The Armour Archive

mordreth

Any piece of armor can fail, any piece of armor can be overcome. I try to avoid breaking opponents it's a silly little prejudice of mine.

mordreth

....... Now, I just hit them in the armpit, throat or nuts if they didn't take the first half dozen polite shots. If they complain, then we can have a discussion about why this befell them. Two out of the three you just listed don't stand much of a chance of croaking you. If you're targeting the la...

mordreth

....... Now, I just hit them in the armpit, throat or nuts if they didn't take the first half dozen polite shots. If they complain, then we can have a discussion about why this befell them. Two out of the three you just listed don't stand much of a chance of croaking you. If you're targeting the la...

mordreth

Awsome, all I have to practice within Iraq is Duke Paul's material and a this should give me weeks and months of excellent material. Malcolm If your base has access to old manuals they can be of some use WWI bayonet drill traces to McClellans drill traces to French drill traces to pike drill. Von S...

mordreth

I have no problem facing it, I tend to grip the ground as I move so it's not in my 5"8' repitior.
Other hand
I once had someone jump at me (Pensic) from a slope, I swung and caught him in the thigh with a greatsword. The landing and sounds he
produced were spectacular

mordreth

Some afternoon go buy a pound of sticks, take a piece of scrap sheet steel, and practice doing your christmas trees, and keeping the arc constant.
You'll be amazed at what an hour of "doodling" will do for you

mordreth

Find a convenient ant hill and bury the bone next to it, come back in a couple of months

mordreth

It's a good system, I use a similar one but I attach it to the front of the basket, with very little "excess" leather hanging around my wrist

mordreth

Here is an idea I saw at a friends woodworking area of his basement. Box fan with a furnace filter attached to the "pull" or "intake" side of the fans frame and any areas uncovered by the filter was blocked by added cardboard. simple and direct. I was going to say the same thing, it's the system I ...

mordreth

When I first came on this board I pointed out - there is no drill for use of a WWI entrenching tool - there is no manual that shows how to properly file the edges to produce a good clean cutting edge - there are no illuminations of heroic soldiers defending their trench with a sharpened entrenching ...

mordreth

TECH nically "WMA" as a brand label still includes actual surviving western martial arts. Please exuse my ignorance. Which WMA inherit a living tradition? m Mtr Martinez studied under Mtr. Rhodes. I have always kicked myself that I didn't make time to learn from that amazing old man in the 70's - 8...

mordreth

I'll second the recommendation on Centaur. They have a good selection of steel rivets, and sell a good selection of sizes of copper rivets & burrs

mordreth

........................... Remember, horses don't die instantly or easily anymore than men do, unlike Hollywood portrayals to the contrary. If a 1200 lb horse is galloping into a shield wall at 20 mph and an arrow pierces its heart killing it instantly, the speed of the mass of flesh will still bo...

mordreth

The landschnecht battle Pikes, Halberds, and Greatswords. A small percentage of each army could have sword and buckler. no heater shields, or kites that make all you late periods guys happy? The early period shields, swords, maces, and one handed spears. A small percentage of each army could use dan...

mordreth

1. Right hand up, left leg back -Ended up smacking shots into my friend's shield... Raise your trainling hand to change the angle of the attack. If your right hand is at mid chest, and your left is at about hip level your attacks are coming into your opponent at a very acute angle making it easier f...

mordreth

Nissan Maxima wrote:An artwork for the occasion (Holbein, photoshop and me)

you should be so skinny

mordreth

So none of you guys are the "tape it to a popsicle stick and take a week off sort"? I guess the SCA has gotten smarter as an organisation Quick tip - ambesol on unbroken skin does a great job numbing fingertips chuckle.. that crowd just hasn't chimed in. Josh, be patient with the cast and all - it ...

mordreth

This has been an excellent conversation - thank you all

mordreth

With hafted, or polearms I tend to "break the stave about its quarters" and shift my hands from spot to spot rather than shifting my body around to move the weaopn head
Again a matter of personal prefernce and style

mordreth

Aaron !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! right foot forward, left hand leading on top is an invitation to turn every attack on the left leg or hip into a slam into your cup. If it reaches there. The shot needs to travel nearly a foot further, while I hammer away at a strike a second... I just figured moving the mos...

mordreth

As has been mentioned already swing your hips into a blow when you're felling trees, or driving stakes. When you're fighting you should have your body positioned already to strike advance the weapon with your leading hand, guiding it onto your opponent. Now I'm lost. Everything I know about the bes...

mordreth

Which foot do you start off on? What I mean is, when you stand in your stance, is your left foot or your right foot forward? Right foot forward now. I used to be left, but I'm trying to deprive my opponent of that target. So I have my left hand up, right leg forward. Think of a left-handed baseball...

mordreth

The links that have already been posted are excellent
Buy a good quality de-burring tool. You're going to be drilling or punching more holes than you thought possible, and all of them need to be claeaned up if you want your lacing to last

mordreth

So none of you guys are the "tape it to a popsicle stick and take a week off sort"?
I guess the SCA has gotten smarter as an organisation

Quick tip - ambesol on unbroken skin does a great job numbing fingertips

mordreth

the sound you hear from the southwest is a great sigh of relief

mordreth

It is possible to use a greatsword at very close range against a sword and shield fighter, but it requires a lot of effort, and is exausting. I stay at very close range at about a fourty five degree angle to my opponents preferred plane of attack, with my right sholder just about at teh dead center ...

mordreth

I went back to look at the original pictures you posted - Dark apprentice raised a huge point - are those copper or brass rivets, or God forbid two piece leather rivets? What is the spacing (between rivets) you used when you assembled the helm? Do you actually have enough room to add a plate, or rei...

mordreth

Jeff J wrote:Can you bend over in that rigid skirt?

Maybe a bunny dip?

mordreth

Where did you post them?

mordreth

Dishing 2mm stainless?
Lent doesn't start for another week

mordreth

The East uses the societys armor regs
http://www.sca.org/officers/marshal/com ... ndbook.pdf
The helm section starts at page 9

I'll have to see a picture of your helm to have any opinion - the description is giving me hives

mordreth

Top of the ear, or earlobe? If you're talking a skullcap with a faceplate there isn't enough mail and padding to make that work safely. If you're talking a helmet that covers your skull and c-1 maybe you can get away with a padded hood, and mail depending on what else you wear If you go to m the pic...

mordreth

I actively discourage 16 gauge helms at the local practice, and won't let anyone I'm responsible for go out in less than 14ga - and at that I expect a 14 gauge helm to have a one to two year useable life - so the regon does hit with remarkible authority. The times when I have been in a filthy enough...

mordreth

I attended one colonial construction workshop where the instructor made the comment that if all of your solutions look like hammers you will try to make all of your problems look like nails. In my own case I was trained into a very focused direct style where the main goal is to have any strike "stic...

mordreth

Gentles all I would not take the same defensive stance against a halberdier, that I take against a pikeman, let alone a man armed with sword and shield. There is no "one true stance" used in defense, A lot of this arguement seems to revolve around the one true way to attack. Only a rare fool would a...

Re: commemorative artwork