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Harry Marinakis

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Harry Marinakis

His squire should be flogged for allowing his haubergeon to get so dang rusty.

Harry Marinakis

Your experiment is well-designed and should produce some insight, although your number n is too low to be of statistical significance. I commend your effort and look forward to seeing the results.

Harry Marinakis

Great stuff
I bought one his helmets last year
I gotta see if one of these would fit me

Harry Marinakis

Hi Jonathon, I haven't found anyone who makes truly comfortable period shoes or boots. My feet end up hurting a lot when I spent a lot of time in period shoes/boots. I find that I am constantly switching footwear to keep the pain under control - period shoes/boots, non-period boots and sandals. Boot...

Harry Marinakis

coreythompsonhm wrote:Boom.

Is that bad?

Harry Marinakis

I work with oxygen in a scuba compressor, which also involves the use of a 2-stage welding O2 regulator for my oxygen feed. If you rebuild your oxygen regulator, but sure that all of your parts get "oxygen clean" - the best way to do this is an ultrasonic cleaner and an appropriate cleaning agent. U...

Harry Marinakis

IMGP0495.jpg Here is my first attempt at any kind of leather work. It's a stainless-steel canteen (a Civil War reenactment canteen) wrapped in leather. Took about 4 hours to make. Pretty simple. It ain't pretty but it holds 750 ml of beer. My next project is a 2 liter stainless steel costrel, wrapp...

Harry Marinakis

I dunno nuthing 'bout anything, but I agree with CTrumbore.

My thought: If you pull everyone's auth, you might as well not reinstate them, 'cause you just make a whole bunch of enemies for life.

Harry Marinakis

Wow, really great work

Harry Marinakis

Maybe it's cheating, but I use a stainless steel canteen in the appropriate shape and wrap it in leather using the techniques shown in these tutorials. With some creativity you can hide the steel spout with leather, and no one has to know... With the costrel shown in the OP, you can use a wooden one...

Harry Marinakis

I've seen numerous YouTube videos on how to make these, don't have the links handy.

Harry Marinakis

It's all good!

Harry Marinakis

For SCA heavy fighting I use 10-12 oz. cuir bouilli leather for my greaves, it's plenty heavy enough. Soak your leather in warm water until it's thoroughly saturated. Then do any tooling that you have planned, and finally dye the leather while it is still moist. Let the leather drip-dry until it's n...

Harry Marinakis

I'm not sure that a guide based on examples of SCA kits is the way to go. The guide should be based on images for paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and extant examples. A few examples of some nice SCA kits would round out your guide, but the SCA kits should not be the focus. The Dawn of Chivalry k...

Harry Marinakis

Wow, makes me want to change my harness just so that I could wear these... Nice!

Harry Marinakis

Well, they may not "period" but here's what I decided to buy, from Sandali on Etsy.

Harry Marinakis

I placed another order with Lorifactor and received some really nice stuff. Their work is fantastic. Here is a nice belt that I ordered, a stamped design in red leather, numerous mounts, and a wonderful buckle and strap end.

Harry Marinakis

I ordered a custom gambeson from Kokosh, it was very well made and communication was excellent.
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Why do you call it a "dangerous website?"

Harry Marinakis

I placed another order with Armour & Castings and, once again, the products were outstanding. This time the order took 8 weeks, but it was worth the wait.

I highly recommend this company for all sorts of castings like belt buckles, strap ends, belt mounts, chapes, etc.

Harry Marinakis

Primvs Pavlvs wrote:Are you portraying a Crusader?

Late 12th Century German Crusader under Barbarossa

Crappy 12th C period footwear is not very supportive and my feet hurt after a few days.
I would like to wear some sandals at Pennsic, something different than my Tevas!

Harry Marinakis

Trying to find something to wear at Pennsic beside period boots/shoes. Sandals would be nice.

Harry Marinakis

Great, all I need to look "period" in sandals is a pair of Burkenstocks.

Harry Marinakis

Harry Marinakis

Anyone have any references or documentation of medieval sandals? I have looked through Shoes and Pattens, and numerous illuminated manuscripts. The only images that I've been able to find of anything even remotely resembling sandals is in Romancing of Alexander: http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian...

Harry Marinakis

If 10th and 11th century chests look like 13th and 14th century chests... They don't. 10-12 C chests have more in common with Viking chests than medieval chests. Here are some chest/furniture links Small chest http://www.threeriver.org/marshal/chest_1.shtml Photos of English Medieval chests http://...

Harry Marinakis

Tailored shoulders with a leather CoP. The shoulder slope is anatomically correct. The leather was cut over my shoulder and over-lapped. Sewing and rivets hold the overlap together.

Harry Marinakis

You don't want a dyed belt, you want alum tanned leather

Harry Marinakis

I made a pattern for my CoP out of a thin craft cardboard but I split the pattern over the top of my shoulders and made a 5-inch overlap there. This allowed me to tailor the shoulders so that the CoP fabric sloped properly. The overlap also provided a thicker area to which to attach my spaulders, an...

Harry Marinakis

GOOD LUCK! 12th C is a notoriously-difficult period to research, as there is very little data out there. It's like there was a giant black hole in the Universe that sucked up everything between 1100 and 1200. I completed a 12th C medieval chest last year, I didn't find a whole lot of information. Yo...

Harry Marinakis

RoundTop wrote:It is a fairly simple process

Speak for yourself. I tried it with twisted wire and it was a disaster. You have to keep the twisted wire under tension, otherwise it retracts and balls up into an impossible tangle of wire.

Harry Marinakis

John S. wrote:(2)Are the alcohol dyes actually ethanol?

The Fiebing solvent does seem to be a water-soluble hydrocarbon like isopropyl alcohol. I dilute my Fiebing's dye with rubbing alcohol.

Harry Marinakis

Thanks Ernst. So I've been doing a lot of research and I've found some interesting things... I'll post details in a day or two with specific dates and references. It seems that these "vertical" scabbard suspensions were the norm up until the middle of the 13th Century. There seems to be an endless v...

Harry Marinakis

Yes, Ernst, and now we have Albert Hartshorne agreeing with us, that the belt worn outside of the scabbard is actually the primary sword belt

Harry Marinakis

Not being satisfied with the answers that I received here, I decided to do a bit more research on this matter. I found an article The Sword Belts of the Middle Ages by Albert Hartshorne in the Journal of Archeology , Volume XLVIII (47), from the year 1891. in this article, Hartshorne actually delves...

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