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Jehan de Pelham

Are you talking about a shorter seven foot spear, Munschjaeger?

Jehan, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I agree, King Rene rocketh. ; ) It is quite astounding how the advice and the words of the old masters strikes the heart of the willing and receptive. They virtually tell you how exactly to do it . I have toyed with the idea of posting in ME on occasion. I did when I posted my entering into vassalag...

Jehan de Pelham

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Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

To the man at arms Geoffrey does Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus, give greetings and hopes that all is well with you, and says further, I should be curious as to your thoughts on the matter, for you often seem to be in the posession of some erudition on many things. Jehan de Pelham, squire of S...

Jehan de Pelham

You need not remonstrate with fools, Eynar, for in the end, you will only waste your time, and they will hate you for it. I have an Arms and Armour Henry V, and I have shown it to many people, and to a one they are astounded at its litheness and balance. It is as light as any "speed stick" that anyo...

Jehan de Pelham

I don't wear my A-game accoutrements to my weekly practices. I wear a pair of Harley Davidson boker boots to those. I also wear jeans. But for deeds of arms, I have resolved to wear the turnshoes and chausses and braies. I'm not interested in wearing out my gear, because I am not as wealthy as even ...

Jehan de Pelham

I read Robert Fitzgerald's translation of The Iliad, and what I saw in my mind's eye during my lunch breaks while helping to build the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas will not be surpassed by this film.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

No, they do not always suck the way you say. I have had a couple of dealings with them and they have come through well.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

May God preserve and keep all good men at arms and lead them ever to honor and just renown.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

We'll talk, then, about a pair of hourglass finger gauntlets. Get with me in PM about what you need.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Mine are like these that you describe, with the fabric high on the outside of the hip. I bought mine from Historic Enterprises, and they are sold as 14th century chausses. I have discovered no evidence to the contrary.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I am still casting about trying to find a good maker of gauntlets. I need a pair of late 14th century hourglass finger gauntlets. AND a set of clamshells, both for SCA combat, in stainless steel or spring steel. To be blunt, I need them very finely wrought, and also strong. Jehan de Pelham, squire o...

Jehan de Pelham

This of course has no bearing on your original question, but I have no advice better than what has been given. Do you have time to read? If so, I can send you electronic copies of Froissart, Enguerrand de Monstrelet, and other things, which can feed your head with those things which are good for a m...

Jehan de Pelham

Praise? "Well struck." "Masterfully done." "Very stout." "Sharply thrown." When you are ready to take a break "I am undone. I thank you for the instruction." Since you seem to want to be a bit of a joker: "Impressive. Most impressive." Better if done from behind a Black Prince great heaume. Challeng...

Jehan de Pelham

To Maelgwyn, I offer my thanks for your fine reply, for we see that the language of men at arms is much the same through the centuries. I see that in my many words I was clumsy, for it seems that I have given offense, or sown confusion, which was not my cause for these words I have had written. Plea...

Jehan de Pelham

Your Excellency, I wrote the above before this was known to me, and so it was at that time my intent to issue a cartel of defiance to the author of this dubious work of artistry. I am informed that it is humor between Royal Cousins, and therefore, I have no part in it, for surely They know best how ...

Jehan de Pelham

I posted elsewhere a question about how best to issue my cartel and defiance to a certain fellow who had with tincture and paints picked out a cunning, but unmete ( ; ) ), likeness of His Highness Felix, Prince of the Midrealm. I realized that I had some small knowledge of how to proceed, and this e...

Jehan de Pelham

Ah, yes, thanks!

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

: ) It's cool. Let me drop out of form a moment and say that I wasn't insulted, nor did I sit here on the other side of the screen and fold my arms and screw my face up in dislike of it. I DID, however, see it as a prime, ripe, and juicy opportunity for a deed of arms, for which I only need the scan...

Jehan de Pelham

Good stuff. Just tonight I fought my brother squire and he wore turnshoes. Two weekends ago I wore turnshoes (well, Revival Clothing's version, which has a nailed-on sole) to my first tournament, in the Barony of the Flaming Griffon, Midrealm, and found it interesting and do-able. Jehan de Pelham, s...

Jehan de Pelham

Is this list posted somewhere else?

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

http://www.hausvdk.com/galleries/Blacks ... -keith.gif

Who, I pray you, is this "Keith," and how best may I send my cartel and defiance? He seems a man from whom much honor can be gained, if he is as bold with arms of war as he is with pigment and quill.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

Very naaase.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I encountered this between the legs blow two weekends ago.

Who teaches this technique?

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

What Jeff said about the sleeves.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I do it every week, except when my haubergeon needs repair.

It is a difficulty, but not that bad. It requires aid.

Jehan de Peham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

To Lachlann, squire of Duke Kane Redfeather, greetings. Your challenge is accepted, and accepted gladly. Bring to this field we have decided upon yourself in all the panoply you can muster, right for your station as a gentleman of coat armor, and in keeping with the desire of my lord Sir Vitus. It m...

Jehan de Pelham

It is even as you say. I was ignorant, which should come as no surprise. I thank you for the correction and will never forget the homeland of Sieur Jean Paul de Sens, which is Ansteorra.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

I concur with Otto. The haubergeon is worn with a breastplate. Gussets are a 15th century phenomena.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

It is even so, my lord. It is like this: Sieur Jean Paul de Sens offered to meet me in combat at the Field of the Lillies in June. He offered to meet me with matched poll axes in open field and at the barrier, and then to grant the poll axes to me as a gift. I replied that it was not likely that I c...

Jehan de Pelham

Sir Johannes, your generosity is like a river which is broad and deep, and you speak only truth, and no falseness, for I owe all that I have to my lady, Lorelei de Pelham, whose beauty drives me to such deeds as I seek to undertake. May God ever keep me from folly and preserve my honor so that I des...

Jehan de Pelham

Turnshoes go under sabaton. Modern shoes are too bulky for sabaton to look correct, in my opinion. If you require greater traction, because your turnshoes are slick and your need for safety is greater than your desire to find a turnshoe that isn't slick, go and have a shoemaker sew a vibram sole to ...

Jehan de Pelham

Sir Asad,

What a nice guy, too. A real mensch, just a regular sort of fellow, and friendly as all get out.

Jehan de Pelham, squire of Sir Vitus

Jehan de Pelham

That's weight each. And Jeff's absolutely right, the vambrace is exactly the same except the fan is made to look like the fan on the Black Prince effigy. Not too custom, just a minor variation, but as much as I could afford at the time. I plan on getting some brass trim added later. Jeff, I greatly ...

Jehan de Pelham

I'll try and get a disposable camera and take some hardcopy photos this weekend from the Grand Tournament of the Unicorn, then scan them in. By the way, being the weight freak I am, I of course, weighed them in comparison with one of a pair Ti vambraces I have. Virtually the same weight: Ti Vambrace...

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