The Armour Archive

mordreth

Looks like a blast, hope to meet you with one this spring.

mordreth

Folcric wrote:I've got 54" of rattan. Not sure what to make out of it.

I have a good supply of dense foam, my next rattan order is partly goign into one of the "hedge slasher" sort of affairs from the mac bible - fourth foot soldier from the left

mordreth

Get Dressed for Battle - I think they were out of the UK

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Knees - is your harness set up for a male straignt line or is there a "jog" to accomodate the hip/knee/shin difference?
nothing personal but how "hippy" are you?

mordreth

Are you looking to fabricate the mail, or purchase some?

mordreth

I was more reacting to an inquiry about eastern european crusader moving to a discussion about surcoats for military religious orders in outreamer.
I didn't mean to imply that all German knights were armored in scale, merely that a lot of "non western" armors existed on the borders.

mordreth

So I have a really awesome, perfectly period sugarloaf from James Gillaspie. Now I need to build the correct period accoutrements around it. I want to do a full tabard w/ sleeves, and hidden armour. Any ideas on where to get such a robe? Correct length? I know as of the 13th cen, you could get away...

mordreth

However... Kingdom conventions may differ. Here in the East, convention of combat 13 states that the inner thigh is a kill when struck with an axe... but not a polearm. That's what I was going from.. Back in my early days, Aethelmearc was part of the East and where I got this. So I'm not totally cr...

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My department head at my current employer has told me that as long as he is there, I have work, and he has outlasted a number of managing directors so he should be around for a long time. I am planning to be there this year, and look forward to again being able to serve my kingdom with my body, and ...

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I guess everything is a trade off between mobility and protection - my all time favorites were a good quality pair of Kote, covered with sole leather - the heavy padding across the thumb / index finger covered the most vulnerable part of my hand. They got bounced at a Pennsic by the EK earl marshall...

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I'll have to argue that his "warm up" calibration wasn't that far off from a lot of peoples "last round at a tournament" level

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Mordreth -- I know someone who got his thumb broken in one of these, fighting glaive. So I guess it depends on the bazooka.. Dang That's the first one I've heard of, my opinion has just been modified I broke my thumb in one too, "fighting" greatsword. It was just a simple tip fracture, no...

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My general rules. 5. This radio dosn't play commercials. If it is playing a comercial, the first person to change it picks the station... unless the station is crap in which case I'm always allowed to change it. Sean Saturday 8:00 - 1:00 WFUV for Irish programming Sunday 12:00 - 4:00 WFUV for Irish...

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I would never recommend that anyone planning to fight much polearm settle for a gauntlet that does not have thumbs with a mechanical connection to the main body of the gauntlet. You need more than a 1 inch piece of rigid material to absorb the force. I've never seen egg gauntlets with a mechanical ...

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Dmitriy wrote:Mordreth -- I know someone who got his thumb broken in one of these, fighting glaive. So I guess it depends on the bazooka..

Dang

That's the first one I've heard of, my opinion has just been modified

mordreth

1. eye protection will be worn when you are using or helping on the drill, or saw 2. eye protection will be worn when anyone is using the wire wheel on the bench grinder. 3. I expect broken drill bits, punches, and saw blades to be replaced next visit 4. My house, my rules - if I want something done...

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"Kermit the gauntlet" from egg armories with a street hockey glove in them will stop direct hits from a bazooka

http://eggarmor.net/gaunt.html

I fight in a steel pair, but am thinking of going back to them since I am hoping to kick my travel and practice schedule up

mordreth

OH OH OH

Buy the best gauntlets you can - you are going to get your hands beaten up, and broken bones in the hand, or broken fingers are just the gift that keeps on giving

mordreth

Best of luck with it - my personal preference for great weapons is to use them as close range terror weapons

shock and awe is a good thing

mordreth

Ive got it and I cant stop watching it! Eventhough the eagles are from Africa and Moose antlers are hanging on the tower walls they did the best they could! In the time of movie remakes this one is pass do. It was a play and a book before the movie. if anyone tries for a remake I will drive to the ...

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For point work there is nothing finer than McClellans Drill for the Bayonet m Mordreth, I wanna have your baby. That is fabulous. Thank you very, very much. f The apostolic succession on that is McClellan - Napoleon - French Royal - Swiss Guard, it was very much a "live" martial art when ...

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For point work there is nothing finer than McClellans Drill for the Bayonet
http://www.usregulars.com/Bayonet_files/bayonet01.html

mordreth

Ive got it and I cant stop watching it! Eventhough the eagles are from Africa and Moose antlers are hanging on the tower walls they did the best they could! In the time of movie remakes this one is pass do. It was a play and a book before the movie. if anyone tries for a remake I will drive to the ...

mordreth

I am looking for a copy of "The Warlord" with Chaliton Heston. Unlike the other medieval movies made in the era this one didn't suck and was vary accurate depiction of how a norman knight would have behaved . Try Amazon - they have a number of VHS copies available. My DVD came out of Braz...

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For whatever it is worth I had no success, and burned through a chunk of money trying to use a roper whitney style punch bit on mail rings - the 1/16 punch locked onto the ring, and sooner or later snapped when I tried to get the ring loose.

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Bruhn Engbrecht wrote:The spin attack looks like it could be prutty fun to atempt, not saying its gona work but ill take my chances.

if this is what i got to do to look bad ass ill take a shot.

take it with however many grains of salt, but people tend to look silly, rather than badass getting hit pulling that attack

mordreth

Just for fun (as a guy who spends a lot of time using a longsword against sword-and-shield) I'm going to try that spinning opening move in a tourney (as seen in the first video). Adriano. Bud. Old Pal. We've known each other nigh onto 20 years now. Trust me - Don't do it. At best it may work ONCE, ...

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JillandI wrote:Seems to work in basketball, just saying.
...............

Tournament trash talk just never works
"You ain't got but the c in yo chivalry, and not even the p in yo pruesse"

I have been know to let loose with a hearty MountJoie every now and then myself

mordreth

What size ring?
Several suppliers carry flattened / punched rings

mordreth

Klein tools eight inch ferrus metal diagonal cutters, you get what you pay for, I can cut 3/16 rivets to size with mine

http://www.acehardwareoutlet.com/(mnbtu ... bvgqasha55)/productdetails.aspx?sku=1000003326&source=GoogleBase

mordreth

Hi, I'm an East Kingdom youth marshal, but much further north than you How old is your son? We had a conversation on the marshals' list about metal helms about a year and a half a go or so as I recall, and made some allowances regarding material. Of course it didn't actually make it to the publishe...

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now for the all time indignity, he's talking about a kabuto

I suppose it could be worse

mordreth

Not anywhere near as much fun as doing it myself

EK regs specify 16 gauge or less, so that should give him a good start, and I think the two of us are going to have a hoot getting his first helm togeather

mordreth

I've checked out several of the youth combat sites, and looked at on line pictures. I will be boiled in monkey vomit before my kid goes onto an SCA field in a hockey helmet - those things make freon cans look elegant. So if you have done a youth combat helm what style did you make, and what gauge di...

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audax wrote:Or you could use the search function. If that fails, ask the forum.

yeah yeah - leave it to a woman to suggest looking at the map

Re: What to do with 54 inches?

Re: Need 13th century crusader ideas

Re: thumbs

Re: WTF Copy of "The Warlord"(1965)

Re: Persona fighting

SCA Specific - Youth Combat Helms ?