The Armour Archive

Kilkenny

Oh, I'm not running to "get away" but rather to maintain my preferred range. So I'm not worried about him catching me, but rather keeping him at the longer range. Bad idea? The thing is, you aren't keeping him at range. He's catching up and getting where he wants to be, and you're *not* making him ...

Kilkenny

Ok, stories it is. I don't take pictures of them. About 3 months ago I was having dinner with a Duke that shall remain nameless. We were discussing activity level and what not. I made the mistake of mentioning I was only going to get older and slower. Well, he reminded me that he was 5 years my sen...

Kilkenny

On a really good day, I can sometimes tell where the sword is by watching my opponent's overall body language. Train to do this ... watching weapons as opposed to your opponent is a good way to get killed. What if he pulls a second weapon or pokes you in the eyes with his off hand ? If you practice...

Kilkenny

Kick ass. Being able to take a beating is the best start. If it hurts so bad that you want to cry out, laugh really loud, instead. John Jehan de Pelham, esquire and servant of Sir Vitus www.mron.org It makes the other guy get really Really nervous. Seriously. It can be flat out scary. Gavin

Kilkenny

No pictures, no really specific stories about bruises. I can say that Fight Practice when I started was on Thursday night and Dance Practice was on Tuesday and I knew Fight PRactice had gone well when I was able to dance on Tuesday. I also went through a period where you could hit my naked thigh wit...

Kilkenny

Ceddie wrote:All of the following are roughly translated by my squires to mean," Oh no, not again."

OK. I have a plan.
watch this.
follow me.
hold my beer.

chuckle.

My squires have grown used to the instruction "Hit him with a stick"

Gavin

Kilkenny

res ipsa loquitor (The thing speaks for it's self) No wonder your hot. If it's covered in plastic and lined with foam it's called a Thermos, not armor. Glaives are for peasents, Nobels use a poleax. Posta Breva sucks! If it's armoured like a peasent, and talks like a peasent.... Vultures don't carr...

Kilkenny

I know little about medieval coopery, so i cant comment on authenticity. I will comment because this is an issue we have in our (Grey's) camp. Those barrels look nice but of coarse are made with an American wood that looks nothing like a European wood. Also as I understand it a medieval barrel woul...

Kilkenny

I recently watched Terry Jones's Crusades, nothing about the gear was new. I was more interested in the political and religious view, until I realised some of the Crusaders actuly walked thousands of miles in little more than bedroom slippers. What do we know about peoples feet holding up to the ro...

Kilkenny

Brent, Jehan de Pelham is one person always striving to improve his impression. Please consider that when you reply to him. Audax, you have the right to your opinion about Jehan and I have the right to mine and No Where in my post did I give my opinion on Jehan and what he does. If I had considered...

Kilkenny

"I believe both Sir Kelson and Master Cet both make a pair of gauntlets very similar to those in the pic I've examined his Grace Sir Kelsons and they rock.GK armourie is his site I believe and Cet posts here regularly. " I built my pair off of Kelson's pattern out of tempered 1050 spring and had Ke...

Kilkenny

"Time to get my ass kicked", "time to die", even "I just enjoy having fun because I know I'll never be a good fighter". In my 11 years of fighting, I have heard a lot of variations on these comments, and they bug me. Even as a new fighter, I was always jokingly telling my teachers "ready to die?". ...

Kilkenny

Ewan wrote:Most of An-Tir went:

Earl Amalric who?

He was knighted out East and reigned in Atlantia...

Who's got some cool stories about An-Tir's crown Prince and Princess?

He's Edward Zifran's grand-squire... That ought to give some folks in an Tir an idea about where to go for information

Gavin

Kilkenny

Congratulations to the royalists and their lackeys on their victory, which was thorough and complete. As I walked to the castle for the start of this scrap and saw my banner flying from the bent flagpole (It was already broken when we found it. No, really!) I smiled so hard I got a cramp in my face...

Kilkenny

Close. I'm looking for just the pieces of horn (or fake horn) pannels so I can complete another lantern. Have you thought about making them yourself? It is fairly simple. I think locating the horn would be the hard part. Just take the horn and steam it (put in big pot of boiling water ABOVE the wat...

Kilkenny

Lucan Dux wrote:
Kilkenny wrote:On a related but different note, I wonder if I'm the only King who has had two reigns but chosen three sets of heirs.....

Gavin

In our first 2 reigns Jana & I had 3 Crown Princes

Wasn't one of yours for a new Kingdom ?

