The Armour Archive

T. Finkas

I don't know why so many people think the doorknob has to twist and activate a lock. I say all it has to do is provide a means to pull the door closed. I don't see why the lock/latch can't be a seperate entity, mounted at the edge. Makes perfect sense to me. As for the knob, why not have some sculpt...

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Ny Bjorn wrote:Here's a scan of how Inga HÃƒÂ¤gg imagine the garment Caithlinn have in mind.

/N B

Again, that's awfully close to what Scythian men (300BC?) are pictured as wearing. The Scythian coat does overlap though and seems to have a V neck (bathrobe style but w/o lapels).

Tim

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---STANDING OVATION--- First of all, marvelous! Secondly, would this sort of helm sometimes have rondels on the temples?I know that's not what you are going for here, but would that treatment be authentic? Seems like the period paintings have oft depicted such a thing. Yeah, I have a thing about tho...

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Great links! Thanks.

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Ha! That's funny because I had been contemplating making a Scythian "double-breasted" coat and using it for my Viking impression too. I'ts a funny note if they in fact are related somehow.

Tim

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...SCA folks will get on you if I came to an SCA event in a totally period kit with spurs and a period chain if it looks like the kind reserved for SCA knights... I have experienced the same, James. Only an HERALDIC type chain is reserved for Knights SCA (i.e. simple links like an anchor chain), ye...

T. Finkas

Check out page 55 of Osprey's The Normans. There's an 11th cent Norman manuscript illust of David & Goliath. David is depicted wearing a bag that would suit your purposes, perhaps. It's a squarish bag with a rounded 2/3 flap and a shoulder strap from top corner to top corner. The edge of the flap an...

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...Tim I just love that belt / pouch you made - if you ever want to make one on commission please, please, please let me know. Thanks, Karl. I appreciate the encouragement. Wait until you see the next generation , I hope to have seal fur (or something else very nice) for the purse; and maybe twice ...

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...Also, thank heaven, no Iron Age tablet-woven bands used as decoration... Ooops! I thought tablet woven trim would be the way to go. That's what I used on my current tunic. What would be better? ...or the (likely unauthentic) contrasting twill weave in tunics... That's where I am willing to stick...

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...As for the "Eastern Northan" (?) the Klappenrock construction doesn't seem to be in line with the evidence we know of (front pieces cut with the grain, not diagonally, it's the hem parts that are cut on an angle). The width of the trim would be ok if it wasn't white and just cloth trim, the fake...

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I am curous about the exact wording of the SCA rules for Knights with regard to the privilege of wearing the fealty chain and white belt---in reference to a topic on the R&A board. Can somebody please point me to a place online where the official policy is spelled out? I checked SCA Copora but could...

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...What do you think of these two outfits?... Personally, I find the lack of texture to be a bit boring. It might be desirable to offer some different weaves like herringbone or tabby as opposed to having everything (seemingly) in melton/boiled wool. The fir trim on the Rus hat is handsome, but as ...

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...My knighting 'chain' was my own torc... Sounds romantic! However, isn't a fealty chain supposed to be a simple link chain (like a heraldic chain)? Couldn't anybody who wants to wear a gold-plated torc do so (issues of precise authenticity aside)? No offense implied---just askin... ...Neither one...

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Trevor wrote:...8 man hours for the padded cuisses...

For hand-sewing? I dunno, that seems pretty speedy. I'd say 2 to 3 times that. Just my opinion based on gamoised cuisses I have made by machine, and canvas jacks I have quilted by hand.

Tim

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I would like to cordially disagree with Tim Finkas to limit the time period to 1490 - the SCA's time period goes all the way down to 1600 (depending on who you ask ) And some of us prefer that later period stuff, and I have ideas on doing up a new fighter in some 1580's armour that would look H#LLA...

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...But I think its unfair to continually degrade the man behind his back... Say WHAT? Are you referring to what is posted here in a PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE forum? A forum that the person in question is aware of and has been KNOWN to use? A forum where he can answer or dispute any statement he cares to?...

T. Finkas

Here's another re-enactor fashion I have seen and seems suspect to me: wearing a torc/torque/neckring. Did Scandanavian men wear these during the era we are discussing?

I know some of these are quite early (over a thousand years earlier)which is what makes me wonder.

