The Armour Archive

Gaston de Clermont

Andy- are the top edges of the cuisses roped, or is that just a trick of the camera? What kind of steel are you making them out of?

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Beautiful work.
Konstantin- There's work here that backs up Matt's claim: http://www.amazon.com/Knives-Scabbards- ... 936&sr=8-1

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Nice job on the hat, Connor. I'm glad that more pretty stuff is getting out onto the filed, but I think you should charge more.

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Do what gets you the results you want quickly. Judging the worthiness of a technique in any other way is goofy. You can thin or thicken metal by dishing or by raising depending on how you hit it, but if you're stretching it such that the final length, like the measurement over the outside of a knee ...

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Doing 10g is likely to break your punch- not the body of it, but the punch itself doesn't align properly. You won't get great leverage for it with the #5Jr. A #8 will handle 10g though. I have three #5 Jrs. hanging over my bench and I use them all the time. They're a great investment if you do much ...

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I don't get why so many people are bent out of shape because this kid wants to do something that won't be all that effective. He's not yet artful in his approach, but questioning the rules and expanding what we can do is a good thing. I don't think anyone wants to see injury rates spike up, so it sh...

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Does the beer line for the jockey box come into the keg from the wall behind it?

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Some great ransoms I've gotten (all from The Deed): Good fabric, books, glass beads, honey, pewter belt mounts, pewter buttons, and coins. They're all memorable, and make the fight more special. My wife used the buttons on the cotehardie I was laurelled in. It's fun to get to tell people where the c...

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This is an insanely cool list. Gryffith rocks!

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Sorry to hear about that break in, Hugh. That sucks!

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I think there are a few reasons pro athletes wear cleats. They do give you better traction. When your multi-million $ salary depends on your every step, a slip is embarrassing. They train and build up their muscles and tendons so they can handle the strain most of the time. I don't have any data on ...

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Bran-where did you get your gauntlets? They're nice!

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I don't see a particularly rigid nomenclature for medieval weapons. The way I see it- rondel describes the guard, and stiletto describes the "blade" which here is mostly just a long tapered point, with no real edge. It's all stab and and no slash. I mean, you could rap on someone's knuckle...

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It's pretty tough to roll your ankle if you're bare foot. A thicker sole lengthens the lever arm that damages your ankle, so I keep that lever as short as I practically can. Cleats are working for Uric, though his body may be well adapted to them through conditioning, strength, and how he moves. I t...

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Cleats sound like a great way to let you put a lot of torque on your ankles and knees to me. The only serious ankle injury I've ever gotten was from playing football in cleats. It might have happened in other shoes, so it's hard to tell. I fight in turn shoes or some approximation of them when I can...

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I sometimes stash a back up weapon on the field- usually up against a tree or a castle wall so I don't have to bend down to grab it. If I'm being chased I don't want to get stabbed in the taint. But I don't generally carry back up weapons. Every one of my opponents has a weapon that I'm quite happy ...

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Prices shift around a lot, so it pays to do some shopping. I've found that generally AED Motorsports gives the best prices on 4130 by a fair margin. The best price I found on 410 for my last order was from United Performance Metals. These guys: m If you're only looking to play with a little bit, McM...

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Yeah, for a second I thought this brought Michael St. Sever back. I miss that guy.

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Ugh. Sorry that happened to you Inge. If people are going to marshal something they should know the rules for the scenario. Crap can happen that you don't expect, but that one was pretty basic.
I took a couple of casting classes from Loric. He seems like a good guy.

Gaston de Clermont

I'm not squeamish, but those pictures are pretty intense. Those are just knife cuts. Imagine what a sword could do.

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5. The Castle battle on Saturday. Decided to run up a ramp with one of my knight's squires and a couple crazy mo fo's from NOVA(Nope nope nopenope! Never again! Ever been speared mid-air? Now I know how a corndog feels!! They're not supposed to hit you on the ramp, or until you get your feet on the...

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The language is a bit loaded. "Grappling" is expressly forbidden. Grabbing someone's cross hilt or haft is allowed, at least in melee. I don't think it's cheating to use an armoured shield hand to grab stuff, but by the way I understand the rules, once you're using that hand for something ...

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Yeah, by my count there were about 25 combatants this year. If fight in a pigface sometimes. I think I did last year. It's substantially harder to do in most pig designs, since the cone obscures a lot of your opponents' feet, and the line of the occular tends to be pulled out away from your eyes. Th...

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I dug around for a bit trying to find an up to date version of the rules we played this by and the most recent version was an old one Rhys wrote that I'm pretty sure we didn't use for the Deed. Do we have a fresh copy?

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Konstantin is right, the Churburg #13 does have a full buff leather lining, but it's not necessary for a functional version. Strips work fine. You'll see many versions of it which extend well past the ribs in front, which wasn't how the original worked. It's not a big deal to make the side plates a ...

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I meant "too far". How do we edit now?

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They do a hunt in the West with rules a lot like Alex describes. The Deed and the Combat of the 30 are run with a different rule set. It's more or less armour as worn. Those are a TON of fun. So it doesn't have to be stretching your imagination to far to be different and fun.

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Irish- I remember talking to someone in the ravine about that cool yellow and red raven shield up along the Calontir edge. That's your shield, right? It's prettier in person. Snorri was great to work with, but individuals are hard to pick out of the crowd of purple if you need to change direction qu...

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Gotta love how people count out one side ahead on numbers and then give the wrong number to the other side. Here's what I saw/did there- I had all the Lt. Generals and allied commanders on Ansteorra's side count up their guys and totaled it up, checking it with my king (who is a rocket scientist mu...

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1/8 inch steel is fine of articulation, and I wouldn't snub my nose at nails used as rivets. This might spark some ideas and save you some money:
http://burgundianhours.blogspot.com/200 ... orial.html

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The pictures and video should be visible to folks. Do we have any more?

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The Deed was awesome. Great kits, great fights. I seriously needed the stress relief since going into that, in my first time being the general in charge we'd lost both battles. The rest of the battles went well for us though. Working with a great bunch of commanders both our Ansteorran guys and our ...

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Mord- It's not a bad scenario. It sounds a lot like our town battle. That's a one hour res that has 5 banners, 2 which are close to each res point, and one in the middle of the church in the center of the field. The back two banners are easy to hold, and the center banner is an intense scrum. The ac...

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Ok, Raito- you have a general listening to you right now. How would you make the ravine more fun?

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I was the Ansteorran general this year, and this is my perspective on the victory condition changes. Each banner in the ravine was intended to be timed by two stop watches like they were last year, but due to someone being more helpful than intended (I honestly have no idea who), the watches were mi...

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Re: Legal fist weapons?

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Re: Rondel stilettos

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Re: Opinions on a Strapped Shield hand being used....

Re: The Deed at Gulf Wars XX

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Re: Churbourg breastplate- making it longer?

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