AwP wrote:Do you use that in SCA rattan combat? how's it work for striking surfaces and such?
Which that would that be?
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- Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:14 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA Polearms halberds and voulges
- Replies: 22
- Views: 720
Re: SCA Polearms halberds and vogues
Which that would that be?
- Mon Jun 06, 2011 12:07 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Rattan Wasters (swords and maces) in stock - SOLD
- Replies: 12
- Views: 899
Re: Rattan Wasters (swords and maces) in stock - SOLD
I believe he only has one or two short finished pieces that are not listed here, but I've sent him an email to check this thread to make sure.
Of course, I can carve a piece of almost any length if you want to go to foxknife.com and put in an order.
Of course, I can carve a piece of almost any length if you want to go to foxknife.com and put in an order.
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 1:07 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 1630 straw hat
- Replies: 9
- Views: 264
Re: 1630 straw hat
Karen Larsdatter wrote:Yep - Breugel's peasants often seem to wear straw hats in the summertime - see also "Haymaking" (and others linked from http://larsdatter.com/strawhats.htm too)
That link is excellent. Thank you.
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 12:45 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA Polearms halberds and voulges
- Replies: 22
- Views: 720
Re: SCA Polearms halberds and vogues
Even a little bit of effort can really help turn a polearm into something that looks a little less like a plain stick and a little more like a partizan.
- Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:43 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: bluing/blacking like in this Ugo Serrano pic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1266
Re: bluing/blacking like in this Ugo Serrano pic
GideonMacKay wrote:ok after actually spending some time... My Google Fu has succeeded and here was the place that I was thinking he had mentioned.
http://www.surfinchemical.com/
incase anyone else needed to know.
Ugo wrote:yep, it was Surfin Chemical. Jet black.
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:11 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
- Replies: 37
- Views: 856
Re: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
My search-fu has failed: I was unable to find a picture of Nissan Maxima ever using a shield.
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:02 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
- Replies: 37
- Views: 856
Re: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
olaf haraldson
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:45 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
- Replies: 37
- Views: 856
Re: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
Friedrich Parcifal wrote:Here is one from my older kit:
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:35 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
- Replies: 37
- Views: 856
Re: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
Baron Eirik:
... and some other guy.
... and some other guy.
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:19 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
- Replies: 37
- Views: 856
Re: Using Full Guantlets with sword & shield
Æiric Ørvender
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:12 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Anyone have trouble viewing pitbullarmory.com? Order Update
- Replies: 11
- Views: 386
Re: Anyone have trouble viewing pitbullarmory.com? Order Up
I believe he married her.
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:07 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1721
Re: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
[quote="LOGOS"]I know this is picky, but a big help to the look would be to use a butt stitch - the stitching goes from the outside through the edge. It produces the distinctive puckered seam.[/quote] My thinking also, but this was done by somebody else who doesn't normally do 17th c, and ...
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 6:03 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1721
Re: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
[quote="DeCalmont"]I don't have control of that plus I'm not sure that is even the problem as I could post them.[/quote] As a moderator, you have rights the rest of us don't. "BBCode is OFF" is one of the few differences between "Armor: I want to be a ..." and the other...
- Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:15 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Popular women's high heel shoe size?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 433
Re: Popular women's high heel shoe size?
Halberd, something like this?
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:37 pm
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1721
Re: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
[quote="DeCalmont"]Trying to post these pictures for Thomas;[/quote]
How about turning bbcode on for this forum so we can do that ourselves. :)
How about turning bbcode on for this forum so we can do that ourselves. :)
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:53 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Black Pourpoint Tabs for Sale
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2698
Re: Pourpoint Tabs for Sale
I have a set. They are very cool.
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:51 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Shield construction question.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 659
- Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:37 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Sources for the Tetsubo/Kanabo/Kansaibo
- Replies: 8
- Views: 245
Re: Sources for the Tetsubo/Kanabo/Kansaibo
When your mace can be bigger than a baseball bat, how much more length do you need?
The mace, Neil von Atzinger, has his own Facebook page.
The mace, Neil von Atzinger, has his own Facebook page.
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 9:07 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Mace Idea
- Replies: 125
- Views: 3221
Re: Mace Idea
Used and refurbished are not the same. Refurbished might be fine.
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:59 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Guantlet ouchy
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1262
Re: Guantlet ouchy
Looks like the cuff is waaaaay too big. The finger part fits right but the thumb is waaaaay too far out. OMG!! Now I'm way overwhelmed! Drilling holes in my helm for chinstrap nearly ended me! Then your choices are to buy some gauntlets that fit or find somebody who can help you reshape/rebuild the...
- Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:13 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Guantlet ouchy
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1262
Re: Guantlet ouchy
Imo those thumbs suck. FINALLY!!! Someone telling it like it is!!! I'm sorry I wasn't blunt enough. Let me put what I was saying a different way. Take a look at these gauntlets: http://www.windrosearmoury.com/zc/images/armour_images/newgaunts.jpg Notice how a shot sliding down the stick hits the bi...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 8:29 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Wisby shoulder cop
- Replies: 8
- Views: 361
Re: Wisby shoulder cop
For us 17th c guys who know little of 1361, what distinguishes a wisby style shoulder cop from others? Some fighters may have them and not know.
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:26 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Guantlet ouchy
- Replies: 45
- Views: 1262
Re: Guantlet ouchy
When somebody hits your fingers, metal hits rattan on both sides of your fingers and very little of the force is transmitted into your fingers. Depending on the construction, you may not need that blue pad at all. Your thumb armor isn't built that way (and should be).
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Chainmail engraving
- Replies: 19
- Views: 532
Re: Chainmail engraving
Here:
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:59 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Chainmail engraving
- Replies: 19
- Views: 532
Re: Chainmail engraving
David de Clermont wrote:I believe the "maille" covering the cheek plates is actually engraved on the steel itself, not "real" maille.
I guess I'm not the only person who saw cheek plates where there weren't any.
Cool idea, though.
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:58 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Chainmail engraving
- Replies: 19
- Views: 532
Re: Chainmail engraving
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- Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:56 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Chainmail engraving
- Replies: 19
- Views: 532
Re: Chainmail engraving
OK, I'm an idiot.
The title on this picture said SCA armor and my eyes added on something like a barbute with patterned cheek plates on either side of the wood under the mail instead of an illegal helmet with a drape in the back.
The title on this picture said SCA armor and my eyes added on something like a barbute with patterned cheek plates on either side of the wood under the mail instead of an illegal helmet with a drape in the back.
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 7:51 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1721
Re: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
I double checked my source and David Blackmore also says "almost without exception". Sorry for the gaff. [quote]Many coats, particularly those in portraits, but a few extant examples as well, appear to be fastened down the front by gold or silver lacing. This would make putting on a buff-c...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:34 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: New to SCA - Requesting advice on choosing armor
- Replies: 39
- Views: 841
Re: New to SCA - Requesting advice on choosing armor
The article in wikipedia is surprisingly good. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7b/Brigfront.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Brigandine%2C_Italian%2C_c1470%2C_Royal_Armoury%2C_Leeds_%28internal_view%29.JPG/800px-Brigandine%2C_Italian%2C_c1470%2C_Royal_Armoury%2...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 5:02 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Chainmail engraving
- Replies: 19
- Views: 532
Chainmail engraving
I stumbled across this online and thought I would share
- Tue May 31, 2011 5:19 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB a Varangian Guardsman in 1040
- Replies: 176
- Views: 15382
Re: I WTB a Varangian Guardsman in 1040
Since lamelar has become the new generic SCA body armor, does anybody have any pictures showing fighters doing a good job at a Varangian guard persona?
- Tue May 31, 2011 4:37 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: This Forum Is Moderated, Read these Ground Rules.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3398
Re: This Forum Is Moderated, Read these Ground Rules.
How hard would it be to add dates to the titles that don't have them? "I Want To Be a Border Reiver" is a cool title only if you know what (and when) a Border Reiver is.
- Tue May 31, 2011 4:30 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: Comparitive analysis; Western Knight of 1360.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1827
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[quote="Jestyr"]This breaks down English, German and French effigies:
http://talbotsfineaccessories.com/armou ... lysis.html[/quote]
Wasn't the Battle of Visby in 1361? I noticed that the analysis didn't include a coat of plates under body defense ... or am I misreading it?
http://talbotsfineaccessories.com/armou ... lysis.html[/quote]
Wasn't the Battle of Visby in 1361? I noticed that the analysis didn't include a coat of plates under body defense ... or am I misreading it?
- Tue May 31, 2011 4:19 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1721
Re: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
My new buff coat, made by AEiric Orvender. The leather is so thick that it stands up on its own. :) http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5104/5739507955_d9ba556131_z_d.jpg AEiric originally designed it to lace closed, but to fit properly the lace holes need to be ontop each other. A six penny nail fits in...
- Tue May 31, 2011 3:43 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: Looking inconspicuous
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4201
Re: Looking inconspicuous
By the way, if you look up barbute and brigandine in Wikipedia, the barbute article mentions that it was commonly covered in heavy velvet, and the brigandine article show both the inside and outside of a jacket from exactly the same time period as your helmet. I'd suggest making your own brigandine ...