The Armour Archive

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I have a beltring that I can carry a broadsword in, it has a couple of short chains with toggles that go through the cuffs of my gauntlets so I can just put them on my belt, when I use a shield it is slung from a gauge, and I usually just carry my helm, or wear it tipped back (Yeah, I'm trying to lo...

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SCA ca 1991 - This is the girl in red car

, and probably the only good picture of my gamboised cuisses

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Dante

I believe you were dealing with what is referred to here as a nutless shithead

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...just got approval from Drowning Pool to use their music on our video! Woohoo! Ordo is not SCA, not Tuchux, nor anything else out there. Rather than explain anything, just look at the action video. This video captured the 'Hardest Hits' of our 2008 tournaments during RenFest season. There were lo...

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Klaus the Red wrote:
first hauberk / current wife

Ah, I see. Chained male.

I've been thought three hauberks, and am still on my first marriage - kind of unusual when you come to it

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""I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode." - A letter written to the Ear...

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lots o old school

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I think that helm is probably a Polidor (pattern or kit). The eye slots are a little sloppy to actually have been cut by him, but they are exactly the shape that was popular there for a while in the late 70's. Polidor was the source for a lot of the spangen and barrel helms in the mid-late 1970's i...

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A quick question Lords & Ladies. My persona is Dacian, I am now desigining my new helm. The Dacians had a lot of influence in their armor, everyone from Greeks, to Romans, Mongols & Goths. I am drawn the the classic greek helm & was wondering if there are any greeks out there & if t...

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Giles de Bois Guilbert wrote:That axe kinda looked like a hoe, at first

naah ho's dress better n dat
nice impression

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Pennsic VI - either the first or second one at Coopers lake
first hauberk / current wife

For folks in the Middle Kingdom, the red haired gent in the center picture is Sir Lorimer

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True enough, but I think the "slat backs" are patterned after this, and are very early for a norman portrayal

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My father has a ton of very early 80's pics from Charleston, South Carolina (Hidden Mountain I believe it's called?). I will try to get some of them, but here is his old helmet, that was refurbished by me to wear twenty years later. Unfortunately is is not up to current standards. I hope to be able...

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I'm way early period so I don't have a comment on the helm, but I will say you don't want your mouth open all the way in the course of a fight

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addendum - there is a lot of whole grain chewy goodness in Sword and the Mind

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I received this reply on my Clans board I suspect there was some issue on the translation into English given Solveig's reply ************************************************* Noble Cousin! Greetings from Solveig! Unfortunately, the complete phrase: 「つけかけな...

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Jestyr wrote:I know they are popular in the SCA, but is there any evidence for a slat-back Norman helm?

Nope - they were in use a lot earlier

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Cross posted to Yama Kaminari clan board with a request for comment

I'll forward whatever comes across on it

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Regarding the Turban (or helmet cover more generaly) If you are going with Middle Eastern or Asiatic, You're not going for a no-helmet look -- rather a wrapped helmet look - see if you can find a batch of Persian manuscript illustrations to see how this looks (16th cent is most common) -- the point...

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So after learning the hard way that kydex gauntlets cannot stop a shot from a great axe well enough to prevent thumb injury, I was wandering around in REI today. I found this, which is a therapy ball designed for rock climbers. It looks ideally suited to hand rehab and strengthening for fighters, t...

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If I could ever run across another plant like the it would be tiny lamellar time

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Hard bitter old men get that way by outliving other people fun thing with the scales - I worked as a porter in an electrical supply factory - the scales on that shirt were 18 gauge brushed stainless, if you look real close they would fit perfectly in either of the holes in a wall electrical outlet p...

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Agnarr wrote:
ArmourArchive wrote:Get back on that corner and make me my money, trick!

put on that old grey bustle,
and get out there and hustle
for tomorrow the rent falls do
Go off to the underpass and peddle that ass
and if don't make it on one try for two

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First armor ca 1975 steel scale and mail (freon can is absent)

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Check the Chivalry board, he is carrying a different shield in fulfillment of a vow.

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The traditional Italian (sicilian) marionette theatre used plate for most of the "Orlando" (Roland) stories so it's a question of what era of the theatre they are going for m fun article m I went to one "opera" in little italy in the 80's to see Roland fight the evil moors - it w...

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First from left - Lord Hunsdon. His impresa is three feathers encircled with the motto, Semper (Always). The arms of John of Bohemia who died at Crecy charging the english line with the men leading his horse - he was blind and fought with a flail His valor was such that the three feathers were taken...

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a sabre saw and wood finish / metal cutting blades does a great job on sole leather

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I think the take home message here is that a whole lot of people (almost exclusively men) suffer massive amounts of debilitating injury for our entertainment. That's the real power of the American consumer. MUST HAVE MORE. I believe it was Martin Mull who said the best thing about football is watch...

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Rana wrote:And what is Active Marshalling?

The nanny states version of an SCA heavy lists fight

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There's a good reason to have a very heavy, solid helmet.

And there are a few folks I know who I'm fairly certain have "pugilists dementia" to use an old timey diagnosis

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Daimyo Akira likes to point out that the Okinowan peasant weapons were superior to Samurai arms and armor

on any occasion when ten to fifteen Okinowans were attacking each samurai

I would hate like hell to have to block with that monstrosity they were showing

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...this is they way it was with such a wound in real combat... m By 1570, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a regiment of the Spanish naval elite corps InfanterÃa de Marina stationed in Naples, then a possession of the Spanish crown. He was there for about a year before he saw active service....

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Freiman

If you run heavy woolen army blankets through the washer with soap, and dry them a couple of times you have felt

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audax wrote:
Skrekkhacha wrote:As for meat, you could always try fresh...real fresh.

We're not allowed to kill and eat the freaks that show up to events.

Get that out of your mouth right now young lady, you have no idea where it's been

Re: Ordo Procinctus Hardest Hits - 2008

Re: Helm

Re: Norman Slat Backs?

Re: combat recovery: hand rehab tools?