The Armour Archive

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I think it rather depends on the newbie. Is he the sort who is going to be able to plow through Castiglione's "The Courtier", or Froissart, or the Paston letters, or the chronicles of Joinville and Villehardouin? Or are his eyes just going to glaze over at the writing style and conventions of the pe...

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You are all very beknighted individuals. This cannot be deknight.

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If you make puns like that, I hope you were "Bjorn to Run", as well!

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There's a drawing of a guanto da presa in the Blair/Tarassuk "Complete Encyclopedia of Arms and Weapons".

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I don't have Laking, but I know where to find one if I had the money...

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You can find benders very cheaply, I think I paid less than $20 for mine. Or you can fill the pipe or tube with packed sand and then bend over any curved form; the sand will keep it from creasing.

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There's a table of armour weights in Malcolm Vale's "War and Chivalry". Pieces from the Wallace Collection, including a couple of helms c. 1390, the bulk ( and all of the body and limb armour ) 1450 and later, alas. Do you have those? Also a couple of helms in the exhibition catalog "Treasures from ...

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A nude woman in a green boot!

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Couldn't you use a wet grinder, to obviate the need for water dipping?

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As you'd expect, it's

http://www.theringlord.com/index.shtml

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It's The Rattus Patrol!

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What---'that'?!

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(1) Get an axe with a very wide blade.

(2) Use it like a shield.

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Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

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Cheese curd is signifigantly different from cheese. it is the pre-cursor of cheese. it has not been allowed to ferment, and thus has not reached a low enough ph (around 4-5 , cheddar is usually pH5.2) at the proper ph, withthe proper salinity, most spoilage organisms are inhibited. molds will grow ...

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Maeryk wrote:whats going to happen to Brie? Is it going to mold? *grin*

No, I think it gets overrun by Saruman, doesn't it?:)

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You really have to know the individual items. For instance a lot of their swords are made with the infamous rat-tail tangs...but I am given to understand that a few aren't. Ask about this, though the sales person often does not know anything about the merchandise. I'd echo the extra-special caution ...

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Thanks, those are the ones I mean---I can't find cheeses "in the rind", not even goudas or edams...if I do they are packaged in plastic and marked "keep refrigerated", which given the cheese curd incident I am loathe to ignore without authoritative advice. Must I resort to fancy specialty stores? ( ...

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Thomas, Bob, reassure me further about the cheeses. I remember not so many years ago it was possible to find quite a selection of cheeses in your garden-variety supermarket, packaged in waxed paper or cloth and in unrefrigerated displays. I used to take these "to the field" with me when I was in the...

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The vikings did have straws. They just weren't very well suited to drinking, is all---better for bedding down cattle and such....

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How does gesso stand up to use, ie impact? Rattan and/or steel?

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True. But then, do I really need to?

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Geoffrey of Bleasdale wrote:The crossguard on the sword would not work in lieu of the lugs, for nothing would keep the scabbard from sliding off the sword!

Not if your scabbard fit as tightly as mine do!

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Do a web search on "milk paint", there are a number of companies selling it ( or what they purport to be milk paint, at least; I do not vouch for its authenticity ). Here're the two biggies:

http://www.realmilkpaint.com/

http://www.milkpaint.com/

And a formula:

http://www.pioneerthinking.com/milkpaint.html

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Considering the huge time range of the Society---even the "guest in the court" attitude will not comfortably embrace a Viking in the 16th century, or a landsknecht in First Crusade Antioch, etc. Perhaps it would help to think of ourselves as folk who have died and for some reason awoken in a strange...

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To hang a sword you'd use a little noose, of course. Seriously, though, I vaguely recall seeing a drawing once of an interesting arrangement, I think it was Saxon or Anglo-Saxon. The bottom end of the baldric ended in a large, flat metal ring ( actually it was slightly teardrop-shaped ) through whic...

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I too think they look like separate items, but I'm not convinced they are protruding portions of an underlying piece like the Bichler one. In several cases they seem to be too large in circumference to be emerging from the neck-hole of an overlying garment. And in one figure depicted in the panel St...

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"Arhhhhlll....basted lamb....arhhhhlll..." -Homer Simpson

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You might also want to bake the piece in the oven after it's well dried, to make the finish still more durable.

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An earlier thread on tow sources:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hlight=tow

A web search for "raw fleece" brought up over 5 pages of sources:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=slv1- ... raw+fleece

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Hushgirl wrote:No, he mean wool crepe--you know, when the seams in your hosen won't stay straight?

Ooh, that phenomenon always makes me mad!

You might even call it the crepes of wrath...

Hey! I'll be here all week, folks.

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You will get a lot more responses if you don't start off by calling us crepes...

( Sorry, couldn't resist. )

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It's ok, the Devil only comes if you say his name thrice...

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Chef, I am not sure how far we can generalize the disabling effects of pain/injury received accidentally or medically to those received in the midst of a full adrenaline dump such as one would probably experience in a battle. But it's a very interesting account of your experience and impressions. Ho...

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