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Norman

This brings us to yet another opportunity for me to mention <big>The Red Kaganate</big> http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif One of the major motivators for conceiving the idea of an East-European/ West-Asian Resource was the total unaplicability of the SCA college of arms to what was done o...

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What kind of Turkish? You talking aproximately Arabia, the Caucas, or Central Asia? I'll fish around this weekend see if I can come up with anything. ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505 The Silk Road Designs Armoury - http:...

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BTW - anything you have learned in researching your Russain personna would be a welcome help to "The Red Kaganate". Patterns, recipes, history, etc. are all needed to further our goals of advancing Eastern reconstruction. Please share today! ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Si...

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Basically, I've already decided that when fighting with my company I will be wearing western European armour. It just works best with the set-up of the unit. Unless you know something I don't. Obviously I know nothing about your unit. What type of info are you looking for? I was more-or less pollin...

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Step back a bit -- Are you sure they're not period? Even if they're not, can we integrate with some period stuff? What period are we talking? ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505 The Silk Road Designs Armoury - http://www.en...

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At some point I got Netscape just for debug purposes. For all the b!tching people do about Microsoft, I found Netscape just horrid -- it would constantly crash and have all sorts of other problems. The page is a very basic table layout. I have tried to be very careful with all the begining and end t...

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So is it, am I understanding rightly, that they are wrapped with a thin leather which is painted with silver paint? Anyone have more? You think the parchment would be made into a sheath or wrapped the way we would tape? ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.g...

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Alexander, What is your question? Are you looking for justifications for your betrayal of Great Russian heritage? Or reasons not to betray it? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif My personal opinion -- In the 15th century Russia had already become independant of the Tataro-Mongol igo and wa...

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Yep -- that's what I was thinking of. Anymore detail on this stuff?? ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505 The Silk Road Designs Armoury - http://www.enteract.com/~silkroad Jewish Warriors - http://www.geocities.com/jewishwar...

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Bojei Temur What browser did you use? I only have access to an IE right now. How big a window you have open? Alot of the tables are percentage widths - so you should be seeing it all without scrolling.... Did you have problems with any other pics? (there should be a picture of snips, a picture of a ...

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Looks great! Gotta say, if I haven't before -- you're one menacing, maniacal, fearsome beanpole dude!! The only glaring question I got is -- should you have a metal shield? ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505 The Silk Road ...

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BWAHAHA, Lisa, that reminds - when I was a lowly aprentice, we were setting up a porto chimney on our porto forge at the NY Renn faire whiel the faire was going (I think we were fixing it actually). Had to use duct-tape (only time duct-tape came upo in that armoury). Some of the customers started ri...

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Isn't he te guy in charge of Museum Replicas? I think though that he also had something to do with founding HACA ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505 The Silk Road Designs Armoury - http://www.enteract.com/~silkroad Jewish W...

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Gaston - This would be true if all concerned agreed on the terminology and used in consistently. They do not. A merchant is jut as likely to call his product a gambezon, a juppon, or an arming coat (or simply a "padded coat" ...or "padded doublet") and really mean the same thing. If you are looking ...

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T-Bob -- I'm not sure that's a difference between Thordeman and Robinson. It's more my own decision. The way you do the vertical lacing doesn't work too nicely with my lace material -- the tough, thick leather cord gets bulky and is actually tough enough to pull the plates up in the air. As I unders...

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"coulet plates" It's like tassets for your bum (I think from "coulo" meaning bum in some Latin type language) Seen a few in the ROyal Armouries. Not sure what specific time region their good for (I don't keep the Western Euro details at my fingertips) but mid 15th century seems like a good guess fro...

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It looks to me like there's too much terminology going on here. Whatever the proper scintific names for these things... (and I would bet a lot of that is more 19th century researcher distinctions than period distinctions) I suspect alot of the modern sellers, buyers, Web Masters, etc. are using the ...

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Make a padded cap. Put a maile coif on top of that -- the you don't have to deal with funerary achievements of dubious general application. Big advantage of this is you don't have the foam soaked in year-old sweat getting anywhere near your head. Make the cap and padding in washable materials. More ...

