The Armour Archive

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Look on the bright side, from what I understand good Sir Virus believes Viscount Edward Zifran of Gendy, the good knight who trained me, hits hard and I'm still alive. Ed only hits hard, because he has managed to warp the laws of physics in his favor, and HE WONT SHARE THE SECRET RITUAL DAMMIT! Not...

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Look on the bright side, from what I understand good Sir Virus believes Viscount Edward Zifran of Gendy, the good knight who trained me, hits hard and I'm still alive.

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I am interested in taking at shot at assembling a cuirrasse using lamellar with flutes. Any suggestions for manufacturing the lamellae? Since I'm in the swamps of florida now, I want to work with stainless, and am thinking I might be able to use a coil of stainless from McMcaster Carr, but don't kn...

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Fragments of a bronze tank, the lamellas in arrow form from copper sheet struck and uebereinanderlappend by longer in a circle bent bronze pins connected with pointed ends. On the insides of remainders of the leather fodder, held by the same pins. So they are describing plates held togeather, and on...

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Zubeydah wrote:[img]http://zubeydah.northkeep.org/stuff/bethany/kiss.jpg[/img]

ok, less artsy, more 'girly-girl' LARPy girls kissing.

- z

I'll be in my bunk
(don't remember why anymore, oh yeah a nice nap that's it)

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or pictures from the sort of club where they pole dance for chicks

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not so late afterall

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Mords the other guy with a white belt - little taller, more hair

This is one of those threads that needs a stake through its heart

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feed ravens, not trolls

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The majority of the pictures you have posted are punched either on the sides only, or on the top and sides only. There is no bottom lacing hole This would make it more likely that they are pieces of scale armor, not lamellar (particularly your last picture) I totally forgot I had more pictures. I be...

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A tricky issue. Something that can;t be documented, should ALWAYS be represented properly as specualtion. But all speculation is not created equal, right? The Viking gambeson thing is hard. ... on the one hand, some sort of padding beneath mail seems like a no-brainer. OTOH, we have evidence that p...

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Doug I think you are moving this the wrong way Absense of evidence - we cannot show this ever was done, a popular method with good living history groups. We cannot show that this was done or know or used therefore we don't permit it in our re-enactment. ex - tieing a piece of embrodered cloth onto a...

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Peder

Absence of evidence, and evidence of absence are two wholly different things
With the academic creds you're trying to shine on other people I'm suprised you are not making that distiction.

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There was a chimp in the Manhattan Zoo years ago, he had apparently been abused by a keeper at a previous zoo, he liked women, like kids, liked guys in jeans and went bersek at the sight of a uniform. Mail man, postman, cop fireman, latin american strongman touring NYC (actually I kind of liked that...

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If there is a zen meditation group anywhere near you check into it to see what you can learn about diaphram breathing, breath control, and a number of related issues.
A lot of europeans (ancestry) don't know how to breathe

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If there are real barbecue supply places around you check with them for bulk orders of lump charcoal - it's not too bad once you start buying in 25 to 50 pound (or better)lots

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Bankers in the UK had the term LOMBARD back in the 80s
Lots Of Money, But A Real Dick

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Ostgardr cheers, Local Boy makes Good.

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What in Lord's name is that purple thing on your belt on your back. [img]http://pics.livejournal.com/fairestyarrow/pic/0004yd3q[/img] That would be a belt favor that my wonderful finacee lovingly and painstakingly hand sewed for me to wear. We need a balling my eyes out or my eyes are bleeding emot...

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Maeryk wrote:Hey.. thank god Disco is dead, or we'd have rampaging gangs of SCA nobility taking out entire dance clubs due to all the fraudulent white belts!

Well I still wonder if all of those old guys in Florida really earned theirs, seems a bit suspicious to me

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Alcyoneus wrote:
mordreth wrote:BUMP

What ever happened with the fake laurel down in Trimaris?

R&D.

And he stopped posting here, too.

I went back and looked at that crap a thon - I was amazed at who was and was not pissed off that guy.

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oil and a slightly coarser grade of emery cloth, or steel wool

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BTW - If you're building the helm that tight you can't afford a significant dent

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No, not a tiger-striped armor , and not in a "furry" way. A friend of mine is making a suit of samurai armor for SCA, and is interested in working in some sort of tiger motif. I have seen tiger pelt scabbards, and I thought Kato Kiyomasa may have worked one into a banner at some point. Be...

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Woot Woot Woot - any opportunity you get to train with Sir Strykar (Steve Hicks) should be grabbed.

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OK small plates joined by rings in Japan - primarily used on secondary armor
The attached picture shows an arm harness made with plates and mail, as part of a harness held togeather with lacings. If one is superior to the other wouldn't it have been used exclusively on an important mans armor?

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Staples are found on some roman equiptment - there is no arguement. I do not believe you can find any evidence of metallic fasteners used for lamellar harness' in Japan, China, or western asia The manual I quoted from specifies how equiptment was to be cared for, it makes no mention of metal fasten...

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Was it something I said?

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Like a carpenter the trooper cares for his tools

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Corwin of ArgentLupe wrote:There is rumor of a mercenary house located in the bowels of the East that has friendly ties to Atlantia.....

Heyyy

no mercinaries rummaging around in my bowels thank you

Hrrumph hrrrumph

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Staples are found on some roman equiptment - there is no arguement. I do not believe you can find any evidence of metallic fasteners used for lamellar harness' in Japan, China, or western asia The manual I quoted from specifies how equiptment was to be cared for, it makes no mention of metal fastene...

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Q Why do eunuchs cry at the racetrack

- They hate hearing "and they're off"

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Well that's ok then - no steel involved, and a dandy new middle eastern persona to research
Should be good for a laurel project

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BUMP

What ever happened with the fake laurel down in Trimaris?

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BTW - They look great with a dress shirt if you coordinate with the tie

Re: Japanese Armor Tiger Motif