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Jehan de Pelham

Way too late. Where are the 1380 faires on ebay?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Parlan, the deed was issued like this: The Challenge: Unto Jehan de Pelham , squire to Sir Vitus Von Atzinger, do I, Donas McNair, send this missive. Jehan Pelham, It is with great regret that I was unable to attend our scheduled deed of arms at the Simple Day. Matters of my estate bore me elsewhere...

Jehan de Pelham

Heh, Gwen, I'll take your word for it on Jeff's personality--he's probably a "perfectionist-engineer" by nature, a hard place to be. : ) I will say this: I was very aware of how much better Red Company was doing it than the Brotherhood of the Gauntlet, at least in terms of what I wish to be doing, n...

Jehan de Pelham

What do you think of the scroll, folks? I of think it's great. Thanks ever so much Lyonnete.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Yes, Historic Arms was a little ahead of schedule, but pretty much right in the time frame of 12-16 weeks. I took a little time and sent the casts back after a couple of weeks, understandable given the stuff I was having to do extra during that time. Tallied it up last night, and with the purchases ...

Jehan de Pelham

Your Excellency,

September 18th. I will need it a little before then so I can paint it.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I will clean your buckler and paint it any way you like, my lord Sir Vitus, but I will want one for myself anyway.

Jehan, your squire

Jehan de Pelham

What?! Jeff's one of the nicest sounding fellahs I've ever talked to.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

The site does not seem to show what I need.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I need a buckler, something with a center grip, a round one--not too big. Who makes them?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

If you would have brought them last weekend you would have left with cash. Just as well though that someone else will be looking good. : )

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Yeah, when we fire ours at the LV Ren Faire, we set out guards behind it because if something comes loose in the sling we don't want anyone getting hit. And we typically wear armor while doing it.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I'm really stupid late at night. Did someone PM me with an email address to send pics to for hosting?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

There is a whole manual of arms for the trebuchet which people who operate such things or who have been around them will feel obligated to tell you, even though you may already know them.

Are you interested in more, or have you heard enough?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Brutal little savage, ain't he? Sounds like he took a page outta Gustav von Schnicktengruben's book! : )

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Yes. Beefy timber. Empty box. Try with empty box. Add sandbags gradually, trying again after each addition until you begin to have doubts, and be ready to doubt, then pull out some of that weight and voila, a safe working weight with regular maintenance. Oh, and when you pull the pin, do so with a l...

Jehan de Pelham

Considering how we have -ahem- striven in the past, I consider this high praise indeed! Thank you and may the spirits of wood and stream, and the memory of your ancestors guide you ever onward to honorable service in the house of your lord.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

http://www.brotherhoodofthegauntlet.org ... uchet.html

Made of douglas fir. It hasn't exploded. There are other pictures on the site whih will give you a sense of the dimensions of the wood used.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

The meeting of Sir Vitus and myself was a very fortunate thing, and I hold it as proof that there is a one out there for each of us who desire to strive in deeds of arms who can teach us and encourage us like a lord should his vassals, for I was thirteen years without such a lord as Sir Vitus, and i...

Jehan de Pelham

Does anyone doubt my dedication to a high quality kit? It's one thing to be enamored of a hat and desiring to document it to satisfy some neurosis. It's quite another to know it probably isn't correct but it has a certain effect , and wanting to know if something like it was ever used. And I'm aware...

Jehan de Pelham

I love the WMA kettles, but surely there must be someone else who is making brimmed helmets.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

And the weight on your subconscious is much less too!

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

It is as Milesent says, a sword enflamed, point to heaven. And Sir Vitus has received the scroll of his augmentation, a hammer striking an anvil, or. It was said by his majesty that I am the sword which Sir Vitus has forged, which I will carry with pride all of my days. It stuns me to have received ...

Jehan de Pelham

These conical helms are bascinets, and no, no nasal guards.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Okay. I have a hat. It's not just any hat. It's a hat I got from the ladies hat section at Dillards last winter, when my wife went looking for a Audrey Hepburn-ish wode brim hat. I have been wearing it about and it's become quite the hit--people have yelled out my name at night, in deep darkness, be...

Jehan de Pelham

A bit of an update here. I have recently received cuisses and greaves from Jeffrey Hedgecock of Historic Arms, and I must say, with no cheekiness intended, that I feel much the same way that Rene Zellweger's character in Jerry Maguire felt--to wit: These complete me. : ) I decided on John Gruber, no...

Jehan de Pelham

This is good stuff. I am glad I went mining about in the old posts.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

; ) Bah. The reading of letters is for clerks. Everything that I know from books comes to me from the throats of others, and everything which is written here, is written by the hand of a one who takes it from my throat. Now there are some ecuyers who know letters, but I am not one of them. Jehan, sq...

Jehan de Pelham

Metal helmets are not recommended due to possible damage to the youth's skeletal structure?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

He buried it in his backyard.

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Bartok, This is a very good thing you have done to post this resource--in the illuminations there are many fine examples of arms and armor, and also clothing, hats, and hairstyles, and of course the letters themselves and the examples of calligraphy, illustration and illumination are themselves very...

Jehan de Pelham

I have always admired WMA's kettle hats. I think they're peachy.

Question: for the portrayal of what rank of men at arms are they best used?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Perfect. I will have a helmet made like this one day.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

There is much peril in all deeds of arms, and this one is a very large one indeed, and so because of the many parts of it the peril is the more. Not the least because of the sense of expectation in gathering together in one place such a body of honor, for the express purpose of doing a deed of arms ...

Jehan de Pelham

Hrogn servant of Sir Gunther, that was well said. If you look at posts here, from July through September, that I made, you might see that I was more or less advertising a world-view on aspects of chivalry. Sir Vitus knew me from the weekly deed of arms, and also from here, and I him also, and so we ...

Buckler Needed for Deed of Arms

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