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by Robert of Canterbury
Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:23 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: 14th century mafia show me some great fighting kits!!
Replies: 197
Views: 11976

Yeah, despite the axe to the neck, that does in fact rock Look again me old son.. Axe didn't make it to the neck! Thumb and fingers caught the haft, (Enclosed Thumbtips are so clever!) and my blow rode in all the way down his haft. But thanks for the Compliments. Next steps, New Spaulders, Finger G...
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:45 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: 12th Century Surcoats and painted helms
Replies: 5
Views: 272

Thorald,

Here you are,

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=58966
by Robert of Canterbury
Sun Mar 25, 2007 3:24 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Tourney at St Cross Hospital.
Replies: 12
Views: 238

We're Back,

June 1-3, Make your reservations now, the event is already half full...
by Robert of Canterbury
Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:33 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Cambridge -UK
Replies: 2
Views: 41

Mission Accomplished.
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:23 am
Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
Topic: I WTB an early 14thC Minstrel
Replies: 4
Views: 348

Hi John, I changed your post title, I think the term you're searching for by this stage is Minstrel. The good news is, most of your research is done! m There is a good body of Scottish court music for the time, recently researched and recorded by two Edinburgh Music Guru's, m Contact Gäita for more...
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:57 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: HEY YOU ROMANS!!
Replies: 5
Views: 155

It is delicious. And quick & Easy. You can just drizzle clear honey & grind black pepper to make it quicker too. Or do a full sauce, tiny bit of butter & cornflour (If you call it that in the US, Superfine flour) roux, add honey, pepper, Dash of sherry, few drops Nam Pla, (Thai fish sauc...
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Mar 15, 2007 3:52 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: HEY YOU ROMANS!!
Replies: 5
Views: 155

Roman figs.

take fresh figs, halve them, grill them till the figs start to brown, put gorgonzola cheese on top, brown under grill again, drizzle with a honey & black pepper sauce.
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:05 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: confusing bascinet holes - helmet finished anyway:-)
Replies: 43
Views: 1943

Talbot,; ARS conference, When & Where?

Jiri; I owe you email..

See you both soon in london I hope..
by Robert of Canterbury
Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:13 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: FS: Anshelm Arms Bascinet
Replies: 5
Views: 826

Josh,

You may have more luck if you can get someone here to vouch for you.

$1200 is a big hit for single post unknown..

But pipes are cool! Medieval pipes moreso!
http://www.gaita.co.uk/
by Robert of Canterbury
Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:02 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: High speech
Replies: 18
Views: 458

Jeff, Thank you for your courtesy, accepted without reserve.
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:42 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: little-metal-tent-things.
Replies: 9
Views: 345

For paint, I have been reccommended, and have used,a Latex based paint.

It has been variously described as:

Exterior Latex paint,
Masonry paint,
Kitchen & Bathroom paint.

Thin it with water, and paint straight onto the canvas.

see www.greydragon.org for plenty of Tent-fu advice
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:58 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: 300 battle at pennsic
Replies: 132
Views: 3158

Cue Wham... If you're gonna do it, do it right child..

You wanna be a Spartan at Thermopylae..
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=44769
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:33 am
Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
Topic: I wtb a Hussite, between 1450-1475.
Replies: 6
Views: 706

Earlier Hussite info here, http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=54558

What has Changed?
by Robert of Canterbury
Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:09 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: High speech
Replies: 18
Views: 458

I must Echo Sir Bryce. Learn to love Shakespeare, (Too late, but gives a fine feel for rythm, metre and phrasing) Brannaghs film versions are good. Read the White company, and Sir Nigel. Conan Doyle captures the spirit of Froissart beautifully. read as many texts of your time as you can lay your han...
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:09 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Refuting "Two Weapon Fighting was common"
Replies: 86
Views: 2609

Some here,

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=13510
by Robert of Canterbury
Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:17 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Difficult SCA Armoured Moves
Replies: 32
Views: 871

I cannot fully use some of the Longsword blossfechten guards and blows. specifically those which require the wrists to cross. Mostly because of the bulk of Armour around the wrists. Pflug and Ochs are awkward, but not impossible. and the 'Squinter" (Zwerchau?) likewise. As these are unarmoured ...
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:04 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Avalon and Yielding a fight
Replies: 1
Views: 139

Noe,

that all Sounds good to me. Remarkably good.
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:56 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: sheilds and shoulder impingement
Replies: 21
Views: 377

I dont know what the situation with osteopaths/chiropractors is in the States, but I have had great results in the UK with both.

Back pain for me, and some other minor re-alignment stuff, but its really handy having a competent specialist look at your problems from a different angle to most MDs.
by Robert of Canterbury
Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Instructional video clips.
Replies: 11
Views: 414

Unless I am mistaken, the project was started as a teaching aid for fighters in remote shires, of which drachenwald has a few... :)
by Robert of Canterbury
Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:38 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Instructional video clips.
Replies: 11
Views: 414

SCA Instructional video clips.

Various instructional videos of differing fighting techniques.

http://www.vitaporten.se/default.asp?pa ... s&pageid=1
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:49 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA, Pennsic Battle of the 3,000.
Replies: 10
Views: 417

I would like to see something like this run as many different events other than one big melee. <Snip> What I would love for it to become, is a standard and a mindset so that people at other events can have thier own Golden Rope events... Any period, any culture, just a high fidelity event. Believe ...
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:50 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA, Pennsic Battle of the 3,000.
Replies: 10
Views: 417

SCA, Pennsic Battle of the 3,000.

