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Jehan de Pelham

I wear no padding, but I use a body bracelet under my arming coat. I find that I tend not to be struck in the body as frequently as I once did.

When stout blows land upon the torso, they do sting.

Jehan de Pelham, esquire

Jehan de Pelham

Tents are easier to sell if they're set up, so that the buyer can examine it. But I understand. Good luck, Estrella is coming up quite soon.

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

I see. You're going there to pick up your new tent, which you'll then set up and take home with you, and unless you have a buyer you wouldn't bring it. Correct?

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

Will you have it at Estrella War, set up?

Jehan de Pelham,

Jehan de Pelham

I am of the same mind as he: In the end, the man who cannot keep or preserve that which he obtained through his deeds must needs lose them to he who can. The first man at arms pledged his faith to be the prisoner of the second man at arms, under the condition that he protect him from harm. When the ...

Jehan de Pelham

Sir Markus, are you bringing this new armor to Estrella? I will seek you out in the host of An Tir.

Jehan de Pelham, esquire

Jehan de Pelham

All the more reason you should not sling it around carelessly.

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

I normally don't crack jokes like this, but I am in a playful mood...

How much leather armor you want for that woman?

Yuk Yuk...

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

Bah!

Cool, man, you made some carbon steel out of mild steel! LOL.

Never let someone tell you buying something is better than making it, even if it is! I only buy stuff I can't make, or when I'm lazy. It's much better when I make it.

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

Plaque belts rock. I see one in my future, and a well adorned leather sword belt.

What do you mean by van-dyke-ing the "hemline?"

I think you mean "lengthen" the haubergeon, Ivo.

Hourglass gauntlets are also in the future, with the next harness.

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

You are all of course correct. The persona was born in 1350. I am 32, so: 1382. I am currently just about to place the first order with Jeff Hedgecock which will begin me down the path to the next iteration, which should be complete in early 2005. This last improvement should finally smite the clout...

Jehan de Pelham

Let the judgment fly. Where did I come from, where am I now, where should I go?

2000:

http://www.amiperiodornot.com/details.m ... age_id=279

2001:

http://www.amiperiodornot.com/details.m ... age_id=281

2002:

http://www.roguescove.org/shipslog/vega ... %20008.htm

2003:

http://www.amiperiodornot.com/details.m ... age_id=537

Jehan de Pelham, Esquire

Jehan de Pelham

If His Grace attends Estrella this year, I must make an effort to seek him out and say hello, while taking as little of his time as possible in the doing of it.

Jehan de Pelham, Esquire

Jehan de Pelham

I adore my high-top bascinet that Sir Luther made. He knew me not from Adam, and I desired greatly a new helmet for an event in October of last year. I asked him if he could make it in the time frame I needed, just before Pennsic, and he said that he could. I sent him a 50% deposit, and he delivered...

Jehan de Pelham

Indeed. Mine, chequy gules and argent, on a chief argent a broken lance, is both easy to paint, or embroider, or applique, and is highly recognizable. The simpler, more authentic charges, annulets, crosses, piles, weapons, etc, are great. The problem is that we have a great deal of blazons passed, a...

Jehan de Pelham

Excellent! One of the things I love about this community is the dedication to good looking armors of all varieties. I'm more a 14th century white armor guy, but when I see a good bit of armor from any period, I appreciate it.

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

God bless 'im!

Will He be at Estrella War this year?

Jehan de Pelham, Esquire

Jehan de Pelham

ES: Jehan, the term "pignose" and "hounskull" refer to the same thing. As I stated in one of the replies above "...some do extend the term(klappvisier) to include the deeper hounskull forms." So yes, there can be two types of klappvisier, depending on how stringent the definition." JdP: Okay, good. ...

Jehan de Pelham

If you're willing to accept Osprey as useful, there seem to be two kinds of klappvisors, the ogival, or round nose klappvisor, which seems to be all the rage these days, and with good reason, and the hundskull, which is a, well, I don't know any other way to describe it but to say it looks like a cr...

Jehan de Pelham

This is not working the way I had intended. In fact, it is working almost exactly the opposite to what I had intended.

Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

Yours has range all the way to the crapper?

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

Is there a mail order outlet for tow? I have got a bascinet I want to pad better.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

Which Archivers intend to do a deed of arms at the Feast of St. Clariel, the Saturday after this in Cleftlands (Cleveland, Ohio)?

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

As for this: http://www.medievaldesign.com/farsetti/outfits300big.jpg

Maybe for a guy who's eighteen. I do not believe that older gentlemen would go for such a short length. But what do I know.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

Aha! That is Sir Nigel MacFarlane, lately of the Barony of the Flame, now removed to Ealdormere, where by all appearances he has not wasted any time in building his renown!

I hope to see him soon, in a Pas to be held in Cleftlands at the end of this month!

Jehan de Pelham

Jehan de Pelham

Less than a month to go. I always love the build up--I'm jazzed to be able to go--especially from as far away as Midrealm. I missed last year, due to military duty, and desire to make up for lost time and opportunities. I do not know exactly what role the Brotherhood of the Gauntlet will play in the...

Jehan de Pelham

Sir Markus, I would like very much to meet a fellow worker of the 'special metal,' if it at all is amenable to you, on the field, where we may bask in the insanity of our lust for the 'special metal' or off, over a cup or two. Circingetorix, the odds of which you speak are borne out by discussions I...

Jehan de Pelham

I also will be there. Seek out the encampment of the Brotherhood of the Gauntlet if you wish to take your ease while travelling about. I will gladly pull a stoup of drink for you. AS I look at the treaty, I see that Caid and Artemisia is allied against Atenveldt and Outlands. I am curious to see wha...

Jehan de Pelham

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Jehan de Pelham

I've always thought it would be quite excellent to have a padded coif with mail coif over it, then bascinet. But weight is an issue.

To doff one's helm and still be armored is hardcore.

Jehan

Jehan de Pelham

Titanium.

Jehan de Pelham

My mother reports to me that pheasant is greasy and picking the birdshot out of their little carcasses pretty much guaranteed a sexless week for my father.

As to whether they are exercised, or not, relative to an aristocrat of the middle ages, she could not, or deigned not to comment.

Jehan de Pelham

Sir Vitus, you make me feel horrid that I could not come to fighter practice last night. The elbow--it's wierding me out, still filled with fluid. Here's what I do: I just ignore the fuck-os and concentrate on the "vary parfait gentilmen." The dickheads don't have anything to actually give, and thos...

Jehan de Pelham

I'm getting to be pretty tough. Comes from the ass-beatings I'm getting. Fighting provides an application for the stuff I do to keep in shape. I for one couldn't imagine running and lifting just to keep in shape--I mean, it'd be like a sprts car that never gets to run above 60mph--but these things h...

Jehan de Pelham

After 12 years, I still do not like using a thrusting tip. Sir Vitus has said "Get used to them" and I will, but only after attaining a mastery of the basics and a functional grasp of the middle-range secrets. I perceive a certain truth to the idea that not having the thrusting tip as a tool in your...

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