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- Wed Mar 13, 2002 8:10 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Mac Great Helms For Sale
- Replies: 17
- Views: 16
Mac Great Helms For Sale
I have some great news for anyone with an interest in the 14th century: I was just at Robert MacPherson's shop today, and he decided to make some Pembridge-style great helms. For those of you who have seen it, they'll be just like the one I wear, except that they'll be made out of hardened spring st...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 6:49 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How heavy...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 51
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by chef de chambre: <B>Sir Rhys, Here is one, from Chaucer 860: And next his sherte an aketoun, 861: And over that an haubergeoun 862: For percynge of his herte; 863: And over tha...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 6:35 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Sheilds how do you make yours?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bascot: <B>I use Barge cement, a cobbler glue. I don't like to nail or tack, either. It seems they tend to work out when pounded on. I prefer leather on the front, and used veg...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 4:57 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Sheilds how do you make yours?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by David deKunstenaar: <B>Hugh "Use a spatula to cover the back of the shield with "Tight Bond II" glue; it's waterproof." Not rabbit sking glue? Arti</B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 4:23 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Articulated knees w/ leather/splinted etc. cuisses...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 31
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Raymund: <B>Hugh, I suppose you mean this picture? [img]http://w1.600.telia.com/~u60000007/misc/blackprince.jpg[/img] To me they don't look too convicing, the "lames" looks mor...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 4:20 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Sheilds how do you make yours?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 18
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Winterfell: <B>Hey folks this question is for everyone. What would you consider to be the best way to edge a shield and still make it look authentic? I am not talking about wit...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 4:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sieur Raymond: <B> Rhys- I agree with every single word of this, and would add that, in person, you are one of the *most* courteous gentlemen I have met in the SCA. I also grea...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 10:11 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Steve -SoFC-: Nah, I just figured as gung-ho as you are for absolute historical accuracy for other aspects of tournament combat that you would be just as gung-ho over this one....
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 9:34 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Tournament or War???
- Replies: 156
- Views: 68
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Owen: <B>There are those who say that by not going to graduate school, I didn't realize my full potential. However, I am a much happier person doing what I do. Is "realizing it...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 9:28 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Historic" combat reg proposal
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Trevor: <B> From your POV, it seems you want the fight to be more period. That's great. But other than counted blows, you offer no significant change from what we have right no...
- Tue Mar 12, 2002 1:06 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Alcyoneus: <B> You could always take a dive. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif I don't think I could take a dive for any reason without being disgusted with myself, I d...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 11:45 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Steve -SoFC-: SyrRhys: Do you think women should be allowed to participate in SCA combat? </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Absolutely! For all my insistance that we do things authentic...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 11:40 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How heavy...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 51
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by chef de chambre: Actually Rhys, the 'transitional', international harness was heavier than it's 15th century descendant, as the coat of plates, or breastplate, vambraces, cuiss...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 11:14 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Tournament or War???
- Replies: 156
- Views: 68
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sieur Raymond: <B>Further, I feel that your vehemence and your portrayal of your view as objectively correct harms the goals that you and I share by causing people to reject mo...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 11:01 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sieur Raymond: <B>Certainly, much of what was posted is vague or clearly refers to women as leaders rather than frontline combatants, and most of it related to warfare rather t...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 6:20 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How heavy...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 51
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Khann: <B>SyrRhys what you are saying is that parts of the harness you are wearing is no better than plastic. So you would just as soon see people in plastic than miss-weighted...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 6:17 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by FrauHirsch: <B>I am busy this week, this is just some info I had laying around from various sites and sources that was easy to get to. </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Interesting,...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 6:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Articulated knees w/ leather/splinted etc. cuisses...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 31
Yes!!! The painting on the upper-left corner of the document giving the Acquitaine to the Black Prince shows him kneeling before E III to accept the document. In this picture you can clearly see that all of the limb armor (except the joints) is a dark color, clearly intended to show leather (blacken...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 5:53 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Which shows more prowess?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 33
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Khann: <B>If you want to test theses theories, then try this exercise. With or without Armour have a person you know try to throw a series of killing blows. Mean while you Simu...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 5:42 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How heavy...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 51
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Khann: Please explain Yours truly Khann </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> As I haven't actually weighed my new cuisses I can't answer that, but I can tell you that they weigh less than ...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 10:25 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How heavy...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 51
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Alcyoneus: Most of us are probably wearing tournament harness rather than field harness for the same reason they did- we don't want to replace parts on a regular basis. </font>...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 10:14 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Alcyoneus: But were they 'mock' tournaments because they were women, or because they ran at each other couching celery? </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I don't know, as I said I hadn'...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 9:52 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How heavy...
- Replies: 33
- Views: 51
I think a more interesting question to ask here would be "how heavy is your harness in comparison with what a real medieval harness of that type would have weighed"? For example, when I pick up my old cuisses (14 ga. stainless), they weigh more than twice as much as my new MacPherson cuisses. Most S...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 9:43 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Egfroth: <B>Didn't Eleanor of Aquitaine and her ladies cause a scandal by dressing in armour and having mock jousts while she was in the Holy Land? </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE>...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 9:41 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Historic" combat reg proposal
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Trevor: <B>Sir Rhys-am I hearing you correctly? You don't want to give up grills, and you don't like the lighter swords. What's the difference from standard SCA fighting, then,...
- Mon Mar 11, 2002 9:30 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Rev. George: <B>rhys: what about bodecia? From my understanding she led a pretty large contingent of brittish celts to whup up on the romans....(of course, that could be the af...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 11:30 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hushgirl: Frau Hirsch would be the one to ask. I remember something about a city who's women were given knightly orders for defending the city, and they were even given precede...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 11:16 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Tournament or War???
- Replies: 156
- Views: 68
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sieur Raymond: <B> But Rhys, by that logic we should not attempt grand tournament. Since for the sake of safety and expense, we do not do use horses in tournament, our approxim...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 11:11 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Historic" combat reg proposal
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Vitus: <B>I totally agree that men-at-arms fought without visors- alot. I am only saying that as far as bringing us up to Living History standards- the grilles do more to ident...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 9:00 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: "Historic" combat reg proposal
- Replies: 38
- Views: 16
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Vitus: I would prefer no grilles. I accept them as historically legit, they just scream SCA. (Sorry Rhys, I feel we have to stand FAR apart from SCA norms). </font><HR></BLOCKQ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 8:57 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Tournament or War???
- Replies: 156
- Views: 68
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Owen: Well, I've been pretending it's a war since long before CA came on the scene here in the East, so that's not the reason do it. I plan on continuing to do so for the forse...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 8:52 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Tournament or War???
- Replies: 156
- Views: 68
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Sieur Raymond: <B> Rhys- Many of the things you say would need to be included in order to make it a 'war' simulation we exclude due to safety concerns. Since it is a simulation...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 8:45 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Which shows more prowess?
- Replies: 53
- Views: 33
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Khann: <B>The disarm. Shows more mastery for the opponent will be trying to strike a blow at the same time. </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Why do you think so? Personally I find ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 8:44 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Women In Tournaments
- Replies: 43
- Views: 110
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Alcyoneus: When the Grand Company of Adventurer's were in the East (Catalan Veangence), some women were listed as defending the gates from the embattlements. When men were away...
- Sun Mar 10, 2002 6:12 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Helm Crests coming soon.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 15
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Templar Bob/De Tyre: <B>SyrRhys: Do you have a picture of your current helm crest? How is it mounted on your helm? Mine helm crest is one of the ones made by Master Sebastian i...