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Konstantin the Red

If it was as easy as you're making it out, lots of people would have gauntlets like that. If so, where do we find a difficulty? (Haven't looked at the patterns and method either.) Tools and swedges? Dishing gear? Welder? From the photos, looks like strap articulation, w/grounding fingerplates, give...

Konstantin the Red

I was bewildered... never built me an axe ever, let alone one Vitus style. I'd rather figured on a U-strap bent round the haft end and fixed on either face of the blade to stabilize and hold it on, with great lashings of tough tape and household cement as well. Considering the warhead pretends to be...

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Luck to you, then! You're probably right on the price-point. (pls see also my edit of my prev post in re canvas facing) Couple decades back, we were pretty much plagued with how many fighters all seemed to bear "a field, wood-grain." About every SCAdian would tell you to think in terms of specific d...

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Awwww... Middo cutie...

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Within-Archive stuff may not need Step (2) at all -- a mere link to it would suffice in the case of a thread that is full of useful info all the way through it. Cut&Paste, if used, of the most helpful what-I-did posts would just come through using the Quote code anyway. We quote freely here without ...

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A lot of German/South German/HRE gothic plate looks like it has great shoulder mobility in mind -- spaudlers in place of full pauldrons.

Konstantin the Red

So you can always substitute using artificial sinew. Erm... tang?? Not following. :sad: :?: Since when do Dane-axes have tangs? You mean that wrap-round-handle bit? (Lots to be said for using rawhide there.) Yes, putting V-section scorings in the back or flesh side of the leather will allow it to fo...

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Arcaneforge2, how far are you willing to go as to charges? Beasts, monsters, etc.? SCAdians paint their Arms and Devices (technical, College of Heralds distinction) on their shields on their own responsibility. Are you shooting for a different market for your wood blanks? It is rare indeed for someo...

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Okay, then, some mounted it is. Knocks my reasoning into a cocked hat. Roundels appear on the sides of helmets besides sallets. I knew roundels showed up on many shapes of headpiece, many of these being the varied infantry-hat shapes -- do ear roundels then land in a time span later than the infantr...

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Beringer von Berlichingen, +1377 if I don't misread; date's on left side, following it something mysterious: V . I DVS . MA[something]BERG and stuff I'm not confident about, ERUS . MILES in upper L corner. It's that ERVS bit I can make nothing of. I agree about the helm. Expect to adjust. Interestin...

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He only had four? :D We've never seen that the number of boss-rivets makes any big deal. If I recall, Swete's rawhide method was soak the rawhide wet and sloppy, start out with the length of the rawhide amounting to an inch and a half less than the circumference of the shield. Sew the ends together,...

Konstantin the Red

James Arlen Gillaspie wrote:Back when I was a sort of SCAdian . . . We just made four sided boxes of SCAdian 'cuir bouilli' and slapped them on. Done.

Finger sheds. Abris.

Konstantin the Red

Yeah. And yeah, I do think you'll find a way to shave 1.5 to 2 pounds off the next one.

Possibly, no metal showing on the face but the boss, the rest of the surface canvas, the edge rope under canvas, the canvas going at least as deep into the rear face as your edge bordure is on this one.

Konstantin the Red

Exactly; bell cuffs don't suit. Others would. Though I don't see that roofing your hand zone over with stout leather tacked to the shield slanting down to the top edge of your fist and on about a third of the way down your hand wouldn't serve every circumstance but being sprawled on your back like a...

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The third one definitely looks like a pair of brigs of some kind. They're wearing grand bascinets you say? I admit I have no knowledge of that style of helmet. You'll find a lot more googlage on "great bascinet" not grand. The lancer in BNF Français 2643 is wearing one, and I'd buy covered-plate br...

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"Mildred, there's a dragon out there who wants in, and he's politely scratching at the door.¨
"...Well, he only gets to come in if he'll fire the oven. It's baking day."

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Yup. He just hasn't taken a step yet. Handsome, tho'. Ph oe nix... switch the vowels the other way and you make some kind of unintentional strained heraldic pun with the Pheon. Naughty little blazon-trap. No idea where heraldry gets this term for a broad-arrow with a few barbs added. Think of it as ...

