The Armour Archive

Rev. George

after our baronies 12th night, I was helping take down the stuff, and then helped a couple ladies pack thier car... One of them made some comment about how men dont understand how much workj it takes, or something, then she said, but i dont think you are like that. Most guys throw off the armour, to...

Rev. George

I toyed with the idea of using Alan Baldtree' s "georget" pattern to make leather gorgets for sale. I went so far as to buy the leather. After thiunking about it, I figured it would be best to write the gentleman and ask if it was ok. Never got anything back. Oh well. I DID sell one, but it was my p...

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FibreGlass and Aluminum are used a lot for target archery, and competitions, So i dont think they would be terribly much slower than wood. They just dont have the tendancy to break into giant sharp splinters

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Rev. George

sounds like a twill. I THINK the bocksten bog man's tunic was made of a twill, but i dont own a copy of nockert.

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Rev. George

I know vinegar and salt will polish pennies nicely. I THINK the salt causes more of the H+ ions to dissociate, causing the acid to be more effective... but i could be wrong.

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Rev. George

since it says that the vertical and horizontal threads in weaving are called warp and woof. They are. The warp threads are the long ones wound onto the loom (which we will call vertical)and the woof is the thread in the shuttle. Dont believe me? : http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=woof...

Rev. George

From my limited school demo experience: Younger kids are interested in a lot of different things, though many want to know about children in the middle ages. ("did medieval parents love thier children") Older children may want more combat oriented info, but be careful. One lady here had a 12-14 YO g...

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hey conrad, I think the general idea was that it be limited to tourneys, and then only by mutual agreement. As in, An opponent may refuse to allow grappeling with no loss of honour. Further, the bout should continue, sans grappleing. Kinda like the light fighting rule about long weapons. If you say ...

Rev. George

how many yards of velvet would you need? one or 2?
I have some I'll get rid of for $6/ yd

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Rev. George

Le Bump!

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Rev. George

In my humble opinion, I do not want to take a shot from a 300 pounder who thinks that using all his weight and strength is needed to "cut" through plate, brig, or whatever That's what we do now. A person uses the amount of force he deems neccessary to cleave thru maille and padding and wound you to...

Rev. George

well i'm pretty sure they were worn WITH brigs. (over them, for additional protection) If you are referring to making a brig/ COP with one big bulging plate over the gut area, then you might look into a corrazina, which may or may not be authentic.

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Rev. George

If he does and one of the knights follows that order, I will personally make it my mission in life to make them both pay for acting against the sanctity of the Order. The knight foremost for he has the graver sin, that of violating the code of chivalry (as far as I see it) and the master/king for a...

Rev. George

Option 2: Take it to kinkos. They can do poster sized print outs (on poster board no less)

Option 3: section it into printable sections, then tape/ staple parts together.

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Rev. George

The bryn Madoc 12th night is similar. Just a social gathering/ potluck/ court (with presents!!)

Any one who makes 12th night a downer should be shot (well not really) Becasue its supposed to be a joyous time for all (being the date of the Adoration of the Magi)

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Rev. George

Yes. That's how its traditionally done. If I'm not mistaken, the king calls the individual forward, and a knight stands beside him, the knight holds the dubbing sword, and the king puts his hand over it. Then the knight administers the dubbing speach. i of course could be wrong. As a corollary, what...

Rev. George

I would wager that the afforementioned garmat, if it existed was less of a heraldric drawing boards, and more of a rain/sun/fricken cold barrier, but that's unfounded specualtion. As to the existance of heraldy, as best i can tell, there was at least one court of chivalry conveined over conflicting ...

Rev. George

What acids, and in which conventrations, and for what duration are useful for preventing perpetual oxidation on aluminum (IE that awful black crap) I know some folx offer acid etched rings, and i was wondering what the DIY formula is...

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Rev. George

It's Called USPS. UPS will charge you and arm, and a leg, and a gonad to boot if you want to ship much of anything to another country. they will charge your recipient a "border crossing fee" and then there's the tarrif. USPS on the otherhand, is reasonably inexpensive, offers insurance, etc, WONT ch...

Rev. George

das bump...

Come on guys...surely SOMEONE needs a good stout tunic...and the good Lord knows I need to pay rent...

Still free domestic shipping...

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Rev. George

not quite SCA...but back in my boffer larp days, my freinds and I hung out at a comic and book store. We occasionally would spar in the parking lot. On more than one occourance, the police came by due to passers by claiming " some hodlums were beating each other with baseball bats". Of course, this ...

Rev. George

Wow, thanks Rev.! That is very much like what I had in mind, the only difference being I was thinking a white chevron, but the gold looks good too. OOPS... i misread that... I will probably do it in a darker green and give the dogs a more pit bull looking profilebut that is very good. being that I ...

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From what I hear the COH has been discussing giving CVD between talbots and greyhounds. In my opinion (as much as a branch deputy herald 's opinion is worth--not too much) the two were different charges in period, and the two had different percievable outlines (see my previous post) For conflicts: C...

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Talbots then. traditionally, there are 4 kinds of canines shown in heraldry: Talbots, Greyhounds, foxes and wolves.
[img]http://members2.easyspace.com/revgeorge/pics/3canines.gif[/img]
there are 3 of the 4. I assume ytou have seen heraldric wolves...

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Rev. George

I use Alan baldtree's pattern (its available in the pattern library)

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Rev. George

the picture appears to be a picture of LOBO [img]http://www.all-about-comics.com/lobo1.gif[/img] with bloody looking letters above it, in the hair, saying "BITE ME" and below on Lobo'sNeck saying "MIDDIES" Let me say, I dont know this chap at all, only from the picture. Based upon that I might quest...

Rev. George

A Closer view:
[img]http://members2.easyspace.com/revgeorge/pics/biteme.jpg[/img]

you know, that shield decoration reminds me of the comic charchter "LOBO" either that or some sort of cliche' vampire jester... Good to see the east kingdom has good drugs, if terribly unchivalrous fighters...

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Rev. George

Well our barony wanted a tree of Charlemange inspired tourney/ pas... for some reason, there was the belief that someone else was bringing the shields...anyhow, I decided to make some last night, since no one I know is bringing them. [img]http://members2.easyspace.com/revgeorge/pics/shields1.jpg[/im...

Rev. George

I consider all commisions...
And if i feel comfortable withthe item, I'll knock it out...

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Rev. George

you obviously dont spent too much time in the south, where humidity can rust damn near anything...

My guess (just that) would be that most of the rust came from the pre attic era, possibly from something like sitting in the thames...

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Rev. George

I think it would look bitchin with a bellows visor. Like thus:

[img]http://web0.greatbasin.net/~fenwick/armorpics/bellows.jpg[/img]

but that's just me..

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Rev. George

to derail the thread further... you think we could go back in time, but not figure out a cloaking device? Or...option 2, all the stories of aliens, and/or fae were accounts of time travellers...

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IF I'm not mistaken, the person may or may not have been a mormon, but was in seminary at the time, and either had what he believed to be a conflict of interest, or a religious revelation that made him feel uncomfortable. From my understanding of religions, i would say that it would be more likely h...

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Whos said it had to be forge welded? could be rivetted... But, like vitus said, we'll never know (well until we invent the time machine)

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Could it have been done? Yes. Was it done? I dunno. your best bet would be to look at accounts of behours tourneys. (IIRC boiled leather was used in them at some point) Mad Matt said: And on to what Steve was talking about. There's no way in hell leather armour could withstand an axe blow. Most stee...

Acid washed aluminum maille

Tree of Charlemange Shields