The Armour Archive

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Murdock wrote:really sharp cheddar????

But it is useless against a foe in a Monterrey Jack or a ricotta plates.

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there are just one too many people here that ARE insulting, that ARE biased, that ARE so involved in their own little world that they feel invincible in being negative, abusive, and RUDE! I agree that this is unfortunate... In other cases denegrading a group of people because of some notion that th...

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If I fenced more than I do I would definitely go the helm route. They just look more appropriate to me. Though some interesting camouflage jobs can be done with fencing masks. Usually I roll my eyes at painted faces and such on them, but I have seen one such which had a moustache, trimmed beard and ...

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Ephedrine hasn't been banned, either, it's just less used than pseudephedrine. Go to a drugstore, look at the ingredient label on Primatene tablets, for instance. Ephedrine HCL, USP 12.5 mg...

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Well, 1520 you are not far away from the rapier period, especially in Spain, where the weapon is thought first to have emerged. Have a look at the first weapon depicted here: m It's listed at 1550-1560 and is German, and is a fully developed rapier as opposed to a sidesword. But three decades earlie...

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All the books I found when I shearched for William Wilson where about Asian sword fighting. Also, which one? The Arte of Defense, available from Tattershall ( Magmaforge gave the website above ). It's a good book. As far as period rapier manuals go, Silver ( 'Paradoxes of Defence' ), Saviolo ( 'His...

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Val-ÃƒÂ¨s-Dunes, maybe?

The French and Normans fought each other quite a bit. In addition to the above battle, William fought them over Maine at least twice. And that's just during one Duke's reign...

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There is also the issue of how often someone would have been able to afford more than one sword to use. I have heard of some claims of people carrying a backup sword but whether this was used when the shield went or in case the first sword broke is another matter. That is also the context in which ...

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I wouldn't use butted in SCA combat unless it utilized spring steel links. Mild wire butted wants to come apart too easily, and you're always replacing dropped links, plus if you ever need to polish it the rolling-barrel method ( or dryer, whatever ) will probably end you up with a mess of loose lin...

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You mean Owen?

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The brother of King Louis XIV?

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In either case:

http://www.armor.com/2000/catalog/item006.html

Says it's a replica of one in the Royal Armory in Madrid...

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I made a spiked ball from an approx. 3" diameter steel polygon which is used to form the axes of plastic-rod display frames and such for trade shows and booths. They have numerous threaded holes in them, into which you need only screw a length of threaded rod, cut to taste, then grind the part that ...

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I'm with Wil---Eric Schmidt for a hauberk and coif and perhaps one of the gods listed above for a spangen or salt-shaker helm, if they would deign to go back from the 14th and 15th century stuff...

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A quick pass:

A common term in period for the COP was "pair of plates" or simply "plates".

Brigandine is a later development of the same armour form, but using a multitude of tiny plates rather than a relative few large ones, and arranged differently.

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Think of the gopher's "NSTIW" story...

The buggers were pretty active. Probably got pretty darned hungry waiting for all those large clanking humans to clear off and quit mashing their burrow entrances.

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Exactly as Konstantin said; and if you angle the bolt-cutters slightly when you cut each link, you can make the points of the "Z" press together tightly. This helps enormously with preventing butted mail from unknitting itself. I have coifs and a haubergeon of the stuff as well, and heve never lost ...

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I made a guanto da presa ( mail-palmed fencing gauntlet ) by sewing the mail to the palm of a leather glove. I use it for rapier play, and have had no problems with the stitches slipping through the mail butts. As long as the butts are tight and the thread is either thick or you take several turns o...

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[quote="Ulrich"] Rattan combat may be Ã¢â‚¬Å“all over the boardÃ¢â‚¬Â

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Angus Bjornssen wrote:
Does anyone seriously doubt that Donald Trump or someone in his position would not like that very hand made item in silver?

Yes, but he'd want his personal arms embossed on it, I'm sure.

What ARE Satan's personal arms, anyway?

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Name it after someone. Ragnar. Starkadh. Hardrede. Kraki. Etc...

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I think Josh goes too far in disprizement, but it does seem an odd rationale: lack of uniformity necessarily makes for unsafe conditions? By that standard both rattan ( even within a form like sword and board ) and rapier are also unsafe, because there are both regional differences and style differe...

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Eh...math is not my strong suit, obviously!

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Hew wrote:Okay now, ten more and we'll have a calendar.

Wouldn't that still leave us a month shy?

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Winterfell once showed me a translated will from the 11th century in a Ewart Oakeshott book where a man left his son several items including a sword and some linen chausses. Now if Winterfell could only remember which book it was so we could write down the page number. I had a cursory look through ...

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That's not a bad price, especially if the VAT is not assessed on buyers outside the EU. Does anyone know how that is handled?

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I see the fun, but where's the castle? ( Anything with that many big windows that near the ground says "palace" to me. I think of a castle as a fortress, a serious, defensible place---Angers, not Chambord. )

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How do I resolve ( heh ) the graininess problem when shooting indoors with 400 ASA or higher film? Slides or print film? ASA 400 shouldn't be all that grainy unless you're projecting them or making large prints. Print film, average-size prints. I really noticed this the last time someone gave me pi...

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And that fugly helm somehow spawns a serious discussion about What Is Art. Curiouser and curiouser....

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Them're purty. How do they attach?

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How do I resolve ( heh ) the graininess problem when shooting indoors with 400 ASA or higher film?

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And it's not even made out of a Freon bottle...

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Hory clap! Very sexy indeed!

However, I feel I must warn you that keeping such things around tends to attract burglars. I suppose I might be coaxed into keeping it safe for you, if you want to send it to me.

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Apparently it is not historical, though there are some sort of close approximations:

http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/vikfury.htm

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But that is precisely how historical armours looked! Didn't you know that?

*cough* ( looking around nervously ) *cough* Blankenshield*cough*

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