The Armour Archive

Vladimir

Nice sallet, but too small.

Vladimir

Why would we laugh? It looks like you're off to a good start.

Vladimir

Looking forward to meeting you in person.

Vladimir

The monetary value of a prize is irrelevant in the extreme.

I would still participate if there were no prize at all.

Vladimir

Congratulations again on your win Hauoc.

This has become my favorite Pennsic tourney. I love seeing all of the really great harnesses out there.

Thank you all.

Vladimir

I'm curious as well.

What was considered chivalrous and fair to our ancestors, in movies, and to us are three different things.

Vladimir

A friend of mine got some grief over wearing a belt like that. It was counter-changed black and white ermine spots. He actually tried to use more of a light beige, but caught flack for it nonetheless. Grant you, my friend does like to "rock the boat" a bit, and I wouldn't put it past him t...

Vladimir

Wait, are the plates sandwiched between bands and not riveted in place?

Vladimir

I know that helm is for tilting, but if I saw that helm charging at me in a melee with a greatsword or something I think I'd crap myself.

It looks mean!

Nice job.

Vladimir

I thought he was looking for an SCA legal "frog helm".

Vladimir

I took the Fiore classes, and went back to take the "in harness" again with armour the second time.

Unfortunately, many of the classes I was interested in got cancelled this year. Sad, because I wasn't able to fight much either.

Vladimir

I had a blast. Though next year I have to remember to have my own armour to wear under the maille. I had a rough time lifting my arms because of the binding.

Vladimir

You could add a bar. Its a common enough approach.

Vladimir

My I suggest that you also post that in the Pennsic Independent, and perhaps on the message boards.

Vladimir

Do any of you name your rattan weapons? If so, given the semi-disposable nature of rattan does the name still apply when you put the furniture on a new stick? I have a bastard sword I named Beastly , an axe that ended up with the name Beater , and a longseax that was cristened Uruk-Hai by a friend.

Vladimir

Nissan Maxima wrote:
Vladimir wrote:That glaive is awesome.

How did you make it?

I started with a three inch diameter piece of rattan that had a nice curve in the end. I removed all of the rattan that was not glaive shaped. Then I added tape.

Holy crap!

Vladimir

That glaive is awesome.

How did you make it?

Vladimir

When I fight with a great-sword I will typically turn the weapon upside down, grip it by the blade and hold it in front of my face when I salute, forming a cross. While holding it this way I will also bow, but keeping the cross held vertically. Once, I had my opponent say "hold" just befor...

Vladimir

There are ways around the facebook thing. But people have to post the picture source link and only one pic can be posted at a time.

Vladimir

Yeah, I'm too short and too fat.

Vladimir

snipped for brevity Consider that as a new person who joins the SCA now, they don't just look a the local group, they also have to think about which guild they are going to be in, which household is chasing them and whatever. Those groups are not going to break down in favor of the larger "let'...

Vladimir

I think we can continue to remain "big tent" (greeks, romans, vikings, knights, samuria, heck even genericelts) and still move towards more accuracy on an individual level. However, that means the SCA is going to have to do two things that seem to give shivers up and down its collective sp...

Vladimir

If it is the same show I saw they used a flat plate of metal vs a turn shoe. Which of course is completely invalid. A sabaton is no more a flat piece of metal than a shoe is a piece hide. Their metal plate did not articulate, had no holes for rivets, and was perfectly flat across the bottom. I can't...

Vladimir

I like those. Looking forward to seeing them in person.

Vladimir

That's what I like to see. A review from an established long time archiver.

I may look at their site a little more closely now.

Vladimir

Its obvious. Those are not rivets. You simply nail them to your foot.

Vladimir

In this day and age a steel knife that looks like it was knapped is probably a lot cheaper than buying a knapped one in the first place.

Vladimir

I suspect you are being too sensitive.

Some might want to intimidate you with the shield slap, but that isn't the same as being rude.

For most, I'm sure it is an earnest gesture and you should take it in the spirit in which it is given.

Vladimir

Agreed. Unless it is absolutely a killer deal (I once got a helm for $5) you should find a culture and time you are interested in and buy the helmet you want to fight in for quite some time. It might not be your final dream helmet, but you don't want to go replacing one after less than a year has go...

Vladimir

I love the smell of a good cigar, but I promised my father that I would never start smoking.

Vladimir

Absolutely. But I can think of only a few people who actually make axes that I think would be able to withstand that kind of thrust repeatedly.

Vitus's probably could.

I'm not sure about the architectural foam heads though.

Vladimir

All too small for me.

Vladimir

The most common argument I have heard for a hockey glove instead of a shield basket is that it stacks in the trunk or hangs on the wall more easily.

Vladimir

Post a pic of the kit. People have been asking about them for a while.

Vladimir

How does he bend his right knee?

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Re: First helmet with pictures

Re: Pitbull Frogmouth Helm (attempt) Update

Re: jousting style helmets

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Named weapons (SCA)

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Re: "Rude" Salutes

Re: Stolarz Fine Woodworking

Re: I am thinking of selling breastplate for more accurate o

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Re: SCA at an evolutionary cross-roads (A discussion)

Re: Treadmill shows medieval armour influenced battles

Re: New PRoduct- BEARDED AXES

Re: Review of Reenactment Supplies

Re: Scale sabatons; how would they attach?

Re: How do you think they got this effect?

Re: Rude Salutes

Re: New to SCA, looking for second hand items.

Re: Since several people have asked about it... (OT)

Re: Dane Axe

Re: Yardsale !!!

Re: Pennsic: A photographer's plea

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