Gavin

Kilkenny

I need to dye some vegtan leather for a project. I can go with black or red. Are there any home products that I can use to dye this with? I'm rather in a hurry and don't have time to order some black dye from Tandys. Any thoughts would be apreciated. You can make a black dye for leather by putting ...

Kilkenny

Here is the one I was referring too. Could be leather, could me metal. I think that like later effigies, it's leather. I don't have the book here at work to check the date on the pic tho. m ok... I looked closely at that picture and my stomach did a little flip. There are certain visuals that just ...

Kilkenny

Ceddie wrote:Prince Lucan, where are you in Fl, and how long are you down for?

If he says "Disneyworld" I'm gonna lmao.

On a related but different note, I wonder if I'm the only King who has had two reigns but chosen three sets of heirs.....

Gavin

Kilkenny

Johann ColdIron wrote:
Brother Logan wrote:
PS wear thin socks that you don't want to keep when you do this

Good plan! They will turn brown with released tannins. Also good to have a stunt towel as well to place under your feet if you will have wet leather soles on light colored carpet.

Don't ask...

roflmao

Kilkenny

I have been near completion on a new armor similar to the Metropolitan Museum's velvet piece. I am having trouble at the natural waist. The chest plates are contoured to fit my body, and the skirt plates are rising in overlapped lames. There is a 2" section between the chest plates and lower lames ...

Kilkenny

Hi, I tend to just use just rivets with no weld reinforcement so useing rivets and welding the inside is all the better and since they are lap welds and not butt welds they do not have to be welded on both sides even without the rivets. Ronald I'm not sure what the rules say about welding these day...

Kilkenny

Yes, Your grace, you are absolutely correct, but it also depends on how big the shield is, and the ability of the person to use it. A big, strong, rather quick fellow like Niklos could benefit from using a larger shield than his standard against several of these combattants, especially if they are ...

Kilkenny

Great news ! Best Wishes to the family.

Gavin

Kilkenny

Planning to be there, at least one of my squires planning on being there with me. Looking forward to putting faces and names together (which with me will likely last 5 minutes) and to hitting lots of people with sticks.

Gavin

Kilkenny

What do you think are the fundamental concepts that apply to all fighting? Body Position: This includes balance, knowing how to stand so that you are protected and can mount a good attack, and how to move your feet. Distance: This is intimate knowledge of the distance at which you can strike your o...

Kilkenny

The chemical analysis of archaeological dyes is still very much in its infancy due to the constant problem of degraded dyes in the soil types that preserve textiles, by the way. I hope to finish a study on the comparative abilities of two analytic methods, HD-IR-spectrophotometric and HPLC chromato...

Kilkenny

As worn in Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino 1465-66 by Piero della Francesca One of these also shows up on the head of the Duke ("Doge"?) in the "Merchant of Venice" movie, starring Al Pacino. (You know you're in the SCA when you recognise obscure bits of garb in the movies, and ...

Kilkenny

T. Finkas wrote:Interesting piece. Thanks, John.

I seem to recall that Odin was reputed to wander about the earth wearing a slouch hat that he pulled down low, partially obscuring his eye patch.

Definitely basis for a hat that would protect your eyes, Tim.

Gavin

Kilkenny

Quite simple, taking on of title and rank that was and is awarded and reserved to members of that order. Many of which are protect by either laws of heraldry or trademark law depending on the country involved and if that country reconizes the order or not. To the post of my views being a bit old wo...

Kilkenny

What is that cylinder at the top of the shield/gauntlet thing? I'm betting that would be the lantern part of the lantern shield. I must say that shield raises more questions for me than it gives answers. For example, the handle that is only attached at one end and that seems to put the hand - gaunt...

Kilkenny

Depends very much on what sort of arrangement I had with the reseller. The situation you've been describing would appear to be one in which an authorized retail outlet is making statements that are dancing along a line between truth and falsehood. When the dealer speaks of "our armour" that's not a ...

Kilkenny

I'm not familiar with the "penny plate" term, but that illustration looks like he's wearing greaves of a kind that seem to be interpreted fairly often as being leather. Just looking at the way they seem to be pulled back and strapped at multiple points the lines suggest something like leather that h...

Kilkenny

I'm a bit cautious about falling down now since I damaged a tendon in my left knee falling after a blow a few years ago. As I was falling, my foot slid out from underneath me and my knee made a nasty popping sound. No fighting for three months after that and a leg brace for even longer. But that fa...

Kilkenny

I see lots of comments relevant to the melee, but how about in a more "formal" setting, for example the West's Crown Tournament tomorrow. In my mind, I'm in a behourd tournament, I acknowledge my defeat when I am struck with a telling blow. I don't "die," then get up, walk away, and wait for my nex...

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