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- Sun Aug 19, 2012 5:51 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
- Replies: 133
- Views: 4562
Re: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
Not a great picture of it, but yes.
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:24 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
- Replies: 133
- Views: 4562
Re: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
By the way, on the photography side, do you guys prefer pictures like the one above with perspective and shadows or something more like this?
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:20 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
- Replies: 133
- Views: 4562
Re: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
A photo highlighting the variations in the hardware that I receive from Stefhan at Hessen Ironworks. While he could certainly make every single piece boringly identical, in today's mass market world I consider these "variations on quality" to be a definite plus. http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8156/78...
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:52 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Pennsic pics
- Replies: 114
- Views: 6305
Re: Pennsic pics
... till somebody pokes an eye out. 
Part of the skill in photography is standing at the right place at the right time. Imagine if Ursus had tried to take that picture from where AEiric Orvender is standing. From my inexperienced viewpoint, Ursus has all the photography skills.
Part of the skill in photography is standing at the right place at the right time. Imagine if Ursus had tried to take that picture from where AEiric Orvender is standing. From my inexperienced viewpoint, Ursus has all the photography skills.
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:46 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
- Replies: 133
- Views: 4562
Re: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
Malcolm de Moffat, your order will be mailed Monday (tomorrow).
- Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:38 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
- Replies: 16
- Views: 864
Re: No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8434/7814682508_f06326c6a2_z_d.jpg The top waster has a turned tang. The bottom one was hand-carved. The main differences are in uniformity across the length of the tang (and the machine turned tang isn't perfectly strait) and at the joint between tang and blade. This ...
- Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:38 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: My First Fighter Practice
- Replies: 25
- Views: 845
Re: My First Fighter Practice
Tiger Balm. The best (original) kind stinks, stains, and does wonderful things to bruises.
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:27 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foxknife at Pennsic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 660
Re: Foxknife at Pennsic
And this?
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 12:16 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foxknife at Pennsic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 660
Re: Foxknife at Pennsic
Can anyone help me identify this gentle?
- Tue Aug 14, 2012 7:35 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Questions Regarding the Legality of a Mace
- Replies: 38
- Views: 744
Re: Questions Regarding the Legality of a Mace
You can't make statements like this and argue with the marshal about bouncing the weapon in the same breath.Caius705 wrote:Truthfully, with the way the mass was concentrated on my mace, I likely would have cracked ribs with it unpadded.
- Sun Aug 12, 2012 9:02 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Auction: Pile of SCA Weapons
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1191
Re: Auction: Pile of SCA Weapons
Between post Pennsic funds and driving to Maryland, I'm not surprised.
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:06 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
- Replies: 16
- Views: 864
Re: No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
Even if I owned one I wouldn't use it with the other tools I already possess. On a rattan sword, any gross shaping that you could do with a belt sander I could do faster and with less dust using a shaving horse, drawknife and spoke shave. It is not that I can't make round things using my existing to...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 4:40 pm
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- Topic: looking for sources for loose riveted mail rings
- Replies: 29
- Views: 319
Re: looking for sources for loose riveted mail rings
Alric, do you know any good tutorials on how to make one's own riveted rings by hand?
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:41 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Polypro is now SCA legal
- Replies: 265
- Views: 6447
Re: Polypro is now SCA legal
Perhaps somebody at Pennsic should ask them.
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:24 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
- Replies: 16
- Views: 864
Re: No more turned maces
The thick rattan still exists and I'm still hand carving. As a matter of fact, carving out cracks is easier when you are working by hand. Only turned stuff is affected. So, for example, this sword was totally hand carved: http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8426/7736019136_57f0d3e0fb_d.jpg But the handles...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 1:55 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
- Replies: 16
- Views: 864
Re: No more turned maces
This time, it wasn't a case of a too-long piece of rattan flexing too much. This was a 20" piece of rattan that snapped in two length-wise. The prevalence of cracks in thicker rattan is becoming more and more of an issue as I simultaneously try to push the limits of what can be done with rattan whil...
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 1:36 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Polypro is now SCA legal
- Replies: 265
- Views: 6447
Re: Polypro is now SCA legal
Did we ever get any kind of feedback from the powers that be as to which kind of polypro is the right kind?
- Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:42 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife dagger
- Replies: 9
- Views: 436
Re: Foxknife dagger
I didn't get that order.
