The Armour Archive

Gaston de Clermont

Heck, if people even used some of the more preposterous allegorical figures as documentation and copied them well we'd have a better medieval flavor than we have now. At least it would be based in some medieval image. Of course it's also a big pitfall to use, say Goliath as the basis for all the gea...

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Do you have any pictures of exactly what this would look like?

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Cool idea, Martel.

The event announcement now has classes listed:
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Save the date: January 15-17th in Austin Texas. It will be fun!
http://www.io.com/~caladin/CenturionEve ... nEvent.htm

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Maile isn't stellar armour for the fighting most of us do. If we're being honest it's all for show, so why not do it right and go with riveted? I could see some argument that the tailoring is visible from a greater distance than the closure method. I just tailor the riveted maile.

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Endre- lovely pictures! The nice bowls and pitchers really make a difference on your table. How do the wicks in your lamps work? Is there a lid they poke through?

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The mail is like a hefty joist in your floor, supporting the smaller boards you walk on. The way they have it will probably stop the most rocks.

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Have you checked out Eric Thing's setup? He insulates it so the heat isn't dissipated like yours might be.
I have a propane burner like you do, but I prefer to do my hot work now with my oxy-acetylene rig. It's very fast and gives you very focused heat if you want it.

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Chef- what are the gloworms you refer to exactly? Griffin- Pretty shot, and particularly tough to capture in low light. They may well have been happy with lower light levels that we are. There's some conflict in the evidence I'm seeing particularly in the great stuff Karen has collected- we see a nu...

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I've been digging through my books and the links here: m and m trying to iron out the question of what exactly they tended to do to have enough light to eat by around 1400. In two hours of searching I found only one example of candle sticks on a table where people were eating. I imagine there are ot...

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What's wrong with a square knot? This is from the effigy of Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy.

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The Mastiff of Brittany should have an axe, like in his earliest exploits. Where'd you find him?

If you ever find yourself in Mont St. Michelle keep an eye out for his arms. He had a home there where his wife lived while he was on campaign. There aren't many places that are safer.

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If you travel more and fight against more varied opponents you'll have seen more of the tricks.

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I fight in a clapvisor, and all but one of my tournament wins have been in pigs or claps. It does take practice, as you have to extrapolate your opponent's position and sense where he must be, and it requires a slightly higher level of fitness.

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LR of E wrote:Who got knighted?
Morgan

Orion was elevated to the order of the chivalry on the field.

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I've purchased stuff from Gaukler, Mac and Talbot and been very happy with all of them.

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I'd like to offer a sort of a bounty. If you can bring me pictures of the Bryn Gwlad War Company kicking bootay at BAM I'll make sure you get something nice to drink. I'm bringing a keg of 14th century German sage mead, a raspberry dunkelweisen and a little cider. I'll reward you for good pics of Gr...

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Spearweasel fights with our war company too. Do you have a tabard?

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I'm heading out Friday, fighting with the Bryn Gwlad war company. If you want to find Maelgwyn, Artorius, Audax, Sextus or me, look for halberds on a black bend.

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15th C. Flemish Professional soldier during the reign of Charles the Bold. My "persona" is really more for my own benefit more than others. Like most all of us, I use it primarily as a compass that keeps my attempt at historically based representation cohesive and on the right track. Besi...

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I'm trying to address the larger question of "What should I be wearing on my throat in my 14th century harness?" My answer is "These guys are wearing maile collars, and they're bad ass GQ models. You wanna be like them." You certainly can make a distinction that says a gorget is ...

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I think you'll find maile standards were more common in the 14th century than folks above are indicating. I did a quick hunt for them last year and turned up a handful which lead me to believe they're a common and correct way to go. Here's some of what I found: m (scroll down a bit for the standard ...

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Beautiful!

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Love the banner. I've been seeing fabric much like the lady on the banner is wearing in a number of van de Weyden's paintings. It's always red and gold, with a similar pattern. Is there a deeper significance to it, of is just a signature weave from Flanders in the 15th century?

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I'd seen a couple of Karen's (blessed be she among researchers) posts linking to stuff on Kikirpa and wanted to tease out more. There's also a lot of purses & reliquary bags. There are two examples of the trapezoid-shaped aumonieres -- m It says this one was made in China! I'd love to be able to...

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I've been kicking around over here: m. be/www2/wwwopac/ en/object. html finding all kinds of neat stuff. Wood work, metal work, some armour. The trick is you have to enter things in French or Dutch. So in looking for iron work, I put "fer" in the material, and sorted by date to get this: m...

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You're going to want to flare that ankle to keep it from digging into the top of your foot. Working from the inside using a strait pein hammer over the edge of a wood block would be quick and clean.

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There are some vambraces with slots perpendicular to the axis of your arm (the Churburg #13 arms for example). This allows some rotation of the vambrace. But look at how much your wrist can swivel- it's about 180 degrees. Some fancier articulation is required to really accommodate that range of moti...

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Prod around your knee a little and think about how high up you'd really want that greave to go. There's a semi-soft area just south of the knee cap that I'm not wild about having a plate edge near. Wade is right, a well fitted greave can cover that area, but the vast majority of greaves aren't fitte...

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Ice- I'm in the market for a haubergeon. Could you add some detail to the differences between your riveted maile types? Blackened 6mm riveted 6mm FLAT riveted -is the only difference between this and the one before the detail in how it's flattened? Flat riveted 9mm stainless- The picture for this is...

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I mostly agree with Hal, though I'd say you should approach Dr. Strong's work with your brain on. Don't expect them to be perfect or to hold your hand through every step of the way. This arm harness can work fine by pointing the cop to the rerebrace and vambrace. It would probably also work by point...

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I love the West, and I miss some of the culture and many of the people. I was knighted there. In moving to Ansteorra I've had to adjust a few things in my fighting. Most notably where I put my arm, since otherwise it gets tagged here. Small shields are much tougher to be competitive with here, since...

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Do you know which is the worse part of all that story? Is that despite the fact that here is "Italy" we, italian speaking people are not always welcomed. It's not a myth that often they refuse to speak italian to you, or part of them are barely capable (or willing )to speak italian, or se...

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If you want to avoid confusion (or add it) you could start calling Churburg with his italian name, the town actually is called SLUDERNO and the castle is called "Castel Coira" ... Don't ask me why. Nein! Schluderns! m It's a disconcerting thing in that part of Italy that the towns all hav...

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I'm bugged more by folks with generic kits than a mismatched shield. It's a shame to get bothered by the guy in the great Hastings kit for having a heater when you can't even tell what century his opponents with the 2ftX3ft shields are from.

Those who do more are more worthy.

Ansteorra's Centurion War College

Lighting a feast table

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