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I usually cut my one handed swords at about one meter. That's a little more than three feet. With these, I use a cup or basket hilt. For a sword you use with two hands, four and a half feet is a little short, but don't let that stop you. As far as I know, there is no rule saying that you cannot use ...

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pics show "x"s for me.

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I also have a frog-faced grand bascinet that attaches to the b & b with straps. Neither one spins or endangers my face without a chin strap. The military chin strap I used for marshal inspections on my bascinet (then I'd take it off as it served no purpose) . Bascot, I have a real problem with this...

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"and i heard the story from another kane-house member, elglin and his "lil brother" peregrine(both in kaffa now as well)... " Bela, I have inadvertantly mislead you. There are three separate households involved in these stories. His Grace Duke Sir Kane is a Peer, so he has his associates. They are ...

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Well, I feel stupid. I emailed my friend from Berlin, and she said it was real. I am typing, not cut and pasting, so I might make some typos. She said, "Yeah, it's real. Not really worthy of a place in a museum though, unless it's a small local museum." And she said "late 1500s had well-espablished ...

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Lynxicanus, My pell is a pair of tires, hanging by a chain from the rafters in my barn. I use a small tractor tire for the upper one, and a bigger car tire for the lower one, so it is kind of like fighing with a deranged snowman. I like to get the thing swinging, so that I am not hitting a stationar...

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OK, I cracked a book or two, and I figured out what I feel is odd about the five line staff. Please note, I still could be very, very wrong about this. I really know very little about period music notation. The book is mixing elements of Ars Nova (new notation) and Ars Antiqua (ancient notation). Bo...

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No, it's not genuine. I can't prove that, without seeing the book, but I would bet my guitar on it. I don't know enough about manuscripts to tell you why, but this is Bogus. The appearance is suspicious to me. I do not own any books from the sisteenth century, but I do own one page from a book of or...

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Hey Frieman, Tell us about the time you made smurf punch. Lachlann What are you talking about? I thought that was before your time. I was an absolute newbie, like my third event. I was eighteen. I am thirty five now. If you ask anyone who knew me at the time, they will tell you that not only was I ...

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Please attribute the effigy. I have a sword with that particular pommel, and a (sort of) matching dagger. Both were gifts, and I was really hoping that they were based on some sort of historical piece.

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All right, I am In Service to Kane's lady, Illissa the Nightwatcher. I have known Kane for about fifteen years. The Story about Kane is true, with a few small embellishments (smaller than I would make them) and as far as I know, Kane was never a squire. In addition, Seamus the Blue (the painted fell...

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In modern fencing terms, "Right of way" is when the attacker extends his/her arm to thrust or lunge. If the arm is bent you do not have right of way. If your opponent extends his arm out first for a thrust, you may regain right of way, by parry and riposte. Right of way is one of the aspects used b...

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Eynar, From what little I have read, the answer is "It depends" Storming a castle was costly in terms of lives. That was why folks built castles. It was usually preferable to use starvation and disease do the work for you. Beseigers would often put considerable effort into cutting a castle off from ...

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of course, for the past couple of years, I have used a steel sheild.

I should have included that in the above post.

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I have always used a 24" round sheild since coming to Drachenwald. I have used them side strapped, and I am currently using a center grip. I am not sure, but I think that is the size that Duke Paul reccomends for a training sheild. They do something funky with them, like cut them to 22" in one direc...

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Guys,

I will be a position soon where I will need to understand fencing Right of way.

I have always found this to be almost incomprhensible.

If somebody here understands it, please explain it to me.

freiman

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you could use strap style articulation and hardened leather lames. the four holes would work pretty well for strap articulation.

It's not real articulation, but it would work, and it would not look too bad.

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Ashtrays? Hats for Bad *ss Chihuahua's?

Oh, wait, you want something that has to with armour, don't you?

Put a vanbrace on them and give them out as largess.

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The big shields in Devon's example are usually called "hewing shields" and they were specifically a judicial thing. I've seen them shown used two handed with no other weapon and used in conjunction with a baton. In one pic one guy has baton and hewing shield while the other guy has his baton in his...

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I read but did not reply, as I don't expect that I will be buying armour in the next few months. Since you said that you need my input (boy, you must be hard up for that ) I think that you probably need to look at what sold last year. Work on bringing your cost down as much as possible on those piec...

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"Why is it that alot of SCA fighters want to use crazy weapons not correct for the impression they are portraying? There are Vikings with katanas, Celts with katars, 12th century German knights with flamberge! Has anyone ever ruled that certain weapons are forbidden to certain personas in a tourney?...

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Center grip shields did not actually disappear. As methods of killing one another improved, soldiers changed their defenses to meet the new threats, but the shields were still manufactured, and I assume still used, for a long, long time. Henry VIII's bodyguards were issued center grip pistol shields...

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Ring mail appears to have either been used very little, or not at all in midieval Europe. It seems to be the product of shorthand techniques for the drawing of "chain maile". There was a nice fellow here not too long ago who said he had seen fairly compelling evidence that at least some sorts of rin...

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well, Todd,

Where's part two? I am the proud owner of a new sword without a scabbard, and I am watching this thread pretty closely.

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Wrong Board. This belongs on the Combat and weapons board. I think you will receive better responses there. There are three things that come to mind when you ask about CA crossbow prods. First is Alchem, which makes crossbow prods out of metal, steel I think. I seem to recall that they run about six...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Summits-Ogier: Greetings Brother, Note: I removed the pictures so as to shorten the thread length. [This message has been edited by Summits-Ogier (edited 01-29-2004).]</...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by new_craftsman: What are the basic tools I should pickup to start tooling leather? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> NC, I saw this and decided to do a quick google search to find a basi...

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Dangit! Even as I type this, I am rolling my eyes at myself. Ask David Drake, Who writes for Baen Books. He has written a fiction book that discusses this throne. I imagine that he has some sort of sources. You probably wont be able to get past the publisher, but it's worth an e-mail. In the fiction...

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Wulfgaard, I have a question, while you are still around. Do you wet shape your the teardrop shaped spangen "plates" in your caps? Are they mostly flat, or do you have some other way to put a dish into them? It seems that trying to force a "dish" into the spangens would probably double your assembly...

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Bri's husband, Chris (SKA Radu) makes some of the loveliest SCA weapons I have ever seen. Of couse, making wooden weapons was a hobby of his long before he found the SCA.

Maybe she will post a pic or two.

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Sebastian V., I did not, to the best of my knowlege, receive an e-mail from you. I am trying to do away with a four year old hotmail account, that was getting about three hundred spam messages a day. Please check to make sure that you are sending the mails to the account that is current in my profil...

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Folks, I would like to ask a difficult question. I am not positive that there is any one "Correct" answer, but I figure that asking it is still worth doing. What, in your opinion, is a "proper" fighting training program. While I have mostly done SCA fighting, I very much do not want to limit the dis...

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NC, I will attempt to answer your questions about Wulfgaard's armour. I would like to take a second to say that you can certainly copy this professional armourer's designs, but it would be much better to make your own design, using his as an inspiration. DO NOT USE MY ANSWERS TO HELP YOU SELL COPIES...

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NC, I can't really answer your questions, but I think I help, sort of. You can make the armour in the pictures, and make better, if you want. Leather Armour is a lot of fun to make, and it is one my very favorite things in the world to look at a piec I have just finished, and even try it out in comb...

can somebody explain Fencing Right of Way to me?

A "Proper" training program