unwieldy. I wear horsemans pauldrons instead of simple spaulders. The spaulders would be lighter and give me better movement, but I think the pauldrons look cooler =) My pauldrons are at least as large as yours, and I can touch either ear with the opposite hand reachin...

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bulky, unwieldy suits they wore. I lose pretty much every sca combat situation. I just cannot compete with the sport armor =) I don't see anything wrong with some fantasy elements, but not when they harm the function of the armour. Bulky, unweildy...That means they don't function as well as suits t...

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That is rather similar to the "Madan" shoe shown here:
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... SLIST6.HTM

It it made from more pieces, probably to reduce the amount of waste leather generated.

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When you finish, don't cut the hole out, remove as little as possible, and fold the metal back inside to reinforce it.

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The part where we demonstrate Tae Kwan Leap to your head.

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I listened to a lecture by a visiting professor, and what he said was that when you had serious problems in a unit, that to fix the "problems" they might select by lot (no ranks were apparently immune) a random number of legionaires. Since it was random, it might be a long term veteran, or...

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Konstantin the Red wrote:Nonono, Alcy: you'd have to cream a precise percentage of the sillies, while defining the term for them between swats.

The decimation will continue until morale improves.

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The next time I hear someone use decimate incorrectly, I'm going to beat a random number (and selection) of the audience to death with a club. Maybe then they'll understand...

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Something very similar was written in Hagakure, I believe...

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Send the rest to me?

Turkey armor? All they need are nodawa.

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Nice work, as usual. Is this derived from a specific sallet?

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It is pretty simple. Move in, and don't let them hit you. They will try to hit you when you start moving in. Block/deflect it. They may move to keep you at their optimum distance, while you want to move inside of that to yours. You dance until someone wins. If you stop, and move out of range, at som...

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https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/r ... &p=53&w=21

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I don't think that you will find an authentic example of this, either original, or in artwork.

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What station? Pelham Station. Taking it in 1...2...3.

Re: Fighting with Injuries/conditions

Re: Is there shame in 'medievalesque'?