The Armour Archive

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What about flush the rivet heads on the outside? In this way you will use:
A) a period solution
B) the lames will fit better in every position instead of sitting on the head of those aluminium pop rivets.

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Kel - I hope we'll see a translation of the Anonymous Bolognese and the Anonymous Riccardino at some point, both are really interesting texts. Nothing on the immediate horizon. I don't know if this maybe of interest to you, but in Italy there is a fencing school that is called "Achille Marozzo...

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This is one of the most interesting thread in a long time.

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This is interesting, but not so much if you don't tell us more or don't point us to where we can read about it.

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I understand your feeling, I think than more than the force, one of the thing that is detrimental to the thrusting is the large diameter of the striking surface, this and the fact that it's flat, help the thrust to grip even when it would have slipped or missed completely. I realized it the first ti...

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Oh, few years ago here in Italy, two people have been killed after being poked in the eye with an umbrella. In the first accident the murderer was a woman that killed a girl after an altercation on the metro. In the second accident the murderer was a old man that killed a young one after al altercat...

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Thank you all.
Yesterday I learned that the gym has one of those puzzle mats for martial arts, it appear that they hate it, so I wil try to use it for us.

Cheers

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Kel... what happened to the ARS? Do you know?

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Yes I am, so, in the end someone read it?

I'm glad, but honestly, after so many years I don't know if I still agree with everything I wrote.

(I don't remember if I have the ARS pdf of that article)

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Thank you for your comment. I think the sword is an incredibly effective weapon.. if you contestualize by who it was used and against who it was used. An armored knight with his sword could have easily butchered a lot of paesants with partial armours and polearms or single handed weapons and shields...

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I wish to elaborate further: Sometime ago, some of you, in preparation for the battle of nation, tried to fight with rebated. They tried hard because it is known that battle of nation is a full contact event with rebated. If you go to see the thread you will discover that they chewed their swords ve...

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The problem is that you play a game, not a simulation. Perhaps you mean "reconstruction" reconstruction - an interpretation formed by piecing together bits of evidence Although, considering that we lack clear details prior to the 1300's...perhaps it would be safest to say that it is a &qu...

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The problem is that you play a game, not a simulation.

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I've made a replica of them years ago, and so studied them as much as I could. 1) Cuff and metacarpal could be joined in 2 ways: with a leather tab under the wrist, or simply connecting the parts to a properly made leather (or textile) internal gauntlet, or using both method (like I did), never had ...

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We often forget that most of the people that owned those harnesses were disgustingly rich, and some of them is known to have bought a new harness every six month. If you told a Missaglia that the harness he was making would be still there after 600 years, he would have laughed madly at you. They pro...

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I haven't found pictures online, but it's pretty much similar to this:

http://www.thomasdelmar.com/catalogues/ ... lot290.jpg

It is a very interesting piece.

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There are easily a thousand extant documents from the 14th century, for every extant piece of armour. This mean very little, because documents are to be cared,kept,stored and conserved by their own nature, while armour was a tool, to be made,sold,bought,used and then discarded when no more servicea...

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So, what is you take? That 1000 knights equals 1000 harnesses? The problem when reading about medieval documents is that often they didn't give a shit about "lesser people". If you read period chronicles, you have the perception that a bunch of guys performed incredible deeds.. this is tru...

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That is interesting, I feared that they are a bit fragile for that kind of activities, here they appear to be quite expensive, I have to look for some product that doesn't cost too much.

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I have measured a bascinet visor of the Stibbert museum, it's one of those visor made like a keyhole, well, the slot are 5 mm wide, for it's whole length.

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Hello all, I have this quest for you and you enlighted minds. I have the opportunity to use a martial arts gym, because they pose no problem in our sparring with metal weapons. But I know that this kind offer is kind only because they don't know the terrible truths of Medieval swormanship. The room ...

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About the drawing, I suggest a bit of prudence, it looks like one of those XVIII/XIX° Cent. drawings, it would be better to look at the real effigy (I've never seen an effigy with such pose) to avoid wild speculation or misunderstandings from the artist. With this I ABSOLUTELY DON'T WANT to dismiss ...

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Because the head is far smaller than the torso, because the head is less suitable to carry a lot o weight for a long time, because the head is fitted with "sensors" and "equipment" that may malfunction encased in a heavy and hot shell, and finally because you can prevent a bullet...

