The Armour Archive

Jean Paul de Sens

Regardless of where you think the comma should be in the example above, the new rules state: (Version 1.0, 15 July, 2006) Neck Armor: The neck, including the larynx, cervical vertebrae, and first thoracic vertebra must be covered by one or a combination of the following and must stay covered during ...

Jean Paul de Sens

Has anyone voiced the opinions to the SEM and their KEM? I know some of you are marshals. Were any WIP, drafts, or such passed around for possible comment? To the general, every day marshal? No, unfortunately not. However, managing the feedback from that would have been pretty intense. Heck, the fe...

Jean Paul de Sens

JP, Iâ€˜m with you, I know I came in late to the process on the re-write but Lord knows I saw the level of activity. I would respectfully disagree with you though. People need to have a voice and as EM itâ€™s up to us to listen. We made a lot of changes folks like most of them. They have the right ...

Jean Paul de Sens

A note to all commenting. While it's easy to find the parts of the rules that "trip your trigger" and rant about them, I'd like to point out that 18 Kingdom's Earl Marshal's and deputies and the SEM spent a significant portion of their time, cutting into either work, fighter practice, event time. I ...

Jean Paul de Sens

Animal Weretiger wrote:IMO the solution is better training not more rules.

I agree. Perhaps the solution might be the creation of a separate fighting style under the SCA armoured umbrella.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Honestly if i did not have the possibliy of being _forced_ to fight from my knees....I likely would wear nothing but "bullwarks of wool" (i think thats how they put it) on my knees beneeth my armour. I know several SCA fighters, including our only Scottish knight, who do just that. Even kneeling, i...

Jean Paul de Sens

Note another historically-based option is that you can wear a sword belt ---AND--- a plaque belt. The sword belt goes around the real waist (and carries the sword) and the plaque belt goes about the hips (and carries the dagger). Yep. That's the coolest use of belts for the visual effect, IMO -- us...

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wbf wrote:Ansteorra has as well..... Or always has, not really sure...

No, we are planning on going to, but we have a lot of clarifications on weapons etc.

Currently for armor, we are society minimums plus vambraces.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

November 2000 you say? Is there an archive of older editions of the Society conventions? Do you know why it was changed? I agree the paragraph is confusing. I think I will kick the question upstairs and see if somebody will make a correction or defend it. Alfred- You're probably right about that. S...

Jean Paul de Sens

I just got off the phone with a potential client in Tulsa who was telling me that the kingdom there now requires 12 Ga on the skull portion of the helm. I am concerned since I make all mine from 13 Ga, the helm he is interested in is a spangenhelm that is a 13 Ga solid bowl welded up from 2 halves ...

Jean Paul de Sens

Just curious is it my price or impracticality of using iron as a list pole that has caused no one to reply. Is something like this even legal in the list field? They'd also make great vender barriers and such. I'll also do other things off the forge. Probably price I'd guess. We made a list field t...

Jean Paul de Sens

Because it is not described as a "helmet" literally "little helm"- which is what you are describing. Why do you assume that a helm does not have sides that protect the head? As a matter of fact I don't understand why we insist that the helm of the presumed armor standard includes a nasal- it doesn'...

Jean Paul de Sens

Dear Jester-as a matter of fact the current Midrealm rules state that it is a Society convention that thrusts to the sides and top of a helm are no good. I do not know if this is a change made by the SEM or a typo in our rules. From MK Marshals Handbook v9: Under Society Conventions of Combat parag...

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i am curious if we could have a discussion of the pros vs cons of using clamshell gaunts vs a different type. id like to make a simple pair of clamshell for general use, and if someone could point me toward a good pattern for a beginner that would be snazzy. thanks. What activity you gonna use them...

Jean Paul de Sens

I don't have a lot of skills that are useful for trade unless you really need some Cisco networking stuff done. Like I said -- considering just getting the Windrose flared knees and elbows. Same styling and nice and easy. As a good friend of Johannes, I'll say "Yah, you should do that" LOL, serious...

