The Armour Archive

Jeff J

I would give each person so many days of wages. At least in two of the instances of such forces gathering from the town I have been studying it would appear as though two men were put in charge of paying the expenses of the men but beyond that it doesn't give much of a hint how the system worked. P...

Jeff J

Is the continued use of offensive terms like Button-pisser, SCArk, and Chiverbater necessary?

There are more A-balls being prepared....

Jeff J

Donal Mac Ruiseart wrote:Let not your words relating to this subject degenerate into ad hominem attacks and personal animadversion.

Isn't that "ad equisinem"?

Bella was a sweet horse. II ought be ashamed. Her best friend, Thisby, may just call him out and give him a ferocious butting.

Jeff J

Maeryk wrote:Jeff, I don't think he was callin you out at all, merely responding to your thread to call out the person who PO'd him so much.

Ya - I rethought it. I still think the whole "I'll fight you" crap is asinine and childish (for all involved parties).

Jeff J

edit - misunderstanding on my part

Jeff J

Depends on the venue. If this is an SCA event of just for personal fun, (which this seems to be), then there's no issue wearing things like belt favors. (If it's for fun could wear a Barney costume for all it matters). If he's presenting to the public as "Historical" then he probably shoul...

Jeff J

Base coinage: Roll 3D6 for an archer, 4D6 for a man-at arms, 10D6 for a gentleman..

Jeff J

We talked about the minting of additional coinage at Ironwood's over the weekend, and it's looking like a doable undertaking. We'll need to figure exchange rate between denominations for Chef's coinage and what he's making. I had suggested hammered pennies, as it seems more of a common-use "dol...

Jeff J

Can you make bad strikes? Most of what I see in surviving coinage seem to be not-so-perfect.

Jeff J

Paint a baby Jesus on it and dare the devout to strike the christ child.

Jeff J

Not at all... if oval it is, oval it is... But, if I had some options... I'd prefer something different. Oval's pretty useful. You can paint it pretty kewl if you want unusual. The some of the Italian City-states had some wild designs. There are also some cool pavaises, if you'd rather go for shape...

Jeff J

From what period? For most of the medieval span, I'm with Karen. We put our kids in white linen shirts and wool G63/64s. And it helps that the original was actually child-sized to begin with.

Jeff J

So... you want something from a specific time & place, but not so much what they probably actually used....

Jeff J

Oval.

Google "Uccello San Romano"

http://www.abcgallery.com/U/uccello/uccello7.html Guys in the back.

Jeff J

Slut.

Jeff J

Ya, they work pretty well. You can find lots of these if you google "julep cups". Add "pewter" to the search if you want to preclude all of the silver ones.

Jeff J

I invest time, materials in the SCA because I want to improve it. Iâ€™m an engineer â€“ I fix things. I know that Iâ€™ll never make a huge dent in the monolith that is the SCA, but if I set an example by creating reproduction material goods and using them well, If I teach people how to do things bet...

Jeff J

You get out of the SCA what you put into it, why should anyone GIVE you anything? This comment by Halvgrim brought up a question in my mind. Why should those of us on the outskirts of the SCA who are not invested in the SCA system invest in it. Why should we take time away from our personal pursuit...

Jeff J

If you don't do it who will? The SCA is an amazing force for personal development. Got it in one. Hardly. That's just rhetoric, it doesn't actually mean anything! For you. Some people may benefit from it. For some, it may be the equivalent of the Marine Corps. Still formulating my response to the o...

Jeff J

Darkintruder wrote:So I guess that's it huh?

Not quite... I know some people who know some people

Jeff J

Hmm- the pictures in the instruction book show that the top is made of slats with spaces in between, picnic-table style, not a single plank. That seems rather un-period to me. If the picture on the box says it's a solid top bench, then it probably is. I think you are both right. It looks like a joi...

Jeff J

Rather good, actually.

Jeff J

Maeryk wrote:I'm just wondering why one of the greatest sci-fi authors of all time _deserved_ some of the catcalls he got.

Who's that?

Is Cariadoc the same one who runs Enchanted Grounds At Pennsic? Nice guy - gave Char & I rings.

Jeff J

Jeff, Convey my thanks to Charlotte (and Tasha, too) for these, I hadn't seen them before, and I occasionally get girls asking my advice on dressing in something other than a t-tunic dress, but with no idea how to get started. This is also the basic technique I used to pattern my doublet, except th...

Jeff J

Patterns as you're probably used to seing them don't work for 14th & 15th Century dresses. They have to be fit to the body. My wife could discuss this far better than I, but she's out of town this weekend. Here are a couple of links:

http://www.cottesimple.com/

http://www.mathildegirlgenius.com/Dress ... ssDemo.htm

Jeff J

Can't answer (A), aside from generally not recalling seeing them as common finds before the 16th century. I would consider bucklers with projections kinda dangerous for sparring use, though. Remember, Tahlhoffer has all sorts of funky-shaped stuff for dueling, so you may not find much elsewhere, or ...

Jeff J

Reposted after the Great Crash of '08, with a SHINEY NEW LINK! m A MUST for the 14th Century Mafioso! 1381: The Peel Affinity: An English Knight's Household in the Fourteenth Century by La Belle Compagnie and Friends 1381: The Peel Affinity builds a portrait of a world long lost, using gorgeous phot...

Jeff J

Tentsmiths in new Hampshire did right by us- Jeff designed it, they built it, Jeff painted it. [img]http://photos-599.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v80/120/110/593316207/n593316207_109599_7498.jpg[/img] See, this is what late medieval tents ought look like. Far too many of the commercial tents the...

Jeff J

RenJunkie wrote:Jeff, how much would you charge (ballpark) for something similar for just a regular customer of the 6'4" and 240# range?

You may want to take that question off-line to private messages or E-mail. I'd imagine this isn't the best place to discuss such matters.

Jeff J

Break down. Consider a bridle joint on that leg, something like te bridle joint shown here: [img]http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/0/0a/120px-Joinery-cornerbridle.gif[/img] But with the end of the top rail extending past the joint. And, you can make the top rail symetrical, so eith...

Jeff J

What's really cool about the Italian fashions in this time are the parallels between the civilian clothes and the armor clothes. You find things like arming points dangling from the sleeves of guys in social situations.

Jeff J

I dunno... I'd be thinking it was a personality competition, or a race for cookies, or brown-nosing of certain people. Because a lot of time, that's what ends up ruling such systems. Even if it were only 20 percent and the other 80 was all truly honest, impartial accolade, it would still be a corru...

Jeff J

Kotek wrote:Bake it fresh, or get it delivered. Or, ferment it.

Ferment it. Damn, how'd I forget THAT ONE!

Jeff J

Brother Logan wrote:Define "REAL" ...

We get that question all of the time. (Gratuitous baby pic post)

Jeff J

Grain products can also be used as a storage medium. There have been experiments with heavy-crusted meatpies that demonstrated that the crust effectively acted as a seal on the pie to prevent the meat from spoiling. And then there's pickling, and other jar-storage techniques like in-ground cooling b...

Re: Why invest in the SCA?

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