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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by cheval: MF: "...EMAs tend to drag the back foot up to meet the front after stepping...(still don't understand why it would be useful)." For kicking. It's quicker to shift al...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Giles of Redheugh: Freiman, If memory is the second thing to go... What was the first? Giles<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I've been trying all night. I can't remember. freiman

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by cheval: Giles: "I started at age 31, and just stepped down this weekend from my 1st Reign." Yeah, but it was only Drachenwald. Any schoolgirl with a lunchbox and a lollipop ...

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Well, I ain't proud of myself. I just talked to her. I brough up the possibility that fighting dispite a serious medical condition might be considered "a danger to yourself". I did not say that such a thing WAS "danger to yourself". I suggested that an authorization marshal might ask her (on her hon...

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Elias, The lady in question has something nasty wrong with her right shoulder. As we get older, we get different pops and crackles in our joints, but this young lady is in her mid twenties and has more noise coming from her shoulder than I have heard from men twice her age. She says (and I believe h...

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Guys, I have a question. We have a new fighter in our local shire. She has "a shoulder with sound effects". She CAN fight sword and sheild, but not for very long. Extended sword and board fighting causes pain. She wants to authorize for heavy combat. Kingdom authorization rules indicate that she aut...

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Guys,

I sort of asked this question a couple of months ago, but I believe that I asked it in the wrong fashion.

Does anyone know if the romans (or, for that matter anybody in period) used baking soda (bicarbonate of soda) at all?

Thanks
freiman

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Well,

I have an answer to my own question.

When deying in a warmish place, the drying time on a mix of roughly two parts boiled linseed oil to three parts turpentine is about thiry six hours.

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I just put a boiled linseed oil finish on a Saxon Lyre. This Lyre is based on the illustrations in the Durham Cassiodorus, rather than the Sutton Hoo ship burial. He difference is that the Cassiodorus illustration is round on the top and bottom while the Sutton Hoo Lyre is reproduced more or less fl...

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(adopts best "bardic" voice...) I have a Bearkiller story, that might pertain to the "unbelt, redbelt, whitebelt" idea... My friend Authorized with the same day as me, at a Grey Niche fighter practice. The next week was the tourney of Lugh in Grey Niche. My Armor wasn't ready, and I sat out the list...

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Stud,

they found Byzantine spoons and bowls in the Sutton Hoo Ship Grave.

Byzantine can be plausibly used for just about any personna.

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Ted, Please forgive my obnoxious and unthoughtful reply to your good idea. I forget myself some times. You really deserve an apology. Before I start, let me say that there are certainly ten people on this board (or more) who know a lot more about this than me. There is a German "midieval city" calle...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Ted Banning: It has been pointed out to me that if I make a lock I'm obligated to make something to mount it on. I generally like middle to late period, c1400-1600. Since I am ...

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How did you start out?

I was invited to come to an event in Arkansas by a girl I thought I was in love with. I came home and immediately found that the local group was about to be â€œnukedâ€

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Well, I asked around here at work (I am a teacher) and every single fourth grader in the survey said that the helms are "pointy and dorky looking" Fourth graders may be the perfect folks to determine whether or not a thing is actually "dorky looking". This does not mean anything except that the helm...

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Signo,

You'll get a much better response from these folks if you give them a date and a location...

say (for instance) mid-eleven hundreds in Ireland, or late fourteen hundreds in Sicily

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Thanks Steve (SoFC) thanks for the wonderful link. I do have a question about one of the plates, if you could answer. in plate 84 of the link (as below) http://www.tempora-nostra.de/index_f_neu.shtml?manesse0-9 Is the knight (whos arms are displayed at the top of the page) the person operating the c...

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I read somewhere that one of the duties of a squire was to push a barrel of sand around that contained his knight's chainmaile.

I take that to mean that your idea has been done already.

go for it.

Or get a couple of squires.

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I have five piece elbows. I have a strap coming from the corners of the top and bottom lame. I have a buckle about an inch out from the outside side of the lame. Make sure of two things. one- that you are able to reach the buckle. It seems like a no brainer, but it's real easy to get a buckle in a s...

