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Derian le Breton

I have a new personal website in the works, and until it's fully up and running I've put links to project documentation, class notes, and other such things on my Caid wiki page:

http://wiki.caid-commons.org/index.php/Derian_le_Breton

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Derian le Breton

First, congratulations! One book that may be useful is The Knights of the Crown: The Monarchical Orders of Knighthood in Later Medieval Europe 1325-1520, by D'A.J.D. Boulton. I could take a quick look to answer specific questions. Ursula based her Laurel elevation ceremony on a fifteenth cent...

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Hi there! Your technique looks good, but the proportions are a bit off. The beads on the long axis are too close to the edge, which is making the inner diamond too large and the triangular shapes at the end too small. Your brooch appears to be a bit too long in the long axis as well. If you take a f...

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The MoL Knives and Scabbards book has a bunch of blade cross-sections. The vast majority are flat ground, to the spine (triangular cross section).

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/5196573465/" title="IMAG0065.jpg by Derian le Breton, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5196573465_ed30f02df0.jpg" width="299" height="500" alt="IMAG0065.jpg"></a> My first knife, in progress... (wooden pattern on the right)...

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Cet wrote:That's the Klingbell collection.

Is it Klingbell or Klingbeil?

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The MoL Dress Accessories books has some cool charts regarding copper alloys (triangle diagrams with copper, zinc, and tin in the corners). I don't know about torcs, but medieval "bronze" was hardly a pure mixture of copper and tin...

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Congratulations!

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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/5149006608/" title="P1010092 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1379/5149006608_667124320c.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P1010092"></a> New coin for TRH Caid, Wilhelm & Thaleia. Based on a copper foll...

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The <A HREF="http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bocktunc.html">Bocksten Bog cote</A> is relatively simple. It does have gores, but they're simple ones.

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You may find this thread useful:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... ostdays=0&

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Very cool.

Am I seeing a small gap between the two plates on the lid, on the right side of the box?

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http://historicenterprises.com/reenactm ... 2_163.html

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The perimeter holes are bit strange too. They're awfully spread out and go all the way around the sides and bottom... I don't think I've seen a visor like that before.

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f = ma

Want less a? Add more m.

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A reasonable place to start (with the usual encyclopedia & wiki caveats):

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

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It doesn't matter if the Muslim rulers of the already Muslim lands were Arabs or Turks; at the end of the day, acreage that had been Christ's the day before now belonged to Mohammad. Do you similarly find inter-christian conflicts such as the Norman conquests of England and Ireland, the hundred yea...

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I didnt know it was so toxic. But I admit, I never looked into the matter. In low percentages in alloys it's usually not an issue, unless you get exposed to dust or fumes (machining, sanding, cutting... all BAD). The basic rule is when pondering any sort of dust or fume generating operation, treat ...

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What social status?

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The romance of alexander is a great source for the 1340s:

http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=b ... =msbodl264

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Alexander Younger wrote:for pewter buttons, there's always billy and charlie

http://www.billyandcharlie.com/bell.html

And pewter is typically 90%-98% tin. Pure tin looks virtually identical.

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DO NOT FUCK WITH BERYLLIUM.

Seriously.

NEVER expose yourself to dust or fumes of anything that contains beryllium. It is extremely dangerous.

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There are many period variants on themes, modern ones can be a bit too clinical and standardised. Fleur de Lys, for example, comes in a wider range of styles than might be first imagined. QFT. Avoid modern punches. They look, well, modern. Try blackening the surface of the wood you are carvi...

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They sure made some funky coins...

http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/italysouth.htm

I've always found it interesting that they kept Arabic inscriptions on their coinage for almost 100 years after the conquest. Especially the mixed Latin/Arabic inscriptions later in the century.

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One easy way would be to use a spring-loaded force gauge and plot the force vs distance profile of the string as you pull it back to the "cocked" position. Then just do a definite integral on this function (find the area under the curve) to determine the energy applied.

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This is one half of a penny based on those of King Eric Bloodaxe (King of Norway, then later Northumbria). And here's the first strikes from the finished dies: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/5091429773/" title="P1010067 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.st...

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Your car may have more room than you think. I easily fit the poles for my 8'x9' wedge in a small two-door saturn coupe. (split ridge pole) It helps if you have a smaller tent to match the smaller car. Also, doing split poles is really quite easy. I made some for a friend using only a hand saw, a dri...

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I had considered using magnification, but wanted to do everything as historically accurate as possible. Thus far I'm not convinced that magnification would have been used in the 14thC by someone making tooling stamps. I understand that glass lenses were around, but I conjecture that they would have...

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Magnification helps too.

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Another day, another die... <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/5084634815/" title="P1010065 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5084634815_3c43f2065f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="P1010065"></a> This is one half of a penny based on tho...

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Well now apparently the crown can banish you for non-criminal activities outside of SCA events. Prior to this I am not aware of any banishment that was both non-criminal AND outside of an SCA event. What level of banishment? A Lesser Royal Sanction can be applied for any reason. As you go up...

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Your coin work is amazing Derian...I have always been impressed with all that you have shown through the years....Do you make you own dies(is that the right word)??? The detail is fantastic.. Thank you! I do indeed make my own dies, though the pieces above for the brewing contest were one-offs: I j...

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I'm working on some simple prize medallions for the GWW XIII brewing contest, in brass, copper, pewter, and silver... And here's the fine silver Best of Show medallion: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/derianlebreton/5048657300/" title="P1010059 by Derian le Breton, on Flickr"><img src="http:/...

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How about masonry nail chisels---you can make them of various shapes and use a tin backing for chiseling them on? I've heard good things about masonry nails... I just use a piece of music wire for my punch/chisel stock (aka piano wire, a spring steel). Backing-wise I've used pitch, leather, a thick...

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CiaranBlackrune wrote:Also, correct me if I am wrong, but can't one order a membership without the newsletter?

Yes, unless one is an officer. Officers are required to pay for the newsletter since it is the only official source of changes to kingdom law.

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