The Armour Archive

Jonny Deuteronomy

Our troupe gives 2 seminars a year to teach full-contact heavy jousting.
http://freelancers.faire.net

Here are some Ursus pics of us at tourney last year.
http://ursus.smugmug.com/gallery/812664

I am booked to joust twice tomorrow at MDRF, coincidentally...

Jonny Deuteronomy

why not " a long sleeved mail shirt" and get rid of the whole " leather vambraces" thingy? Why not abandon the whole 'fighting to the death' conceit and go to a telling blow scenario? That avoids the whole 'hit hard enough to do damage through armor' argument and allows us to simply specify a stout...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Well then...I can add 2 more educational bits to this then: 1. Those gentles were outside/bending the rules. If Marshalls are not allowed to call death upon fighters, then other fighters are most certainly not extended that authority either. You were well within your rights to have kept walking and ...

Jonny Deuteronomy

I propose that they were just heckling you out of simple mindless exuberance. They were stoned on adrenaline. Happens all the time. Or perhaps they were the King's Personal Heckling Crew, whose mission is to follow HRM around and heckle whoever he gollywhomps? Ya just never know... I'm saying this t...

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...and Anglesey Served her and HRM Havordh very well though by all accounts. But of course! Our franchise and fidelity are unwavering when one of ours wins a crown. For the record, we typically ask for at least 5 slots in this battle as part of our recompense. It is the best melee in the Knowne Wor...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Sure... make a big leather scabbard out of leather and sling that baby over your shoulder. If you want it to look really cool, superglue nickles all up and down the length of the scabbard. You could walk around town, and if people look at you wierd, you can say stuff like: "Careful, if you didn't n...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Cars?

Jonny Deuteronomy

I sent Zicker $200 in Feb. Not a peep out of him since before that. Same sort of disrespectful treatment from John 'Shark' Perry for over 18 months now. Made me write a joke: How do you make an armorer dissapear? Give him several hundred dollars! The one guy who actually gave me armor for money refu...

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Jonny Deuteronomy

Trystan, I have the same hat in the same color from Syke's Sutler. Do you joust at the MD RenFest? If so, is it every weekend? My husband and I usually go on Pirate Weekend. Kewl! Yes. Yes, from Pennsic to mid-October. As a King's Knight I am tasked to kill pirates on sight. I sure hope you're law ...

Jonny Deuteronomy

I joust in these gloves. I have taken a direct hit while jousting to the back of my left hand while wearing these gloves and all I got was a mild bruise and a sore spot. Yes, I had forgotten my manifere. I recommend them highly! Hmm. I saw them when they had JUST barely been added to the product li...

Jonny Deuteronomy

I joust in these gloves.

I have taken a direct hit while jousting to the back of my left hand while wearing these gloves and all I got was a mild bruise and a sore spot. Yes, I had forgotten my manifere.

I recommend them highly!

Jonny Deuteronomy

I like the SCA because it is a nice break from performing for the public. It is more intimate and everyone's at least a proper fan of things medieval, unlike the 2-3000 screaming drunken ren faire-goers who fill the stands 4 times a day when we joust hoping to see us get hurt and bleed for thier amu...

Jonny Deuteronomy

There are several museum grade gamby makers on the AA here and I do hope they chime in. In the meantime... I cut my pattern pieces out then quilt them before assembling them, leaving the edges unfinished. I use the medieval miscellania pattern #101, Medieval Military Garments. Making my own grand ai...

Jonny Deuteronomy

The Templars also founded Switzerland. Just look at their flag!

Jonny Deuteronomy

Super-heavy spears and solid flail heads were both banned in Markland during the mid-1980's. I clearly remember the circumstances surrounding both rules changes. My flail had a 2"x24" rattan head until they banned it...

...but I admit that was probably for the best.

Jonny Deuteronomy

I too am waiting for my armor from Mr Zicker. I get money every two weeks - it is far easier to get than good armor.
Kinda sad in a way but I want what Zicker can do so I am still waiting on him...