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Therion, A litttle while ago we talked about the awesome black and white late period suit you had made a plastic copy of to go and play SCA stick stuff. It had no codpiece. I went to the Museum in Nuremberg, and got this pic. [url=http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/forgotten_castle/vwp?.dir=/&.src...

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I disagree with the majority of folks here on the board about sixteen gauge helms. I think that depending on where and how you fight, sixteen gauge is adequate. I use a sixteen gauge helm. I switched to this one because I was getting neck problems. I have fought nine Pennsic Wars and one crown list ...

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jcesarelli: Does anyone know of any historical references for a war hammer like this one: http://home.armourarchive.org/members/joseph/lutel%20italian%20war%20hammer.jpg [/QUOT E] I think it might look kinda similar to one in Stone's Glossary. The piece is figure 3...

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Sebastian, I am a firm believer in smaller round sheilds, and I believe that a speed limit sign from the recyclery counts as "recycling", when you make a sheild out of it. Sir Nasr, our firmer Earl Marshall, used to use one like that. As for there being no knights in your area, were you aware that D...

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I have had a beautiful set of gauntlets for about 10 years. They were made by Alan Baudree back when I used to stand outside his booth and play music because I was so bad I had to hunt an audience down. The gauntlets are absolutely beautiful, and they are functional. My hands are important to me. I ...

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Two, well, three, but one is one another continent, and only shows up for Pennsic. Man, this is really embarassing. One of which was supposed to be an SCA version of a "munitions grade sutton hoo". Roman cheek plates welded to a two peice welded dome, with slats in the back and a bar grill to make i...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gwen: Just so there is no confusion, and because I love the irony of this, please note that St. Martin is being knighted with a [b]dark brown belt, and it's the -minstrel- who ...

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Good Gentles, There is a new lady in our local group who is looking into which period of time she wants to do. She seems to be interested in the early celts. I don't really know anything about "the celts". She has asked me about "the celts" and I know essentially nothing. She is willing to do some a...

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Danish, I just asked a question about maile on this very board. I have figured out the secret of maile. Those who love maile should make it. Every one else should buy it from those who love to make it. four on one is the only pattern I know. When I decided I might want maile, I figured it might be a...

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Good Gentles, I went to a local store today and tried on some off the rack chainmaile. My wife had noticed it and told me that if I wanted it for Christmas she would get it for me. Of course I had to try it on, to see if it fit. The maile is a just above the mid thigh shirt (haubrick?), with long sl...

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Daniel, You probably know this. I didn't until you made me want to look it up. The breastplate is called a "do" and Yahoo found me several for sale in a short time. Some of them are quite lovely. The seem to start about 300$ try http://www.e-bogu.com/kendo-equipment-do.html This is the only commerci...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by lorenzo2: There are shields pictured in this edition of Froisart which is from the 1460s. http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/amanuscrit.htm <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Thank...

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I went back and corrected my size information on the previous post, and I believe that the URL ceased to work when I did.

here it is again.

http://photos.groups.yahoo.com/group/forgotten_castle/lst?.dir=/freimandithis/uglyhelm&.src=gr&.order=&.view=t&.done=http%3a//briefcase.yahoo.com/

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Well, guys, this is my entry. Since we are supposed to "name" our entries, I think I will name this one "loaner orange" for obvious reasons. the story (what good is it without a story); I lost a bet, and wore this through the field battle at Gulf Wars V. I should get extra points because I wore this...

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I was taught that the back heel will push downward at the instant of the strike. This allows the blow to draw power from the stance.

I should add that I am not a "big stick" just a minstrel.

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Vebrand: There was a German Count(whose name I can't think of) in the late 1300 early 1400 hundreds who was slain during the seige of Burg Lahndsthul near Ramstein. He had s...

authorizations - medical question

baking soda (romans?)

boiled linseed oil finishes on wood.

Pic for Therion

Comittee for the Prevention of Genericelts

Maile Questions