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Caius705

Saritor wrote:
Caius705 wrote:De facto not a Madu, since it's available in Europe. And if I saw somebody with one of those, I'd say hell yeah. I love documentation.
Hell with madu documentation...I want that shield with a face on it that the guy on the right is holding!

I actually know a guy who might could make one

Caius705

Last I'd heard, 12g mild was acceptable, it just tended to get shredded, thus it would ok. At 200 bucks, it would be good for a starter helm for ACL I think. The shape does leave something to be desired though (I've been looking at Manuscript Miniatures again)

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Do you have a link to someone making an official statement that that was the case? I'd like to read it.

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Ernst wrote:http://manuscriptminiatures.com/4806/11882/

De facto not a Madu, since it's available in Europe. And if I saw somebody with one of those, I'd say hell yeah. I love documentation.

Caius705

That looks pretty good to me.

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Yeah, if I were running dedicated spear I'd use them. And for Cut and Thrust too. But for regular heavy, I'd want something a little heavier. I wouldn't be concerned about my wrists though, they look fine there.

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Exactly. Normans didn't use madu's. I love out of Europe personas, wish we saw more of them instead of the crappy kits I see a lot.

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I've seen some Madu's that were crazy long for SCA combat. I hated seeing them because they were so inauthentic. I won't mourn their passing. Having said that, I wanted the victory over madu's to be a cultural victory. I wanted people to stop using them because they are inauthentic for most SCA pers...

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I liked the change to stabbing tips on rattan weapons less than 7.5 ft in length. Makes a lot of sense. It's also going to make a 7.5 glaive the devil for stabbing.

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ACE hardware (here in Texas at least) still has some brass plates. Stupid expensive though.

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Seems to be. Hard to tell in places, as my company blocks some of the image hosting sites, so they don't always come through.

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I like this ^

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Dude, down on the gulf coast, we don't even wear boots. flip flops or nothing here.

Caius705

Same here, but with the hammer heads. I've nearly ordered several times, but the shipping was really expensive last I checked.

Edit: Yeah, I just checked. SCA hammer head? $33 dollars. Sweet
Shipping to Texas? $22.50. Yeah, that's a no go.

Caius705

and potato salad is served in inverted basket hilts.

Inverted cup hilts. Basket hilts make awful bowls.

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Last I'd seen, 1 inch square was the maximum allowed opening for ACL helms. I'll mention this to a couple of guys looking at ACL in Texas. Do you have a picture of the profile of the helm?

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Hey, Got a question for you. How much would you want for the same helm, but all 12g, with bars across the eyes to make it ACL legal? Might make a good ACL starter helm. Just a thought.

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Don't forget a polearm and a two handed mace.

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That's awesome. Do you have a specific area and time period you're focusing on? And do you have plans for articulated joints in the near future? I'm probably going to need a pair of articulated knees for a splinted kit I'm building.

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I just bought a helmet from Andrew, I can't recommend his work (or his apprentice's) highly enough. The helm was well shaped, very solid and I really liked the way the liner was made.

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What alloy spring steels are y'all going to use? And could you have links for documentation for your ACL pieces? That would be awesome (even something like an effigies and brasses link helps a ton for research)

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My only shield is a 11.5" buckler. Everything is a barn door.

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Fair enough, well hidden plastic can stay. But if we close this one, we have to open up a new one; these are the rules, it is known.

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What material are you using for plates? Hell, if they're counting zoombang shirts, I'd certainly count a steel jack of plates as solid. Were you going to wear any sort of cloth padding underneath?

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Is there a price list for the futuristic armors? I'm on my phone, I may have missed them.

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I for one have a suggestion. We form a cohort of landsknechts wielding zweihanders who are dedicated to breaking every piece of plastic armor they can find. It will be a messy process, but I think in the end it will be worth it. I suggest that in aid of this goal, we start taking up a collection to ...

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I think I heard about your helm killing ways. This is mostly to try out ACL, get a feel for it and decide if it's the game for me. Since the mail, the liners and possibly the face plate will be salvageable when this gets dented in, i'm not overly concerned.

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I'll go 150 for it.

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I'm aware they're moving away from it, but I was under the impression that 12 gauge was still acceptable. If not, then I've bought an excellently priced SCA helm.

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Bought the larger of these two, it came in this Friday. Super happy with it. I'll do an in depth review later this week, but everything was perfect.

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Yeah, that sounds perfectly fine. It's still lower than a munitions bascinet, covers a huge area of time and personas (with minor modifications), and looks really good. Besides, better to have your price go up and your volume drop a bit (which it may not), in my opinion, since you're doing the hamm...

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Practice safe work methods; Make shop monkey pee on all the helms instead of you

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Andre Galevskiy posted on his apprentice made for $390 shipped. No aventail, but it's 14 g stainless.

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Hope I didn't sound too much like a pompous ass ( a little bit is ok)

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Ah, ok. You'd put BotN in the title, instead of ACL, which threw me off. It's a common thing, but it's a bit like saying I'm going to go play World Series (as opposed to baseball). But yeah, I'd still probably go 16 gauge. But I need dexterity in my fingers for work so I can't have them get hurt.

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