The Armour Archive

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Brewer, Meric also makes "target" crossbows, according to his website. When you saw them, did they look more authentic than the CA bows? (I don't think the target crossbows are pictured on his website.) Could they perhaps be used for CA, or is the poundage too high? (I'm interested in per...

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Meric's crossbows are excellent workmanship, sturdy and well-fitted to the SCA battlefield. I'd have bought one at Pennsic, but... It's unfortunate that they're all belly-cockers. If you can deal with the social fallout from using them as the maker intended, good on yer! That's the sole reason I did...

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I've been thinking about your expanded thoughts, especially the requirements. The only one I have any real beef with is the reading part. That's going to be a toughie to enforce. More than that, one would hope that anyone joining the group would already be fairly widely-read on the subject and have ...

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If you can't be arsed to make Andrew's recipe - I can't - you can buy it from Darkwood Armory. It's called Max Wax, and verily it rocketh mightily. I use it on everything from sallet to eating knives.

Bob

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A preemptive bumping! The horror!

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Tancred wrote:You will look sexy in those, Brewer, m'boy!

Yeah, I think they'll highlight my tight bum rather nicely. Watch and learn, sailor, watch and learn.

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Logos,

Let me see what I can dig up.

Good to see you last week!

Bob from Reconstructing History

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Guillaume,

Dibs. Kindly PM payment requirements.

It was a pretty good Pennsic...(see sig)

We can make shipping/pickup arrangements via PM. If you're coming down to Pointless War, I can pick 'em up then. No big rush.

Bob

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You're preaching to the choir, Bob. I subscribe to everything you've said, and have for a long time. My astonishment at the exposed braies thing is not a matter of research methodology, but rather my ignorance on the subject matter. I've never studied clothes in depth, which is why recently I've po...

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You should know by now that you can't prove a negative! Of course I do. But Bob seems pretty emphatic that braies were never worn like shorts except during times of hard labor. You're dern tootin' I am. Look, I've been through hundreds if not thousands of illustrations. The instances of visible und...

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Nah, that's not a reenactorism. That's a tongue-in-cheek Pennsic-ism. I have yet to see it outside of Pennsic. Now, once people start doing it around Jamestowne, *then* it's a reenactorism. In your case, with the Bathhouse Babe thing, yeah, that's tongue in cheek. But I'm not talking about that. Wh...

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I think it's a stretch to take the Hastings manuscript back to the 14th century. The manuscript dates to ca. 1450. Yes, I know it's thought to be a copy of an earlier work, but that work cannot be dated as it is completely unknown. I think it's irresponsible to push the date far enough back as to ju...

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rob(in) wrote:my wife's choice for quality of finish:

http://www.spanishpeacock.com/lucets.htm

Miguel's stuff is THE BEST. Bar none. Infinity.

Bob

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aegidius, ignore everything Steve posted. So for the 15th century, then, there is no sleeveless vest type garment for supporting your hose, except for laborers? Bluntly, "Yes." Until research unearths more examples. Because when I asked the question in the thread I referenced, about hangi...

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Agreed. Looks like a good start!

Bob

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aegidius - I think there's a little confusion here. The vest-like underdoublet to which you refer is mostly a conjecture, although there are many reenactors who do use it. I'd be happy to revise that statement though, if others can show good evidence. You're most certain to get an accurate look by ...

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Still "His Majesty" for a little while.

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D -

Understood. It's all in the intangibles.

Seek me out at War - see my sig, below - and I'll have a Yuengling Lord Chesterfield chilling for you.

Bob/Fairfax

P.S. Feel free to leave the codpiece somewhere else. It frightens me.

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Though Mercs are period, I don't believe they are compatible with "the dream". Aaron my friend, the Free Companies and Free Companions are where you should look. YMMV. D, You do know that Free Companies were mercenaries, right? Again, I think this is where the ill-defined nature of our ma...

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6d per man per day. I think that is wage rate not mercenary rate. Quite right, and the rate for a mounted archer, at that. Dismounted archers, it's thruppence per day, unless you're on garrison duty; that rate was slightly different. I can't remember if it's higher or lower. This is a late C15 rate...

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After Pennsic, you're getting paid for a hasp to match the hinges I bought from you (no chisel work).

Call me on it if I forget.

Bob

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Congratulations for the fitting memorial. May your future challenges of arms also find joyful answer.

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fungi forge wrote:Nuada pm sent.

May I suggest you share such prices with the rest of us, if you have set them? I find such pretties much to my liking, and I'm sure there are others.

Bob

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Aaron wrote:Oh, and lighting bolts (for real...not from people throwing bean bags)

Just for that, I'm going to take a whole pile of beanbags.

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Any of the books on St Max's Reference list should be a good bet.

http://www.st-max.org/bibliography-edu.htm

I'd ignore the Osprey titles, of course, and start with the Daily Life and Religion texts.

Bob

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That's...er... [twitches] Someone has wasted submission money here in the East. Tried "Argent, a chevron couped and in chief an annulet sable.." http://oscar.eastkingdom.org/emblazons/East/2009-02/T-mary-c.gif Yes, that's Earth. [shudder] Why, O why, must people get clever?

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I needed to make a crappy old six-board chest look more nicer. I kept intending to put hinges on it, but could never seem to remember to buy hinges when at an event or look for them online. You know how it is - when you're thinking about it, you haven't got time to solve the problem, and when you're...

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True dat, Jeff! We can get bored just like anyone else. The good merchants - i.e., the ones with actual historical stuff - know their product and can really help you. But you have to have a fairly precise idea of when/where your impression is set. For example, "1470 England", "1350 Fr...

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Being as I'm kind of closely involved with the Reconstructing History thing, I can assure you you'll be successful with the pattern. Kass writes her instructions with both period and modern techniques; thing is, if you use the period instructions, you'll get step-by-step, because it's so different f...

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Kai, While I can only be of limited support in the very early 15th century, I can help you at least navigate some of the waters of mid-late C15, if that's of any help. I have a fairly organized working knowledge of the medieval household, also, which is applicable to that period. Come see me in my s...

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Yes, if "argent, four pallets sable" is clear of "paly argent and sable". Here's the kicker: Even if technically under the RfS the number of lines is distinctive, it still has to pass 'The Dart-Board Test', where the really, really close armory is drawn in color on a standard sub...

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Are you going to wear it with a cockade? I mean, if you just want to make a cocked hat, all you really need to do is stitch the brim to the crown in three places. And for that you use the four holes and a bit of narrow grosgrain ribbon or twill tape. How you finish it on the inside is really immater...

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God, these KIDS today. Pop culture references are completely lost on them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/

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Sir Richard, I don't understand. Other than it's be a pretty rare thing to have a spear or sword go spinning off into the crowd - though I have seen the latter when a lanyard broke - what are you driving at? Respectfully, Bob P.S. Who hopes your lady wife will be well enough to join us at EK War Cam...

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Has anyone experimented with expanding foam? Theoretically it sounds like it would solve several problems: compression of stepped-on missiles, flight characteristics, etc. What I want to know is, does it really add appreciably to the weight/mass? I have a brewer friend who made an insulated mash tun...

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