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freiman the minstrel

Sebastian,

I have a real problem with wearing out gambesons. I seem to go through them about two a year.

I have finally found one that I really like, from a Pennsic Merchant. Do you think that your lady could make me two copies a year?

And are you coming to St Mathieu's?

freiman

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Folks, I have this student who is ordering armour. She is about to want to suit up and spar. She's going to need a jill, but she hasn't asked me about it yet. I expect that she will. I looked at Century Martial arts, and they have a jill that looks right for the job, but the largest waist size avail...

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there are some pictures of barred burgonettes in Stone's Glossary. I seem to remember that all of them are verticle bars. Somebody who knows more than me told me that verticle bars will mess with your "shot tracking" if you have not trained with them. Never having used a verticle bar grille helmet, ...

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Eowyn, While looking at your pics, I find myself wondering about shots to your belt. Leaving aside the old joke "It hit my belt, I don't have to call it", do you find that you get hit on the tip of your hip bones a lot? I am frequently coming home from prractice with some nice blue ones. Is the gap ...

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the scabbard that was buried in the sutton hoo burial (about 650 AD) was wood, lined with wool.

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(Edited to change 750 to 650, typing error)

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It seems to me (and take it for what it's worth) that the answer depends on what you are shooting for. If you are shooting for historical accuracy, then the answer is "what culture and period are you doing?" It seems like the French Chivalry in the hundred years war did not do a lot of archery, and ...

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I get the feeling that LARPG is acceptable on this site as long as the attempt is made to make the LARPG as historicaly accurate as is practical. While this site is about armour, we do have a number of topics (and even a board) about nothing but fighting, or research. These folks are pretty acceptin...

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I seem to recall Karate-do Kyuhan had a very clear and concise essay on the manufacture of a Maki-wara (japanese punching target). Lots of pictures even. It may have been another book, but I think it was Kyuhan. Ask your public library to ILL it for you, you might decide that you need it in your per...

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Winterfell,

Thanks for trying,

I made a quick and dirty page on Geocities.

Try this

http://www.geocities.com/lordfreiman/swordanddagger.html

Thanks again,
freiman

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Guys, As I posted earlier, I received a sword for Christmas. It was made in the Chech Republic, probably late last year. I don't really know anything about it. Oddly enough, I was given a lovely dagger a couple of years ago by Larcombe (who runs Fantasy Cutlery, out of Jackson, Tn) to use as a costu...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Murdock: Aemma and Arma have a bunch of resorces. For SCA fighting due to the rules set up sword and shield are the most effictive for most people. <HR></BLOCKQUO...

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Oddly enough, I was taught that a Kama was an Okinawan Sickle...

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While we are on the subject of unusual sheilds, has anyone ever done any experimenting with Judicial sheilds, or throated judicial sheilds, ala Tallhoffer? I have often thought that they looked fairly easy to make. Since they (and any other offensive sheilds) are pretty much verboten due to SCA rule...

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is it just me, or does that look like Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king from nightmare before christmas?

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for training sheilds, which have to last a good long while, I use (round) twenty four inch diameter, half inch thick plywood disks. I rim them with aluminum shelf channel, and cover them with canvass stuck on with elmers glue. The canvass really seems to help. Paint also sticks better to primed canv...

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Well, I started to do a web search on leather armor to find links. I didnâ€™t find exactly what I was looking for in about thirty seconds, and I decided to do this the hard way. This is probably stupid of me, as I at best an indifferent armorer, and there are excellent armorers on this board. Since ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Wolfess Rampant: I am facing a similar problem. I've seen very few examples of women's armor where...pardon my tactlessness...the boobs aren't humongous and very very...um, ...

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well, For a while I used something that I incorrectly called a "wing sheild". It was essentially a six inch by fourteen inch piece of plywood, with handgrips. It was designed to allow me to use blocks I used in Karate in SCA combat. I strapped it across my forearm and tried to use tournament Karate ...

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well, the first Drachenwald crown I fought in had seven entrants. The second had eight. BUT! Before you say how easy it would be to be a king in Drachenwald, consider that it means traveling to events from the arctic circle (Border Wars) to Capetown, South Africa (Here There Be Dragons) with the ass...

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Guys, I am thinking about the subject of trust as it pertains to training. Each fighter has to trust their opponent, a student has to trust their trainer, and each fighter has to trust themselves. Have you ever inadvertantly betrayed the trust of a student or an opponent? Have you ever given your tr...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Cunian: They may not know "the power of armour". I got hooked by a roommate shoving a helm on my head and whacking me - hard. When it didn't even begin to hurt, I laughed hyste...

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you can tape a quarter or two to the base of the hilt if it's only a little off.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by carlyle: Also, what do you do with clowns like me who, if I hit the sword and not the target, will actually leave my sword on top of yours so that I can control it until I e...

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I was taught something called "making your fist into a sheild". To do it, you dress in full armor, and have your opponent throw a shot at you. You block it with the minimum movement required. next your opponent throws two shots, block them both, with minimum movement. next three, then four, ect. It ...

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Flonzy, I don't think I would like to be in the house with something that A) can cut my toes off, and B) can fall over onto my foot, BUT, this thing has an edge that is at least one and a half milimeters thick, machined off, flat. I think it is a rebated sword. I am not positive about whether it is ...

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I attach my tips with a whole lot of little strips of strapping tape. I make them out of three layers of camping foam. I contact cement them together when I happen to have both the time and the contact cement. It doesn't seem to make a difference whether I do or not. Afterwards, I wrap the tip in a ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Cingetorix: The surface doesn't look like a bunch of little plates, and I don't have any HCl.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> HCL is battery acid. Since you just need a drop or...

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Guys, My students chipped in together and bought me a sword from Prague. It is one of the hawk marked sword marked jobbers they make there. How should I care for it? Should I oil it? Should I sharpen it? It has an edge kind of like a splitting wedge right now. Where can I get the metal mountings for...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Marvin: And Freiman, I'm gonna take you to task buddy! You've been gone too long! Small Gray Bear has produced some really fine fighters over the last few years. We've even ...

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It's a crusader era saltshaker. think about thirteenth century.

Watch this. The folks on this archive are great. They will almost certainly (within 24 hours) nail down the decade, and tell you whether it shows signs of being from one particular country or another.

These guys know their stuff.

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Wyrm, It sound like you are doing a lot of fighting at your practices and not a lot of practicing. The question of free hits? All the time. We don't have a pell at our practices, and so the way to teach a shot is "Here, do it really slow at my head." Later, as the student knows how to throw basic bl...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by edward atte flynt: You are in little rock?? You have an exellent armour in house. Kauss does some great work. Next time you hang out with any Grey Nichers find Caitriona of ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Rev. George: Read that armoured rose book. either it will seem like she's describing you, or she will sound like freud's sexist cousin. however, she does go over some shots,...

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Ew,

Wouldn't breathe worth a flip. Take the extra time. make a gambeson with cotton batting.

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OK, guys, about a week ago posted to this board saying that I am starting to get a little curious about Japanese sword forms. I asked if anybody knew where I could look at one on the web. I have found about half a dozen places that I could order a video tape of sword Katas for about thirty dollars. ...

A question about gear for women

Please Identify my sword

trust

Care and feeding of my new sword like object

OK, any non-western European sword form, at all,