The Armour Archive

Alcyoneus

Loosen your grip a touch.

Don't commit to quite as much follow-thru.

Change to an impact form of delivery. When you make contact, you don't add any more to the shot. My knight does it this way as an alternative to follow-thru, it works for him.

Alcyoneus

Funnily enough, Matthew spelled every word but "buy" right in the post he desires us to ignore his spelling. He spelled by correctly, he just used the wrong one. When someone can't be bothered to spell, punctuate, or use grammar, I can't be bothered to take the extra time to read their post and ans...

Alcyoneus

I think that the front would look a lot like the breastplate on p18 of Osprey's Nicopolis 1396, which is a globose, but formerly covered with fabric or leather. The rivets are still on it, and have a similar pattern.

Alcyoneus

I have seen, on several occasions, different marshals who happened to own digital calipers (I own one for work and one for the shop) set the gap to 1.000" and use the ID prongs to check bar gaps. It's not measuring the gap it's sticking a piece of metal of a know width into a slot. Nothing differen...

Alcyoneus

It is heavier than polyfill. Think about how much some sisal or hemp rope weighs compared to the same volume of polyfill. A bale probably weighs 30-40#. I'll check tomorrow on what kind of place we generally get it from, but it is used where they do plaster casting to make fiberglass molds/layups. P...

Alcyoneus

The one at the top is clearly the result of a wood shortage. The smith made 3? 4? 5? poleweapons, and only had wood for one.

Alcyoneus

Memling, The Passion of Christ, 1470-1471 http://www.artinthepicture.com/artists/Hans_Memling/passion.jpeg I don't know how well it will display, but there appear to be a number of unusual COP in this pic. There doesn't seem to be anyone facing the viewer wearing them, but the side plates join atop ...

Alcyoneus

I was in the lead at $1, now, it is $745, and nearly 9 days to go...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... &rd=1&rd=1

Alcyoneus

Email your current KEM.

In Calontir, it is a 'self-correcting issue'. If you get your fingers smashed, you'll either modify them or switch to something else.

Alcyoneus

Is the skull really that flat? That eliminates one of the benefits of using mass weapons, in that you can't hit them with a flat...

I also find $20 to be steep when this is available: http://reviews.ebay.com/USPS-FLATE-RATE ... LISTINGS:4

The flange mace is very cool.

Alcyoneus

I'm used to hemp being gold in color, rather than green. I've gone through as much as a bale of hemp in a day.

We use it to reinforce plaster casts.

It typically costs about $175/bale, which probably works out to $4-6/lb.

Alcyoneus

You are only missing something if you spend the $400 to aquire it.

What would you be missing? $400.

Alcyoneus

Ebay.

Alcyoneus

I think you would find proto-bascinets in Byzantine art by this time.

Alcyoneus

I looked in my Peterson last night, and there are a number of weird looking poleweapons from 1720-1780 or so. Some might have had more typical halberd heads on one side, and spades (like the suit of cards) on the other, or more of a shark fin than a graceful curved medieval back point.

Alcyoneus

We are a federal system, of sorts, and the individual states/kingdoms sprung up in the pre-internet age, and no standardization was really possible. It started as a backyard party, and some college students elsewhere decided it sounded like fun as well, so they started with similar rules. But differ...

Alcyoneus

It very definitely looks like a US colonial era pole weapon. Harold Peterson wrote a very good book on the subject. ( Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783 ) Most pictures of one's I've seen from the era appear to be made by the village blacksmith, rather than someone who specialized in maki...

Alcyoneus

roadstump wrote:Please take a careful look at the picture below. I am not at liberty to discuss the specifics of this drawing but I can tell you that it was drawn by someone living in either Italy or France sometime between 1550 - early 1600s.

Why not?

Alcyoneus

It looks much like a fishtail pommel, like those found on bastardswords, although I'm not sure they were that early...

Obviously, it was conceived of for daggers at that date.

Alcyoneus

Johan Von der Bergquelle wrote:Yeah, those 14th Cent. guys are all about the Blank, Blank! We like to ride our War horses with the minstrel riding in the back screaming out those fight songs. "We will, We Will, enShield you!"

Scroll to your mother!

David

Manuscript up, Canis!

Alcyoneus

As a coronet wearer, I'll just say it sucks getting your hair caught in them. Maybe not as bad as in a mail coif, but you will learn.

Alcyoneus

I can't remember who, but one crown was found under a bush/tree after a battle because the King had worn it in the battle.

Alcyoneus

This bevor is an exact replica of bevors of the late rebellious period where young fighters wore their bevors upside down.. (similiar to nowadays when people wear their ballcaps sideways). I think Osprey has a book on it in their "rebellious armor" series. I bet some of those rebellious 14thC types...

Alcyoneus

This is supposed to be the handle of a Roman razor:
www.rdg.ac.uk/.../guide/images/razor_handle.jpg

The Romans called them novacila.

Alcyoneus

I didn't know they had bicycle tire in the Lutrell Psalter era.

I think the picture is accurate.

Alcyoneus

I thought he's improved since he found that dead viking guy.

Alcyoneus

I think I used mine 2x. It wasn't very good on 0.100" aluminum for a shield (chewed the edge, rather than feeding, but it didn't come with adjustment directions), and teeth chipped on 18g SS.

Others have had better luck, and like theirs.

Alcyoneus

Sir Gaston, I don't think that anyone is really questioning your experience (that would be dumb, hell, most people wish they'd had yours...), I think it is more the character types that are attracted to this. Many of us know engineers that think their degree means they know more than people who have...

Alcyoneus

Thanks for the info, Talbott! I'm going to re-lable that pic.

Alcyoneus

Calvert, 1907, Spanish A&A

Alcyoneus

The Spanish made many similar pieces... I can't find it, but I remember reading of a landsknecht era air mattress. Okay, I found the ref. (Maybe Sir Mord could find the original???) Leather Air Mattresses in Period / Tent Books Info 29 Aug 1999 Since I mentioned this yesterday, someone asked me for ...

Alcyoneus

Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:I suspect part of the reason for the limit to to make greatsword more viable as 7.5 foot glaives and spears generally have the advantage over greatswords unless you have 7' greatswords which are silly.

Gaston

You can have those in Ansteorra.

Alcyoneus

Brocades would be fine, as would velvets. Often, cloth covering would have several layers. Canvas for strength and durability, and brocade or velvet for pretty.

Alcyoneus

Thanks for the advice Graedwyn. I didn't know how accurate the combat in Troy was. I'm sure the leaping thrust is poppycock, but the rest looked fairly sound. The style was a combination of speed skater, and gymnast, I think, an AA search will find it for you... And it might not be possible for 100...

Alcyoneus

6-8oz might be a bit of overkill with the padding, but it shouldn't cause any problems. 4-6oz would be okay, I think, but since you already have some leather available...

I'd have it extend to the point of the shoulders, or a little past that.

Interesting COP pic

3 Vol Meyrick on Ebay

Re: Documentary research, can you identify?