The Armour Archive

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by OurDecay: Good points across the board. My only point was that people with other hobbies can drop significant dollars as well. Not on the same level maybe as LH, but plenty non...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by OurDecay: Total to outfit for 10 rounds (not counting tees, towels, head covers, refreshments, food, golf shoes, etc.): $860 to get you through a league. And all things cons...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Munz: According to Janet Arnold in "Journal of the Church Monuments Society, Volume VIII"- "Cotton was certainly used for padding during the medieval period. It is recorded ...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: But what about thrusts, the bane of steel weapons? When I was taught SCA 9' spear, the leading hand was loose like a pool cue, and the momentum was generated by the bac...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by OurDecay: So simple question: The personae I'm looking at will likely be using a bec-de-corbin (at least, that's what I AM going to use! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile....

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Winterfell: While I have not come across this historically and I doubt I will, has anyone tried leading with the butend of the poleaxe. The rules of combat that I have tried...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Asbjorn Johansen: I'm not positive, but I think what Bascott might be refering to with the key and lock observation is the tendencey for some rubber axe heads to stretch a b...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: This pretty much answers my question, using the axehead to bind, rather than your body as FrauHirsch was referring. With steel heads, it is almost like putting an old k...

SyrRhys

Hi, Edge & Paddock is one of the best *readily-available* armor books you will find. Another even more important work is Claude Blair's _European Armor circa 1066 to circa 1700_, B T Batsford LTD, 1958. This great book is sadly out of print, but he spends a lot of space discussing the transition and...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Stoffel I think I see your point as far as SCA combat is concerned, which leads to another question. Having only fought SCA a couple of times with a poll axe, I get ...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Stoffel I think I see your point as far as SCA combat is concerned, which leads to another question. Having only fought SCA a couple of times with a poll axe, I get ...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by flonzy: I have read that cotton is used in that time era, but it is vary rare and expensive. But for Edward, Prince of Wales it was probably no problem to buy it http://www.arm...

SyrRhys

Hello, A lot of my time is spent trying to interpret the pollaxe techniques of Talhoffer and La Jeu (since their schools of use seem the most sophisticated) and figuring how to actually make myself use these techniques in combat. My problem is that the stance I've been using puts my body almost perp...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gwen: You're behind the times Hugh. Tristan hasn't been a "Hauptmann" since he was recruited to help put down the Liege insurrection back in '67. He did such a good job that...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Gwen: Jeffrey is being instructed by Bob Charron in the art of beating the snot out of people. Gwen<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hey, Gwen, ask Jeff why he's studying *Italia...

SyrRhys

Hi Joaquin, I used to feel as much outrage as you do on this issue, and then I found out just how hard it is to get a large number of decent harnesses made. It's tough. The *vast* majority of armorers can't make anything remotely resembling accurate armor, and so it's tough for a new fighter to get ...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by FrauHirsch: Not saying you did, but as a note, Jeff H. fought in the SCA for years and was Squire to a highly respected, now deceased, SCA Knight, Sir Allessandre du Mont o...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Edmund Greyfox: Just a few thoughts that i've had- first off, would a duck cloth work for the outer layer of fabric, or is that totally out of period? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jeff J: "Life in Chaucer's England" by Jeff Singnam has a general pattern and some instructions for the garment you seek. You can also pad with cotton.<HR></BLOCK...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Munz: Flonzy- Now this is according to Janet Arnold in her report on Edward, Prince of Wales, coat armour. She states that the padding of the coat is raw cotton. She goes on...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jeff J: Hugh, What's the connection between trying to win and your armor being functional? I understand the importance of field testing, but your style of evaluation isn't the ...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by flonzy: SyrRhys Call it what ever you want, a test of marshal skill or and ass kicking competition the whole thing is childish. Fighting in anger is childish, and thatâ€™s w...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Rereading the posts, this little comment about playing with sticks was made directly in reference to riding in armour after Rhys called Jeff Hedgecock a poseur and C...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bascot: Simply because I'm not a member of your LARP club? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Nope, because you can't fight. If I was saying you couldn't fight only because you weren't p...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by chef de chambre: Rhys, I would wager my harness functions every bit as well as the original it copies. You have seen the quality of the cuirasse I brought, and none of the h...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by chef de chambre: Sorry Rhys, I see you as a significant factor in the increase of heat without much light being produced in these discussions. I've met you, I like you, I re...

SyrRhys

Hi, I don't know of any evidence that a backplate was ever worn with a lentner; I would just get a front breastplate (a la Churburg #14--not #13!!). If you want heavier protection on your back, just wear something (unnoticeable!) underneath. I have fought in lentners for years, and mine are quilted ...

SyrRhys

You know, Mordreth, that's part of what I was saying, too. I have no idea why these folks have to take that simple fact as an insult.

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Hugh Knight
"Welcome to the Church of the Open Field, let us 'prey': Hunt hard, kill swiftly, waste nothing, make no apologies"

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Richard Blackmoore: 2) Bascot, Chef and Rhys. You all bring very valid and useful points into most discussions. I am also sick at the way that your mutual interaction inevitabl...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by chef de chambre: Hi Richard, Don't drag me into this - my only retort was at Rhys's silly assertion that reenactors & living historians armour was unfunctional (by implicati...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Winterfell: "By the end of the fourteenth century courtly grace and skill was being admired and pursued as much as brute force and endurance, and the tournament increasingly...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Watt: People like Rhys, with their badass stick, ready to beat-up anybody who disagrees with them is what makes the SCA great. Ever wonder why so many in the SCA have their ...

SyrRhys

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Winterfell: umm now if we are talking about knightly combat in the truest chivalric meanings and traditions, then wouldn't fighting on horse back be THE preferred method? Af...

SyrRhys

Hi, Even the real scholars debate this one. The dates I like are from 1066 CE to 1453 CE. The former is pretty fuzzy, however, and I chose it because it's when William conquered England, and my studies are very Anglocentric. Those studying France could make a good argument for around 800, for exampl...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Clifford Galbraith: Hugh, it had absolutely nothing to do with the thread....my point exactly. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> But it did: It had to do with fighting versus posing. <f...

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