The Armour Archive

Kilkenny

Your Highness, I would recommend some work on your footwork, as you seemed in some cases to cross yourself up a bit trying to move on angles rather than straight in and out. As has been noted, your movement is more straight in and out than is desirable (so is mine ). I noticed you using the high fac...

Kilkenny

Oops- sorry Your Highness, I did realize You were Royalty. Why should that matter? HRH Robert has asked us to critique his fighting and advise on things we see he might improve upon. Our advise is not unsolicited. In fact it is our noble responsibility to help as a Royal Noble asked for our help. o...

Kilkenny

The other Crown has the right to toss you off the site, and your Crown can carpool with you back to your kingdom. When you are a guest in a kingdom, be nice to that kingdom. I'm a mercenary and even I know that one should respect the Crown when you are in his backyard and he's serving up some nice ...

Kilkenny

Balin50 wrote: you know what they say about those that live in glass houses.

They make quite the show for their neighbors.

Kilkenny

LOl and they would do what again LOL "Balin you have to go to marshal's court"Dun dun dun " Nah tell to suck eggs" ..."he said what well he can't fight anymore at war" ....next day fighting "hey you can't be out here" "k" runs off. Marshal's courts ...

Kilkenny

I had a half-inch plywood shield edged with aluminum U-channel covered in leather that held up for years and was, in fact, still being used after the plywood had cracked clear through. The U-channel held it together, even though the whole thing would bow if you held it out by the edges The second pl...

Kilkenny

But to the original post... Why did you use rapid rivets? they you need a tool to mess around with removing them. Small machine screws are much more convenient (IMHO) but I have also seen people use those paper fastners that flatten and look like propellers for pieces that are larger then gauntlets...

Kilkenny

You keep saying HIGH walls for a bridge. I don't think anyone is advocating high walls for a bridge. Look at this pic. The left structure is a Lilies War fort, the right a Lilies War Bridge. Do you consider 3ft to high for a bridge? As to look, I can't agree, I think wooden walls is still better lo...

Kilkenny

oh yah and i forgot about the piles of trash that never seemed to get picked up...coopers running out of ice at least 3x...the giant pothole that gobbled up vehicles...lack of parking enforcement...otherthan that war was pretty damn good this year... rivetz Let's see. You had a fantastic war, since...

Kilkenny

To cover a breastplate you would probably be best served using an upholstery weight leather (on the order of 2-3 oz) in a chrome tannage. Any upholstery leather you will find is going to be chrome tanned these days, so don't worry too much about that part. At that weight, the leather will be pretty ...

Kilkenny

Storage should not be a problem. As I understand it, there are 4 semi-trailers for Pennsic storage, and we could always get a 5th one. Transportation shouldn't be much of an issue, assuming they are not very heavy. At 100# per 4' seems like a lot of weight to move, especially during the week betwee...

Kilkenny

Sean, perhaps you missed my further musings that there might be a source for "used" barriers and that such should be explored. I think the cloth cover would look pretty hideous, personally. Trailer would run app. $120 per year but I think it would be more likely that we would store them on...

Kilkenny

Lemme see. A heavy fighter, a duke, states "A" occurred, an archer, a female, states "B" occurred. The Marshal's Court decided in favour of the "B" statement. SCA war is a full-contact martial activity, with to be expected "full-contact" hard play. Suck it up...

Kilkenny

Interesting, Sigifrith. Can't imagine Flieg intentionally trying to injure anyone, and certainly not in retribution for something they did to him within the rules of the game on the list/battle field. OTOH, I definitely did witness someone deliberately tackle another fighter in the course of the thi...

Kilkenny

Been thinking about this one for a bit. I'm going to go with my most impactful Pennsic moment, but I can't call it "favorite". At Mac Cooper's memorial service in front of the fortress, after HG Talymar and I had spoken a few words, I went over and knelt before Her Excellency Betty Cooper,...

Kilkenny

or just donate the tan versions they already have, perhaps donate some that don't fully meet standards? Might be the best idea. I would say have someone persuasive get in touch, make a pitch for the whole custom shebang, and when that doesn't fly, be prepared with something along the above lines as...

Kilkenny

Looking at some of the options on that page, the "stackable barriers" and the "water filled safety barricade" look like they have some potential. Still, we're looking at $40 per linear foot for the stackable and $20 /lf for the "safety barricade". I would suggest the &...

