The Armour Archive

Samuel

Please, none of the "both" - This is a choose one of the two question. Come on guys. Off the fence now. Clearly "Both" is the ideal answer but not to this question. You have been asked to make a decision. Nobody is arguing that kicking butt and looking good doing it wouldn't be great. But that wasn...

Samuel

generally Ive no issue with any weapon... but poorly made simblances really make me wanna pummel... ala the 6" square thor hammer with basket and rattan clackers... saw one that looked like a meat tenderizer for godzilla... basically weapons used by someoen whos been heard saying " no sense in waste...

Samuel

I cant count the holes in my riveted mail garmets but have yet to loose count on the welded mail.... steady at zero........

Samuel

Ive got a 6' fiberglass spear I use in melee a bit. ( it WAS a 9' til a Dog got a bit frustrated that his flat snap wasnt gettin around it , great pensic story actually, really funny) Ive used it in melee on bridges primarily with a shield... the 3" tip is a PITA but due to being fiberglass Ive yet ...

Samuel

FYI.. the large vervelles need to be heated and peened. theyre machined and REALLY hard/brittle. great quality brass but you have to treat them as such.

Samuel

Nope, but I have seen people try it and fail to have much fun. Since SCA rules forbid most of the actual techniques (kicking, tripping, shield bashing and so on) used when days where days, spear and shield (IMHO) only works great against matched weapons and then only as a amusement/ a slightly wimp...

Samuel

Count Ceasan still there? he was in antir with his wife who was gettin her masters deg. theyre from the Outlands.

Samuel

Seeing "Kingdom of Heaven" caused me to watch part of Terry Jones' "The Crusades" four-part series and therefore continue the love-hate relationship I have with this documentary: It's terribly funny, and it's about an era of history that I'm completely and totally fascinated by, but DAMN is there a...

Samuel

welded mail. apart from using a wire feed or tig welder which would be a MAJOR PITA.. Id suggest a spot-tong welder... these are used in autobody work quite a lot. basically it has two copper covered pinchers that squeeze together and create a lotta heat in one point. welding light metal together.. ...

Samuel

I think theyre plated....

there is a recipe for plating that involves the use of mercury burn off... a very UN healthy way of doing it but....

thats really what they had to go with.

Samuel

your right you would probably be the ONLY person to make crabs in armor... but Im sure you wouldnt be the only one WITH crabs in armor.. I still think your chitin us all... and yea your gonna smell really funky... good luck gettin any sci-fi con with armor that smells like chit. ( yea Ive played the...

Samuel

...after about half a day of fighitng my left shoulder is on fire... it hurts like hell cause theres two torn ligaments in there and I dont have insurance to get them fixed Is it wise to fight through that pain, when it could decrease your chances of fighting later in your life? I stop when I am in...

Samuel

Valharic won Crown in the Midrealm in 2001 and was Midrealm king at Pennsic XXXI (2002). Wow. Two Atlantian tourneys in a row where he reached the finals. Since he lost a Crown final in the Midrealm, he's now one for four in finals. That's rough. - Patrick/Mael Patraic (rooting for him to win anoth...

Samuel

generally I try and not be critical of other peoples work but..

wheres the rest of it?

Samuel

Ive seen Duke Kynan here in the outlands use a two pointed 6' spear with a BIG shield really effectively... the back spike generally comes into play on ppl who charge in..... about the only effective way to fight him when hes using this form is to get within your sword range but not too close for a ...

Samuel

those elbows on your front page look familuar m please Im very flattered someone is getting use out of it.... dont take me razzin ya the wrong way... I wouldnt post the pattern If I didnt fully want people to use and SELL them... I just did an updated version of those but have not posted updated pic...

Samuel

...after about half a day of fighitng my left shoulder is on fire... it hurts like hell cause theres two torn ligaments in there and I dont have insurance to get them fixed Is it wise to fight through that pain, when it could decrease your chances of fighting later in your life? I stop when I am in...

Samuel

"dish of buttkicking... now serving YOU"

Samuel

Brother Dagonet is spot on... after about half a day of fighitng my left shoulder is on fire... it hurts like hell cause theres two torn ligaments in there and I dont have insurance to get them fixed so when theyre burning IM about the most selective with throwing shots and do my damnedest to make s...

Samuel

you could go with somethng like JP wears... with the german elbows over top a shirt that hides your vambraces and rebraces...
save you the suffering over the ugly arms...

Samuel

Ive read and seen and made maces covered with spray on tool dip and they work really good at keeping the surface clean and stick to steel helms like velcro. I just got the tool dip in a can and a spray can of it and had plenty left over after redoing my mace so I got the idea to cover my sword grips...

Samuel

Richard Ive got some black pilate pad foam ( closed cell) that I could cut up into squares and send to you to keep the look. Ive stuck this on my BMH black rubber pole arm heads then covered that with red tool dip. makes a really nice squishy 1/2 addition to your cut rubber heads... the tool dip esp...

Samuel

sanding spunges work great for this...

but then again im not a fan a a full half round surface, I like to just bevel the edge a bit and rid it of burrs...

I occasionally will use a flap disk on a 4" sander (120 grit) then take out the scratch marks with the spounge and the buffer.

Samuel

Bartok, you have me thinking... Ive got these chunks of silver I constantly muck with and had planned on hammering them into sheet and making something out of them... after keeping an eye on this thread and knowing when I cast things the fire dept comes.. I was wondering if its period to make the bo...

Samuel

I have Count Val as your soon-to-be prince...

but im biased since Ive gotta back the fellow lefties...

Samuel

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Samuel

Morgan is texas light.... I couldnt get him to take a chew for the life of me when I was there:) but he is built like a texan... tall with long arms. sorta like evolved texan.. he is really smart with them there computer thangs..

Samuel

you can also set it at an angle and weld from the halberd head and let it pool into the socket... using a high heat and wire feed ( a bit higher than you'd normally use on the socket guage) doing this with a few passes should get the two stuck together rather well... Id even suggest going with a hea...

Samuel

Ive been thinking about what I did prior to crown tourneys in the past and Ive come to the conclusion that when I spent a lot of time fighting up to about a month before crown and just stopped and healed... as well as making sure my head was right for the job at hand I did the best ive ever done... ...

Samuel

jester let me know when u want to do something for demostration here in the Outlands... Im game Im just caught up heavily with workin on the house ATM...

and this rain isnt helping...

Samuel

too right.. I realize fully a plain fencing mask far exceeds the painted face thing.. Im just trying to think up something that may work.

Samuel

I get you point yet I still say why does it have to be a helm to replace the typical mask when it could be a more lifelike or even a more suitable ballroom mask made to meet standard? I would think there would be more than enough armorers willing to make a ballroom looking fencing mask for a suitabl...

Samuel

Ill grant you.. helms do add more to the field than typical fencing masks.. BUT.. a hand hammered supra realistic or comical actual mask would be more plausible than a helm and no other armor. really... consider that a heavy fighter spends on average 500 bucks for a decent suit of armor ( mid level ...

Samuel

Cedric wrote:http://www.big-boys.com/articles/protecttheboys.html

ROFL.. that was funny as hell...

thanks:)

Samuel

Ive found acrylics to start to fade a bit in time and get flakey.. You may want to stay on top of them by really paying attention to them with the neutral wax.. I had some tooled and painted vambraces with my device upon them that began to flake and crack on me after a while... I had used acrylic ho...

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