Firstly, I pray that some great prince, or man of influence in the Middle or East will take this idea up, as I am unable to do so, by reason of my location, and lack of station. Consider a main engagement at the Pennsic War. Not for any war point, and With No Kingdom alliegances but with everyone gr...
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:59 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Kit Progression. 01-07
Replies: 16
Views: 436

earnest carruthers wrote:That Czech stuff is excellent, cor.

Nice kit, again Robert, gives you options to play in other arenas eh? :D


:) Perhaps...

I need to stop getting my arse kicked in SCA combat before I start playing around elsewhere.. :wink:
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:21 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Grabbing hafts
Replies: 41
Views: 1062

Fair game, so long as it is with an armoured Hand, and you let the owner have their weapon back if they are killed. edit. I belive it should be done as a method of controlling your opponent's weapon to allow you to dispatch them. I grasp a haft when in close, so I can choke up and Kill with my own p...
by Robert of Canterbury
Mon Feb 19, 2007 5:12 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Kit Progression. 01-07
Replies: 16
Views: 436

Arms & legs, Jiri Klepac. www.armour.cz
Fantastic stuff. bespoke armour. great business practices, can't recommend him highly enough.

Helm & Aventail, Steve Forth, www.forth-armoury.com
Good off the peg kit, sound business.
by Robert of Canterbury
Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:14 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: The 14th Century sub-Game/World
Replies: 120
Views: 4173

1 "Saint George!*"

2 "Three for St Denis!*"

1 "Three By God!"

*or any saints name.

and continue..

Though of course it occurs to me that in closed helms, on a noisy battle field , this may have comic potential.... :?
by Robert of Canterbury
Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:54 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Kit Progression. 01-07
Replies: 16
Views: 436

Kit Progression. 01-07

My armour in progression, over six years. June 2001, new and keen! Helm, Legs, Gambeson and gorget mine, everything else borrowed.. http://members.armourarchive.org/robertdc/QC%20tourney%202001.jpg Scream and Leap! (Just legged actually....) http://members.armourarchive.org/robertdc/Legged.jpg May 2...
by Robert of Canterbury
Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:48 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: sick of the only "authentic kits" are 14th c
Replies: 97
Views: 3224

freiman the minstrel wrote:
Robert of Canterbury wrote:But Iron/steel armour existed in the Middle Ages, plastic did not. I wear both, but you don't see the plastic.

Oh, Robert.
Say it aint so. Please.
:wink:
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Mea Culpa mon Frere, je suis un closet Plastaud.
I feel so Dirty.... :oops:
:P R
by Robert of Canterbury
Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:21 pm
Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
Topic: I Wanna be a late 5th cent Irish/Scot Dal Riata
Replies: 17
Views: 1393

Context,

Romano-British,
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=43867

Picts
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=43853

Irish
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=43576
by Robert of Canterbury
Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:51 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Is the time ripe for the reformation of tourny companies?
Replies: 34
Views: 680

Buck up Guy watch this m see people still do Pas course i have no idea when this was taken but i recognize a few kits. That My friend was taken on Jersey in the Duchy of Normandy. (The Actual original one ) I'm the one getting the baton broken over my head The video says "2006". Man, Murd...
by Robert of Canterbury
Fri Feb 16, 2007 8:37 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: sick of the only "authentic kits" are 14th c
Replies: 97
Views: 3224

The true issue is this. As for authenticity, there is no difference between stainless and plastic. Neither of them have been dug out of the ground and are being used. If your pretend stainless armor is better looking than someone else's pretend armor, who cares. Alric By defining Authenticity so st...
by Robert of Canterbury
Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:15 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: sick of the only "authentic kits" are 14th c
Replies: 97
Views: 3224

http://members.armourarchive.org/robertdc/Hoxley%20Crown%20with%20Vitus.JPG My opponent (left) has since replaced his legs with Mail Chausses and simple poleyns, and now wears a Maciejowski Salt Shaker, instead of the Wenceslaus he has in this pic. I (Right) have added a mail fauld. Vitus' Harness ...
by Robert of Canterbury
Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:07 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Pictures of medieval distilling
Replies: 5
Views: 271

After a good deal of glueing and re-fitting the shards and pipes turned out to be... ...- Parts of a ceramic bugle and not even close to anything spirit(-ual). Ceramic bugles have been found in Scandinavian medieval deposits before, but they are still rather uncommon. Cheers /N B The Museum at Lüb...
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:51 pm
Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
Topic: Iwtb a Wallachian knight in 1200AD
Replies: 18
Views: 1669

[Grumpy old fart mode on] "the year 1200 Exactly" is not "the end of the 1200's to early 1300's."

Ask the question you'd like answered. We're none of us Psychic.

[Grumpy old fart mode off]

I'll change the title of the thread accordingly.
by Robert of Canterbury
Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:38 pm
Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
Topic: IWTB a 4th-c BC Pazyryk Nomad Cheiftan.
Replies: 12
Views: 635

any advance on

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/Cambridge/entries/080/Pazyryk.html

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