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I'm with Lorccan there. Fitting gloves to gauntlets is a major embuggerance, and I'd appreciate a gauntlet design that made it easier (predrilled sewing holes for instance). Adam, I hated doing it the first time, but the "sew the gloves to leather tabs and then rivet the leather tabs into the gaunt...

Jean Paul de Sens

I agree with Sam.... with a lot of his stuff, I do the

glue it to blue foam on the back. Glue the blue foam to the haft. Strapping tape like a mad man...finish tape.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Thats looks like a ring belt, get belt furniture from HE or Revival or so. And medieval it up. Another great source I discovered at Estrella was Blackwood Jewelry (m). He has really nice belt furniture for very reasonable prices (the only bronze version of the thistle buckle I know): m Hope this he...

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I like the leather tube idea suggested by Jehan. Lyonel uses black electrical tape to wrap his swords, with an under layer of strapping tape. I think they look better than silver duct tape swords and they definitely hit with authority. Please, BoD, let us make prettier weapons.... audax For that sa...

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I'm shooting for 'consistent'. My persona is Elizabethan; I fight in 14th C. If I'm going to do 14th C, I want to make it all look good as a set. I have pieces that are both expensive and nice and want to base the kit around those. (Yes, it's pretty lazy). Freiman -- I probably will end up with a p...

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I'd love a copy.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

So, Robyn, what's total weight on your kit?

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

My order of priority: 1. Protection 2. Freedom of movement 3. Appearance More specifically: 1. Solidly articulated, enclosed-tip thumb. This one is non-negotiable for me. 2. Highly flexible (front-to-back and side-to-side) wrist coverage that offers protection for the base of the hand and inside of...

Jean Paul de Sens

Infimus Mons Aureus. Aviano, Italy (up north, 1 hour from Venice). It was kind of short notice (a week or so) so we just unpacked our SCA trunk and had at it. If you're coming to Crown Tourney, now you know what I look like. Cool. My dad was station there back in the early eighties. We lived in a l...

Jean Paul de Sens

Nissan Maxima wrote:I have forgotten his name but he is from Florida. Why?

did pick up fights with him at Gulf Wars. He's a pretty durn good lefty, and just like knowing the name of people I fight with.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Anyone know this guys name?

http://ursus.smugmug.com/gallery/1803515/5/89942827

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

James B. wrote:
Jean Paul de Sens wrote:Legal targeting zone can not be changed. Legal blow calling conventions can, but targeting can not.

I know, just being funny

OTOH greaves are all about the spirit of the thirty.

Oops, I missed the smilies.... sorry bout that.

Yah, they would make kits look cooler.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Maeryk is correct. Corpora makes no limitations on thrust targeting, only that the face is a substantially lighter hit.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

James B. wrote:
Leo Medii wrote:I hope that next year they run it "as armored".

If so people better start investing in maille and greaves

Legal targeting zone can not be changed. Legal blow calling conventions can, but targeting can not.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

Well that was a load of crap. It was interesting to see the measurements of who hit the hardest and the CGI's of the body fighting. Funny enough, the guy who hit the hardest was the only western fighter, the boxer. AND he had on his thick, padded boxing gloves- and he still out hit all those cheese...

Jean Paul de Sens

So.... Best of the Best? Was it held?

Jean Paul de Sens

Sounds awesome.... and like a bit of "great minds think alike"... we're running this

http://mooneschadowe.ansteorra.org/triu ... /Heavy.htm

at our event last year. We were inspired by the number of activites from the Sapphire Joust description, and wanted to add some melees on Sunday.

I hope we have as much fun as you guys did.

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

So who's "the big man"?

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

It looks so awesomely cool.... I wish we could get some of their test equipment to test out SCA stuff with.... and WMA stuff with...it's just awesome...

JP

Jean Paul de Sens

I'm just guessing, but probably Robert MacPherson?

JP

Re: Oklahoma SCA Helm requirements-Inquiry

Re: clamshell gaunts vs X