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Holy crap!

Gorgeous heraldry!!!!

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I have a deep, dark love for Regency and Napoleonic/Empire fashions. I keep fantasizing about a Regency ball where we all waltz around -- and, dammit, I literally cannot hear waltz music without seeing gallant hussar officers in their dolmans and pelises whirling about, ladies on their arms. God, I ...

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It's classical Japanese: "A certain beautiful person wrote:"

In modern Japanese it would be "Aru utsukushii kata ga kaita."

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Yup.

You gotta LOOK at it if you wanna MAKE it.

Something I'm constantly telling people. A few get it. Many, it seems, just don't. Sigh...

You're definitely on the right track.

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But, Kass, darling....

You have such lovely peaks....

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I've not gotten any replies to any of the half dozen e-mails I've sent. I placed an order for a few-week turnaround in JANUARY and stupidly sent a check for full payment, assuming they were as upfront as I was being.

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You know, I've been looking closely at these. Something has struck me as not right, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then it hit me. THIS ISN'T FOR ME! WAAAAAHHHH!!!! (and it wouldn't fit, anyway) Damned nice work. Hey, everyone. LOOK at those pictures. THAT'S what it should look like. Effi...

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Thats true. There were free blacks and there were other slaves held legally (and some just ignored), such as asians and indiginous people, as well. Indeed. One of the deep dark secrets of the ante-bellum era is freed-black slaveholders. People talking about oppression and slavery and "reparations" ...

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And thanks for not addressing me as Fujiwara-hime on this forum. Hence "Aru utsukushiki kata ga kakikeri..." The problem with the RitsuryÃƒÂ´ ranking system (i.e., the "court rank numbers") is that's it's very structured, and functioned very differently in Japan and in practicality than we use it. ...

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It depends greatly on the worksmanship (as with any armour). While one can get away with a bit less than masterful work on metal and still look like armour, it's harder to do it right with plastic. Yes, it can be done, but it's difficult. I don't like plastic used for non-scale armour though, as I f...

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I used Sugake Odoshi on the kusazuri, so obviously I will also use it on the sode. But if I used say five pairs of lace on kusazuri should I use the same number on sode or is it more a question of proportion ? It's proportional. Why should you use the same number of rows on sode? It's a different p...

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Eff, I made a visor to the pattern you gave me and it's still lining up where it was before. It looks like I'd need to bend the koshimaki/visor to almost 90 degrees to get the sides of the visor to line up with the top of the koshimaki. You mean like this? http://sengokudaimyo.com/Tempstuff/no-viso...

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Yeah, I noticed that.

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Don't trash it. The bowl's still good. Just chisel off the visor.

Did you get the visor patterns I sent you?

If the front is cut too high, you *can* use a hineno visor on it. It would be unusual, but not wrong by any means.

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Not at all bad. The hachi's pretty good. The only problem is the visor... You've got it placed way too high. The visor top should line up with the top of the koshimaki. Note the images below. http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/katchu/graphics/08graphs/sujibachi.jpg (That's part of the "developing the eye"...

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Ha! Momonari period!!!

For the record, momonari were probably the most common form of "uncommon" helmet shape -- it was a native copy of the European cabasset.

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Also, after I passed a test someone in my dojo advised me "when you win, tighten your helmet cords" (which seemed to mean "don't relax after success" or "don't rest on your laurels"). Does this mean that the cords work themselves loose & need attention during battle? No, it means don't let down you...

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Wow!

That's ... um... not mine, dammit....

Sweet piece of armour porn.

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I'd have to take something apart to re-create a pattern. (I don't like the idea of "faking" one.)

Mykaru, do you have a functional hineno-jikoro pattern on hand?

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It should have been, but I get occasional notes that links are down. If it's not there now, it wasn't there then. Don't know why, though. Sigh.

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They're patterns and instructions for Japanese armour. The medium is irrelevant.

My patterns are real ones-- it'll take you awhile. Yama Kaminari uses shortcuts for making armour so people can get out and start fighting in a day or two. It's your choice.

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The problem is that I don't have an existing hard-copy pattern for it. That *was* my pattern. I clean up the patterns on the computer,and that's usually what I keep -- I throw away the messy "test" patterns and working patterns, and keep the clean "electric" copy.

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Cad -- dittoing the good thoughts for you and your mother.

I'll probably be missing Pennsic, too, this year... and if I do end up moving, I'll be looking forward to seeing you there NEXT year.

Edward

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Damn, it's not on the website....

Unfortunately, all the patterns that aren't on the website don't exist anymore (since the crash last year). I'm trying to remake some of the files that are missing...

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Well, as unfortunate as that might be, I had considered leather a bit of a step up from plastic... That's unfortunate, indeed. Remember. Japanese armour is what I live for. People think of J.armour, I want them to think of me. I live for the stuff. I would rather see a well-made suit of combat plas...

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By the way -- Strong.... The thing is, lacquered metal or leather is thick and glosses up like plastic. It really doesn't matter *what* the armour is made out of, as long as it LOOKS like Japanese armour. Even the most authentic material (e.g., leather) doesn't work if the patterning and constructio...

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Hey Eff! Do you want this thing Powder-coated or russetted? Hineno-jikoro deshoo? I WANTED to go with 16 ga. High carbon, but it's unavailable. I COULD make it from 1.5 mm HC but even with the overlap/ total weight you'd still have hell with the marshalls. Looks like it'll have to be 2mm hot rolled...

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Dale: For the record, the nagamaki is my favorite weapon of all time, bar none. Hew, your son needs to learn to tell the difference between a good source and an idiot on a fantasy gaming newsgroup. There were very, very, very few extremely large swords made, and it's not clear if they were ever used...

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Hm. If you sent anything over the weekend, I haven't seen it. I've been out of town for a few days and just got back and am starting to go through the backlog of spam and e-mails.

What's the question about shikoro?

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Jehan:

When you figure out how that augmentation will work on your arms, let me know. I'll have some avatars waiting.

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A humble suggestion.

If you are going to order anything from Minamoto, please insist that they actually make JAPANESE armour that follows a real Japanese pattern, rather than buying something that only suggests Japanese-ness.

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Okay, maybe I'm blind... but "Home Improvement" section? I didn't see one.

Can you provide a direct link?

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There is no rule. There are jingasa made from a single plate (panel, whatever) dished to the proper shape, some made from a rough circle with a single wedge removed to make a cone when the edges join, some made from multiple pie-shaped plates. There are shallow jingasa, steep and pointed ones, broad...

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What would you like to know? They've used leather, metal, paper, even straw (and lacquered the bejeebers out of the last two).

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We probably agree on Kass' Goddesshoood (who DOESN'T agree with that one?).

Oh, Hell yeah. I've worshipped the ground she floats above for ever.

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