The Armour Archive

DukeAvery

I've always been a big fan of apple, but Nissan got me wavering over the peculiar properties of pecan, but then the Outlands raised the stakes at Battlemoor with bacon-apple. However, after this last Pennsic I just can't stop thinking about cherry. I should think that adherents of any fighting schoo...

DukeAvery

This is where I got to today - the head is 19" overall. The lower spacers are temporary and will be much closer to the ends of the head to prevent the splits from entering a grill in a freak situation. The will also be shaped to fit perfectly to the rattan and the shaft. m Sorry it is so small,...

DukeAvery

I used the biggest hole I dared and taped it hard with strap tape as suggested above - it is holding. I had to take some tape off to get down to my stop hole.

Bit size 15/64".

I've got the rattan weapons bug!

Thank you

Avery

DukeAvery

Gwain

Thank you - what I'm unsure of is if the old West standard, which is in the West Handbook, supercedes this change. The change is posted on the West's website, - does that imply adoption? I guess it does.

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Avery

DukeAvery

Oh and how far back from the end should I drill? I realize this must be in part dependant on the rattan thickness. I'm guessing 3" for 1 5/8" thick rattan.

DukeAvery

It does - I have plenty of scraps yet 'head' sized' - what size bit do you recommend?

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

Good Gentles One of the things I love best about the SCA is how it brings (some) civilians and (some) service men and women together. It is good to say thank you, but I fear that perhaps there is some risk of the magnitude of what has been given being trivialized. So to be able to roll out the welco...

DukeAvery

I'm building a new split-rattan glaive, but I'm not sure if the thrusting tips have to be 2" in diameter or the diameter of the shaft? This glaive' shaft will be 1 1/2" in diameter. Also, while splitting the head (which I got right down the middle), the whole piece split right thru my dril...

DukeAvery

Greetings Fellow Archivists As often as I can, I strive to be fair-minded and deal in principles of modern chivalry, guided by the lessons of the past, and not in egos. In certain recent posts, in threads that I hope will be allowed to pass away, while defending certain positions I have in part stra...

DukeAvery

The problem with one rule set is that we're _really_ playing 5 or 6 different very compatible games, but they are not the same. Sometimes, they are wildly different, like spear fighting at Estrella vs. Pennsic. I would break the marshallate up into "conferences" and write accurate regional...

DukeAvery

Master Korwyn, of your land, has offered to act as my herald. Send your personal herald, who is a knight or master of the Order of Chivalry, to him to discuss on which points I am flexible, and which I am not. Your request for a home field advantage is however refused, and I am not surprised that yo...

DukeAvery

Certainly - I have some experience with dished, but usually only long enough to remember why I prefer the flat style. Let me say that there is nothing wrong with dished, it just doesn't seem to mesh with my methods. One of the great things about sword and board are all the different stylistic choice...

DukeAvery

I like having my hand encased in steel with a leather covered foam wrap around the wrist. The grip is recessed and the opening is padded as well against incidental contact. I hesitate to claim one style is safer than the other, because the dish shape itself accords a different kind of coverage. My e...

DukeAvery

I just caught this - I was impressed:

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DukeAvery

I try not to have favorite forms anymore - they create attachments that diminish my enjoyment of the many forms present.

I have been known to use 'spear and speed-bump' on occasion. Spear and 'goon with axe' sounds like fun as well.

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

Could we quantify 'slow'?

Any historical analogues?

Thanks for this thread.

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Avery

DukeAvery

The big difference for me is that you can slam the flat shield against your own torso to bring it back under control. I wouldn't try this with a dished one - your basically striking yourself with the flat in this technique. Center-grips have a tendency to be knocked 'out of line' and pulling it back...

DukeAvery

Splendi-ferous!!!

DukeAvery

Magnus I enjoy watching your fights, you have natural speed and grace that with years of training you can hone into something rare and special if you choose. You look you are using the style that Duke Brannos or Duke Uther use - I suggest their materials. I like this link - m You look good with the ...

DukeAvery

My precious!

By all means send me this person's contact info. How long do they usually last? Is that a 'lip' along the finger tip plate? Do you find the partial armoring of the thumb tip interferes with you grip and if so how did you compensate?

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Avery

DukeAvery

Despite protests to the contrary, 12 'glass spears tend to leave people shaken if not outright stunned on a regular basis. I always thought guys hit by 12s look to me like Jim Henson characters flying around the set. Except for the getting up slow part. YMMV Serried spears as mentioned above would b...

DukeAvery

At Estrella there is a legendary glaivesman - Sir Otactai (forgive my almost certainly incorrect spelling). In all my many years of Estrella I had many times seen and been near him on the field but I had always somehow missed engaging him until this last Estrella. I happen to be involved with rollin...

DukeAvery

Be sure to plane the sides of the haft or otherwise modify the haft so that you'll always know if you have the head aligned for striking without looking down. I recommend doing something to the haft to improve the grip. Don't use too thin a stick or it will be too wobbly.

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Avery

DukeAvery

I continue to give the matter thought. What about low profile finger gauntlets underneath maille and somehow additionally reinforced to provide near clamshell like protection? Without superlight metals this wouldn't be possible, but today ...I'm thinking the right layers and fabrication skills... I ...

DukeAvery

Amazing!

That is some of the most beautiful armor I've ever seen. Are there any further details about it available? I'm guessing late 15th century before fluting? Spring steel? I'd like to know ... everything.

Can guests to these tournaments come in costume?

Regards

Avery

DukeAvery

In my experience, any therapy taken on has to be near 100% 'completed' to be effective (don't skip). I'm finding both the book Paul recommends ("Pain Free") and accupuncture* to be very effective. As an older fighter, stretching is big on my list as well. I work very hard on lower arm stre...

DukeAvery

Duke Phelan wrote:It was a good day

Sweet, will be you Estrella king then? Congratulations! When is your coronation?

Out of curiosity, what was the temperature/elevation?

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Avery

DukeAvery

My heart goes out to you - I dealt with a chronic injury that acted as you describe in the late 80s. I think you need to talk to a 'sports medicine' doctor. Hopefully some nice person with a medical background might volunteer more solid advice but the inflammation must be brought down. In my situati...

DukeAvery

Waiter, check please!

Avery

DukeAvery

Did we ever figure out how to balance an sca sword according to the Oakeshott types? Links appreciated on that, as well as to more information on these new finger gauntlets - can they really take a full force glaive strike? I work for a living! I'll always love a good basket hilt, but I want to try ...

DukeAvery

Beware the "important looking guy in shiny armor " indeed. That was hilarious! Welcome to armored combat comedy theatre!

I would offer, "do not lunge into the one sandy spot between the lines."

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Avery

DukeAvery

Beautiful - thank you.

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Avery

DukeAvery

I have it on what I believe to be good authority that one royal "pissed blood" from Monday's crush. He is said to be doing well I am very glad to say, but this plus Animal's injuries plus the "near continuous" stream of medical carts I observed first hand prompted my post. I find...

DukeAvery

To those who wrongly think that basket hilts are for pussies...I cordially invite you to ... pound sand.

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Avery

DukeAvery

Greetings Fellow Archivists Word is, and I hope it is wrong, that we landed at least one guy in the hospital for an extended stay. I'd like to know how he/they is/are doing and ask whether or not there is anything I and perhaps other archivists might be able to do to make him/them more comfortable? ...

Glaive Construction Rules for the West

An Apology

Any Word on Pennsic 2010 Fighting Hospitalisation(s)?