The Armour Archive

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Something to remember is that the SCA is currently kinda stuck with its 1.25" diameter rule. This means that those wasters are to thin. And that any material you try is going to have to face that issue. You probably have to change that some how to get a material that works. A deep fuller might...

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Something to remember is that the SCA is currently kinda stuck with its 1.25" diameter rule. This means that those wasters are to thin. And that any material you try is going to have to face that issue. You probably have to change that some how to get a material that works. A deep fuller might ...

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I put some polyurathane on mine and sanded it a little to make it look just dirty. Touching the lead isn't going to hurt you but if you lick your fingers after writing it, might not be a good thing.

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Baron Conal wrote:Google is not helping much on the quest for a real lead pencil...

Go to Walmart and by lead and melt it into a little block then hammer a point on one end and a flat edge on the other. I'll see if I can't find the page from the dig. or one online.

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Wish I would have seen this yesterday, before you got to practice I tried out my splinted vambrace with just a linnen shirt under it. Other then the fact that it was just ductaped on it worked nicely took a shot right on it.

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jester wrote:Maybe go with the medieval equivalent and get yourself a stylus and wax tablet?

Or how about a lead pencil.

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You definitely need to look at illustrated 15th century military manuals as they have drawings of all sorts of stuff in them, both illuminations and woodcuts. I've never looked in there for this question.

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So I want to price it right in the middle of the market. Any suggestion? and yes.. I have pic's, I just dont know how to post em With the economy it is difficult to price such a thing. Best bet is to decide how much you need to get for it and how badly you need to sell it and put it up for auction ...

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That said, your barber needs to take more off the back in order to make the proper bowl cut. DA's are not 14th century. The bowl cut tends to come into fashion around 1410ish and dies off mostly by the 1460s and it actually seems to evolve a little in that period. Then you get the Charles the Bold ...

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Charlotte J wrote:They're lovely!

But it opens up the question of whether or not anybody would like a LiveJournal badge...

OMG No.

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Crimthann of Fid-Nemed wrote:
Charlotte J wrote:Alternative question - do you really *need* trim?

Yes! How else will anyone know how special I am!

Bling! of course.

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Red company had some that Jeff made that they used. They worked very well.

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Do you have a set of scripts for things like blogs, content managers, forums, wikis or a variety of other things or can those be installed by hand by the user?

Brent

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The most common inventories to my knowledge in Elizabethan England are probate inventories. So basically when you kicked over and died sometimes they made an inventory of all of your stuff. Sixteenth century probate inventories are far from rare, fifteenth century ones are reasonably rare, hence why...

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It should be possible to calculate an estimate how many units of grain were produced in Europe during a year in say a given decade after 1200 or so. Finding it with any accuracy is where the real problem comes in. Theoretically you could take an average yield per acre and then multiply it by an esti...

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I bet having some ash or dirt or just not a clean face would do some good.

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There should be atleast a few inventories for tailors from Elizabethan England. Probate inventories are your friend.

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Why? What is the excuse? They are available online, at the Richard III website. I'll answer this one because we find it among 15th century re-enactors. And it goes right back to my 3 kind of people, a large portion of people simply want to have enough information to play on their weekends. And ther...

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Alvar, I think you dismiss SCAers or perhaps don't know what an Primary source is. A painting, an effigy, or a letter are all primary sources. Lots of SCAers use them, even if just a single medieval illumination you are still using one. I know of instances in the SCA but I'm not going to share them....

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And some of them passed for quite a while living in major towns.

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Why couldn't you have given a similar response to Jovian_Skleros? You asked an intelligent question with context, he asked a moronic one. I am confused why I get such a nice thoughtful response to the same question. Couldn't you have just as easily have said the same thing to Jovian rather that say...

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someone might write him and inform him about sites like lulu which would allow him a far easier and broader market to the west.

Maybe some other armourers will scan their notebooks and publish them that way as well. A little money and a lot of information of the rest of us.

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some of these patterns are still available on the internet archive of the site.

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I would have guessed that just a teenage boy with long hair. I'm pretty sure I saw Chef's wife in male clothing in the most recent photos I saw of them although it could have been another woman. It was kinda a double take which at a certain distance is probably the best many women can do. Some can d...

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So what book would you recommend as a starting point for someone new reading this who might not have access to a top notch research library or good ILL program? For 1400 Aragon? The first thing I always say to someone who doesn't have access to a decent library is to seriously reconsider what they ...

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1050 seems to be more common among professional armorers as it tends to be slightly more temperamental in regards to quenching and tempering. 4130(ChomeMoly) tends to be more common among others as it tends to be more forgiving with quenching and tempering and can more often be found at discount pri...

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Piers, you are an incredibly small and often petty person. It's reflected in your attitude over and over again with your posts, and you're caught up with status. If I cared about status I'd ring my bell for everyone to hear and say things like who asked me to look into early 15th century Spanish Fa...

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Ok, let me clarify. YOU are an insulting, sarcastic little dipshit that revels in belittling others. happy? I have no problem with the first to. I'm not very little, about 6' 230lbs. Not sure there is a real definition to dipshit but I'll not take that one. And I don't revel in belittling others. I...

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Oh, that's right your a laurel you don't actually do real research yall just leech other peoples work and pass it off as something new. See unlike the other people who have posted I have actually done research into early 15th Spanish fashion. And google would have given you the other information po...

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There are these things called books and they are usually stored in a building called a library. Thank you, Peder. Your kind and generous assistance shines brightly in his hall of scholars. Perhaps others can learn a giving nature from your sterling example. Oh, that's right your a laurel you don't ...

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The whole its damn hot here sometimes is one of the main reasons I look at doing Spanish.

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Jovian_Skleros wrote:I'm planning to switch my persona from Byzantine to 1400 Spanish (Aragon). Where are ya'll finding your research material? I can't finad anything on clothing or armor from this period.

There are these things called books and they are usually stored in a building called a library.

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Joaquin wrote:I'm Spanish.

Again?

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I was going to say, why monk? As monks were cloistered away from the world, and did not normally interact with it, but the Templer robes make sense.. Very early on real cloistering of monks from the world becomes more more of a theoretical thing. They were involved in many of the things that the me...

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Italy 1250-1320ish
later 15th century England.

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