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:45 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foxknife at Pennsic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 660
Re: Foxknife at Pennsic
I hope he bought it ...Thomas MacFinn wrote:So far, this is the only entry...
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- Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:34 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
- Replies: 16
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No more turned maces, gladii soon to follow
... at least for a while. I just got the news today. The guys who lathe-turn rattan for me just took a hunk out of one of their $800 bits on a piece of rattan and will not be turning any more rattan for me... ever. I'm heading out there tomorrow to pick up all of the rattan I have there. They have b...
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:49 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: The Official "I'm interested in barter" thread
- Replies: 164
- Views: 15632
Re: The Official "I'm interested in barter" thread
You might want to edit that link.Duke Uther wrote:https://www.etsy.com/your/listings/
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:15 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Foxknife at Pennsic
- Replies: 21
- Views: 660
Re: Foxknife at Pennsic
One of these days I intend to get myself 2 or 3 more so that I can abuse them and not worry about having one for dress-up. Sounds good to me, but it is starting to sound like I was right about that never used / fine china theory; which is funny considering I expend a lot more effort making sure the...
- Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:08 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife dagger
- Replies: 9
- Views: 436
- Wed Aug 08, 2012 8:13 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
- Replies: 133
- Views: 4562
Re: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
I reached him, and his waster is in the mail.Thomas MacFinn wrote:Does anybody know if Jonathan Vega is at Pennsic? His waster is ready and I want to make sure somebody is at the other end to receive it before I ship it.
Edit: typo
- Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:36 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: CoTT XXLI Pics?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 620
Re: CoTT XXLI Pics?
I'm fairly certain the best photos won't be posted for at least another 6 days.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:18 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Roll Call Combat of the Thirty Pennsic XXLI
- Replies: 74
- Views: 1449
Re: Roll Call Combat of the Thirty Pennsic XXLI
So, how was it?
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:17 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: a disarm, and submission pin properly executed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 289
Re: a disarm, and submission pin properly executed
I was once saved from a dog that ambushed me by giving it a flat snap to the head with a ready handheld computer. After the dog leaped for my throat and got hit, my conscious brain caught up to what was happening.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:26 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
- Replies: 133
- Views: 4562
Re: Foxknife Rattan Waster Picture Gallery
Does anybody know if Jonathan Vega is at Pennsic? His waster is ready and I want to make sure somebody is at the other end to receive it before I ship it.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 2:38 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Thrusting Tip Sale!!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1198
Re: Thrusting Tip Sale!!
Since the old web page is a thing of the past, could you give me the dimensions on your tips? I seem to remember the low profile are 1 3/8 diameter but have forgotten how tall, for example.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Show us your best lookng SCA weapons
- Replies: 689
- Views: 67589
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 11:59 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Show us your best lookng SCA weapons
- Replies: 689
- Views: 67589
Re: Show us your best lookng SCA weapons
The fact that you acknowledged there are other choices than round baton lifts my spirits. Once upon a time, nobody would have made comment about the blade portion of the sword at all.Varukh wrote:...the blade end of it is pretty generic, but i think the handle turned out pretty nice.
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 9:57 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Foxknife dagger
- Replies: 9
- Views: 436
Re: Foxknife dagger
I just found my missing roll of black hockey tape and re-taped that handle. I'll post an updated picture later.
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 10:10 pm
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- Topic: Rubber Axe Head - FS
- Replies: 13
- Views: 373
Re: Rubber Axe Head - FS
Is that a mandrake butt spike also?
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:27 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Questions about dagger type.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 180
Re: Questions about dagger type.
Caius705, what kingdom are you in? Some kingdoms have specific rules about thrusts to the head.
While in general I agree with Varyag, with certain specific exceptions the SCA has one force level: either a blow is good or it is not whether it is a dagger, a sword, or a mace.
While in general I agree with Varyag, with certain specific exceptions the SCA has one force level: either a blow is good or it is not whether it is a dagger, a sword, or a mace.
- Mon Aug 06, 2012 8:16 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Cutting Seminar, Boston, Sept. 9
- Replies: 3
- Views: 45
Re: Cutting Seminar, Boston, Sept. 9
Anytime somebody mentions technique vs blade sharpness (or anything about cutting technique with steel), I always mention this video:
http://youtu.be/ZR9k23U-P10
Technique wins.
http://youtu.be/ZR9k23U-P10
Technique wins.