Kilkenny

Actually, Sean may have accidentally hit upon something. "Jersey Barriers" aka K-rails (I think). Usually they're concrete, but I believe there's a plastic version. Don't know how much they weigh, nor any idea what they cost - but... They could make terrific bridge walls. Paint them with ...

Kilkenny

not only pricey but really really ugly..... Can you picture the neon orange poking out of any paint applied to them after every battle? they come in other colors, grey being one of the colors, as for filling attached together @ 100 empty pounds each would make for a fairly reslient wall... Cost, ho...

Kilkenny

Actually, Sean may have accidentally hit upon something. "Jersey Barriers" aka K-rails (I think). Usually they're concrete, but I believe there's a plastic version. Don't know how much they weigh, nor any idea what they cost - but... They could make terrific bridge walls. Paint them with a...

Kilkenny

Practitioners of Kali and escrima have been doing this for ever. They also leave one end free so that it moves very erratically when you strike it. Makes for very dynamic training. Interesting. I can only think that a free end would lead to something beyond "dynamic" with typical SCA stri...

Kilkenny

Sounds rather like a home made double end bag. I don't know how useful it will be for your desired purpose. Should be interesting.

Kilkenny

The one that is most commonly dredged up is the Sami-enchanted reindeer-hide shirts in Olav's Saga. Nobody has yet found anything that could be defined as leather armour. Even you need to qualify that broad and absolute statement, Dan. We all know you have your mind made up on the subject and are t...

Kilkenny

Why the really really really long handle? Wouldn't it just get in the way AND make the pan tip in the direction of the handle? Or was it designed to be constantly held? mm.. in our kitchens today, quite possibly the long handle would "just get in the way". But we're not typically cooking ...

Kilkenny

The hardening SHOULD be permanent. But if you used sole bends, I guess in theory insufficient penetration might have left parts able to soften. There are a couple of factors that come into play. One, it's almost impossible to completely waterproof leather, so given sufficient exposure, you're going...

Kilkenny

A quick note here: It only takes like, 30 seconds for leather to get totally wet, there's no need to soak it overnight. Sorry, but that's simply not true Depends on the thickness of your leather, among other things. You can dampen the surface almost instantly, just dip in water, bang. Surface is da...

Kilkenny

Do we need to bury the posts? At estrella (and an EK war event) they used boards to mark the bridges. (2x4 or 2xsomething) If we accept that a 2x4 on the ground is not much of a hazard, what about using them as 'legs' to keep a post upright. For example take an upright post, and attach an 18" ...

Kilkenny

I won't tell you not to do it, but I will tell you to expect to take some grief over it. Most of which will not come from members of the chivalry. There are plenty of people out there who take it upon themselves to enforce rules as they perceive them, whether or not they actually have a horse in the...

Kilkenny

Nissan Maxima wrote:He must have been hanging around with Paul. He has that effect on people.

Yes and yes. I'm re-examining a number of things.

Kilkenny

My single most important piece of advice to a fighter has already been given. I phrase it "steal little, steal big". By that, I mean take whatever you find that works for you, wherever you find it, and integrate it into your personal fighting system/style. Whether it's a nifty solution to ...

Kilkenny

Every time I read a thread like this, all I can think is "I wonder what I'm doing wrong, I wonder what basics I am screwing up without realizing it" Urrrrgggghhhhhhh... It's frustrating, because I feel like doing my self-training I am missing things, I know I am and I'm not always sure ho...

Kilkenny

I've heard good things from him as well, but one line from his F.A.Q. turned me from ever purchasing his mail: If you ask for 'gage' wire today, you classify yourself with the immigrant mill workers of the 1870's who were illiterate in their native language and couldn't count much beyond ten withou...

Kilkenny

Cuan wrote:What's your fighting style? Brawler, sniper etc...

Winner.

Chuckle. Hard to argue with that one Your Highness... but didn't you say something at Pennsic about having to start all over again because you have been doing it wrong?

Kilkenny

Lucian Ro wrote:The music is painful.

The man ain't got no culture

Kilkenny

I attempt to fight according to the principles elucidated by Col. John Boyd, USAF. When I am really "on," my best ability is to be constantly "reading" the whole fight ("observing" and "orienting") so that I can "decide" and "act" in ways ...

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