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Kikko aren't hard to make. Start with a strip of steel (or plastic if that's what you're into for kikko) and set up a jig on a drill press to drill all the holes. When the holes are drilled, just snip them off the strip.

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That is Lady Isotta....

Isotta? I be sotta... er, sotted.

I love this kingdom.....

Y'know... one of the places I'm looking at as a potential employer is in Alexandria...

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Good Sir Gaston, cousin --

I hate you so bad you have no idea. [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif[/img]

Okay, I love you. But, um, in a manly, shoulder-slapping, butch sorta way.

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And for the love of God -- don't wear a kilt!

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I'd like to see more of that young lad with the fluted Phrygian helm and lamellar--he shows promise! Yeah, true. But I wanna know more about the young lady with the yellow surcote and black sun. [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif[/img] Effi...

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And to get a proper feel of it all, read Hartman von Aue and Wolfram von Essenbach (especially Wolfram's "Parzival").

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Don't get me started [img]http://forums.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif[/img].

Seriously, I have bits and pieces out of what would be nine different kits (if you count the Japanese ones, too). And not one of them is in fighting condition right now. Sigh...

I'm working on that, though.

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Channel stuffing is an SCA thing, the right way to do it is to quilt the stuffing down

So all those historical references to tow and flax stuffed padded garments refer to quilted tow and flax?

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Good craftsmanship, but is it historical?

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You really need a period. It puts a context on the garment.

You have to think of it as a garment, and as a part of the kit. There is no such thing as a "universal generic gambeson."

This is a great frustration.

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For the record, there is no such thing as "family arms" (at least in the Anglo-French tradition) -- arms belong to a single individual, and are inherited unchanged in a line unbroken eldest son to eldest son. Those arms aren't YOURS unless you are the oldest of the oldest of the oldest (etc.) of the...

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That URL should be http://www.geocities.com/scaarmor/armorlist.html

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Discontinued?

DISCCONTINUED?

One of the honest to goodness period documentable famous familiar designs around and he *DISCONTINUES* 'em after a year?!!?

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I'd like to recommend also my apprentice, Date Yukiie, at kabutographics.com.

He has started making ebira, and they look perfect.

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No problem. <G>

Many times I've seen an attempt at websearching for info totally screwed by a simple spelling whoopsie.

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Damn, not a single one of those URLs works here...

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ah HA! There you are!!!

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The surviving jupon of Edward the Black Prince was laced closed up the front.

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And for the record, it's "Pas d'arms"

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Owen, I gotta tell ya --

I still think the shoes are the coolest part of the kit.

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Gaston: A few years ago, one of the residents of AA (Apocalypse -- what ever happened to him?) did an armour from one of my patterns and russetted the thing. He wrote an essay on the russeting process and I thought he put it in the archive here. If not, I'll see if I can find a copy of it. Effingham

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In the Armour from the Battle of Wisby book there is a Chinese Coat of Plates pattern. It might be both inexpensive and work. Not if you want to do Japanese. Frankly, this sort of suggestion is like responding to "I want to do a Templar persona" with "Her...

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Well, for the record, Noble Plastics is coming out (I hope this month) with a new line of plastic scales -- kozane. (Yes, my fault

).

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To be fair, I wouldn't call it a Pembridge. The lines aren't right. It just looks like a generic SCA barrel helm.

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Try:

http://www.sengokudaimyo.com

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Gwyneth:

The only thing is that we tend to wear turnshoes less than our dress shoes; it'll take longer to "scuff"

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I recommend just hitting the soles with some sandpaper for a minute or two.

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What, you've never owned a pair of quality dress shoes?

Real honest-to-God leather soled shoes are slippery as hell until you've walked in 'em and scuffed 'em up a bit.

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I think Sedric is actually spelled 'Cedric.' Which is odd, as the name is pronounced "KED-rik" -- which is also odd, as there is no such name. Or, rather, there wasn't until Sir Walter Scott misspelled Cerdic in "Ivanhoe." http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb...

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Isn't that the logo of FTD?

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[This message has been edited by Effingham (edited 12-28-2003).]

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Is thegn too high a title for me to use?

Yes. It is a landed title, and in the SCA, "thegn" is used as the equivalent to "Baron".

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(A thegn)

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Or you could drop a line to Noble Plastics (info@nobleplastics.com) and ask about their kozane.

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How post-period? Does it matter? How pregnant is pregnant? How dead is dead? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif Seriously, it has some interesting bits, but if you want to make a good Japanese armour, make something representative of Japanese armou...

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Yes, it was real. I've seen one or two suits done that way. That puts it on order of less than one tenth of one percent http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif . As to how it was made... I'm not certain (though I have some ideas). It is a post-period thing and butt-ugly, so I've never looked into...

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Why do I sense "urban legend" or "BS" in this tale?

The guy's arm was "stuck" in the door so that a person could go get and then use a machete? Stuck so that he couldn't get it out or force the door open? Or shoot blindly?

I'm sorry, this smacks of BS.

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Dude, it degraded the minute the title of the thread was typed. My eyes rolled so high I think I saw my frontal lobe from the inside.

Nothing could bring a "samurai vs. knight" thread lower.

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