The whole transvestite in court case just goes to show that there's very little new under the sun.
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- Thu Mar 20, 2003 6:28 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Racial Issues in LH Groups
- Replies: 33
- Views: 41
- Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:10 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: MTA photos
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8
I'm always amazed at how small the ships the English sailed across the Atlantic were.
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- Tue Mar 18, 2003 12:51 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Event pictures (what do you want to see?)
- Replies: 30
- Views: 13
Pictures of fighting, cooking, dancing, working, pictures of stuff like utensils, tools, cookware etc.
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- Sun Mar 16, 2003 1:11 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Hollow pommelled swords
- Replies: 6
- Views: 12
Definate rubbish, that. Even if he was talking about replica swords he'd be wrong, because MRL has had and Irish Two hander with a ring pommel for years. Still, Narsil is a nice looking fantasy sword, when it's not all broken up, anyhow. Slainte, Fearghus ------------------ How long will we fight? W...
- Wed Mar 12, 2003 1:28 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th Century English Armour
- Replies: 4
- Views: 14
English Funereal Brasses, here's the link http://www.mbs-brasses.co.uk/pic_lib/picture_library-armour.htm Also Arms and Armour of the Medieval Knight by Edge and Paddock, Arms and Armour of the Crusades by David Nicolle are excelent references. Slainte, Fearghus ------------------ How long will we f...
- Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:11 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Grace O'Malley in Relations to an Irish Fencing Persona
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13
Well, Mr McBride does take liberties, but the illustrator for The Irish Wars is David Sque. I don't think they used him ever again. The whole tutu inar thing is just ludicrous. I do like the Dungiven costume, when I get better at sewing, I think I'll try my hand at it. Slainte, fearghus ------------...
- Tue Mar 11, 2003 1:58 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Win At All Cost (SCA)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 33
Some people are competative, some are not. I fight for fun, but winning is part of the fun. I like to fight hard and agressively, hitting hard and taking hard. I don't think that makes me a win at all costs guy, but in a tournement I don't play around with people. I take every opponent seriously, to...
- Mon Mar 10, 2003 3:34 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Sca-Attaching shields to arms while fighting w/two handed we
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8
The style of shield Edmund saw sounds like what the Macedonian phalanx is supposred to have used. Connolly shows it in Grece and Rome at War and in the History Channel's Arms in Action:Spears. They used a round shield, strapped so that the hand could hold the sarissa normally, with a strap running f...
- Mon Mar 10, 2003 3:21 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Rattan Wasters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10
Cool, thanks for the advice. My favoruite stick died at last week's fighter practice and I'm looking to replace it with a more sword shaped objected.
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- Mon Mar 10, 2003 3:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: I love the Armour Archive because.......
- Replies: 28
- Views: 16
It's a place where I can hang out with folks who have the same obessions I have.
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- Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:55 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Rattan Wasters
- Replies: 8
- Views: 10
Rattan Wasters
Greetings all, In an attempt to get away from the basket hilt and plastic debates, I have a question. How would you make a "waster" for SCA fighting out of rattan? I was thinking of getting a really oversize hunk and planing it so it was 1 1/4 inch. The problem is the hilt, do you shape it with a wo...
- Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:24 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA - blocking with baskethilts
- Replies: 135
- Views: 429
Cheval, I would gladly switch weapon forms rather than having cheesed a victory like that. I use a madu simply because I enjoy the style, not because of any percieved advantage with it. Against expirianced fighters, it gives me no more advantage than using two swords. At practice I will always tell ...
- Sun Mar 09, 2003 8:17 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: [SCA] Has heavy fighting ossified?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 44
Just to clarify, what I meant was that half-swording is no more dangerous to the user than throwing a buttspike shot. I wasn't speaking to the validity of using a buttspike on the spear or the polearm. I was thinking more along the lines of oranges to lemons. Different fruit, but in the same family....
- Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:16 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Grace O'Malley in Relations to an Irish Fencing Persona
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13
Wes, It's a pretty horrible book, but Osprey's Irish Wars 1485-1603 might be worth a look for some ideas on Elizabethan Irish clothes. There are some illustrations of Irish in doublets and hose of a distinctly Irish style. It's based off of the Dungiven costume, a bog find dated to around the 1600's...
- Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:05 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is this better than plastic stuff?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7
Because you could! 550 cord is the closest thing to silk cord without the price? Sheesh! Don't get me wrong, my scale armour is laced with 550 paracord, but I don't claim that I did for any other reason than availability. Slainte, Fearghus ------------------ How long will we fight? We will fight unt...
- Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:01 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: [SCA] Has heavy fighting ossified?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 44
Ossified? I don't think so. No more than football or baseball have ossified because of their ruleset. Halfswording is easy to do safely. In essence it is a buttspike thrust, just like with a polearm or spear. Now, the murder-blow, that would require some changes to how quillions and pommels were mad...
- Sun Mar 09, 2003 3:48 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA - blocking with baskethilts
- Replies: 135
- Views: 429
The more I think about this subject, the more convoluted it gets. The idea behind not blocking with the basket or the guantlet is that it 1) violates the spirit and intent of the rules 2) it isn't a period technique. Well I agree on point number two for certain. The thing is, making the hand an ille...
- Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:43 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: What is the latest period a sugarloaf would be worn? With an
- Replies: 5
- Views: 20
Definately early 14th century. In Osprey's Knight of Outremer, there is a plate of aknight wearing a visored sugarloaf, coat of plates, cuir-bollei arms and legs over mail and covered with a long surcote. They date the style from around the 1330's. I'd say that was the latest. No need to mess around...
- Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:00 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Square Shield
- Replies: 28
- Views: 47
Actually, there are sqaure bucklers shown is some of the fechtbuchs.
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- Tue Mar 04, 2003 3:16 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Fighting Organizations... (you)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 16
Greetings, I'm in the SCA, I do armoured combat, armouring, and tailoring. I'm also in ARMA, I've just joined a small study group here in Kaiserslautern, we're doing longsword. In additon I'm in the WSFF. The World Stick Fencing Federation, recreating Victorian singlestick. I haven't participated mu...
- Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:41 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Sca-Attaching shields to arms while fighting w/two handed we
- Replies: 33
- Views: 8
Okay, now I agree that the guy that had his shield hanging by a guige strap was rules lawyering, even though it was a period practice. But why can't you hold a buckler in your hand and fight with a polearm? In Nicolle's big old armour book there are drawings of Italian manuscripts showing this being...
- Mon Mar 03, 2003 3:47 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Grace O'Malley in Relations to an Irish Fencing Persona
- Replies: 25
- Views: 13
Wes,
Perhaps because the bag sleeves would get caught in rigging, oarlocks, etc when working on a ship.
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Perhaps because the bag sleeves would get caught in rigging, oarlocks, etc when working on a ship.
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- Mon Mar 03, 2003 1:27 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 14th c. FEMALE costume
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8
Do a search for women's cotehardie on Google and you'll come up with scads of sites. Also Yahoo groups has Age Of the Cotehardie, a discussion group about the clothes and culture of the 14th cent. slainte, fearghus ------------------ How long will we fight? We will fight until Hell freezes over. The...
- Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:27 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Provenience of scale armour in western europe
- Replies: 8
- Views: 41
In Nicolle's Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era, Western Europe there are many illustrions of scale armour. Several are of saints, so they might be deliberately archaic and can't be used as a good reference. The following are in Nicolle's opinion really scale pg. 430 The Chronicle of Alfonso X. la...
- Sun Mar 02, 2003 12:54 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: match my helm
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15
Taking a deep breath....Of course I realize it is the R&A Board, I can read after all. It just seemed like several of the replies were a bit hard assed, that's all. Must be my peevish time of the month slainte, Fearghus ------------------ How long will we fight? We will fight until Hell freezes over...
- Sun Mar 02, 2003 12:35 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Egyptian Armor
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12
Everything I've read points to the Egyptian soldier wearing little or no armour. They did carry large cowhide shields. Some of thier allied mercenary tribes wore helmets, the Sherdan (sp) in particular wore helmets with small horns. At least that's what depictions of the battle with the Sea Peoples ...
- Sat Mar 01, 2003 2:20 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Colours in garb.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 20
It's a well known fact that barbarians are attracted to bright colours when they dress up;-) Seriously, look at the French national library's manuscript site and you'll see lots of bright colours even on the common folk in the retinues of the lords. the book of the hunt especialy, which is what I ba...
- Sat Mar 01, 2003 2:03 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: match my helm
- Replies: 11
- Views: 15
Wow, I'm thinking some of you were a bit tough on the guy. Anyhow, it's not a documented design, but visually it fits into the 13th century. This website is an excellent guide. http://www.bumply.com/Medieval/Kit/kit.htm slainte, Fearghus ------------------ How long will we fight? We will fight until...
- Sat Mar 01, 2003 1:23 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Aketon/Gambeson/Jack/Cloth Armour question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14
thanks!
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- Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:46 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Plastic is it really that much cheaper?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 41
Well, I have to dissagree iwht Flonzy on this one. Pickel barrel plastic is often free. You can work it with aviation snips and a cordless drill. If you add in the fact that most people don't fight in accurate clothing(myself included, you've cut the cost down considerably. You're left with the helm...
- Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:25 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Thickness of Armour vs. Mobility
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12
I agree that the period solution of pointing the armour to an arming cote is the way to go. My arm protection had a nsaty habit of sliding down, leaving my elbow exposed. Now I point it to my spiffy arming cote from Lady Keara and have had no problems since. Slainte, Fearghus ------------------ How ...
- Fri Feb 28, 2003 2:12 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Simple Polymer Poll
- Replies: 52
- Views: 14
yes, now that I've got the whole gauntlet issue worked out.
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- Fri Feb 28, 2003 1:56 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Roman Leg armour...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 28
The later Roman calvary wore thigh protection that was similar to the manica. Osprey's late Roman Cavalry has some great illustrations and reconstructions. slainte, Fearghus ------------------ How long will we fight? We will fight until Hell freezes over. Then we fight on the ice. Fearghus' Homepage
- Thu Feb 27, 2003 2:31 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Aketon/Gambeson/Jack/Cloth Armour question
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14
Aketon/Gambeson/Jack/Cloth Armour question
http://www.thehaca.com/essays/SandB/jacquerie1358.JPG I found this pic on the ARMA site. Since the men are all carrying bucklers, they are problably not knights, but men-at-arms. Do you think that they are wearing the cloth armour as thier sole protection? Has anyone made a similar armour and fough...
- Thu Feb 27, 2003 2:08 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Irish Warfare [HELP!]
- Replies: 18
- Views: 35
There might have been trade with the Continent, but that would have been only the chieftains and petty kings. They would have traded for mainly luxury goods like spices, silk, glass and jewelry. The main things the Irish had to trade were cattle and wool. There was a lot of contact with the Continen...