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by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:06 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: One Day in Paris
Replies: 23
Views: 338

OOOH my hotel is in the Latin quarter! Excellent!!! If you're in the Latin quarter and you get a chance to go for drinks, go to the <a href="http://www.frogpubs.com/english-pub.php?pub=1">Frog & Princess</a> Pub. They have British exchange students manning the taps, so you can order in English....
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:00 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: One Day in Paris
Replies: 23
Views: 338

James Arlen Gillaspie wrote:The best thing to do at Les Invalides is to go straight to the door that lets you into the section with the armour.


+ Tasha
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:28 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: My pourpoint & leg harness
Replies: 34
Views: 1509

My pourpoint & leg harness

A couple of people were asking about part of my 14th Century harness,, so I thought I'd put up a couple pics. Here's my pourpoint holding up my leg harness. The greaves hold themselves up, and yes, I changed out of my chucks before I took the field. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3634/3466022458_45c...
by Baron Alejandro
Mon Apr 20, 2009 9:36 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: The Baron A Adarga shield charity auction.
Replies: 30
Views: 984

<a href="http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=90973">The 'Adarga Madness' thread.</a>

Y'all, this money is going to a good cause. Please bid high.
by Baron Alejandro
Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:31 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: SCA Harness Questions
Replies: 33
Views: 1295

Re: SCA Harness Questions

A C Belt separately for my legs like the one that Andy (Pitbull) is selling, or, B. some "suspenders" to go on the weight belt. C - What brewer said, with His Grace's caveats. Hanging your legs from a belt of <i>any</i> kind pulls the legs forward and inward, and puts most of the weight o...
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:03 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: AEthelmearc Spring Crown Entrants
Replies: 53
Views: 2253

GO KOREDONO!!!
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:18 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: InsaneIrish is MIGHTY.
Replies: 15
Views: 756

I didn't get any pics or video. Too busy fightin'. Maybe someone else did.
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:45 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: InsaneIrish is MIGHTY.
Replies: 15
Views: 756

Ok, it's the next day, I've had bacon & coffee, let me see if I can do this some justice. One of the local <a href="http://www.wyverncliffe.org/">Shires</a>, which is chock-full of awesome folk, held a small <a href="http://www.wyverncliffe.org/TheGauntlet2009.htm">deed of arms</a> yesterday. Th...
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 19, 2009 11:10 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Fun with welder and grinders
Replies: 14
Views: 636

Did you use a stick welder, hal? That is too cool for school!!
by Baron Alejandro
Sat Apr 18, 2009 6:46 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: InsaneIrish is MIGHTY.
Replies: 15
Views: 756

InsaneIrish is MIGHTY.

I saw him perform an amazing feat today, that involved beating the CRAP out of ten other people. More on this tomorrow.
by Baron Alejandro
Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:11 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Covered Armour
Replies: 60
Views: 12302

W00t!

Awesome!

One day I will have Chris Gilman's helmet crest, ohyesIwill.
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:24 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Tasha's Charles de Blois Pourpoint pattern ON SALE NOW
Replies: 45
Views: 2851

Cool! :D
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:52 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How did women gain the right to fight heavy?
Replies: 121
Views: 4189

That's a pretty cool story. I've hearid a lot from numerous fighters how a slight woman probably won't do well in the shield wall. So it does me good to hear that it's not necessarily the case. It was unbelievable. I mean, those guys REALLY WANTED to get into the castle. I know she took the brunt o...
by Baron Alejandro
Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:18 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How did women gain the right to fight heavy?
Replies: 121
Views: 4189

His Excellency, Sir Rodrigo Falcone, is an example to all good men-at-arms on the way to behave in all situations. I have found, in the past, that women raised in previous generations were societally cheated from a fighting mindset. Therefore, if they choose to take up fighting, it behooves me to ch...
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:08 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Courtly Graces. . . hhmm? (and minor rant)
Replies: 26
Views: 719

I must just be uglier than I thought, then! :lol:
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:06 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: question; How Shall a man be armyd? 1570
Replies: 51
Views: 1636

sha-ul wrote:btw BA, I will be trying to get some measurements to you for a pattern.


w00t


Civilian & military fashion mirror each other pretty closely.
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:53 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you all feel about a 4th peerage?
Replies: 566
Views: 9012

You're british. You're not allowed to say, "YEEEEEEHAW"
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 15, 2009 9:31 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you all feel about a 4th peerage?
Replies: 566
Views: 9012

YEEEEEEEHAW!!!!!!!!!
by Baron Alejandro
Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:34 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Courtly Graces. . . hhmm? (and minor rant)
Replies: 26
Views: 719

Read Castiglione's 'The Courtier'. There's a whole section on Court Ladies. Great stuff.

