The Armour Archive

Rev. George

Ahh... a cool half mil. First I think i'd finish school , buy a new car/truck/urban assault vehicle (whatever i felt like at the time, but only one) and buy a house here in athens. With the 350K left, I'd buy an old peach orchard, or some other worn out farmland in GA (really what ever would get me ...

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Well, what would be kinda cool would be maybe a book that combines 3 or 4 shorter works (50-60 pages long) into one volume. (like maybe 3 short works on fighting styles, or the like) Another grandiose idea would be to reprint some of the period fighting manuals with full colour photos of people exec...

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And hasbro bought WOTC...mainly for pokemon. Now we get to see , no kidding, D&D clue.
There is also rumour of a DND Monopoly..

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While I respect the loyalty you show your knights, it is a mistake to believe that you are in fealty to the Crown through them.

Arent we trying to actually portray the middle ages? Wasnt that the basis of the feudal system? or is this another SCA ism?

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Well, based on this last post by Chandos, I'll hold off on making an offer on producing the plates until someone enlightens me to what the hell is going on... Some time ago, Nim asked for help/ armour in the chat (i think chandos was in there at that time) Being an upstanding Gent, I offered to the...

Rev. George

As someone who's used them all of twice They rock. long straight cuts can be difficult w/o a table or buddy to help manuever the steel (when i say long, i do mean long) As for wastage, it all depends on how you lay out patterns. If you put an elbow cop in the middle of a sheet, then yes, there will ...

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Felted wool.

pretty much wool that's been abused by heat or chemichals (including back in the day, mercury salts, hence lewis carrols "mad hater")

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If you want the "old testament minatures" (the book that reprints most bits of the mispronounski bible)

http://www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?id=2021545914580&pid=0807605131

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Rev. George

you could always set eyelts in the holes.

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From what i understand Richard, they did that, hoever, it was felt that some people were abusing the current ruleset, so they had to modify them for safety.

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Hmmm not an expert but: MANY period recipies call for chickens (or shykens, or chycans, etc spelling wasnt a big deal) As for the domestication of chickens, it was done froma wild junglefowl (of africa I think) some jungle fowl still exists, and my freind, a poulty science major, calssified them as ...

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Here are a few of my oddball ideas: Giant plane pulled banners.- a plane flies by, with a large banner saying "Face-no, KFB- yes" commander says: "Let us ask the diviner, and see what he says of this omen..." A flyer(one page?)available for free. pennsic radio: Am stations under a certain power are ...

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Bizzaro idea/ question: What if you swore fealty to the empty throne. (ie after a king stepped down, and before another stepped up) Of couse, it would change the way our soverns are crowned (which might be interesting, the current crown "stepping down" to be regent, until such time as a suitable hei...

Rev. George

Hmmm .. Well clay you are a professional, you do get paid... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif as to the actual video making, you might consider seeing what it would take to get on public acess, and if they have equipment. I mean i think i'd rather see clay make armour than see some naked g...

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if that's not enough, you can pick up something made for barbers. its called "cool lube" its a can of light oil with a subzero propellant. barbers use it to lube and cook thier clippers.

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I'm making a pair of turnshoes based off of steve's picture. (they're are a hair too small, so if you wear a size 11-11.5 mail me) I'm making mine out of buffalo hide, which i got from brettuns. If you want to use that picture as a pattern, rotate it 90 degrees. change the dimensions (with aspect ra...

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Flint Fireforge was the principle dwarven charachter in T$R's Dragonlance saga.

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My (albeit unused thus far) arming cote has 3 layers on the torso and 2 on the skirt.

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Well what kinda money do you have?

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there are a couple options to look good on a budget: 1. Order from ron simmons (you get dished halves) 2. Cut a band out of the spundome to give it an ovaloid shape. 3. Make a cool romanish helm. Of course the first 2 require you rivett the halves together, mking a ridge helm, or a pseudo spangen......

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cool thing about nevsky is that it should be in the public domain... so i guess we can pass copies around...

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Ok...now we have:

Smoking
Drying
Salting
sugaring (including honey)
oiling
pemmican type stuff (the hot grease)
and pickling with an acid/base

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I'm pretty sure the following were available to your average middleages guy: Smoking Drying Salting sugaring (including honey) What I'm wondering is what i'm missing... IE when was canning invented (jar or metal can) did they make a pemmican-like substance? At somepoint i'm sure refrigeration was us...

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I'm interested in jumps in preservation technology AFTER 1600. (ie refrigeration, freezedrying, etc) but before 1900. Why? Mainly to provide a simple, easily understood, reason why the statement "all medieval food was made of half rotten meat" is false. I mean no one believes that all civil war era ...

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Based upon careful research, i'd put it as a north american cambat helm of the late 20th century. commonly refered to as a "brain bucket"

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Who has his tongue in cheek

Rev. George

If your talking about SCA combat they are illegal in nearly every kingdom and I dont look for it to be far in the future befor that is an SCA wide rule. Ummm are you sure?? Middle kingdom: (marshalls handbook 2.1.4.B.2)2) A gauntlet of heavy leather lined with closed cell foam or heavy padding. (No...

Rev. George

Clay, the idea of having your group as a fighting force for the occasional war sounds cool to me... you could be the "tuchux of the west" Well except you dont wear fur and stuff. and i think you'd peen someones head if they called your lovely wife a "wench".

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There's something different in having a muscician perform, and milling about talking, etc. one might argue that its even period. of course if this is a staged performance, it is kinda rude. Drowning out a muscisian because of whatever reason, ESP if done by a boombox, is just plain rude. If done by ...

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Norm: from what I remeber, its a later period roman helm. (later period as in gaius caligulus, not as in henry they were spun from sheets of brass/ bronze/ cupric alloy #7 and often had the hole left in the top. Of course i think it would be tre spiff for someone to do a combat helm in that style, w...

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To Whom It May Concern

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Rev. George

Stories I've heard: Throw a clean blow, as it lands, and he calls light, cry in anguish, and fall over. When asked, in a loud voice cry "Surely mine blow hath killed SOMEONE, if not thee then me" Turn and walk away,saying "I concede to your perfect armour /thick hide/ high calibration" Mutter to the...

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Clay put me down for the "how the hell would a person know" arguement. I'd wager over 90% of the folx out there, seeing you at an SCA evnt, with SCA related wares will assume you are in the SCA. Given the size of the society, for all they know you could be a pelican from drachenwald, or a guy from "...

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From what i've seen on thier website, it cuts by friction, effectively "sanding" the cut open... it even brags that it cust copper cleanly and is good for autobody work...

I personally have always wanted to try the sawblade... something to be said about chewing thru scales with a skill saw...

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Problem with the soaking is that it's against the SCA rules. You maynot soak or otherwise treat the rattan in a manner that signifigantly reduces its flexibility. (i believe this was in response to people soaking the rattan in glue, varnish, etc in order to hit like a thug) Remeber phillipino stick ...

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There's always easyspace... 25mb of free webspace ability to host images one banner (no pop ups if done right any one curious? e-mail me) FTP access You can look at my site below... the new adresses are BLAH.members.easyspace.com EX: bobshouseofpain.members.easyspace.com -+G ------------------ Rev's...

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