The Armour Archive

Count Johnathan

I personally want to see striking with great-sword hilts and pomels to be an allowed tactic. I fear that this rule will in the future be used to support a ban on any weapons with 2 thrusting tips for chivalric sport fairness reasons. I see this rule as a step backwards... and that's from someone wh...

Count Johnathan

Well if you're going to go that route then sir you could address my serious questions I posed to you earlier since the senior marshallate took so long to come up with the new rule... ...since this took a year for the marshals to determine a rule to deal with this very specific issue I am sure they c...

Count Johnathan

I never won a tourney with one and the only reason I ever used one was for fun....cause stabbing people in the face was fun.

Count Johnathan

Yeah dude. We call em madus. They work great. LOL

You can even have a buttspike on that spear if it's over 48" according to the new rules LOL

Count Johnathan

JvR wrote:
Count Johnathan wrote:Don't move to the Outlands. LOL

I dont even know where that is? Is it in the US?

Was talking to Diglach

Count Johnathan

I see the "madu" (for lack of a better word) as a pointy thing used to stab people with. That's all. It's no more visually offensive to me than seeing dudes in samurai gear. Course I was born into the SCA and have no pre-conceived notions about what I am supposed to see out there based on ...

Count Johnathan

Don't move to the Outlands. LOL

Count Johnathan

so ban "madus" altogether then? LOL

What safety issue does that address exactly Diglach?

Count Johnathan

And your household leaders samurai armor Aaron?

Just sayin.

Count Johnathan

Really though how many official injuries/complaints were there to warrant this "issue" being addressed with new rules?

Count Johnathan

Damnit!

Count Johnathan

I don't need to change my name. He banned Jonathan and I have no clue who that poor bastard is.

Count Johnathan

I know right?

Count Johnathan

I want to see pictures of the first fingers that get turned into paste from that thing! LOL That is awesome though. Is that a drill actually powering that rig? If not what is the power source? Some more detailed pics of the inner workings would be interesting. As usual nicely done Gunther. Cool mach...

Count Johnathan

Why does a weapon need to have been common? Mankind has never ceased to create weird s#!t to kill each other with and I don't see that trend ending any time soon. Also, since this took a year for the marshals to determine a rule to deal with this very specific issue I am sure they collected a ton of...

Count Johnathan

And the three problems were? The list I received was 1) gauntlets/hockey gloves in faces, 2) basket hilts, 3) cheesy little pommel nubs on daggers/maces/hatchets/ "killing" people which never would happen in reality. Banning madus was apparently never a goal. And so how did the new rule e...

Count Johnathan

chris19d wrote:... Can a marshal say with a reasonable degree of certainty that a plastic sword is the correct material and not say a nylon rod or any of the other random materials that pop up in a google search for 1.25" plastic rod?

To quote an expert...

Not without a mass spectrometer.

Count Johnathan

At which point someone tries to rule lawyer by calling it something else.... "It's not a madu, it's a 13th century Burgundian combat engineer's combat prybar!" . Which is why making rules that are complex and don't solve problems is just that much more silly. Seriously, basket hilts to th...

Count Johnathan

Dude I'd rather he just come out and ban (short) madus directly. This is just silly and doesn't fix anything that I can see.

Just more convoluted rules that seem to serve no real purpose.

Count Johnathan

I only have one request.

Keep up the good work man!

Count Johnathan

What are the three problems? And how have the new rules addressed or corrected them? Edit: This is what Omarad has provided about it so far as the "issues" are concerned.... ...getting a gauntlet or hilt to the face... It doesn't matter what type of weapon you are using if a rule is writte...

Count Johnathan

And the three problems were?

Count Johnathan

I merely suggested a simple and more clearly written rule that would keep thrusting tips a safe distance from basket hilts (actually solving the problem) if that indeed was an issue. It wouldn't prohibit him from using his weapon at all. It would only prevent the addition of a buttspike to an oddly ...

Count Johnathan

Sorry, I was not saying all of them were brittle. I was saying that some of the plastics are brittle while others (like what Corby has) obviously aren't.

The problem is being unable to visually tell the difference between the two.

Count Johnathan

So what I got (that you said was the right stuff when I asked) that SHATTERED the first time I used it wasn't more brittle than say the stick Corby has been using for years? Thats odd. And it would be cheating if the marshal... ahem the Society earl marshal... tells you that what you have is correct...

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Count Johnathan

multiple layers yes. Problem was it shattered. Fragmented not just a clean break. Now I do understand that what I got was apparently bad material but there was no way for me to know the when I got it or for any marshal to know it when inspecting it. Scroll through the rest of this thread (I know it'...

Count Johnathan

Right, my question is how would you catch this stuff before a more brittle material is used accidentally and shatters on impact sending pointy bits of jagged plastic into a fighters eye? What has been noted several times so far is that you can inspect this stuff even being familiar with the right ma...

Count Johnathan

And so that particular weapon, which is not the norm anyway, would be prohibited from having a buttspike with the basket type rule I proposed.

I am sure you could live with that having chosen an odd method of construction for a greatsword anyway.

Count Johnathan

I provided pictorial evidence of my experience with these plastic sticks. That is all the support I need to have an opinion on the matter. I've seen rattan break and yes I have seen some larger chunks fly a good distance but I have NEVER seen rattan shatter in the manner that these plastics can. Th...

Count Johnathan

Well I've already got the colors down.

Count Johnathan

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:This one of mine doesn't suck, but something ain't right, either.

I think what aint right is the dude wearin it.

Count Johnathan

They work very well. Just cut em to length. It was easy peasy. To keep them from deforming I heated them from the inside of the helm with a torch before hammering them open flat and like any of them be sure to slip a round steel peg into the hole when you mash em down.

Count Johnathan

These.

http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/webapp ... ent=value4

Can't seem to find them on the Ace site but I know they carry them.

Count Johnathan

There goes my dream of having a Pepsi and Reebok sponsorship.

I was so looking forward to custom kneehigh pump up boots too.

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