The Armour Archive

Sasha_Khan

Hi Mattmaus, Thanks for the info. An Ebay search show me only this m Is this what you were talking about? I cant see what it is really in the pic, How is it used? Ty Pb Nope, Andy - he means something like this: m A very helpful tool - and one I spent several hours with this afternoon.

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...one of the charges (the zulfikar) sets a precedent for use in SCA heraldry. "GÃ¼rcÃ¼ {I.}skender. Name change from Mykola Alecksandr and device change. Azure crescenty argent, a zulfikar inverted Or and a gore sinister argent. His previous name, Mykola Alecksandr, is retained as an alternate...

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The outside of my Kyrgyz boz uy , or 'grey tent' - the Kyrgyz variant of a gher. The tend to have a much taller and steeper roof cone to shed snow. This is set up at a music retreat in Northern California, so excuse the ugly Coleman chairs... <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/sasha_khan/pic/00054...

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mjaay wrote:Damn, I came into this late. What was he selling?

I don't know, but now he's giving away temper tantrums and hissyfits and showing his ass...

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While I was far from a War God, bathed in a nimbus of light , 4 on 1 - with me as the one, well - that's a bit unfair for the four. Unless those four actually train together, they tend to get in each other's way - making it is easy for someone with a good eye to maximize their ineffectiveness while ...

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Cailin wrote:
Sasha_Khan wrote:
laprovadura wrote:King Edric of Caid

That should be Duke Edric Aaron Hartwood of Caid...

Was he a duke two years ago? Just curious.

He was - I hadn't noticed that this was thread necromancy - Edric last sat the throne in 2008, but was a duke long before that.

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laprovadura wrote:King Edric of Caid

That should be Duke Edric Aaron Hartwood of Caid...

Sasha_Khan

Thankfully, the rule seems to be uncommon in the western region.

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Most of the folks on the AA read all of the forums - so posting exactly the same thing in three different subforums just looks like spam...

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Baron Conal wrote:I've got a postcard of a Roman leather bikini..... somewhere.

...but that's workout wear...not that I'm complaining

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EarlDuncan wrote:
If some one can please relay my thanks to His Majesty Caid, for the fantastic fights and the hot wings

Done!

Sasha_Khan

I've started training at a local MMA gym, and I'm getting back on the field - heavy, and I'm returning to my roots and picking up rapier (I was a modern fencer in my teens). There's a new pell half-started in my garage. It looks like I'll be hitting Lilies AND possibly Pennsic this year. I've missed...

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XL for me.

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corrwyn wrote:I don't believe there was practice today. It usually is the first sunday of every month. There should be practice at the same place on wednesday.

Brigade practice is the first Sunday of every month (usually). It may just be the odd Sunday where no-one shows up - it happens.

Sasha_Khan

Information on fighter practice can be found here:

http://www.calafia.org/guilds.html

directions to the site can be found here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5155+Gree ... 0Center%29

Sasha_Khan

A simple bar, rivetted across that gap would solve that problem. The marshal isn't thrilled with this view either. http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5201/5253010505_af28645078_m_d.jpg I'll try to get some pics of the 'neck basket' that friends made for a bunch of Imperial Roman helmets - so that we co...

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A simple bar, rivetted across that gap would solve that problem.

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Um, I'm asking this because I am not sure (and NOT because I'm trying to be an ass...).

The helmet in the foreground - is that the good one or the other one?...

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Consider the Roman lorica segmentata of circa the first century AD. It is really a much-articulated plate piece of very simple -- okay, primitive -- form. The Roman Empire's economy could generate sufficient sheet metal to make this a going proposition after the unbearable losses associated with th...

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My LH group has used a few of those - and the quality of the castins is ALL OVER the place. We have one that's been in pretty constant service for over five years, and I have broken two in less than a total on ten minutes (on consecutive days, no less). They are the epitome of cheap tools. Better th...

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The Los Angeles Natural History Museum (?!!!!) has a large armour collection...

...NONE of which has been on display for decades.

Damnit!

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Ironbadger wrote:Ah, he has passed on?

I am sorry to hear that, if so.

I don't know if he's still kicking around the planet or not - I haven't run into him in quite a few years.

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The maker of the old kits I remember was something like JS Schroeter. Pretty sure he either isn't around anymore, or stopped making the kits. -Badger- Jeffrey Schroeter - who was in your neck of the woods (Orange County, California) as I recall, Badger. I hear of kits of his (unbuilt) still showing...

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It doesn't matter if the Muslim rulers of the already Muslim lands were Arabs or Turks; at the end of the day, acreage that had been Christ's the day before now belonged to Mohammad. Allah, actually.... Christians, Moslems, and Jews who speak Arabic would all agree that the whole world belongs to A...

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Gunthar wrote:And another way I'm being contrary is that I refuse to wear a waffenrock. In Ansteorra you are some kind of deviant if you don't wear a Heidi skirt.

Your Grace. I have just BARELY managed to refrain from spewing coffee all over my monitor. Should me meet, I owe you a drink.

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I've got an amail to some of my contacts in Turkey on EXACTLY this question, myself... along with a couple of other things - I'll pass that along as soon as I get a bite back.

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I purchased a kindjal from CT03 - via eBay.

Item was exactly as described, very carefully packed, and showed up VERY quickly. I am very pleased with the piece, and would cheerfully do business with him again.

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A-Salam a likum, Infidels (intro not meant to be offensive to any...just in the initial research of a middle eastern personna) What did the Arabs, Persians, and other middle eastern factions wear during the third crusade? And what about in the 15th century? That is going to be a huge range of answe...

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Angle grinder.

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Irish - that is damn nice.

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What is your gender? Male
Do you enjoy melee or singles more? Melee
Are you better at melee or singles? Melee
What is your Myers & Briggs personality type? ENTP

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I'm in for a couple of pairs.

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Mac, I may have some human resources in Samarkand - let me see if my Fulbright buddy is still there on her fieldwork...

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Maeryk wrote:
yeah.. he should roll ALL the edges on the back plates.. actually, on ALL the plates.. just like they did it in period!

Buh.

Buh.

Buh...

...LANKENSHIELD!!!

Sasha_Khan

Benedek wrote:
The unenlightened never get it!

Y'know Benedek, I think that if I said I was going to make a new Viking harness - based around this really cool horned helmet - that you'd be able to hear the howls of anguish on MARS...

It's official - Name and device passed, AND...

Review - CT03

Re: Middle Eastern Armour

Re: yeah