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- Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:25 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Matched set of Basket hilts for auction from Hessen Iron.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 560
Re: Matched set of Basket hilts for auction from Hessen Iron
Stefan's stuff is almost always mild steel. From looking at them I would say ambidextrous. I'll let him answer the rest of the questions himself as his socket size sometimes varies (plus this was a custom order). Stefhan, along with socket size and weight, you might want to list the overall length/w...
- Tue Sep 11, 2012 11:17 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Sale on IN STOCK ZOOMBANG ITEMS!!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 792
Re: Sale on IN STOCK ZOOMBANG ITEMS!!!
I am very sorry about that. I had a bad math moment. I looked at this item: http://store.fastcommerce.com/icefalcon/zoombang-protective-shirt-size-medium-to-xxxl-state-size-ff80818134795db70134c4e977372bd3-p.html subtracted 15% off the $200 regular price and mistakenly came up with $185 instead of $...
- Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:53 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Ballistol
- Replies: 13
- Views: 506
Re: Ballistol
What about its first aide uses?
- Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:51 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Dating maille
- Replies: 25
- Views: 412
Re: Dating maille
The problem Ernst is that I don't know enough about maille yet to identify what is wrong with the Indian mail. If it has a rivet in it, it is more authentic than any butted ring hauberk I have made before now. What is wrong with the Indian maille? And before you answer, if you give me a vague answer...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:30 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Dating maille
- Replies: 25
- Views: 412
Re: Dating maille
Yes.Ernst wrote:... Or are you planning on personally making all your mail?
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 11:13 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Dating maille
- Replies: 25
- Views: 412
Re: Dating maille
FrauHirsch, there was maille in Jamestown, too. It had a resurgence in popularity due to the low poundage bows used by the American Indians.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 10:08 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Not 'excessive' but harder than 'good'?
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1137
Re: Not 'excessive' but harder than 'good'?
At our local practice there are a group of people who throw stout blows (and like receiving them) and a second group that take much lighter hits. In practice, the stout fighters are the kind of guys to correct me when I take a blow too light for their standards. I have said, "I'll take lighter" but ...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:41 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: 2012...Show us your kits
- Replies: 487
- Views: 24719
Re: 2012...Show us your kits
Was there a specific reason you didn't have a bevor?zachos wrote:Your wish, etc.
My light armour, for a club tournee when I was fighting as someone's squire.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:39 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: 2012...Show us your kits
- Replies: 487
- Views: 24719
Re: 2012...Show us your kits
Checky is a fairly common Atlantian thing.Kilian_the_warlike wrote:With the checks, and the slightly blury motion shot, the first thing that popped in my head was SPEED VIKING.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:33 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Rapier hilt broadsword
- Replies: 17
- Views: 456
Re: Rapier hilt broadsword
Niiiice. I didn't notice the fuller in the first picture.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:15 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Me Viking-You Die Now & Girl Kill You shirts are in! Get one
- Replies: 46
- Views: 1572
Re: Me Viking-You Die Now & Girl Kill You shirts are in! Get
Will a t-shirt fit in a Priority Mail Small Flat Rate Box (5 3/8″ x 8 5/8″ x 1 5/8″)? Those boxes are free from the post office.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:11 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Dating maille
- Replies: 25
- Views: 412
Re: Dating maille
I knew both the transitions (from alternating rows to all riveted and from dome to wedge riveted) were in the 13th or 14th century ... lots of changes happened then. I was hoping somebody could point me to an article on maille that went into the level of detail shown in this one on surcoats: http://...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 6:58 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Best place to get mail armor?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 618
Re: Best place to get mail armor?
Shipping costs can be a major factor when ordering anything heavy or over three feet long.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 9:15 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Ballistol
- Replies: 13
- Views: 506
Ballistol
Has anybody here used Ballistol and is it as wonderful as it sounds online?
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 8:46 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Dating maille
- Replies: 25
- Views: 412
Dating maille
While 4-in-1 riveted maille has been around forever, I've recently learned it was not always exactly the same across time. There was: Dome riveted with alternating rows of solid rings Dome riveted without solid rings Wedge riveted (which never had alternating solid rings?) When did the transitions h...
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 7:22 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: i'm probably going to feel kind of dumb for this but....
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1420
Re: i'm probably going to feel kind of dumb for this but....
I believe the shield on body rule had minimally armored fighters and strikes with shield edges in mind when it was written.
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:03 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Japanese armor for a new fighter
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1124
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 5:07 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: September Rattan Sale $6 sword lengths, $12 for 6' polearms
- Replies: 54
- Views: 987
Re: September Rattan Sale $6 sword lengths, $12 for 6' polea
Baron Eirik wrote:To ship how many of what?
