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by D. Sebastian
Wed Dec 24, 2008 10:35 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: copying art onto a shield
Replies: 7
Views: 224

Take it to a copy shop and have them enlarge it to the right size.

Cut it out and now you have a remplate you can use to trace.


Also, some places can print it directly to canvas!
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:28 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Can a shieldless warrior win a kingdom?
Replies: 46
Views: 1612

Duke Balfar.
Polearm and 2 stick.
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 7:37 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

Æiric, I'm all about inclusiveness - especially really well done off the beaten pathness. (pathness?) It's different when an experienced fighter choose to do this. 2 fighters yet to authorize heading down these paths? One wanting to be the Grim Reaper, and another wanting to get the crap beat out o...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 3:38 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

But is that how your "persona" would beleive? Or the average person from that time and locale? My period of study is Roman, 4th - 12th Cent. The "Borg" of the old world, often adopting from their enemies -- even the Persians and Avars whom they considered to be a vastly lesser b...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:23 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

Diomedes, is THIS a jungle? Rowan, And the other things I listed? The Question remains and you have not addressed it: "Were they ever used in noble combat within the lists?". if you want an idea of why the Conquistadors reacted so violently against the Aztecs, how awful does a place have ...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 2:17 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

But in a strictly historical sense, you would refer to any culture pre-dating your persona by more than a couple hundred years, and certainly those from well outside your locale, as "savages", right? . Not at all! The Anincet Greeks and Classical Romans had far superior technology and gov...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 12:15 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

Rowan , You are viewing this through the eyes of the modern man. See it through the eyes of the Spaniards, or other Europeans -- that is the discussion. You find people living in the jungle. They wear animal skins and bird feathers. They paint their faces. They weild clubs and "have not entered...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:24 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

I personally feel that if we accept that Byzantium is in Europe, then we can accept an Ethiopian with a shotel in Constantinople. Why is that? I'm not familiar with any Oxum's in Bizantium other than the David Drake novels. ...and I could be wrong, but I thought the shotel was out of period (late),...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 22, 2008 9:19 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: thin self adhesive foam?
Replies: 9
Views: 137

Spray adheasive on any closed cell foam you choose will have the same effect.
by D. Sebastian
Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:37 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

Here's my Bishop Odo mace:

http://www.honorblade.com/pics/2005/OdoMace1.JPG
It's leather squares with colored tape.

It would work fine as an obsidian impregnated club.

It's slow for it's size.
by D. Sebastian
Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:22 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

Back to the original theme. I had a length of rattan bend and warp in the grass on a humid day. What if you steamed a piece and put a nice curve on the end then padded it? But the tip might not be trust legal if its perpendicular to the shaft. I've seen great and artistic bends in rattan using soak...
by D. Sebastian
Sun Dec 21, 2008 8:01 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

Image

:P

I believe that the oldest Civilizations are likely the Indus valley and Harapan civilizations in India, China, or Mesopotamia.
by D. Sebastian
Sun Dec 21, 2008 11:51 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

unless you are speaking as a European at that time Yes, I was speaking as a European - a European Noble , as the question was: "Were they ever used in noble combat within the lists?". Short answer: No. Long answer: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. To the European Noble of the...
by D. Sebastian
Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:54 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

On the war banner of Aligion Sebastianus it says "everything is a weapon if you hold it correctly".


Were they ever used in noble combat within the lists?


The scythe was a tool of the peasant. The obsidian club, a weapon of the savage.
by D. Sebastian
Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:34 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

brush axe


That looks like it would work nicely against Zombie's too!


out of period (pic, art from 18th cent Polish revolution), but here are "military scythes":

http://www.forum-sosnowiec.pl/files/thu ... zy_104.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... n_1831.PNG
by D. Sebastian
Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:59 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Weird and Exotic weapon questions (Macahuitl and Scythe)
Replies: 114
Views: 2694

They should learn a basic weapon style 1st. Most of us cut our teeth on sword and shield.

If they don't get the mechanics and learn the game, they will get tired of being warm pells, and they won't stick around.

There is always time for exotic weapons after you know the basics.
by D. Sebastian
Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:23 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Persona fighting
Replies: 43
Views: 1354

BobKnight wrote:Whats a broadsword?



Something you wield while wearing "bracers".

:wink:
by D. Sebastian
Tue Dec 16, 2008 11:41 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Fancy Brasswork Demi Gauntlets for sale
Replies: 8
Views: 429

If you do not want them, pass them to the winner of the next Novice Tourney. Make it a tradition.
by D. Sebastian
Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:46 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Adam Berry (WMA) and MAttyd (D.Seb) update.
Replies: 12
Views: 503

POWER IS BACK!
House is warming up nicely, and laundry is getting clean.

gonna be awesome to get up and shower.