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I guess I should have known better though I hoped for more. Frankly, I am surprised that people who have clearly committed themselves to act in a knightly and chivalrous fashion in the field cannot keep the same standard in a simple forum conversation. We can disagree without rudeness or becoming a...

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There is evidence for armourers in England, who produce helmets, coats of plates, mail, gauntlets, and some plate limbs in 14th century England. What we don't have evidence of is actual plateners, producing cap a pie harness, all made to go topgether, complete, and producing harness of such quality...

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As I don't define myself a WMA guy in a WMA group, I think the definition of WMA is broad enough that can include what we do. What we do is focused on Fiore Dei Liberi and (we are beginning I.33), we try to understand the techniques displayed in those manuals and train oureslves to be able to perfor...

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According to italian author Balestracci, early form of tourneys were actually not much different from real battles, just with rules attached to it and made for purpose different from war, and being so, they often comprised common infantry and archers.

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... and Knights clad in armour are different from paesants without.

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I think you can bend it in a different way than you would do with thinner metal: lay the piece flat on the anvil, and with a crosspien hammer hit in straight line perpendicular to the direction of the curve. You will see the metal slowly curl, and differently from a radius imprinted with a rubber ma...

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A helm can receive such dents and the wearer could be just a bit shaken, you should not apply sca standards (about dents) when you look at helms used with rebated for many reasons: 1) SCA Helm standard are pretty higher in term of durability, thickness and weight 2) rebated weapons dent metal differ...

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I may suggest you to not speak italian there even if you could, for two reasons:
1) probably they won't understand (and not because they can't)
2) they will like you more if you speak german

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If you plan a serious visit to the armoury, call the museum in advance and agree with them for a day, otherwise they won't let you stay in that room unless a tour guide is there, that mean less than 10 minutes during a visit. When I've been there several years ago, they allowed me to take multyple t...

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Shields are to be employed from the first line of defense, men behind them would employ polearms and eventually crossbows, but this doesn't mean that shields are scarce in number, but just that not all men were supposed to employ them.

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The problem is just this: what makes you mad is that someone with a little tap can make you out of the game. Why it is so hard to say things how they are? It's a game, a game where people kneel or don't use this or that arm, games have their rules, realism, simulation and statistics are not involved...

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Is there any chance that they used a colored covering on their sallets to identify themselves in battle? I mean: If we assume that men at arms from time to time would have served under different patrons, then it could make sense that they applied a colored cloth on their helms, otherwise how could d...

Re: Pbtotd, A good way to hang Spaulder or Pauldron lames

Re: Cut and Thrust question (SCA/WMA)

Re: Cut and Thrust question (SCA/WMA)

Re: Black Prince armour had rotating vambraces on sliding ri

Re: Does this count as calling it light?

Re: Does this count as calling it light?

Re: Of metal weapons and armours and parquette

Re: Height of ocularia (aka eye slot) on extant bascinets?

Re: Height of ocularia (aka eye slot) on extant bascinets?

Re: Does this count as calling it light?

Re: Does this count as calling it light?

Re: Does this count as calling it light?

Re: Does this count as calling it light?

Re: Churburg Scale Gauntlets 1410 - 1420

Re: transition from cop to wing in milanese armours

Re: Height of ocularia (aka eye slot) on extant bascinets?

Re: Black Prince armour had rotating vambraces on sliding ri

Re: Black Prince armour had rotating vambraces on sliding ri

Re: Of metal weapons and armours and parquette

Re: Height of ocularia (aka eye slot) on extant bascinets?

Of metal weapons and armours and parquette

Re: Simple cuff finger gauntlets?

Re: Just for fun, military development of the early 20th cen

Re: A question about the approach to combat archery.

Re: Black Prince armour had rotating vambraces on sliding ri

Re: The CUlture of WMA

Re: A question about the approach to combat archery.

Re: Period source for fighting spear/lance a foot

Re: I hate 11ga. steel...

Re: Broken helmet

Re: Churburg Castle website?

Re: Churburg Castle website?

Re: Wisby paper available

Re: Does this count as calling it light?

Re: Small pairs of holes around the bottom edge of Sallets?