The Armour Archive

Baron Alcyoneus

Some historical info:

http://www.almosteurope.com/ABavarian/P ... wterEN.htm About 1/2 way down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewter

http://www.pewterers.org.uk/company/index.html

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Duke Garick said that the keeper of Henry V's shield let him hold it... He held it by the front point (this point towards enemy ), letting it hang freely. If you drew a line straight to the ground, that was how the shield would have been mounted on Henry's arm. Maybe Friemann, or some other D'walder...

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I spent some time talking to Morrigan on Saturday night about fighting and stuff. She is a very nice girl. It is a shame that she doesn't know how to walk--she only bounces or runs, apparently. I spent time with her after I was done fighting in the tourney, and yes, she does need a lot of work on po...

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To avoid cracks in corners, I find it simplest to just grab a Whitney punch, and punch a hole in the corner, and then cut the pattern to the hole with the Beverly.

Nice round radius relief.

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I don't have time to read all four pages at the moment, so I'd just like to say that scimitars are not armour, so this topic should be on the weapons page.

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Konstantin the Red wrote:Welcome and well come to the Archive, Gojujay!

Let's also get some picture of what kind of helm you're tweaking too,

Yeah, its rather like asking how to fix a car...

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Aaron wrote:Sword-and-buckler work is fun, and I will try and find a way to take a buckler and sword with me when I fly (not carry on though).

-Aaron

Duke Paul has one that he flies with, you might ask him for an inside pic, it is made with standard hardware.

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Is he weeping, or giggling like the solar child in the Teletubbies? ;

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I think that the same plate is in his A&A of the Crusading Era. One of my Scythian books mentions that tales of 'heroes' in Hungary would have them using two swords. There is a Ren shield (16thC) in Chicago? (it is in the Kienbusch book) showing a "Roman" scene where one of the main pe...

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Greetings! I am sorry if this is out of topic, but I would like to ask you if someone could recommend me some armorer who could make something like this for me; someone who has good reputation and who is from Europe (because it is much easier for shipping). Thank you very much! Jiri Klepac is here ...

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It would be better to give them separate reviews.

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I know people who think that giving a new person One Good Bruise at their first time in armor is a good idea. I'm lukewarm on that idea. It does give them something to think about, whether this rough game is for them, and that has its merits. The two alternatives I see are giving them time to adjust...

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DukeAlaric (George S.) wrote:There are many relationships and issues within SCA fighting culture that drive such things, and I look forward to hearing your views on them.

g-

There you go again, acting like a Peer.

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D. Sebastian wrote:My sweat eats metal.

I thought you were USMC, not COBRA.

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I'm not an expert but I'm also not completely convinced that St. George is wearing a corazinna. It very well could be just a covered breast plate with velvet and ornate brasswork over the top of it. I'm not qualified to discuss the armour but that's not St. George - it's St. Michael the Archangel. ...

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Yes. That is what was used for those lines. Henry VIII's Greenwich Armories tended to grave pairs of lines. Most other places just used one line.

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It's not jumping out in my memory of Italian art from this time period, but I'd be curious to know exactly which "Italian iconography" they're referring to -- I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. Might as well pop them a question and ask. And then let us know the answer here...

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It looks like a mail brayette (curved), not simply a dag hanging off of a mail skirt.

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Babelfish gives a translation of "for points" from English into French as...

wait for it...

pour des points

Wow.

A pourpoint is for points!

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Wilhelm zu Eltz-Kempenich wrote:I did suggest this, but he is also 400 years after the Romans proper which presents it own problems.

And Shakespeare was 1600 years after the murder of Julius, but he didn't do too bad.

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The way the one picture is laid out, all you'd have to do is enlarge it, and print it.

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That is why it is stitched. If the stitching holds, you'll never know how well the glue is working.

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You aren't FROM that ridiculous state, you are IN that ridiculous state.

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I always like it captioned so:

Robertâ€™s Rules of Order

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Also...~~and we have heard stories of Romans wearing plate armor, and he is the Roman emperor, so it is only right that he wears what the Romans wore...even if we aren't sure what that would be.

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I like big guns, I cannot lie...

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What is best in life, Governor?

The case is in the background for other pictures.

http://twitpic.com/eiif6

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You must wake up every day and say to yourself, "Damnit! I gotta go in to work on that old crap again!"

Breechloader, huh? I know they were fairly common in the 15-16thC, but were they still making them in the 17th?

PS. Screw you!

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He takes it out for staff meetings...

I wanted to hold The Holy Hand Grenade of V'Tavia during officer meetings, but the damned monk wouldn't let me.

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None of them are wearing armor, are they? Of course they aren't 'foundation garments'.

Military and civilian clothing aren't as different as carrots and cannons.

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That is more of a munitions grade arm, however.

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Given the sleevless. collerless doublet is mentioned first, the other second, and the arming sequence, I suspect the sleevless petticoat was for all the legs, with what we think of the arming doublet as being for all the upper harness. Doesn't this support the idea of a sleeveless vest being used t...

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Slightly, but I'm sure there were variations.

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who's to say that the perceived unevenness commented on in the second photo was not intentional? Maybe there is a function to the uneven looking cop. Looking down at my arm, it is not bi-laterally symetrical. Is the Oakshott collection open for visiting. I'll be in the Twin cities this week and I d...

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They are also useful as Mongol woks.

Take that baby for a wok!