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Derian le Breton wrote:
mordreth wrote:We agreed on something?

had to happen sooner or later

It happens more often than you'd think.

-Derian.

glad to hear that - buy you a beer sometime

mordreth

I bought a pair of the laced boots years ago - I love them Ditto. No problems with the nails pulling out. I've had mine since 2002, and they're still going strong. -Derian. We agreed on something? had to happen sooner or later Truly the natural order has been deranged. It's the End Times. Run away!...

mordreth

Derian le Breton wrote:
mordreth wrote:I bought a pair of the laced boots years ago - I love them

Ditto. No problems with the nails pulling out. I've had mine since 2002, and they're still going strong.

-Derian.

We agreed on something?

had to happen sooner or later

mordreth

I bought a pair of the laced boots years ago - I love them

mordreth

I don't know the story on this but revival.us is carrying the original style

http://revival.us/index.asp?PageAction= ... &ProdID=99

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Steve -SoFC- wrote:Can you be a good fighter if you have no beast?

a babboon can fight with an amazing level of ferocity, but it probably can't enter the void, so I have to think from a book of five rings basis oh yeah, big time

mordreth

I teach my folks to have the mindset of an early medieval gentleman - this is what I do for a living, nothing personal, this is just business. I think having a level of detachment when you go on the field leads to a more effective if less rabid style. I can't for the life of me remember the writer w...

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I've done some business with them, and have never been disappointed.

mordreth

Don't quote me when you're talking to them but when I called with a worn screw that I needed to replace they mailed me three of them on the arm - They're nice folks.

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AriAnson wrote:Everyone could pean a rivet...nobody could embroider a hanky.

Don't bet the rent check on that - I own a copy of Rosie Greers embroidery book for men

mordreth

Derian le Breton wrote:
mordreth wrote:The gent in the picture is in his 70's

According to the text he's 82.

-Derian.

I've been using his system for a while - lost track how how old the good Dr. is

mordreth

call them and order it - there are no repeat no standard sized screws that fit http://www.roperwhitney.com/

Whatever you do don't abuse a screw to the point that the lugs shear off - I can guarnaty endless hours of amusement trying to get it back out of the tool if you can't get a screwdriver to grip

mordreth

The muscles in your arm are lously greedly little oxygen suckers when doing aerobic activity - low weight high rep aerobic dumbbell training will do wonders fairly quickly
The gent in the picture is in his 70's
http://www.heavyhandsfitness.com/content.aspx?idx=54

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Blaine de Navarre wrote:To have people smile and thank me for whipping their asses.

There are a lot of clubs to suit your tastes in New York

mordreth

To strive for personal excellence
To prevent others from making some of the wrong turns I made over the years so that the chivalric culture grows, and purifies

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Matt - that's amazing

Adamo - I think I need to polish my kit a bit before meeting you

mordreth

his web site seems to be down

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What era?
If you're going for sixteenth century "Arms and Armor in Colonial America" has a bucketload on conquistedores

mordreth

Combat archery -- because it is vile

addendum - my knees are absolute shit
"I don't kneel because I can't" is pretty much the same.

mordreth

most hardware stores sell small (half length) sharpies - putting it in a sole leather tube should give it a reasonable chance of survival.

mordreth

For whatever it is worth - I use a combination of mail, a quilted arming hood, and a gorget. I don't believe that the rules should be written for a once in a lifetime fluke shot but I was facing Morguhn Sheridan of happy memory at an ice dragon years ago, he was going into a lunge when his foot slid...

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I was cleaning my helm last night and found a 1cm rough patch where a week ago big mean Duke Uther knocked me over and bounced my head off the tarmac. I have had a stunning blow or two at that practice tripping and hitting my head on the parking lot ground at BART practice. Never hurt my neck or an...

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A five foot hafted axe is short?

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Just a thought, A footsoldier would be wearing armor without a surcoat, a gentleman would be wearing armor and a surcoat, an SCA member would be wearing an elaborate heraldic surcoat without appropriate armor - for 1305 you could go for a gambeson, and reinforcing plates and have a more coherent loo...

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Surcoat material is thin (cotton?) 3 belts? Undershirt loooks modern...a longer one would hide the elbowpads, arms, etc... I would put heraldry on the surcoat. Eventually pick up a gambeson HOWEVER>>> overall you look fine! The above would simply "pimp you out" more. When I wear a surcoat...

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You are going to fight a real battle. Not a big battle- just a small skirmish. There will be no firearms- just edged weapons and impact weapons. You are on foot, swinging a 2-handed weapon, so no shield. You have the choice of any type of armor. What pieces of armor do you take, and what material i...

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Sean Powell wrote:. A better press that used better technology may not have this problem.

Good luck.
Sean

a large friend standing on the press while you dog it down is very helpfull

mordreth

try using manual transmission oil - run a line of it ahead of the bit on your cutting line

mordreth

Will try to free up a couple of weekends for this

mordreth

I've used a guige strap on my shields (when I use one of the darn things) for quite a while - particularly on a heater it makes a head block faster, and less taxing since you push forward towards your opponent to raise the shield rather than lifting into the block.

mordreth

a list legal version was the cover girl on TI about a year ago

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Sometimes things just do not get invented until they get invented. Then everyone looks at this oh-so-obvious solution to a problem, smacks themself in the forehead and says "why didn't I think of that?" We have lots of discussions like this- for instance, people are always debating why th...

mordreth

Sometimes things just do not get invented until they get invented. Then everyone looks at this oh-so-obvious solution to a problem, smacks themself in the forehead and says "why didn't I think of that?" We have lots of discussions like this- for instance, people are always debating why th...

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I'm not going to make it afterall due to some decisions by the US CEO (yest that actually does stand for cock eating overlord) of the bank I'm consulting with, hope to meet all of you good folks at another time.

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Have to do something to keep all the mail from getting wet. If there's lightning we do have a rather large tree to stand under .... Thor. I thought this was rainy season Rainy season starts when the sun is blindly bright and the rain is still falling. Then it gets dark and the storms come. In realit...

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