The Armour Archive

Trevor

If you're determined to use plastic-get a buddy that works at a pizza joint. Get permission to heat the plastic in their oven. Offer to use your own piece of metal as a tray to prevent plastic from meliting on the inside of their oven. Then, you can put it into your two-piece mold. Then, clamp the b...

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Cool story.

The rest of the bit about wounds and the fight sequence kinda strike me as too many assumptions. The story was brief, and despite the severity of the wound, there's an awful lot to be said about guts and determination that the author fails to take account of.

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Really, really nice stuff!

I'm surprised that you didn't tool the greaves, though.

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Top 10 good things about blackened armor:

10) At night, you can be sneaky
9) You can be a ninja, and everybody knows that ninjas are totally AWESOME, and by awesome I mean totally sweet.

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You have it all right there.

Bad parts:
1) difficult to maintain. once the rust starts, it has to be polished all over and re-blued. You might be able to touch it up with a blueing pen, but it won't look the same.

2) heat

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A properly made "c" belt is my favorite. IT doesn't pull on your shoulders like a pourpoint can (and if the pour point is made properly, it is just a c-belt with a shirt attached) THe pattern for a "c" belt is pretty simple. Laying flat, it will look linda like a recurve bow. THe portion along your ...

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Basically, we can use rebated steel, with whatever appropriate "period" (whatever that means) safety gear we feel we need for teaching in A&S classes. Of course, there should be sufficient space to avoid bystanders. They were moved to point out that we could only go at HALF SPEED several times. So, ...

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Hi all, I noticed in the Atlantia ToC pics that the list field is delineated by a wooden fence. Our Barony has a similar fence, along with portable galleries. It is so refreshing to see a change from the PVC pipe/rope/pennant combo! You can kind of see it in this photo: <img src="http://www.photodum...

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In period, the great helm probably had a leather suspension web. A buddy of mine wore the two helms for a steel experiment. Using a machete, the greathelm was severely dented and sheared off a rivet. The recipient of the blow didn't feel the shot. I'd recommend a coif underneath over a heavily padde...

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The best results I have gotten have involved heating the entire piece and using a two-part mold. Given the complexity of the shape you're talking about, I don't think you're going to get a decent result with the tools you've mentioned. It will probably look butt-ugly; certainly nothing you're going ...

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I wouldn't buy one. I'd like a cup that contacts my pelvis before it contacts my junk. Otherwise, it's a plate that may/may not have all my bits behind it when it gets hit. In addition to edge-on ickiness, it if doesn't bottom out on my pelvis, there's going to be squishing involved. Not pleasant, a...

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Boffer lances. It's better than nothing, but I'm holding out until I can do the real thing. Unfortunately, it won't be with the SCA.

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And I'll be the guy in the purple shirt with gold falcons on it.

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I will admit that I've not heard much about last year. And I'll admit that Pennsic has attracted less of our numbers as time has gone by. (Our attention has been turned to Estrella and increasingly, Gulf. Great fun out West!) Rest assured, though, lessons learned are studied and applied here, and I ...

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hmmm. These were stories you heard from people that were at these 'clubbings'? Or they were longer than 23 years ago? These 'clubbings' just arent ringing any bells... My apologies, apparently you got yer bell rung a few too many times. Back in the dark ages, when I was 18 and at my first Pennsic, ...

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sarnac wrote:I thought is was armour whore???

"whore" is when someone is paying you.

"slut" just means you get around.

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They are definitely good folks and an asset to the SCA. They are a great example of how a merchant should run their business.

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Alvi, no offense, but it's going to take a while to get a good reputation. If you keep at it, it will come. The US reenactment community communicates with itself well. If you produce a good product that, after shipping costs are taken into account, sell for less than custom armors here, and also giv...

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An armor slut after my own heart...

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I'm guessing a security guard

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There's lots of things a young lad could do around a military camp.

1) servant to a noble
2) assistant cook
3) porter
4) musician

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No experience in ACL problems, but I know that weight training improved my fighting more than any other thing I have ever done. You should be able to do plenty of upper-body exercises without putting any strain on your new knee bit. You still know how to swing a stick. After you get cleared to fight...

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After all the Tuchux clubbin' Calontir has done in the past, it was about time you got us back.

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Halberds offers a newby armoring tool kit. That alone will give you most of the specialized tools you'll need that you won't find in an industrial metal shop.

Armor is almost all compound curves. Regular metal shops aren't prepared for that.

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If you're wanting to make fitted greaves out of cuir boili, then you need a form to get the flare right. The pattern is not imporant-you can always make it big and trim it down. for cir boili, I would make single piece greaves that reach 5/6 around the leg. First of all, mos of the cuir boili greave...

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I took some one (and only one) time, and I stopped fighting for the day. I felt my heart racing, and didn't want to stress it out any more by exercising. I figured I'd stroke out orhave a heart attack. Years later, I found out that others HAD had heart attacks and strokes on it. I'm glad I listened ...

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So, what would it take to get all the Tuchux to show up one Pennsic in Ork armor?

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I don't think it's possible to drink too much water when you're fighting in a wetsuit in 95% humidity.

Hell, I don't know if it's even possible to drink enough.

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That's just Perfect.

I'd keep your old shield and loan out that one. i'll bet more people start makeing their own shields after that...

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Spiffy!

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I would also think that rough hammer marks would be left from hot-forming, since the metal is moving a lot more.

Planishing and further raising could be done afterwards.

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Errr-the bargrill is too big at the bottom. Sigh. All it does is add extra mass and open up the chin/neck area unnecessarily. I've noticed that on several of Illusion's bargrills.

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I have to wonder how the entire kingdom of Calontir was apparently not even aware that this rule change was even being considered . I can't speak for other kingdoms, but when I brought this issue up on the Huscarl list, I had some very senior people tell me to not spread "unsubstantiated rumors". No...

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Good friend of mine, Master Glendour, had a two-handed flamberge built like a polearm. He dropped it right on top of my helmet and bottomed out the padding. It felt like a bright flash of pain. My scalp hurts just thinking aobut it. Another was a guy named Ragnar Grimshield. He had a helmet made out...

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A few photos from last year's Round Table event. Be sure to mark your calendars for this year's Round Table, held on May 27-30 in Kansas City Missouri (same site as Lilies War) <img src="http://www.photodump.com/direct/trevorclemons/AGRAVA2.jpg"> Agravaine (Sir Halidor) and Mordred (me) discussing n...

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