The Armour Archive

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MacTavish are you in the US or overseas?

Postage to Australia is going to be very expensive, someone is getting two of the books from the UK and the shipping was like $22 more then both books combined.

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The steel strapping I use is electroplated with galvanization. There is another process or two that I came across that are similar.
The neat thing is that typically the steel used for galvanization would seem to have .25% carbon.

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Monday bump

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This is going to sound strange but they are a different color white. You can sand or polish through galvanization rather quickly. or leave it in a acid.

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D. Sebastian wrote:Adams bolts hit with a "telling" blow.
The way all CA should be.

Did they bruise?

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earnest carruthers wrote:I have just returned from Brugge, all I can say Chef, is you had better get your rear to the exhibition when it hits stateside.

Is it slated for Stateside, I thought it was only going to be in Bern and Brugges.

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white mountain armoury wrote:At the time it cost less that 1.00 to make a bolt

Not to mention a nearly self evident way of making them.
put them with x-bows or 50-100 bows and you could field archery units and actually do volley fire and what not.
What draw do most people use for target shooting?

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When I did 13th century I found the key to hose was tying a knot in the front to tie on to the point from the waist of my braise. This enables you to fit the top edge of your hose anytime you need too which greatly decreases the strain on the waist band.

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Not sure if you have them in any catalog of stuff for your embroidery machine but knowing what heraldic charges and what not you have might get a bit of response, and if you don't it might be something to consider developing over time that way you can just change the color of things or put them toge...

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What it boils down to, is the survival rate in field battles was much higher then than it is in recent history (it is getting there now, for our own soldiers, due to technology today), in large part due to the effectiveness of armour, but the likelyhood of being wounded was higher in such close com...

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I remember a decade ago reading about people making bows out of Rattan and atleast for a period of time someone in the UK was making longbows with it because you could make a bow that looked like a 100lb longbow that was light pull to use for combat re-enactment. How about this. tube shafts with lik...

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This doesn't convince me of a thriving tea trade, bringing tea leaves from China to France in the 14th century, what with the lack of any reference to anything resembling tea leaves. It's a "sage-flavored liquid" rather than a stand-alone beverage. Sorry I was using tea coloquially and di...

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There are several discussions of scottish food among accounts of people who traveled there. The French were never very pleased with the food or the weather when had to go to Scotland.

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Karen Larsdatter wrote: cannot find any reference to a sage tea. Can you suggest where I ought to look?

Small Maters Section - Drinks Seasoned with Sage. Atleast that is where it is in the old Medieval Home Companion version.

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Good Man of Paris discusses Sage tea, apparently when Europe started importing tea directly from China they sometimes traded sage for it, both sides thought they were getting a better deal.

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Is there any sort of poundage limit on balistas? or is it balistae?

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first off, why? in our sport you can certainly block blows coming at your body with your sword and the basket is simply part of it. so why make it illegal? It was much more a reply of what would be done, a better reason would be that any other thrust to the face can be blocked with a sword basket.

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Something else is that if you go to tube only ammo and up the bow strength you start getting into bows getting into just bellow or the lower range of actual bows used historically. Which will also likely slow down the rate of fire. As for basket hilts being use to block arrows you simply make that i...

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Balin50 wrote:No firing into engaged units. (might hit their own troops)

That would seem like a decision for commanders and not for the rules. You should have the right to shoot your own troops.

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Up bow poundage. No shafted arrow - tubular only. Shots called like a thrust. No gleaning during the fight. Limited arrows to a quiver - go to res point to reload. Minimum 50% of battles should be non-CA. With the exception of being able to glean arrow to take back to res point to reload I think th...

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Arguably all weapons are pretty much nuclear as it would take one hell of a single blow with any weapon to completely disable someone in full mail from combat. An arrow sticking in you isn't going to kill you unless it hits an organ of some kind. Same is true with many sword blows. Just because it i...

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To a certain extent it can still be found today in South America and perhaps other parts of the 3rd world. Based on what Imhof says in his Lost Worlds I would guess that the real shift comes with the introduction of vaccines and the decline of childhood deaths. The rise in the ability to actually sy...

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Dr. Logorio - originally trained at the Vatican Library before her Stanford phD. - argued that part of the point to the medieval mind was a reminder that while it was man's nature to suffer, it didn't mean that one was supposed to suffer just to suffer, nor suffer without any recourse. I would say ...

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Great find Karen, I saw that it existed but all the copies on Google books were limited or no preview.

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I don't see a switch happening before the end of my lifetime, though, Your old but your not that old. Right now there isn't much pressure to find an alternative. Its kinda like Ethanol production in the US. As soon as the price of oil fell through the floor everyone pulled their money out of new et...

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chef de chambre wrote: Kiekheffer has some excerpts in his work, but it is on a highly specialized topic.

Is it his Magic in the Middle Ages your referring to?

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Brent, is that commonplace book now in the states? Don't know. I usually don't keep up with that kinda stuff if it has been published. I know I'm a bad historian but I like printed editions of stuff. One of the commonplace books from the later 15th century is availible digitally from like Oxford's ...

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I would love to see something replace rattan that looked and acted more like a real sword. However there are two problems as I have been told. the first is cost as a replacement would be expensive. The second is repeat sales. Why would a business put money into developing something that would have ...

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Klaus the Red wrote:Jehan de Pelham's high-n-tight army officer buzz passed not unreasonably for a bowl cut at Crossroads in Time I, IIRC.

Except that just like was pointed out above the style is too late for 14th century mafia types.

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I mean by published as in having an ISBN number, and are readily accessable to most people, rather than just in dissertations. I don't think anyone has done an overall study of several of them as a topic, for instance. Dissertations really are more generally available the people think, you can orde...

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Can you think of any other, Outside of the Goodman of Paris, the Wolfegg Hausbuch, and the excerptsm in Kiekhefers books on how Magic was viewed, thnat have been published? I can't think of any off the top of my head, and the only reason Wolfegg was published, was because of the famous artwork. Eve...

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We could switch to perforated plate like the cut and thrust guys. It wouldn't be that hard. Not saying that solves all the problems though. Well it would solve a second problem, that of combat archery. It is going to be interesting to see the impact of the broadening WMA movement and Cut and Thrust...

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Actually such books aren't usually ignored. They are only ignored when an emphasis is put on art over content. The most famous antecedent is the Goodman of Paris. Book specifically compiled for a woman. Ones in German tend to not be discussed much in English scholarship because well they are in Germ...

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You know Lillies was the favorite event I ever went to and the pictures posted from last year were kinda eh. But this year looks great.

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