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Konstantin the Red

Yarf! no wonder, since it doesn't happen to say FireStryker anywhere in the link -- though a search on the term should have gotten you there. Anyhoo, here it is:

http://www.wolfeargent.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi

Enjoy!

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Konstantin the Red

Melee, now do that same conical trick with a 3x5 card, with the uppermost 5" side substituting for the quarter-circle arc, and folding the 5" side into a seam, the two halves meeting in the middle, just as you were closing the cut-out quadrant: voilÃ ! the bascinet. Just one more string to your bow....

Konstantin the Red

Krag, whatever it is, let's do it -- with whatever other supporting material you can provide.

Konstantin the Red

Two hundred to five hundred tons, is my SWAG. Bending plate of that thickness is the kind of thing shipyards do. Your friendly neighborhood shop guys would probably have to do the work hot: both plates at bright red heat, bent simultaneously. Am I right in guessing the bending will be along two axes...

Konstantin the Red

With curved shields, the more nearly your arm parallels the axis of the curve, the more convenient the arm attachment gets, to the point that some people have gone for vertical shield arms for some specialist techniques. The usual thing, however, is a forearm at about 45 degrees upwards with respect...

Konstantin the Red

William, a plain C bend of a straight strip is very slightly easier, but heck: just cut out a strip slightly curved like some kinds of tailored belts and then bend it slightly conical. If you already have straight strips of sheet metal cut out -- 16 ga recommended here -- bang thoroughly on the bott...

Konstantin the Red

I'll second Dmitry here. Hanging the camail behind the grill face would gain points for historicity, and can be made very stable by lining the camail in the manner described in the Firestryker LH board. With the camail stitched to the liner top, you can sit the camail over your chin and just under y...

Konstantin the Red

Search on Occitan and Langue d'Oc and Languedoc .

Konstantin the Red

The particle "de" is of Medieval French origin and saw use in English written records, perhaps more than in daily speech. Latin records would have used some attempt at a genitive case-ending, rather than a "de," except in the case of someone not especially schooled in Latin trying to render a docume...

Konstantin the Red

I responded over on Arador.

Konstantin the Red

What do you do with a pregant armourer? Well, first, extend congratulations... Second, urge her to get at doing all those alternative bits she's already thunk up and these other hammer swingers have endorsed -- though tailoring your personal arming-cote/arming doublet might be iffy! http://www.armou...

Konstantin the Red

Wes, my link-forming process takes about eleven steps, exclusive of the two-step process of making the rivets: 1)flatten a length of 16-ga tie wire until it's about 3mm across; 2)use my bolt cutters to clip out tiny pizza-slicelike triangles to rivet links closed using the setting pliers. 1) coil wi...

Konstantin the Red

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Marshal:
"Use the Forth, Luke!"<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

"...The Forth, not the Clyde!"

Konstantin the Red

I thought horsehair was mostly used for helmet padding -- I'm not sure of its advisability for an acketon. Recall that horsehair is what they made hairshirts out of. Four layers of cotton should do well for the really stick-out parts like the points of your shoulders. I'd keep it to about three laye...

Konstantin the Red

That kind of blade section smacks more of the 16th century than the Viking era -- I suggest you look at Landsknecht Katzbalger designs -- to be in harmony with that blade, you want something more modern than the simple short thick crossguard and tea-cosy pommel of Viking times. Hollow grinds were do...

Konstantin the Red

You are going to have to go in there and grind and polish the rough bits until they are smooth, Crow's Anvil. An angle grinder is probably the best tool to start with, then finer and finer grades of sandpaper and emery cloth until you are at about a 400-grit finish, 600-grit if you are picky and wan...

Konstantin the Red

Wankels have two particularly interesting properties: first, you fight them like a round shield, only you have corners to close slots with. The type is extremely efficient for use by anyone with extensive roundshield/targe experience. Second, they have a very large area within their boundaries and m...

