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Prince Of Darkmoor

Any other opinions?

You smell.

Prince Of Darkmoor

Hey, where are those threads? Maybe I missed them when I scrolled through the pages, but I wanted to read them again. I was thinking about it some more this morning and wanted to refresh my memory.

Thanks.

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I still plan to come up there for the seminar and may be bringing William of Almaden. Maybe I'm just weird, but how can you NOT be interested in learning period techniques? I mean, we're out there acting like medieval knights - shouldn't we at least try to fight like them? But that's another rant en...

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sarnac,

Hammered Wombat is selling an iron mask on Ebay...plus he has others on his site

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These are "large" shirts - they have a stretched-tight torso circumferance of ~70", which fits a man with a 50" chest wearing a gambeson just fine. I can tailor them smaller if you like. Whoa! Damn, I gotta start pinching my pennies. The shirt I am workin...

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Sarnac, good show! The picture of your daughter wishing you good luck was priceless.

And I know how much it means to receive an accolade from a member of your family.

You do us all a great service.

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As Frederick the Heavy told me, this stuff needs to be annealed further. It is soft, but not quite soft enough to punch through with a lot of success. Also helps in flattening the ring.

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Right, I did miss something. Thanks Rev. Suppose it would help to actually read the post, wouldn't it...

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I plan on wearing a simple hardened leather breastplate under my gambeson and hauberk to protect my body. But the question I'm dealing with right now is what thickness and type of leather should I get to make this? I thought that 10 ounce leather might be enough once it is hardened but am not sure s...

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Thanks for all the advice gents. I'm not too keen on using plastic in my armour, but I don't have to worry about the temptation since our group doesn't allow plastic armour (except groin protection). I would not trust a 1/2" thick gambeson and maille as sufficient protection against an axehandle, so...

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I would suggest going to www.mailartisans.org and looking there to start with. I used the 90 degree sleeves on my shirt, which basically means that attaching the sleeves to the shoulder was easy on the top, front, and back, but it was an 'interesting' experience trying to figure out how to connect t...

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Thanks Pathfinder, that was just what I was looking for.

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Ideval, you obviously presume the westerners were intelligent enough to be "crafty" - let alone pre-meditate anything... Actually, I've got a historical reference that blows your theory out of the water: "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

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This is something I've been thinking about for a couple days. I know that when you weld something, say with a MIG or TIG, that the wire is melted red hot and fills in the tiny gap between the pieces. For the sake of argument, I don't want to get into how they work. My question isn't about that. My q...

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Thanks for the tip Owen. I'd like to try to stray away from using something like that, but will do it if I can't find another viable option. It would look doubly cool if it looked like I was just wearing the shirt and you couldn't see my rerebraces, shoulder protection, or chest protection. Just som...

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Start by going to www.aemma.com (I think its .com, might be .org) and look in their publications section. I think the historical great axe techniques would be found in La Jeu de la Hache (probably butchered the spelling of that one) and I think there are some plates of the Talhoffer fectbuch that sh...

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How did I miss this thread? Congratulations Bartok! And the rest of ya too! Wish I could have contributed to a prize or something.

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I've decided to abandon my coat of plates temporarily and see how fighting in chainmaille feels. Now, I don't like getting hit in the ribs as much as the next guy, so I've been thinking about ways to save my tender innerds while still giving the impression that I'm fighting in chainmaille alone. Her...

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PS Ok I've been at work for too many hours and I'm goofy from lack of sleep, but it's a funny image...running around a parking lot with a 5lb sledge playing whack-a-mole with those little clever Jesus fish One of my good friends from high school use to g...

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You ought to check out the rest of his site. That isn't the only mask he's sporting...

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Steve's been drinking the funny-tastin water again...

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Couple shots with a 1lb ball pein hammer works for me. For fun I used a 3lb mini-sledge. It only took one whack

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FWIW, the 90 degree seam is only visible under the armpit, an area that not too many people generally look... I just finished putting some short sleeves on my shirt and had to deal with this. Both seams are as easy to work with. I just chose to have seam under my armpits instead of across my chest. ...

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I just tried making a boss this weekend using a little apparatus my dad made. I got a 14ga boss to sink to almost 3" evenly, but I tore through it when I got down to 3.5" I just wanted to see how deep I could get it before it ripped. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif A friend of mine and I ...

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Good work Halberds! My best advice for working with bands that go over a helmet is to make sure they are dished evenly using the same form that you made the helmet halves in. They'll line up much nicer, although the picture you've got there is pretty nice http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif

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Ah come on, your not really *that fighter* until other fighters have specific armour they wear just to fight you

Like a cup.

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Nah, it takes a lot of Madori Sours to get that kind of show.

Speaking of which, I'm buying!

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Why, Shameless, how many women at once would you have?

Now THAT I'd pay 500K to watch...

[This message has been edited by Prince Of Darkmoor (edited 10-12-2001).]

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Ted, take a valium. If you want a spapbox, go to the Off Topics room. k_towery, you may try Ron Simmons. He makes stainless knee cops and can cut out the lames for you too. His email is ronsimmons@home.com. His webpage isn't working right now. Sometimes he takes a few days to respond to email, but h...

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Hey Clay! Have you been reading our recruitment handbook? lol. Nope http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif I've just picked up on a few things while watching literally scores of people come and go. All the people that stick around have a certain share...

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Possibly the greatest hurdle to overcome in any group is getting those new members, or keeping them interested. It really takes a special breed of person to show up and stick around. What I have learned is that -you- cannot seek them out; they have to seek you out. Suiting up in armour and hitting y...

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I guess I'm kinda boring. I'd purchase my financial independence. I'd quit this job, go back to school, and get my Bachelors or Masters in History (or some application thereof). Then I'd spend the next couple of years visiting various museums around the world and taking the world's most extensive ph...

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I don't know either. I saw the pictures on your site just fine. Maybe your web hosting service doesn't allow linking like Geocities?

Weird. Again.

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Silly Wombat. You can't have commas in the file names of your pictures! I couldn't see any of the pictures.

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