The Armour Archive

Klaus the Red

Vitus, I wouldn't have it any other way.

K

Klaus the Red

30 takers you ought to get, but 60 might be pushing it. I've got a decent 14th century kit and an even better one in process, but regardless, I don't know yet if my travel plans will get me there in time. Let's see if the wife is up to doing the entire 12-hour trip on Saturday...

K

Klaus the Red

Yo, bartender! I'll have an Oakeshott and a beer to go with that...

Klaus the Red

Yep, as many of them as my energy holds out for. It's great that they've mostly been scheduled for the 5- to 6-o'clock hour so they don't conflict with any of the battles this year- not to mention allowing time to recharge between beatings.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

OK, that helps- Combat of the 30 is by invitation only, so I'll cross it off my list of gotta-fights. How about the Pas? I thought it might be an installment of the Passage of Three Seas, which is supposed to start on the 13th and continue for a few days.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Where can I find published details (if there are any yet) on the Battle of the Thirty and the Passage of Arms scheduled for Sunday the 14th for "following opening ceremonies" and 3PM, respectively?

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Got 'em. I'm going to compare them both to Bill's and my own stats when I get a few minutes and send you the appropriate block to try on- I think you might be somewhere in between us.

K

Klaus the Red

PM sent.

Klaus the Red

Though let me ad that the ones in the Met of similar design do not have vervells . I beg to differ. Here's the Met helmet in question together with my sketch of Wallace A.74: [img]http://nickfriend.fatcow.com/chalcishelmets.jpg[/img] (Please ignore the text about the visor in the lower left corner-...

Klaus the Red

Nah, I never figured you for the cutthroat type...

I PM'd you a reply about my current philosophy so we don't go too off-topic here.

K

Klaus the Red

Murdock- the address is the same.

Tasha- that restricts me to New England and NY and leaves PA to you! (Until such time as Zil and I move south, of course...)

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Okey-dokey- email me if you need my address.

Klaus the Red

Tasha, can you give us the exact URL of that last image? I can't find it on the Gallica page (the ms numbers don't seem to go up that high). I'd like to look at that guy in yellow more closely, but I would argue from the point of armoring sense that we're seeing a peplum cut to a point in the center...

Klaus the Red

Here I am- I just sent you an e-mail.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

"He knows, and we know he knows, and he knows that we know he knows... we're a very knowing family."

Geoffrey, "The Lion in Winter" (paraphrased)

Klaus the Red

Klaus -- Since it's likely that folks continued to wear split hosen through the 15thc in some environments/instances (in addition to the joined variety), there probably existed a variety of shapes at the top of the split versions for points of contact with whatever held them up. I know- there's loa...

Klaus the Red

I still have the muslin mockup from when I made Bill's garments- if you fit into that, you'll fit the finished product. Send me your numbers and I'll see if it's even in the ballpark, and if so, I'll mail you that for testing. BTW, I've become a firm believer in the principle that custom fitted item...

Klaus the Red

Yep, I think I know what you're talking about- if the points are tied around the drawstring/waistband through slits in the casing, and the fabric of the casing scrunches around to the front, then the tops of the hose cheat inward. I've always held that a single-pointed leg should be attached to the ...

Klaus the Red

I've always been of the opinion that only individual-leg chausses with a single attachment point in front would have been pointed to the waistband of the braes--a style, with variations in braes length, that seems to have been in effect from the 11th through the 15th century. The evolutionary link b...

Klaus the Red

Roughly what size a mail piece will 900 rings (the qty. in your loose-ring package) yield? And do you know if your rings and rivets are close enough to the ones imported by Forth Armoury that they would work with one of Steve's riveting tools?

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Murdock, be advised, Bill has very skinny wrists... he has quite the tomb-effigy physique in many respects. If the coat fits in other particulars, I can probably alter the forearms or make new ones to fit you.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Hee hee hee. And this is hard on the heels of the Barony of Carolingia being profiled in a Boston TV newsmagazine, which broadcast prominently featured yours truly. We're everywhere and we're growing stronger daily...

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Far be it for me to shoot too many holes in my fan mail, but I should like to point out some errata in Gillaume's enthusiastic review: 1) The arming coat is based on the pourpoint of Charles de Blois, not the Black Prince's jupon, which is a different sort of thing altogether. You can see an image o...

Klaus the Red

I'm afraid Kass would kill me, were I to accept.

Does that mean you live with Kass and Kass lives in Easton?

Klaus the Red

There's a German 14th century effigy of one Weikhardt Frosch ("Frog") wearing a surcoat with his arms- a bend with three frogs (colors unknown, it being a line drawing). I'll try to post the image soonish.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Legend has it that Talbot has more pictures of bascinets yhan just about anyone! Well, I'm no Talbot, but I've been amassing quite the tidy little archive myself. I have also noticed the predilection for bascinets identified as French to have the long, sloped backpoint profile--not to mention a ver...

Klaus the Red

I just got a chance to deflate a film critic's ego a bit, and it felt so good I just have to share... Klaus To: 05/06/2005 12:57 Atex Subject: Historical error in "Heaven" review Dear Mr. Burr, You're welcome to your opinion on Ridley Scott's "Kingdom of Heaven" (I haven't seen it yet myself), but p...

Klaus the Red

can we come up with a historical bascinet that had stitching holes across the brow? Sure, plenty of 'em- here are two examples. The first one is from the German National Museum, and the second one is a Missaglia piece that was up for auction recently in Switzerland, I believe. Plenty more where the...

Klaus the Red

I haven't noticed a problem thus far, but it's a 14 gauge helmet with a full face visor and a riveted camail, so it has a lot of mass to begin with. Previous to it, I'd been fighting in a 16-gauge one with a rather thinly compressed layer of close-cell foam inside a leather liner, in which I got kno...

Klaus the Red

If you are going the full nine yards and lacing your quilted liner into the bascinet via holes around the outside edge, here's a word of advice. Shape the "crown points" at the top so they form a rounded dome over your head when gathered, NOT a cone that fits into the point of the helmet itself. The...

Klaus the Red

Nothing else so far- sorry I haven't gotten back to you. It's looking as though my new camail liner may do away with my need for a gorget at all, but I'll have to make that call once I finish and field-test it. I'll keep you posted if I am still interested.

Klaus

Klaus the Red

Under the clear understanding that you will be aiding and abetting the competition, I will eagerly sign up for your Grand Assiette class and see how you do it. I've been toying with some ideas for a class on how to avoid the standard SCA first-outfit pitfalls while making simple 14th century garb, b...

Klaus the Red

Bob- I was planning to miss Retreat in any case since it's opposite an SCA event I've missed three years running, but I have a suggestion. Try contacting Jeremy Oneail on this matter. He's mentioned an insurance policy that's sold specifically to cover Ren Faire and reenactment combat activities, wh...

Klaus the Red

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Klaus the Red

I'm interested in acquiring a strip of mail to turn into the upright part of a standard (collar)- say 3-4" wide by about 20-22" long at full stretch. I'm thinking of attaching it to a leather base with a couple of light reinforcing plates to make a more authentic 14th century gorget for SCA fighting...

Pennsic Combat of 30 & pas d'armes info?

15th century hose pointed to braes?

The geek is mightier than the pen!

Wanted: strip of riveted/welded mail for standard