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Brodir

Here's a neat, image-heavy website you may find useful

http://www.keesn.nl/mac/mac_en.htm

Brodir

In the mists of my memory, I can recall reading about Iron Age warriors taking and wrapping a long strip of cloth around the waist, tops of the legs, buttocks and groin. Sort of forming a snug diaper that would cinch the genitals right up close to the body. Was this Romans? Greeks?

Brodir

http://www.viking-shield.com

These guys sell 99% junk from India, but if you follow the 'weapons' link, then the 'knives & spears' link, they have blunted spearheads imported from England for only $30.

Brodir

Anyone doing this? What are the main differences between sidesword and plain rapier? Opinions on sidesword overall?

Brodir

In the past I've bought a helm, a pair of knees, and a shield basket from Mark. Every transaction went smoothly, and all the items were well-made. Good choice.

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Mad Matt: Black magic... does come off pretty easily with brass cleaner though. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<H...

Brodir

A favorite of mine is to take a rubber ball, put it in my sword hand. Stand in position with a phantom heater and a phantom sword. Go through all the body mechanics as though you are throwing a shot, then at the point you would release the shot, let go of the ball. It'll fly forward, hit the wall, t...

Brodir

http://www.therionarms.com/AAM/ttoy404.html

I'm pretty sure these aren't period, but they interest me, if nothing else for the novelty. I think I'm going to make a pair for a friend. Anyone ever make something like this? Advice, warnings, etc?

Brodir

I have a line on one of those cheap-ass $30 Viking swords from Pakistan locally, but I kinda want to customize it a little. I'm planning on removing the pommel, and replacing the wood & plastic hilt with a piece of antler. I'm going to strip the faux-leather off the scabbard and cover it in heavy li...

Brodir

I've heard of another version of the boat battle... troops are split into two units, army A and army B. Army A get all the archers. It is specified ahead of time what is dry land and what is water. Army B are supposed to start at the point in the water farthest from the land. They all get down on th...

Brodir

http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002587.html

That's a link to a thread on the Classifieds board, a friend of mine in Saskatchewan is selling an awesome stainless steel 14th century helm. Take a look...

~Wil

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by flonzy: Brodir Sounds like fun. What kind of weapons did they use? Were they rattan? Flonzy <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> All the weapons were foam with a PVC core. We make o...

Brodir

Hi Brennus, I emailed you LATE last night. I'll be at the number I gave you in the email of you'd like to give me a call. Flonzy, I will get a pic of the axe this week. The head tore completely off when I was fighting this weekend, but I never did the repairs you suggested, just toddled out onto the...

Brodir

If you are referring to Darksword out of Montreal, I know two Archivers who own one of the blades. Glen Kyle bought one and was disgusted with it, but he was in a steel-fighting & joust performance troupe at the time, so hsi expectations of a sword must have been fairly high. Warren, who runs Hoseki...

Brodir

Well, we've had armourer reviews and customer reviews, so I thought I'd post a club review. Spent the weekend attending my first-ever event with a non-SCA medieval club, The Knighthaven Fellowship (www.knighthaven.org). Taltosh (AKA Chris), who posts here quite often, invited me to check out the gro...

Brodir

I made a boffer axe following the guidelines in your awesome PDF essay. It turned out really, really nice, but I did about an hour of fighting today, and noticed that the foam is tearing right at the junction of the haft and the blade. I used the axe to hook swords a bit, and I think that may be wha...

Brodir

Had a similar thing happen to me... I was at a war, and the fighters from our Barony were standing waiting to crash the gate. There were two units in front of us, the group holding the castle had fallen back and were engaging the enemy within, one unit at a time. The next unit went in, we were all s...

Brodir

Everything I own was made in the US or Canada except for two items; an Indian riveted maille shirt and an Indan helm. Indian maille has already been discussed, I'm happy with mine, it's strong and light and, being from an area where very few SCA/Faire/D&D people have seen riveted maille, it's a real...

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Russ Mitchell: Going to send those three-dollars worth of brass buckles, AG, or is that still too expensive a refund for you? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I was waiting for ...

Brodir

Jesus, Effingham! We're on the same side, easy pal http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif . I'm going to be boffer fighting right next to this guy in a mild steel conical nasal helm with riveted camail, a riveted mild steel shirt, leather turnshoes, woolen tunic, woolen pants, and a wooden shield...

Brodir

A friend of mine wants me to make him a maille shirt for boffer fighting. After talking it over, we're going to go with a Japanese 4-in-1 weave, 12 g. 1/2" for the big rings, and 14 g. 5/16" for the little ones. Having never made this stuff before, I thought I'd post a few questions; How durable is ...

Brodir

Suede is made by slitting a hide, isn't it? I read that splitting hide was not done at all in the middle ages, but this could be false. Anyone?

~Wil

Brodir

The pauldrons look pretty much perfect, I like the shape (and, the fluting http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif ). I thought the breastplate looked too long when photographed by itself, but in the pics where you have it on it looks to be a good fit. Do you find the armholes are too high? It'...

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Rurik: (For ammonia, you might be able to find some in a hobby store or something, but I have heard that - get this - cat urine works really well and other urine works ok... Ag...

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Konstantin the Red: Some like to make up such chains, all of the same length, all of double and single links, and then zip them together with a column of open links, and th...

Brodir

One last post before I go to bed. My GF and I are organizing a small day-event for our household in September. After she accused me of never organizing anything but fighting & leaving everyone else to sort out something, I planned an archery shoot, a short class on how to play Tavl, and a three-man ...

Brodir

This is all rattan; 34" sword (too short for my 6'1 frame) 28" axe 60" axe 40" sword blank (needs to be shaped & steamed, should be a good November project http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/tongue.gif ) 75" spear I strongly recommend you build & use weapons that your persona would have used, no sense...

Brodir

An Tir, Principality of Avacal. I profess that the problem could have been the lacing, it was not at maximum tightness (as the laces in my current armour is), and I didn't lace the bottom holes on the bottom row of plates, to allow a little more bend at the waist. I realize it sounds as though I'm t...

Brodir

This came through today on the Norsefolk e-list, it is a great page showing a suit of armour someone made from horn for what looks like Viking/Saxon re-enactment. I've oft pondered making horn lamellar from those 2"X6" horn plates available through Historic Enterprises, seeing these pics just renews...

Brodir

There's a Polish saber manual somewhere on the Red Khaganate webpage, but I think it's from the 1700's.

Brodir

Block more, but where's the fun in that? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif The stainless protected quite well, the concern was exclusively with the strength of the plates. They were bent beyond function over the hips (I started last year fighting Bellatrix style with a smallish strapped r...

Brodir

I'd be very, very interested in the 1050 or in a run of aluminum, the 20 gauge stainless plates I used before were insufficient for local calibration levels. What kind of a price are we looking at? Keep us posted.

Brodir

Looks quite good, I automatically assumed the gauntlets and vambraces were leather-covered plastic, kind of interesting that you used hardened leather in a hidden application like that. Good job.

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Halvgrim: if you ever make it let me know Brodir, i never miss it and would like to meet you sometime, ive seen you around on many other lists also <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> My ...

Brodir

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Buran: I wish somebody would help out here, my brains are rattling around loose here, but tmy remaining few good brain cells seem to remember a group in the 12th-13th century t...

[SCA] Sidesword?

Three-piece knees articulating on leathers?

Can you blue brass?

Club Review- Knighthaven (long)

Flonzy!

Japanese 4-in-1

Can anyone document 'Kales'?

Horn armour- pics