The Armour Archive

Kilkenny

Continuing the rinoing analogy, there comes a point when it's blatant enough that the marshal in charge, crown, the chiv/white scarves or someone else finds the biggest, hardest hitting dude they can and instructs them to hit them with a 10 and tell em "stop it" Do you have any idea how i...

Kilkenny

And make sure, on the field of battle, you act the same way as you do here. See someone wearing hockey gloves or soccer knee pads... MAKE SURE YOU GO UP TO THEM, WITH YOUR CONDESCENSION. DO IT. BE IT. 100%. BE TRUE ALWAYS TO WHO YOU ARE. Why is there always the threat of physical violence? It was l...

Kilkenny

Sorry, failure to comprehend. It's really out of line to dictate that other people may not participate because they don't meet your personal standard of commitment to that specific area of activity. If because of their lack of commitment they don't meet the standards of the organization (currently ...

Kilkenny

There's that good ole SCA elitist attitude...was wondering where it went. This actually makes sense...it truly IS about how much you make and how much you can spend, nevermind that everyone is there for the same reason- to have a good time. Or one would think. So your saying I should run up my CCs ...

Kilkenny

I also agree that the SCA isn't exactly what some of the more period enthusiasts are after but what I think keeps them is not only the friends they make but the possibility of recognition and earned reward or title. The possibility of being king or holding an important office might be a contributin...

Kilkenny

Why can't the Big Tent accommodate rebated steel, at some point? The SCA has fencing and cut & thrust seems to be expanding. Not to mention A&S classes in period fighting. I think we might get there eventually. I think it is entirely probable that we will get there eventually, but likely no...

Kilkenny

Oh, and again on Headgear, Linen Coifs, not Do-rags. Widebrimmed Straw Hats, or Hoods, not Sunglasses. (with neccessary exemptions of course for those who Must wear Sunglasses on medical grounds) I will admit the sunglasses thing bugs me as well. I am at a toss up whether it is the sunglasses or th...

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Every tourney, especially Crown should have a boobie prize for the best dressed. So we can count you as not supporting any effort to improve appearance. Thanks for making it clear. I meant that sincerely. A prize not related to the prowess of the individual but by how accurate the kit is. Have some...

Kilkenny

Those "uncaring people" may actually care plenty, but have different priorities than the speaker. Solution, don't get involved in activities you cant (or choose not to) support financially etc. There's plenty of other hobbies that look cool (sky diving etc) that I don't get involved in be...

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I think, from the little I read, it sounds like there are more or less two camps here...those looking for more historical accuracy (that'll always be called into question so long as you use rattan instead of steel weapons, but that's just my take on it) and those who are looking to be all-inclusive...

Kilkenny

(OK, I just thought of something. A merchant could write and give-away pamphlets of 'How to be an XYZ' and then list all of the products that they sell that help complete the kit... not really in favor of that but I can't fault it happening.) I think this is an excellent idea, especially for kits w...

Kilkenny

Honestly, I don't really feel motivated to play all that much anymore. I bestir myself only for the rare event that features something awesome to command my attention. It'd be nice if I could find something to motivate me to play every weekend... If you are embarrassed being there, why do you do it...

Kilkenny

Sigurd of Jorvik wrote:Every tourney, especially Crown should have a boobie prize for the best dressed.

So we can count you as not supporting any effort to improve appearance.

Thanks for making it clear.

Kilkenny

Actually the stuff I mentioned are things I've heard that bother a lot of people here. Tennis shoes, jeans and plastic being the ones I remembered right off the top of my head. I don't wear tennis shoes, jeans and I have no visible plastic anywhere. So I guess I'm following the rules. If there was ...

Kilkenny

Get a pair of vice-grips. Hold your stamps and drive punches with the grips, not with your fingers... and then maybe you'll avoid the kind of tendonitis that's keeping me from doing more leatherwork. I'm really sorry to hear about your tendonitis, but I can't endorse the vise-grips suggestion. Usin...

Kilkenny

Vladislav, it would really help enormously if you could give us a bit more focus on your interest in "leatherworking". It's a bit like saying you are interested in food There's shoe making, bag making, case making, none of which are quite the same thing but sort of overlap in some places T...

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There's no start date. My comment was what I've heard about people adding a 100 years on to up it to the 1700s. Raito do we really know if there isn't agreement? Has there been that much done in the way of surveys for the fighters? I'd thing it would be a majority rules sort of thing. That way ever...

