The Armour Archive

Kilkenny

He could be falling, which is what looks like is happening. Which would make sense considering the flex going on. As to the shot, i'm sure the call was "TIPPY!" It's not hard for me to imagine that the spear shot was unnoticed. It could easily have been placed and then bent double without...

Kilkenny

you should probably quit the SCA for a while While I cannot debate the wisdom of this remark as applied to an individual, I wonder about the wisdom of making this the policy of the SCA. People who have issues with the SCA are, in my experience, counseled to leave the SCA. Temporarily. Permanently, ...

Kilkenny

I like using one inch wide electrical tape to mark slots on the pell. Angled stripe coming down toward the nose at about a 45 degree angle on both sides; straight across at about temple height, one inch above the knee. And then the task is that the only blows that count are the ones that land on the...

Kilkenny

Nice! What's the stamp pattern? It looks almost like a laurel wreath...

Kilkenny

The craftsmanships is good. Looks like you can assemble a pouch. If you are looking for any more feedback, I'd need to know what purpose this pouch is serving. If it is to be suspended from a belt, something will need to be added for that. Also, what particular 15th century pouch or pouches is this...

Kilkenny

Nissan, do yo have twin beer holding Wonder Women as your supporters?

Kilkenny

FWIW, from my study of the Plictho, a 16th century Italian dying manual, most of the decoratively dyed leathers of that time were alum tawed before dying which would give a very similar grey/white cross section. Alum tawing is an ancient technology used from pre-history to the present so it is a re...

Kilkenny

Fun Stuff! White wagon wheel on a red background with a black hose-like edging at 27 seconds in and reappearing later. Why does that look familiar? Is that used by anyone in the SCA? Sean It's not a wheel, but isn't AEthelmearc's heraldry gules, a carbuncle argent (it looks like a wheel at a distan...

Kilkenny

News flash. The SCA recreates periods of time and areas of the world in which Monarchy was the predominant form of government. Empowering the masses is oop Counter news flash: I (and most everyone else with these issues) have relatively no issues with the Monarchs having fairly unlimited sway over ...

Kilkenny

Repeated shield punches to the face don't stop them, weapons blows don't stop them (except that one guy who runs off holding his head after one of the polearms in the castle wails him on the helm) but logs! Man, logs must be terrifyingly lethal! Someone yell Timber! and watch 'em run! Did you see th...

Kilkenny

My initial device was "per bend azure and argent, the sun in his splendour or, the moon in her plenitude reversed". It was simple, graphic, and very much reflected my relationship with my lady of that time. So, kind of predictably, it became inappropriate .. My second device, which I've bo...

Kilkenny

Oh, and if you don't like something a crown passed... tell them...or better yet..fight in crown and if you win, change it back... So...if I am upset with something that the Crown has done unilaterally that messes with my ability to do rapier fighting, I have to take up rattan combat, become crazy g...

Kilkenny

Diglach- Those guys trade 50% or better using halberds against top level fighters using S+S? Hey I'm certainly not saying it can't be done, but it seems weird to me that anyone maintains that doing so is not a harder road in the SCA. While it requires going back a number of years, HG Vissevald Selk...

Kilkenny

Big fan of woods battles and open field battles. Resurrection helps make any battle more fun, imo.

East

Kilkenny

To a certain extent, polearm is harder because we say it is . That is what underlies the whole issue of not enough people to teach technique and a less developed body of technique. There's also an issue of what individuals find comfortable. I really dislike having my hands as close as they must be f...

Kilkenny

Sword and shield allows a fighter's offense and dense to be separate i.e. one can block and attack at the same time. Polearm or great sword is a single weapon which means that one cannot attack and defend at the same time . When using real weapons, the amount of power that a mass weapon generates w...

Kilkenny

I'm not fond of bridge battles.

East

Kilkenny

Polearm is different than sword and shield, but not necessarily harder or easier. It's somewhat like asking which tastes better, apples or oranges. You get differing opinions based on people's personal preferences and experience, but no objective, quantifiable determination. I happen to really enjoy...

Kilkenny

I have a couple of thoughts. One is that the lower leg portion is clearly tied at the back, which makes me think that perhaps you don't have full chausses, but two part legs with separate upper and lower elements. Second is that the knee area might well be the "bulwarks" or strips of wool ...