I haven't seen a cloven fruit in probably a <i>decade</i>.
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:27 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you all feel about a 4th peerage?
Replies: 566
Views: 9012

Maeryk wrote:Nuts.. there goes that money-shot ass wrap I've been working on...


Aim it a little lower, make it a slice instead of a percussive hit, and you could document it and call it a <a href="http://www.thearma.org/essays/DOTC.htm">coup de jarnac</a>.
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:22 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: question; How Shall a man be armyd? 1570
Replies: 51
Views: 1636

My studies have shown me that us late period types had different harnesses for different types of activities. There was war harness, jousting harness, harness for pushes of pike at the tilts....they weren't necessarily different armours, but they were probably the same harness with interchangeable b...
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:02 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you all feel about a 4th peerage?
Replies: 566
Views: 9012

Maeryk wrote:
Put on your armour and support the king in battle


Make fencing a war point.

Give those who don't (or can't) fight heavy an OPPORTUNITY to do so, and they will in droves.


Um. It already is.
by Baron Alejandro
Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:55 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Indian Personas
Replies: 13
Views: 667

Check out 'Indian Arms & Armour' by G.N. Pant. Has everything you want to know. You want Vol. 2, which is relevant to the Society's period.

If you're going to do it, do it up <i>right!</i> And post pics!
by Baron Alejandro
Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:40 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Total Atzinger progress update 4-11-09
Replies: 91
Views: 2912

As you see fit.
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:59 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Total Atzinger progress update 4-11-09
Replies: 91
Views: 2912

I don't care. Sell it and give the money to charity.
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:02 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Plaque Belts
Replies: 97
Views: 8389

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by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you all feel about a 4th peerage?
Replies: 566
Views: 9012

<img src="http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1197/chrisdanielsangelwings6ak.gif">
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:44 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you all feel about a 4th peerage?
Replies: 566
Views: 9012

<img src="http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/thumb/f/fc/Wrestling.gif/300px-Wrestling.gif">
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:33 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Total Atzinger progress update 4-11-09
Replies: 91
Views: 2912

<i>Again,</i> please sell my shield and give the money to whatever charity you wish. I am sick of waiting for it, and have no desire to see it.
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:02 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Why the SCA is not a larp
Replies: 51
Views: 1379

Bob H wrote:{Elephant Man voice}

I AM NOT AN ANIME!

{/Elephant Man}


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by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:48 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Brass rivets
Replies: 9
Views: 345

Brass rivets

What's a good source for brass rivets? Round head, variety of sizes. Cheers!
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:48 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: who makes a good 16thC arming doublet?
Replies: 35
Views: 1400

Sha-ul, PM me your height, chest, waist, and hip measurements and I'll mock you up a pattern. Ken, I'm with you on the 'smock' bit, but terminology is tricksy; my own personal experience has taught me that arming garments of any sort need to fit you pretty closely in order to bear the weight properl...
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:21 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 14thC effigy with scale armor?
Replies: 34
Views: 1437

I found a straight-on view which definitely makes me think it's a full-torso scale hauberk.

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:El_Doncel1.jpg
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:11 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 14thC effigy with scale armor?
Replies: 34
Views: 1437

Looks like a scale fauld to me. Off the top of my head I can't tell you the time and place for the numerous examples of scale faulds I've seen. It's pretty sure we're not talking about anything in place of a COP, those scales are running down to his knees Maybe. I found <a href="http://www.wga.hu/f...
by Baron Alejandro
Sun Apr 12, 2009 11:23 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: amateur attempt at ball stakes. with pics!!
Replies: 14
Views: 987

[yes I was using my portable welder for that, I just got my wire feed about 2-3 years ago, before that all I had was my ranger8 which is rates ~215 amps dc there is actually a couple of slag inclusions in the welds you see, just pin holes though edit to add, the welds seem on the T stake are decept...

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