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Anyone got info on that Tournament where they used sticks wrapped in silver cloth? Anyone know what the stuff looked and functioned like? ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505 The Silk Road Designs Armoury - http://www.entera...

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The retreating shot is a standard of pretty much all the Altaic nomads (aka Steppes nomads) The Scythians, Sarmatians, Parthians, Huns, Turks (everyone from the time of the Huns to the time of the Mongols would be included under this name). Hungarian and Russian art quite commonly shows Pechenegs an...

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Robinson rocks !! (yes, my main influences are Robinson and Michael Gorelik ...and Gorelik quotes Robinson ...and everyone else quotes one or the other of them) But influenced how?? I don't remember any difference between his and Thordeman's reconstructions. ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn...

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Can you say Lawsuit? I knew you could. The request (stripped away of all the bizarite) is for an armour that is GUARANTEED to stop a variety of knives and leave the wearer unhurt. If you don't want to loose everything down to the skivvies NEVER take a job like this!!! DISCLAIMER: This is not Legal a...

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What's to show? It's just a rectangle of lamellar that you strap to the vest. ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Road - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/3505 The Silk Road Designs Armoury - http://www.enteract.com/~silkroad Jewish Warriors - http://www.geocities.com/...

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I just put up two "How to" articles at "The Red Kaganate". Have a read. <u>Gentle</u> criticism accepted. To the Editors of the Armour Archive -- Express permission is hereby provided to publish both or either of the articles in their entirety with illustrations on the Armour Archive provided you cr...

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Sounds to me like some of your links are flipping and you're closing them in the wrong direction. I would go the opposite of Matt's advice and lay them flat for each manipulation. This is what you need to look for: Make a batch of four into one (I call them "rosettes"), lay them flat so that the rin...

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Look at the Resource Links we provide at "the Red Kaganate" (see the address at my sig below). If you decide to go with a Scythian or Sarmatian - then look into contributing to "The Red Kaganate" resources. ...well, the Scythians are really a bit before the Romans (they were pretty much defeated by ...

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Sarmatians, Lybians, Syrians (I think these last two was a fuzzy term that would include anyone from the Middle East) If I am not misremembering, the Parthians were in charge of Iran and were fighting against Rome at this time. I think if you like Scythians, you want Sarmatians (then being the offsp...

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What kinda tournament is that?? My experience of modern fencing tournaments is you get as weird as you want as long as you get the touch and you don't do excessive force. 'fact, most of the most current foil fencing would look realy bizzare from a "classical" POV (like all those "fishing line" touch...

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Visit my site "Armour of the Silk Road". If you have more questions, drop me an e-mail (not the address there -- the one I have here) Then visit "The Red Kaganate" and become a loyal subject http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Silk Roa...

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Reinhard, There's a big difference between electric foil and electric Epee (the epee requires some modicum of force and timing is irrelevant for one) As for the strip thing -- that was done long before electrics entered the scene. At least in the case of epee, electrics is just a judging tool -- not...

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You can build up a cross-guard from foam and tape -- the same way you'd build up an axe-head or somesuch. ...that way, if they let you, you can do some cool period moves like grabbing your sword by the blade and bashing with the cross-guard. ------------------ Norman J. Finkelshteyn Armour of the Si...

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Well, lamellar can be pretty adjustable -- you still won't fit everyone from the 120 pound 6'-5" beanpole to the 300 pound 5'-2" (what would you call im?) But, you can make the basic front and back substantially adjustable with judicialy placed belts and straps ...and if you loan the suit on more th...

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Yer right -- it's a key difference in perception. If you use all closed helmets (or for that matter "no hidden armour") you run the risk of the ignorant coming away with the perception that more armour was used in period than is true. But, if you use a-historical modifications (like the SCA grill) y...

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Lamellar on the back of the helm, then cheeks, then plop some lamellar up front -- especially if you're making occulars - you can hang the front lam off the occulars. As an analogy -- look at the maile and cheek pieces on the Coopergate helmet. This is a very common arangement in the period. the stu...

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Bojei Temur - Nope -- no pic of Batu or his helmet. (I even did a quick web search afore answering) I was using him merely as a time/place referent to put together the Mongols with the Kipchaks. His military leader (as I understand) was Subodai -- so it may be that Subodai is the more likely to have...

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