The Armour Archive

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Always the right decision to choose the relationship over armour.

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Know if anyone has fought SCA in their 14gauge helmets?

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I was just thinking the same thing in regards to the economy today. Good year to take a breather. I went to an SCA event this past weekend that was tiny even half of the host group didn't come because many of them worked in a plant that had huge layoffs.

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Short answer cause my longer one crashed. English fashion more or less follows the fashion of the Low Countries, there are indications of a bit of conservativism which the more English art from the period we get access to the more we kinda see and understand that. Avoid stripes, brocades are fine fo...

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audax wrote:Til about 1340 or 1350, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, mail and a CoP was the harness.

You see some elbows and knee and legs bits ealier then that but pretty much sums it up.

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Depending on what kind of steel your using and how far you are in the project you might consider swinging by a harbor freight and picking up a metal and punch. If your coming down to Candlemas bring a piece or two with Maelgwyn and I have both played with plates and holes and what not.

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but it's a bit destabilizing for our game, unless and until we regularly train with it so folks get used to the range and add it to their melee sense and peripheral vision awareness. That is kinda the nature of warfare and the introduction of new weapons to it. In some ways it gets back to are SCA ...

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Would there be as many problems with force if it was tappered rattan?

So I guess one of the question ends up being should weapons on the field be limited by safety or by what people don't want to face.

BTW is there any info about moving fiberglass spears down to 2" heads?

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Perhaps "Book of Hours" as not the best word(s) to use for the project, maybe a Minipedia(tm) would be a better working title If you made it more adhoc it would be similar to a commonplace book which is a book that you just write things that you need to know. They were reasonably common b...

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Why is a waster called a waster? The name implies nothing about what a disposable practice weapon is made of. It's unknown. No one AFAIK has traced an etymology. I wouldn't say it's unknown. The only question is does it come from Latin from French through the English Wasten, or did it come directly...

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Anyone out there using 12' spears or something more then 9'?

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Ironically the MED search can be difficult to search because of the varient spellings. You'll notice when you use the search you can search for headwords or headwords and forms. You will pretty much always use the second. For going from Modern English to words that mean something in Middlle english ...

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Thank you, Piers! Contrary to popular belief I'm not out to pick on people. Sometimes having a small piece of information you didn't before can radically change something without changing it much at all. Your photo and post show clearly that you care, most people don't. Some are honest about it, ma...

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No he means a gorget intergrated into the body armour like a big collar.
You should be able to but you might want to talk to an experienced marshall about the specific implimentation as that is more important then it being a particular piece of armour

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I was just going to tell you how to change the shape of it to make it look more like a certain style of late 15th century livery.

The big thing is bringing the shoulders way in you can see them here. big open sides.
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By and large late-15th century armour works very well with SCA combat. You can stick with a jack and put kidney protection in it, heck could even put neck protection in it. Or you can do a standard for neck protection. or for the body a brigandine. thigh protection is a personal choice, you can go w...

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If you feel the need to go with a cotton go with brushed cotton or flannel. It looks more like wool then most cottons.

Me in a slightly later kit in flannel.
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This is really the one I want.

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KerryStagmer wrote:4130 loves to get hard even when you dont want it to! Reaching 45Rc reliably with even a torch is possible on small parts.

Does it tend to work harden more or faster then a mild steel?

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Best I can do without really digging around is La Isabella in the Caribbean about 50 years earlier. The riveted mail would appear to be round cross section, I'd guess round rivet but its hard to tell from the drawing and that level of detail isn't given in the text. Most found was copper alloy becau...

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If you hit a guy on his basket hilt over and over, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you are a sword-fighter and he is a stick fighter. I'm curious does fighting with gauntlets even without hand targeting tend to improve defense of the hand. When is Sir Giotto's practice? And if you don't m...

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Maelgwyn beat me to Candlemas. They are also fighting melees the next day in Austin proper. Austin is to a certain degree rapier/light fighting central for the kingdom.

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piers, Actually the edge is baked hardened waxed leather. I use "carbolli" as a genaric term. Not being critical or anything but the more people know the more we can see more things like this. But is hardened waxed leather legal for putting on weapons. I know the rules say you can't treat...

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I assume by "carbolied leather" that you only water hardened it and didn't use anything else on it.

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http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/fr00215a12a.jpg
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Do you have any thing thicker then the usual 1.25-1.5" rattan currently?

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Where do you get your 2 1/2" rattan?

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Are those bars on that bar grill round cross section flattened on the ends?

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Firstly you should usually be wearing a coat in the 15th century when wearing hose so your butt and groin should be covered except in a few odd fashions except when doing physical labor. And remember that 15th century hosen are like tight fitting sweat pants. In fact if your going to use a strech co...

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I didn't even notice Ulstead not on there, I just assumed cause like 20 min ago his wife said he was.

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Very bottom heavy list.

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Josh will probably have wet dreams about that backplate for months

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Looked up the town then at the images of the church.
You do have to change the company from Germany to France.

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Talbot wrote:If the nails are good and you don't mind sharing I'd take 10-20 pounds. I'll even arrange the order if you don't want to do so.

I don't suppose you could see if we could get an order big enough to get the brig nails designed by Chef and have you put the excess up for sale for the future.

SCA: 12' spears

Re: An Outsider's Impression of an SCA Fighter Practice