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Alcyoneus

Muslin runs from very thin, to a bit heavier than normal broadcloth, so a light weight canvas should work fine.

Alcyoneus

m m I have a friend that uses this. He said that his insurance paid all but $17 of the $975 cost, and would have paid at much of the differerence between that and the $1200cost of the Donjoy Armor version (this is apparently customized with the patient's designs. He also said that Donjoy covered the...

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I don't think there are many people doing the potassium nitrate blueing any more. I think it has to do with getting the salt to a molten state at about 600 degrees, or so, before adding the steel.

I looked around a few years ago, because I'd rather have a good blue than black myself.

Alcyoneus

Have you oiled them? They might appear a bit more blue then. I suspect that it has to do with early blueing using logwood, or potassium nitrate (Oxacala blue, because this was done in the 16thC in Mexico). Blueing became the term for artificially oxidizing steel regardless of the final color, much l...

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Ask your CO to issue you one.

Tim does good work, doesn't he...

Alcyoneus

Here's a question in this same vein: Is it wrong, to strike without injury, in a manner specifically designed to discourage an opponent from resurrecting?. In other words, turning it up to break their spirit but not their body? Falcone what falcone means is, for example, in a long res battle hittin...

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I had a helluva good fighting time at the one Estrella I went to.

There are some whiners, just like you will find everywhere.

There are some people that need poked with shark-sticks to take them down just like everywhere else.

I think spun-domes fall from trees there, but it is a lot of fun.

Alcyoneus

You get more bulk and restriction by doing it that way. You would be better off using a glove and padding the gauntlets.

Alcyoneus

William Freskyn Murray wrote:I'm assuming I shouldn't mix colors so they don't bleed together?

thanks
Will

No. Wash them together, 'bachelor style', for period tie-dye.

You want to be a bachelor knight, don't you?

Alcyoneus

Vulcan Forge?

Alcyoneus

Tassets hanging from the torso armor are the best solution. But if you were wearing a padded gambeson, you could put some plates in pockets to cover that area.

Alcyoneus

now if someone wants to walk around in a full plate kit made of appropriate material (steel) and move at half the speed i can move with my no armour wearing self then i can agree with the argument (well as much as i can with the magic bullet arrows we have to suffer with in the sca). but if a guy c...

Alcyoneus

"Archer knees", two straps below the knee on top of wider straps, one above.

Tights above the metal you see, that's all.

Alcyoneus

I'm NOT a groupie.

I'm an enthusiast with Cheetos Crusty Disorder.

Alcyoneus

They wouldn't have distressed it when it was new. [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/alcyon/ugo.jpg[/img] I don't think it looks quite as 'dark' as the original drawing. And how long are you going to make us wait to see you wear it with the breastplate, gauntlets, or whatever you currently h...

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Trystan of Anglesey wrote:Provoke ye not the Demalogan, lest ye be flatsnap-ped.

Exposed plastic armor...Must control fist of death!

(edit: It may be leather, but looks like lots o'plastic armor does)

Alcyoneus

I bounced a 25# ball stake onto my scrotum once.

Alcyoneus

With kindness... AoC That does seem to be your nature, I've never seen you write in any other way. I think it is sort of like laws vs ethics. Your code of ethics might prevent you from doing something that is legal, but you view as wrong, or "inappropriate". I don't think that we are trying to infl...

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For much of Europe in the medieval and renaissance period, pants were for peasants.

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This should hold much of the drool:

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NO. II. RULES OF THE LISTS A. The basic rules for SCA combat are contained in the Rules of the Lists. These rules were not originally designed to cover non-tourney field activities such as wars, combat archery, and period fencing, but have been extended to cover these activities. The observance of h...

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Soft tissue seems to take forever to heal...

Alcyoneus

How about "Duke Logan hits like a girl Forum".

I think I need new armor, more of it, and much, much much thicker.

Alcyoneus

It is too bad it is in such shape. I've had the Hyalgan injections, and they've really helped.

http://www.painclinic.org/jointpain-hyaluronicacid.htm

Alcyoneus

Hmmm...I am not a fan of the winner's bracket/loser's bracket double elim, but I don't actually think that there is really any problem with standard double elim. Makes for a relatively luck of the draw scenario, influenced slightly for Crown tourneys by seeding the belts equally across the fields. ...

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Just to be clear, my suggestion to ban left-handed fighters was an attempt to humorously illustrate how a well-intended SEM might act to "fix" a perceived problem (excessive instances of groin shots) through unilateral legislation. I am not actually advocating this (so long as everyone understands ...

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So in the meatime, to comply with the rules, we should all be making plans to line our aventails? Effingham Are you wearing a cup? A...cup? uh, yeah, I think so... Is your aventail padded? Padded? uh, yeah, I think so... Here's your Pennsic sticker! I think it is an interesting idea, JP. Congrats o...

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Could someone pm me the link to the second fight everyone else is apparently seeing? I'm blind or something, I'm only seeing the "Hold, stop that fight!" video that was first posted. But I've probably watched it 20+ times. On the second guy's engagement, it is hard to tell who starts the first blow,...

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You need a strap going over the top of the thickest part of your calf, near the knee to hold them up.

Alcyoneus

The only other place you might find them is ebay. I've seen The Hammer on there a couple times in the last couple years.

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Maeryk wrote:Are you ready to have your hard work ripped to utter shreds by a bunch of armchair historians on the Intarweb?

Just wait till those AA jerks get ahold of it!

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alcyoneus

The hugging was funny. The one guy dropped his mace on teh first shot and had no other choice but to try for a takedown. I personally thought it to be a simple boxstep dance ! LOL He finally got in and dropped him and pummled him with his gauntlets to teh helm to get him to yield. The crowd laughed...

Alcyoneus

Try welding supply stores, I've seen it there, but have never used it.

Alcyoneus

It is nice to know what one is actually getting. I wasted a small amount on an A&A book that was actually about the new building the collection was in. It had a few line drawings of unidentified armors in it, and I think, one picture of the main room. No detail, of course. And people would probably ...

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I received a message on ebay last night, and they said they would be fixing the shipping on multiple copies, I'm supposed to email them again, and will probably get to it tonight.