Kilkenny

Po-tae-to, po-tah-to gentlemen. Kilkenny, the Crown can take actions that can be very disruptive to an individual's participation in SCA activities. To a lifer (and former wearer of the Crown) such as yourself, this is just a blip. It's a minor thing. However, for other people this can represent a ...

Kilkenny

Does anyone besides me have a problem with this shot?! http://www.bogpages.com/SCA-photographs/Pennsic-Wars/Pennsic-XL-Thursday/i-Kw2ffT5/1/XL/IMG7379-XL.jpg Not that kind of problem, for me. The image doesn't make much sense. Yeah, there's a fellow with a spear right in the middle of his back, who...

Kilkenny

Mattmaus, I'd try a clear sealer on the edges or oiling a scrap piece first just to see how you like it. It might darken the edges nicely yet still allow some contrast to define the edges. I would also suggest you try and round/bevel the edges if you can, you did such a good job of cutting out the ...

Kilkenny

The Crown can suspend an officer for their reign at will. Completely within their rights. Anyone who thinks that is affecting a Real World decision is in serious need of a reality check. True or false: A Crown can, on their whim, begin or end a Kingdom's program in any non-rattan combat activity (H...

Kilkenny

Folks, I like the song. I get the humor. I like the full and very different version of the video better.

You don't need to jump on me because I explained what about this version I do not like.

Or maybe you do, in which case flail away all you want.

sheesh.

Kilkenny

Yeah it might be clownish at times, but he keeps fighting. And that's why everyone is at the door seeing him off. But Aaron, the guy singing, he doesn't "keep fighting"... he keeps ignoring the fight, walking along singing his little song, until he has the misfortune of walking into someo...

Kilkenny

This has been my theme for a number of years. The best part of this video that you don't know about is that the "Great Big Biker Man" that knocks his lights out @ 3:25 is Big Dave Mattey, former Baron of Black Diamond, Atlantia, now professional actor and stunt man. So yes, this is the pe...

Kilkenny

Lookin' good. Dye the edges! I kinda like the contrast meself. I can see liking the contrast, but I also know what chrome tanned looks like, and it's a pretty muddled sort of contrast. I would finish the edges on the leather, in keeping with the way all the other details and finishing touches have ...

Kilkenny

I did my time as a Seneschal (and various other officers). I know *very well* just how much The Crown can affect the Real World decisions, if only as a threat to remove an officer if the decision doesn't go the way they want. Ya know. If I had a nickel for all the times someone told me how it was b...

Kilkenny

I know *very well* just how much The Crown can affect the Real World decisions, if only as a threat to remove an officer if the decision doesn't go the way they want. There's a world of difference between "the threat to remove" and being able to actually remove. The process to remove an o...

Kilkenny

heh. I like the song, got a good laugh out of it the first time I heard it, at Pennsic, riding out to unload gear from the household trailer. That video, however, not so much.

G

Kilkenny

the winner of crown can affect ANYTHING that goes on... on a whim... "get over it" you sound a bit disgruntled... Actually, I passed disgruntled about a decade ago. Our System is Broken, which is not surprising, given that it evolved like an amoeba rather than actually being planned. It i...

Kilkenny

It is also possible that some of the background comes from modern fencing where you definitely use the top fingers and the bottom ones are just there to get in the way. I have been trying to imagine holding a rattan stick with the bottom fingers and I still can't get my head around it. Absolutely f...

Kilkenny

As you know, most people hold a weapon more-or-less diagonally in thier hands, gripping primarily with the bottom three fingers and the meat of the thumb, "floating" the index finger and thumb a bit. -William Scottsdale, AZ Interesting. I suspect it's a regional thing directly related to ...

Kilkenny

If they ground, they have to be thicker/stronger so that they do not collapse . If they don't ground, they have to have sufficient padding so that your fingers do not get broken. Huh? Where do you get that idea? You're talking about small arches, about as strong a form as you can get. Unless you're...

Kilkenny

Gavin, do you really play to that standard? Or is callibration just something we all agree to with the hive mind? I believe in the second rather than the first... we play tag with the intent to hit rather hard... but it's still tag and while it might have it's justification in hitting someone dress...

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