Konstantin the Red

Not the palm -- but the back of the hand, thumb with due regard for fingers, and wristbones.

Except for the fingertips, it's a demi -- roughly a 5/8 all told. I don't recall a West Kingdom requirement for steel coverage behind the shield.

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Statant actually, but yes. Your other dragons, they're passant. Blazon doesn't entirely resolve random tail postures in curls and loops, though it may cover some others -- and I'm not sure if Society's old-school heraldry even bothers with it. Non-default wing positions vary with the beast: a flitte...

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Two generations of men, that is. Armor's generations varied, though by the fifteenth century they were about on a decadal cycle. But a 50-year span seems reasonable to me, between those who rode fashion's leading edge and those who that would have bankrupted because their estates and knights' fees w...

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And here the matter rests, like Barbarossa and his knights, until RESURRECTED in a time of need.

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Poster Aussie Yeoman made couters like you are looking to try. This is page 2 of this thread: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=81360&start=35 . Progress pix and progress notes. Also: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=133836&p=1982379&hilit=bowling#p...

Konstantin the Red

FIRST RULE OF JUMPING INTO ARMOURING: Set Your Sights Reasonable To Start With Almost certainly, you, like all of us when we started out, had your eye caught by some full suit of finely etched, engraved, gilded full plate harness, and have already decided, "I'm gonna make THAT!" Well, that's a grea...

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. . . none o' them Valsgardians were equipped with safety gorgets, building this one as near to your neck size as works with suitable padding and as low-profile as your skill will allow seems an important goal. Get the terrycloth you're going to use first (or terry laid over closed cell if you want...

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All the more so if they throw a cow at you. Maybe you could feed it to the giant badger.

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Que nules d'ores en avant ne puisse faire cote gamboisee ou il n'ait 3 livres de coton tout neit, se elles ne sont faites en sicines et au dessous soient faites entre mains que il y ait un pli de viel linge empres I'endroit de demi aune et demi quartier devant et autant derriere." One of the proble...

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Perhaps we should choose to have a thread intended for gleanings from old articles, etc., stickied and kept for this purpose. Little labor for JT, but a lot of return on effort for the readership. Within-archive gleanings need be no more than a link to the thread and a word or two on what it's about...

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I know somebody's been recently building a 15th-c breastplate w/taces making a fauld. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=161769&hilit=breastplate http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=151381&hilit=breastplate http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtop...

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I'm unaware of any "pix without" but this is a good place for somebody to find them if they exist. They're good researchers here. That said, the B2´s era would be before asymmetric pauldrons, 16th-c. style, had become very popular, if they even existed. For that matter, they spent the whole middle o...

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I think 1-4 of the above covers about all of it. Even the Archive, searchable as it is, has its info semé all over. And #4 is a concern even here with our frequent updatings. #1, what we seem to rely on actually is the more experienced members and fighters in the medievalist combat groups out there ...

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True greats can be surprisingly long fore and aft. Don't worry too much about looking like an armored hydrocephalic.

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You, and eighty percent of SCAdia. Most of the rest of SCAdian mail is 16ga @ 1/4".

That's pretty mail, pleasantly smooth to finger. Approximates historical riveted link diameters and wire thickness -- these peak at 18 gauge wire and 1/4" to 5/16" ID.

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In a word, the Honourable Ordinaries: the Chief and Fess, the Pale, the Bend and Bend Sinister (nothing too ominous, just slants the other direction), the Cross, the Saltire, the Chevron and Chevron inverted. Each of these has a diminutive version, about 1/2 to 1/3 its width, save for the Chief in E...

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I will note that the OP has not posted anything else here since his second post. Considering it's been all of four days now, I'd allow Rittermark a cogitation time. @Harry M, and what do the linen wearers have to say about gambies being too hot to use? Even in 95% relative humidity, with three laye...

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Do that, according to your taste if you like a modified posture better or even more so if it fills the shape of the space available to better effect. This kind of small tweakage and interpretation is below blazonry's limit of resolution. There is no 'just one' to heraldic art once you get into the C...

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