Might see Adam about a smoked turkey tomorrow...
by D. Sebastian
Tue Dec 16, 2008 2:23 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Adam Berry (WMA) and MAttyd (D.Seb) update.
Replies: 12
Views: 503

Angusm0628 wrote:
D. Sebastian wrote:Internet at work.
Just a lot of stairing at each other at home.
:|


Umm candles, bottle of wine perhaps.. Why spend that time staring? There's romance to be had..


Why do you think I have a 4 year old.
;)

My wife is Russian, she thinks this is nuthin!
by D. Sebastian
Tue Dec 16, 2008 1:35 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Adam Berry (WMA) and MAttyd (D.Seb) update.
Replies: 12
Views: 503

Internet at work.
Just a lot of stairing at each other at home.
:|
by D. Sebastian
Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:01 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Adam Berry (WMA) and MAttyd (D.Seb) update.
Replies: 12
Views: 503

Adam Berry (WMA) and MAttyd (D.Seb) update.

If you're trying to get in touch with Adam Berry (WMA) and wondering why he's not returning your calls/emails/PMs/etc, its because he doesn't like you. HAHAHAHAHA!! But seriously, He and I are very much wothout power/heat/lights/fun due to the recent NH ice storm. Neither of us have had power since ...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:49 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Swords (sca heavy)
Replies: 12
Views: 458

What's the reality of counting good strikes for SCA heavy fighting? "Counting" as in accepting a shot delivered with proper calibration to a legal target area? It's overall very good. It has to be or the sport would have died a long time ago. In the rarer instance where your opponent requ...
by D. Sebastian
Thu Dec 11, 2008 3:49 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Von Sussen... a tale of woe
Replies: 40
Views: 1717

1 purchase.

$80 Indian made dress burgonet - I used it as the base for my fencing helm.

Did not have a problem.
by D. Sebastian
Tue Dec 09, 2008 1:45 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: A great quote my wife emailed me.
Replies: 15
Views: 500

I'm D.Sebastian

[img]http://www.guatemalacitysouthmission.com/Ponch_under_construction_small.gif[/img]

An I approve of this thread.


You sick little monkeys!
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:32 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Identify this armor
Replies: 8
Views: 425

"Polish jazerant (scaled) demi-armour from the turn of the 17th and 18th Cent. Decorated with a gilded copper epaulet on the shoulder and pauldorns on which there are gilded copper grotesque faces. Lined with velvet and leather. Page 100, Armor: From ancient to modern times Authors: Petr Kluc&...
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 08, 2008 7:39 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: A great quote my wife emailed me.
Replies: 15
Views: 500

Sean Powell wrote:single-sword = ? :twisted:


thong

:shock:
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:20 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Hey Photo-Shop Guys....
Replies: 22
Views: 822

Hal,

A Chi-Rho would be VERY appropriate!

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... a=N&tab=wi
by D. Sebastian
Mon Dec 08, 2008 12:40 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: A Pennsic War not to be missed!
Replies: 91
Views: 2806

Great Prince EikBrandr,

Yes, a tatoo, but not mine.
(Gleaned from google)
by D. Sebastian
Sun Dec 07, 2008 10:03 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: A Pennsic War not to be missed!
Replies: 91
Views: 2806

Indeed!

Our Kingdoms are truly blessed with excellent stewards.

Image


Baron Conal wrote:looking forward to standing next to some of you guys!
by D. Sebastian
Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:31 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: A Pennsic War not to be missed!
Replies: 91
Views: 2806

Fantastic.

:D
by D. Sebastian
Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:35 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: How do I go about painting an aluminum shield?
Replies: 24
Views: 541

Here's the details of how I do mine:
http://mattyds.com/essays8.php

I repaint aprox 2x year, but less because it needs it and more because I change what's on my shiled a lot.

Links to other shiled making tutorials also.
by D. Sebastian
Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:57 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Spangen w/mail from Knotwolf
Replies: 30
Views: 1020

pretty!
by D. Sebastian
Thu Dec 04, 2008 9:52 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Has anyone built a helmet like this before?
Replies: 21
Views: 1133

Ugo, the god of metal pulls many a face from steel:

http://www.ugoserrano.com/armourphotos.html


Image
by D. Sebastian
Thu Dec 04, 2008 10:31 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Photos from 100mins. War
Replies: 41
Views: 1396

It's a lot like the rule for Combat Archery.
Demi-Gauntlet, that is.

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