Thanks,
Tim

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You must've missed this one by Hammered Wombat:

http://www.hammeredwombat.com/images/20 ... 6-04%20(12).JPG

It's as latticed as one could imagine...

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...I know the Saami had tepee like structures ... Here's something I have been wondering about: What was the Sammi (aka Sami, Saami, etc.) culture like during the time period we are examining? Was it anything like it is now, or is that all 18th century fashion (like practically every other European...

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I'm not too sure exactly how wide wicklebander should be, however, you can get herringbone wool trill tape in widths up to 1.5" here: m #02-150, 1 1/2" wide - $ 4.75/yard This article: m says 75-100mm is the typical size range. That's approx 3-4 inches. Perhaps the 1 1/2" width would be suitable if...

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I was thinking of just such a challenge a while back. Needless to say, I think it's an excellent idea. Let me throw in that contenders be encouraged to document and photograph each step (where appropriate)so that the info might be presented at some future point as a collection of online how-to's. An...

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I agree, Bob. To that end, many members of my old group of Medievalists friends would frequently employ the trick of having multiple portrayals. Typically, one impression would be a servant or laborer and the other would be a soldier, gentleman, patrician, etc. After all, it seems rather ridiculous ...

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...have I got work for you! I can document it--I just can't make it. I'll be in touch. Yes, let me know what you have in mind, Mord. -------------------- By the way, I just changed the thread title to something a bit more descriptive of what's going on here. Also, the terms "dispelling" and "gaffs"...

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Tim, at the Viking event, I found your pouch very interesting (much smaller than I thought). I was not the only one expressing an interest in your hat. I would be interested in details. Charles O'Connor Thanks for your interest, Charles. The size of the pouch was a calculated guess because the docu...

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James, Regarding Bi-color herringbone weave for Leg Wraps (aka Puttees, Wickelbander, Winningas, etc.): ...Modern weaves usually have different-coloured warp and weft, to accentuate the herringbone effect. It is unclear whether this was the rule in the early medieval period, but at least some wickel...

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My next pair will be out of some nice herringbone weave wool I have---I have learned that herringbone is the proper weave for these things. Tim one note I learned last year. The herringbone finds are all solid color not mutlicolored like most of what we find today. Kim got me some solid green herri...

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Lamellar: Please explain the plates found at Birka. I will send you the article if needed. Birka, btw, is the only place you find lamellar plates in the "viking world." This seems to currently be a "hot topic" for re-enactors. There's discussion of it on Sword Forum: m Belt pouches: Again, Birka, c...

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I've done this. Since I don't have any talent for armoring, I used brass pins: have lots of them (since mistakes are easy). It worked, for a while, but I have to do some serious repairs to a belt. BTW, Studbuckle, great outfit (kit?)! Nice to meet last saturday; also, where'd you get the hat and th...

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hey i have that book, i liekd it too. enver sat and really looked at stuff to dispell anything. wheres this sca vikign thing at? sounds like an ok event. details? It was this last weekend 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. I spent so much time making new stuff, and staying up too late, I didn't arrive t...

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I'd be keen ... when I can afford it. I think many people are still so overwhelmed by the fact that it's now possible to buy good quality rivetted mail at reasonable prices that they don't think about whether the form is really appropriate to what they are portraying. Yeah, that's me. I am more con...

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...said he was a nice and decent kind of guy, but apparently suffers from extreme depression. That he lives virtually alone out in the boondocks of Alaska in one of those locales where the sun doesn't rise during winter, and winter is long (no sun is bad for depressives). So apparently, something l...

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As I was working to sharpen up my "viking" kit for this last weekends local "Winter Thing" SCA event, I perused what I could find here on the web and discovered that re-enactors & living history folks have been reevaluating the data and previously accepted attitudes since "The Vikings: Recreated in ...

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meaddrinker wrote:...fart of? LOL

Damn those pesky typos!!!

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D. Sebastian wrote:...Foam?

Yeah, they tend to frown on Crossbow combat blunts without foam in the SCA.

T. Finkas

Thanks Rainald. I guess a little experimentation will help at this point. I suppose I could anneal each one by holding its point in a propane torch flame for a second or two. It will be tedious but probably work.

I'll try it and see how it works.

Cheers,
Tim

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