Konstantin the Red

David, try Fox-Davies, then. His A Complete Guide to Heraldry was for decades and probably still is the average SCA herald's basic training -- then all the rest of the College of Heralds has to do is train the would-be Pursuivant in the specific SCA manner of blazon and emblazon. Parker's Glossary o...

Konstantin the Red

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Tarquin Bjornsson: i to am making a great helm i just need advice for shaping the cone can anyone help with that? (sorry to stealt eh thread) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Tar...

Konstantin the Red

Tool Three plus a third pair of large vise grips for leverage clamped to the edge of the sheet that Tool Three is pulling on should do it. If it still won't yield, have Tool Three put a cheater/breaker-bar on the Vise-Grips' handle. Shouldn't need more than two or three feet of heavy pipe for the jo...

Konstantin the Red

Never. The nearest that sabatons or sollerets (the former broad-toed, the latter pointy (even unto Ã la poulaine )) come to articulating on a greave is the late-16th-c. feature of having the calf plate of closed greaves exending all the way down to the shoe heel, with a slot in the bottom edge to a...

Konstantin the Red

Or "Big Berthold." It might even be Museum Replicas, c. mid-1980s, at a wild guess. Hard to guess, since the pic has quit working.

Konstantin the Red

The spauds should be held down by a biceps strap, otherwise it will be difficult to swing your hand from outside to in. You want that to maneuver both your sword and your shield, so your armor needs to articulate freely there at mid bicep.

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Konstantin the Red

I'm with Effingham on this, Thad: Conrad's field is partitioned of two metals, the 1970 is a single tincture. The 1970's griffin is a metal, Conrad's, a tincture. The two devices are about as different as they can be; as Effingham pointed out, there are two Clear Visual differences at the least. ---...

Konstantin the Red

Thumbs-up, you are ready to submit for SCA. Something that might save a bit of time if it's needed would be to list a couple of alternative treatments of this element or that -- for the purpose of avoiding any conflicts within the Society. The first thing they will check for at Kingdom level will be...

Konstantin the Red

Super value for money, by all accounts. They cut, they live in your hand, excellent balance, and all that good stuff there. I want one bad enough that I have to lean back away from my keyboard to keep from getting nose prints on my monitor. The crossguard designs run to the slightly clunky, but I da...

Konstantin the Red

However, the Sword Forum International types seem heavily to favor the peened tang. To do that right requires a somewhat tapered hole of rectangular shape and fitted precisely to the tang. The two basic ways to get that hole are either the knifemakers' method of drilling the pommel out in a drill pr...

Konstantin the Red

Longer than Airth's "sword-ell" measurement means a bit more range and a bit slower into action, which basically translates such a sword into something approaching a mounted man's hand-and-a-half. Shorter than Airth's measurement yields a faster, more nimble blade which is often the preferred mode f...

Konstantin the Red

There is some serious food for thought in this excellent thread, gentlemen. Keep it coming. I imagine that in the end, the SCA's school of combat will have its Do branch and its Jutsu branch of development, but that SCA belted fighters will be under a requirement to grasp and practice both to a high...

Konstantin the Red

By "hypotenuse to hypotenuse" you mean the side opposite the 90-degree angle, right? So that what you get out of the joining is less a triangle than a kite shape with a 45-degree type join down its center? I guess that's one good way to do it; my method would be to build just a plain ole symmetrical...

Konstantin the Red

However, claidmh da laimh/claymores ran lighter by a couple pounds than the roughly contemporary zweihanders, which were designed to go up against pikes and break armor. What the claymore went up against was Irishmen with hardly any armor at all, so a lighter blade was more effectual, being nimble. ...

Konstantin the Red

David, "per cross" is completely indistinguishable from "quarterly," which is the preferred term.

Konstantin the Red

Respect your Cutco. It's marvelous stuff, but no knife knows the difference between a frankfurter and a finger. Oh well, at least it will heal clean. Cutco comes from the factory with a comfortably dry-shaving edge, which it stubbornly keeps. ---------- Kostya, who in mundane life is a Cutco salesman.

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