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:22 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Sale on IN STOCK ZOOMBANG ITEMS!!!
- Replies: 18
- Views: 792
Re: Sale on IN STOCK ZOOMBANG ITEMS!!!
Comparing prices, I think you saved.Louis de Leon wrote:Didn't know you sold zoombang or I would have bought from you! I ordered factory direct a couple of months ago.
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:00 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Early period hilt set from Hessen iron.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 741
Re: Early period hilt set from Hessen iron.
In the standard way: either a lag screw through the hole in the bottom or a taping fork.
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:15 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foxknife at Pennsic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 660
Re: Foxknife at Pennsic
Oh, and the guy on the left:
I've had some amazingly long email conversations about swords but rarely meet the people I am mailing swords to and could not identify any of them by sight.
I've had some amazingly long email conversations about swords but rarely meet the people I am mailing swords to and could not identify any of them by sight.
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:13 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foxknife at Pennsic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 660
Re: Foxknife at Pennsic
And the second?
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:10 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Step-strike or strike-step?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 726
Re: Step-strike or strike-step?
Regardless of which hits first, both sword and foot are often moving at the same time.
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 7:54 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Early period hilt set from Hessen iron.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 741
Re: Early period hilt set from Hessen iron.
I finally had a chance to borrow a computer for a few hours (mine is still down) and made a few updates: 1) Eirik returned some of the excess Hessen stock that he took to Pennsic and I once again have inventory on hand. Inventory listings on http://foxknife.com/shop/ have been updated. 2) Foxknife.c...
- Fri Sep 07, 2012 6:38 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Dibs on Calling Dibs!!!
- Replies: 44
- Views: 1006
Re: Dibs on Calling Dibs!!!
So what do we do as a community ? If you don't dib on here you're gonna lose said item to a line of dibbers. Could be as simple as trying to establish a convention for adding a single line at the end of posts - "Dibs accepted for 24 hours", "Dibs accepted: dibber must contact seller within an hour ...
- Fri Aug 31, 2012 7:31 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Effectiveness of a rapier
- Replies: 27
- Views: 751
Re: Effectiveness of a rapier
Boar spear - to keep the offending party at a distance while they realize they are dead.
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:11 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Golden Mace at Aethelmearc War Practice
- Replies: 17
- Views: 808
Re: Golden Mace at Aethelmearc War Practice
Would you believe Eirik still has this?
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Feeling shots in my 14th Century armour
- Replies: 40
- Views: 845
Re: Feeling shots in my 14th Century armour
If at all possible, try to make a kit equally protective everywhere. Having "tank spots" are a pain to deal with and, at worst, encourages people to think poorly of you and hit you very hard on lightly armored portions of your anatomy. Your thigh armor doesn't have to be three layers of 14 gauge ste...
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 5:04 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foxknife at Pennsic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 660
Re: Foxknife at Pennsic
Nothing? 
- Wed Aug 29, 2012 4:49 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Question about mace's
- Replies: 8
- Views: 352
Re: Question about mace's
One thing to note about the Society rules: nothing in the rules requires you to actually use a one-handed weapon one-handed. You can use a two-handed weapon in one hand if you are feeling frisky, for that matter.
- Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:27 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Another great review of Munitions Grade Arms
- Replies: 3
- Views: 223
Re: Another great review of Munitions Grade Arms
Eorik, are you certain? I seem to remember $0.30
- Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:42 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Period Helmet liners/ KWT are in stock
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2407
Re: Period Helmet liners/ KWT are in stock
I took out a strip so that it better fit my head and I love both the linen fabric and the way the batting is sewn together. Unfortunately, while both the lining and the helmet fit my head, they don't fit each other (eye slits on the helmet wider than the face hole on the lining, etc.). I am pretty s...
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:27 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Unpadded Maces vs. Unpadded Polearms
- Replies: 12
- Views: 656
Re: Unpadded Maces vs. Unpadded Polearms
In the Drachenwald rules, the mace section assumes that the weapon has a separate head and the polearm section starts with "If the weapon has a head, ..." That is the only real difference between the two sections.
Also, the published rules in the kingdom website have not been updated since 2006.
Also, the published rules in the kingdom website have not been updated since 2006.
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:50 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: i'm probably going to feel kind of dumb for this but....
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1420
Re: i'm probably going to feel kind of dumb for this but....
When people talk about shield-checking, they are usually talking about knocking people down (which is allowed in some foam combat sports).Baron Alcyoneus wrote:I wouldn't consider pushing someone else's shield out of the way skirting the rules, it is fine here. Intentionally knocking someone down is a different story.
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 10:33 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife dagger
- Replies: 9
- Views: 436
Re: Foxknife dagger
Since Malcolm upgraded to swords, anybody else interested in the dagger?
