The Armour Archive

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Brewer, I am familiar with Corpora. Quoting it at me does not help. I wouldn't have done so had you brought up some notion that history doesn't enter into it. I would also note that you and your lady run a business selling folks things that you say are period. There's nothing wrong with selling per...

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HISTORY? It's about history? You could have fooled me. With all due respect, Sir Mord, yes, yes it is. Permit me to refer you to the front page of www.sca.org: The SCA is an international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts and skills of pre-17th-century Europe. Corpora, ...

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... What is historically accurate? .... The main problem is: historical accurate armor won't stand SCA combat. The first step to being historical accurate would be getting off any bar grills and fight with open face helmets instead. Of course no stainless steel, since that isn't accurate. And remem...

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Bob, that is seventeen different kinds of Cool, covered with Win, sprinkled with Fluffy Kittens, the whole slathered with Awesomesauce.

I mean, wow. That's some really spiffy stuff right there. Thank you for sharing it with us!

Bob

brewer

SO, Whats wrong with this hobby having a price point? I mean it really dosent. You can make armor for nothing. You can make a good looking kit for nothing. It may not be exactly what someone wants but still, Its totally doable! You cant get into RC Airplanes without spending money on the planes You...

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Good point, Johann! Thanks!

Bob

(Off to change his sig line...)

brewer

Chris: Yeah, we hate to miss it, but...needs must.

Maeryk: Dammit, boy, why you gotta out me like that?

Wolf: Yes. Yes you do.

brewer

Just the stockings.

Seriously, the feller in those snaps is me.

brewer

Just edited the OP to indicate where we'll be. Yes, we'll be there.

brewer

Kass says, "We don't have anything remotely large enough to fit those enormous Norman pig-dog backsides."

Just for you, Tanc.

brewer

Now in stock and ready for your perusal: Ready to wear clothing ! Specifically, 100% Linen "small clothes"! We've got: Braies (C13, C14, C15) - $25-35 Men's Shirts (C14, C15) - $50 Ditto, C16 - $75 Women's Shifts (C15) - $75 Women's collared shift (C16) - $85 Hemden/Camicas (Women's C16) -...

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Thanks to everyone who wrote supporting us, and THANK YOU to Westland for that promise. Not everyone is that professional.

Bob

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Kersey or wool broadcloth are excellent choices. I have a late-C17, early-C18 sailor's jacket that's grey kersey outside and "red Welsh cotton" (e.g., thick woolen broadcloth) inside that's damn near a half-inch thick. Buttons close the necks of some of the short jackets depicted above, th...

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Jon Barber wrote:Cool - Once you do, if you could shoot me an email at the addy in my profile I'd appreciate it.

Wilco.

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Tal's right. You can't register that design as drawn. You can, however, display that on your shield if you like. Since it's unregisterable as drawn, there are no formal conflict issues. (Though if Duke Sir Hotstick bears the same thing and sees you across the line, there may be owies. ) You can regi...

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We do. Thanks for the plug, Chris! They're blanks - which means you'll have to do some work to make 'em perfect - but it's a hell of a lot less expensive than a pre-trimmed hat. If you do decide on a pre-trimmed hat, Chris is right: Truly's stuff is freakin' amazing. It's historically accurate, too...

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...and there you go. Whither Karen goes, thither knowledge increaseth.

Thanks, Karen!

brewer

Also, how about metals other than pewter and silver. What other metals were used for cups, plates, pitchers and the like? Europe? There's gold or silver-gilt. I don't know of any other metals being used. In order of fashion, from the top down: Gold Silver gilt (because it looked like gold) Silver P...

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For my money, I concur with Karen: Master Eadric at Ironwood Pottery . When Reconstructing History carried pottery, we got it from Eadric. It doesn't get more historically accurate unless it's an actual artifact. We now use almost exclusively Eadric's pottery for our personal display/use. Hell, I us...

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Follow Saritor's instructions with Brewer's uber-tall hat blanks and you can't miss. Speaking of which I've got to contact you and Kass about getting some more of them for the Bristol boys. Alvar - Yeah, follow Saritor's Way. You'll end up with a smashing chapeau. Chris - Let me know. You have the ...

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We do. Thanks for the plug, Chris! They're blanks - which means you'll have to do some work to make 'em perfect - but it's a hell of a lot less expensive than a pre-trimmed hat. If you do decide on a pre-trimmed hat, Chris is right: Truly's stuff is freakin' amazing. It's historically accurate, too!...

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Halvgrimr wrote:
Piers Brent wrote:
What does nicking mean?

Its a brit slang term meaning borrow and or steal in my experience.

Strewth.

Pinch, nick, bang, bogart, boost, brody, cabbage, chave, cuff, debo, gaff, gank, hark, ad nauseum.

Bob

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Do you have more images of the arms in this image?

http://picasaweb.google.com/hammerbreak ... 8082145826

Please include price.

Thank you!

Bob

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Wish I could go. Don & Cindy - perhaps you've met them, Char - who go to Pirate Feast and reenact WWII, Cowboy and a slew of other periods are getting married there on Saturday night. Of course they told us a couple of weeks ago, and we'd booked another gig in Philly months ago. Dammit. Y'all ha...

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It boils down to this. If you want to do decent historical research don't think. What you think is basically irrelevant. There is what you can prove with evidence. There is what you can infer from evidence. And there there is what most knowledgeable people familiar with the evidence and culture wou...

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The Vikings used that technology for making the ships and walkways in their city's. Which is, while interesting, not support for floors in tents. (Aside: Really? They had wooden sidewalks? I wonder if someone could translate the song Under the Boardwalk into Old Norse... ) The absent of wood floor ...

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True dat, Piers. (If a little brusque. ) The SCA's "period" is wide and far-reaching. Can an example be found of flooring in a tent? Probably. Does that make it appropriate for your impression? Probably not. For example, that a Roman account exists of a mosaic floor in an Emperor's tent is...

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Being that most houses appear to have lacked flooring other than rushes over packed earth (keeping in mind I'm talking about the most numerous houses, statistically), I wouldn't hold my breath. I can't think of a pictorial example to support the practice of rigid flooring in tents, unfortunately. I ...

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taking the techniques in Codex Wallerstein to understand how to displace the opponent's blade, snap his forearm and then stab him in the testicles with his own knife is a martial art. learning the same actions by yourself while fighting in Glasgow's gorbals in the 1990's, however, *is'nt* a martial...

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Most of the rest of the post from which the following quote is taken has been admirably dealt with by others. This, however: No ranking outside of one mans word and "peers". No ranking to dictate, on this level you learn this and so on. is a definite point. There really is no "level&q...

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[img]http://www.bogpages.com/SCA-photographs/2010/Gulf-Wars-XIX-Thursday/IMG3931/831364076_XRdwn-XL.jpg[/img] NICE shot. The AA's own Icefalcon about to lay down a whuppin', with the East's Prince, Edward Grey of Lochleven right behind. (well, I say Prince; he'll be King by this time Saturday). I'm ...

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Thank you, Sir Mons!

That was good advice you posted earlier about the differences in fashion from place to place and decade to decade.

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We can make a fella look like a soldier.

Bob

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I'll be seeing you at Ã†WP for at least a sword-length one of these. I'll need a pole, too, to make up my English bill. We'll talk.

Bob

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