The Armour Archive

Rev. George

Chef: I believe his point was that civil war folx have it a bit easier, as there was photography at the time. you dont have to wonder if the painting is "artistically" liscenced. (a good example is clothing. medieval pictures of clothing rarely if ever show gore lines, or even pattern mismatches due...

Rev. George

Ideas: Ballast for a trebuchet "insta stake" - just drive into a log dishing tool; Grip it like you are a chimpanze using a rock on a turtle Forge it into the meanest battleaxe/ maul around make a big metal brazier. heat them up to cherryu red in the campfire, along with some rocks. fish them out wi...

Rev. George

do we have some sort of cost ratio of the birka order? IE of the X cents per plate: how much went to the die? how much went to the metal? how much went to the labour? If it comes out that 80 % of the cost went to labour, then perhaps making a wider plate would be more cost effective (100 3" wide pla...

Rev. George

Well...why dont we start a movement.
start donating mass quantities of tabards to the kingdoms. maybe even have some sort of manifesto...

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Death to the helm tape!

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Rev. George

How the hell did i manage to reply to bobs post before he posted it>?

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Rev. George

Uhhh Ted...

We are all not SCA. (even if we were he could be a pelican, or an MOA). I believe the "Master" in his title is a real world appelation (IE he is a young man under 18.<i>IE</ie>: "Young master william, your father wishes to speak to you in the drawing room")

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Rev. George

I think it's an Americanism, and has no place in medieval reinactment. Would it be better if you could become a knight w/o having to swear fealty? Sounds like the idea to me. You can still wear the belt and spurs but no chain. then you can apply the title "master" to fencing peers. there were "maste...

Rev. George

Rev George -- I am not terribly good at persona play; I am much better at research (yes, we early-period people do that too when we aren't busy painting our nikes bright pink). And there is no indication of Russian princes ordering their troops to dress in certain colours. Heck, they didn't even ha...

Rev. George

BTW warren... You know i like having pics on my site of folx other than me in my stuff...
and what was this i heard about a review??? LOL

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Rev. George

Ok...hang out around the 2 female fighters...

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Rev. George

BTW chef, heralds wore tabards that are arms other than thier own.

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Rev. George

Sigh... (on the holier than thou attitude) As to wanting a period solution: Well, here's my take on it. are you any good with persona play? (i'm assuming so) Lets say your huscarl, or koeing, or what not said that you had to wear a certain colour just to make sure the archers/ berzerkers/ cannonners...

Rev. George

for a while there wyman was wearing a black belt over his red belt, because he had heard about the "throwback" of the belt. i told hgim that last time i looked at a trimarin order of precedence he was ksca.so he started wearing the red belt on top....

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Rev. George

I've also heard hockey pucks.

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Rev. George

Exactly why the reversible tabard/ surcote/etc would be perfect. One side yellow, one side green. if you change sides, then you reverse the bugger. simple enough, ne?

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Rev. George

Tunics, tunics, trews, and some stainless feast plates.

http://members2.easyspace.com/revgeorge/sewing/instock.html

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Rev. George

I think all the xoom pages went down... that was also the server that hosted ron simmons stuff

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Rev. George

sounds like a good idea, but of course there are melees where midrealm fighters fight midrealm fighters.. a better idea would be to require every fighter to have a reversible tabard, say red on one side, white on the otrher. that way when you choose sides, one is red, the other white. (other kingdom...

Rev. George

he actually sent in the letter?
So is he no longer KSCA?

I guess I better tell wyman...

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Rev. George

We had one that a lot of us liked, but one of the potential members wouldn't fight in a company named after a Christian Saint Could you explain this a lil further? I'm just confused as to why someone wouldnt. I eman woulf they got to St jude's hospital if thier kid had cancer? or St mary's hospital...

Rev. George

The side by side holes are the ones i didnt understand. I can see how both lace in my mind, and the only difference I see outwardly is a series of horizontal thong dashes on cariadoc's patterns and a series of vertical rope dashes on the other patterns. That is the historical ones look like this: |....

Rev. George

Ok...novice fighter here (or rather one with little practice) The way I was taught to throw a wrap involved using the basket to help control the sword on the backswing. The other problem I cna think of is that many times SCA gauntlets are a good deal deeper than period gautlets so depending on how t...

Rev. George

<i>It's called Persona PLAY. It's no different than the actors on Queer as Folk PLAYING gay people even tho many of those actors are straight. Play. Pretend. Just like I wouldn't REALLY kill the people I "kill" at Pennsic, I can PLAY at swearing fealty.</i> would you play at a marriage vow? Like an ...

Rev. George

its big problem is the way the holes at the top are placed ...note how in every historical piece they are one above the other.

You know that always made me wonder too. Only benefit i could see would be aesthetic.

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Rev. George

The baldric symbolizes the title "master of arms" when offered elevation to the chivalry, the candidate MUST be offered to become either a knight, or a master of arms, the difference being that Knights swear fealty to the crown, while masters do not (I have heard of some MOA's swearing fealty to the...

Rev. George

I'd reccomend poking around on
www.costumes.org

they have a lot of stuff, including paintings, woodcuts, etc

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Rev. George

Basically, At the first crown lyst of our new kingdom, the gentle who placed second was an old knight who would probably never have a chance at the crown again. The winner was a rather young gentle. The old knight was angry that he lost and refused to swear fealty requesting to be an MoA instead. I...

Rev. George

In 2 other threads it's been mentioned that Fair Meridies has no Masters of Arms. (we also havent signed the whitescarf treaty) Its been Implied/said that this is because the chivalry/royalty want it that way. Any insight to this? I mean if it's super secret "round table" stuff, that's cool, but inq...

Rev. George

Just poking thru AAotMK: page 73: detail from an illumination Page 74 http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif etail from "the romance of alexander (includes a shot of one guy from the back (toward the left edge of the picture) p82: Detail of a misericord (though this is an "inside out" coat) -+G

Rev. George

I am almost positive that we do not have a Master at Arms in Meridies (correct me if I am wrong), and since we are mercenaries no swearing fealty, so no knighthood. If I'm not mistaken, we have no native MOA's. I've heard rumours that the chivalry finds the thought offensive, but then I sit not upo...

Rev. George

It's done as a word document... if you dont have ms word, staroffice (free), or Word perfect, no dice... but i have a solution:
HERE IT IS IN PDF FORMAT

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Rev. George

I've heard the following can be used:

Print your design (reversed) with a laser printer on very glossy paper. place the design face down on the peice, and iorn it until the toner fuses to the metal. Etch away.

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Rev. George

Russ.. If I'm not mistaken, and not to put words in a fellow tailor/seamstresses mouth, She is making What people in the SCA commopnly refer to as a gambeson. a more proper term might be "arming cote" or "padded joupon" or even "padded puripoint". a lined garment with approximately 1/4 - 1/2 an inch...

Rev. George

P.S.- I would never turn anyone away from buying my armor. That is just bad business.

It's been said that an item will always look good on you if you ask the merchant.

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Rev. George

If i were gonna do something like that, i'd make the metacarpalplate extend into deeply creased claws, so when the hand was open, they lie along the fingers, but when closed, the claws project

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