Kilkenny

1. Don't attack people because their armor sucks. 2. Don't attack people because they don't think your armor is not historic. 3. Spread the knowledge. Publish How-to guides. Only so much acceptance is practical, as some point you have to say "fix yourself or go away" obviously give them a...

Kilkenny

I've been a kingdom earl marshal, twice, a king, twice and I've been around since AS single digits (just barely ) and I can tell you from my perspective, writing rules people cannot thumb their noses at is impossible. Of course it is. There are people who will thumb their noses at rules no matter h...

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Gavin - we do the encampment piece very successfully here in An Tir and it looks really nice. If you want to be in that part of the encampment you've got to have period stuff. And I will not believe for a second it's that difficult to come up with guidelines that people can't thumb their nose at. W...

Kilkenny

And people need to stop using the 600 AD begin date. There isn't one. there used to be one. the dropping of it could be construed as one of the problems. Of course I would prefer a date of about 450 or whatever the correct date is for the fall of Rome. (no I don't mean the empire since Constantinop...

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As long as our only membership requirement is a heartbeat and a "self defined attempt" we will never have a medieval look. The best step we can take I think is to define our rules beyond a hazily worded "attempt" and actually enforce the rules that already exist. While I agree w...

Kilkenny

We already separate encampments from period/non-period so fighters shouldn't be that difficult. The biggest thing is to set specific guidelines on what is and isn't acceptable. Tennis shoes, plastic, hose rimmed shields, street sign shields - whatever. "We" do? Consider that this is an ex...

Kilkenny

Greetings, In another topic Chris Gilman asked us the following; "How could we help improve the look and reputation of the SCA then?" Since this is such a worthy topic in and by itself let's disuss this in more depth. Let's start with the first part of his question; How can we go about an...

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On the belts in the initial post, the thing that jars me is not the buckles on either, but the copper rivets. They seem dramatically out of place relative to everything else about both belts. As for what to make, which market(s) to target, etc. - there are people who are paid very large sums of mone...

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Thomas Powers wrote:You mean like the kilt?

heh. Not really comparable

The great kilt is a pain to put on, the small kilt is just a skirt. Man-skirts made the rounds everywhere.

Kilkenny

liviatasia wrote:Well worst case scenario I can be a forward thinking Roman trying experimental armor before it's time.

Or you might consider being a later period person who is infatuated with the Glory of Rome and seeks to emulate it in her armour. There seems to be evidence that there were such people

Kilkenny

hits each other with rattan, full speed and full contact. At the risk of a derail, I can agree with "rattan" and "full speed", but this is far from "full contact". No grappling, no shield bashing/edging, no hitting below the knee. The lack of aggressive shield work alo...

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When I was at the Metalworking Symposium a number of years ago, a guy who demonstrated paleo/neolithic skills gave a demo on 12 ways to start a fire, which included the fire piston. Of course he fielded a lot of questions about the device and basically he indicated that it was African in origin and...

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I would prefer to see a do it inside the SCA solution provided we can do it without disenfranchising the vast majority of members who have no interest in this. Wow. Would you care for a six pack of mice to go with the saucer of milk? Because that was exceptionally catty.. The SCA already has mechan...

Kilkenny

See, maybe I'm just lucky to be living in the Midrealm, but here we encourage those folks. Give them awards and perrages and everything! We had a "viking" event a few years ago in Southern Ohio, and it was "Norse only" and had a seperate non-period camping area set away from the...

Kilkenny

Yeah, that. Hide the "anachronistic gorget" by putting an aventail on a barrel helm? I'm not familiar with barrel helms having aventails, so that seems like picking and choosing which anachronism to go with The pictures don't look like there is a serious problem, but they also don't show ...

Kilkenny

Bar Grills aren't period and they are pretty boring overall. But there are some who have taken the plain ol' bar grill to the next level. Who has the best "Bar" Grill? (Pictures!! It just isn't real without Pictures!!) Well, yeah, they are. Not pervasive, not attached to a spangenhelm, et...

Kilkenny

I am pretty much entirely in agreement with Chris - And I'm part of the problem Attacking plastic doesn't address the overall problem of our mish-mash appearance. The threads about "so you want to be a..." are more appropriate to really improving our look, rather than just knocking the use...

Kilkenny

First off, points to the OP for not only asking good questions (in decent English as well), but supplying photos. Well done lad. Next, I agree the marshalls might be acting a little over zealously...but hey, this is an easily remedied problem. Either an addition to the gorget as has been suggested ...

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