Anybody know WTF happened to him to cause him to default on we his loyal customers like that?

Jonny Deuteronomy

Pish posh.

Ya miss one freekin battle over 300 miles away and all the talking heads start gabbling like a flock of wild turkeys.

You people act like you have never seen an infamous fighting household descend into ignoble mediocrity before.

Enjoy the rest of the show.

Jonny Deuteronomy

yeah, i sorta saw him deliver the one buffet he ever gave. http://ebonwoulfe.com/events/96_pennsic.htm Watching that was the ONE time I was glad my buffet was from Thorbrandr Wow! That's me standing behind and to the left of Kane in the green and white gyrony tabard! Come to think of it, I have mor...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Well, are they the same guys who late in life, bought these really snazzy thoroughbred jousting horses and VERY shiny armor? What a randomly ghey thing to say. Are you also working on your latest screenplay "Brokeback Jouster Mountain" or is it "A Knight's Tail"? (with a full head of hair and fresh...

Jonny Deuteronomy

That makes perfect sense to me.

Jonny Deuteronomy

One also sees those attached to the backs of 15thC armets. I always assumed that they were an ergonomic enhancement. Perhaps void space fillers so that when one falls from horseback, thier profile when they hit is more flat causing less tortion to the spine. What we can be sure of is these had a ver...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Skutai wrote:Ursus isn't offended. He just likes to gripe!

assertion confirmed!

Jonny Deuteronomy

I thought so, because in the past, he had always responded very quickly. He made me an awesome pair of custom guantlets in time for Estrella War 2006. I hope all goes well with him and his family. I selected him because of his excellent attitude and pictures of his work. Must admit his is some of t...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Anyone heard from him lately?
His emails are bouncing and he has not replied to a PM.

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Jonny Deuteronomy

The problem i am seeing is some (not all) members of the chiv think all mercs have no honor and only fight for the swag. Guess what the loot isnt all that fucking important. Fighting with MY friends is. We could be the worst group of fighters on the field day in and day out and i would still want t...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Hmmm..... -Count Havordh AEterbani, Prince of Glenn Abhan, KSCA, Kinsman of Anglesey, lots of other cookies, and a swell guy. -Ursus of Anglesey, AoA -Teagan, Kinsman of Anglesey, Shark's Tooth -Balthazar, Kinsman of Anglesey, Shark's Tooth -Llyr, Kinsman of Anglesey, Seneschal of Storvik -Jester o...

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Jonny Deuteronomy

I thought this was the "mercs have bad attitudes and are stinky" thread.

It is turning into the "Chivalry is about Horsemanship, not horseshit" or "what are them there spurs for mister, 'cuz they sure as hell ain't for ridin' horses" thread.

Jonny Deuteronomy

Yes, Equites.

Jonny Deuteronomy

I've got to find some way to do that before I die. Thirded. Anybody do any novice joust training within a couple hour drive of Durham, NC? I can/could ride a horse once enough to have the thing trot under neath me. It's a start. Is Nashville close enough? Next session is June 4-17, 2006. This is fu...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Well, there is my example your Grace.

As if on cue.

I understand better now.

Must be a kingdom thing - 'Lantians know from birth what happens when you oppose the will of the Crown...

Jonny Deuteronomy

Come to think of it...the lines do get blurred when independent households swear undying love and fidelity to a particular Kingdom. I have seen this happen firsthand. People get polarized. Hilarity ensues.

My apologies for my part in dragging this this thread far off-topic.

Jonny Deuteronomy

Everyone I routinely associate with clearly understands there will be no cookies forthcoming to any and all of the the naughty bad heavy fighters who knowingly forsake the comforts of franchise. I thought everyone who chose to merc knew this? Granted, I mostly mean Bog Troopers, Tuchux and Markland ...

Ken Zicker?