The Armour Archive

Ceddie

Hey Morgan, where is that cool vambrace you had last Gulf War?

Ceddie

If you attach padding , they comply with the rule.

Ceddie

liviatasia wrote:So what is your favorite muscle cream? I've been using tiger balm - it seems to warm up the best but someone from my Kingdom emailed me about Capaiszian (I spelled that wrong).

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I use
http://www.smartpakequine.com/productcl ... C11284x040

it works WAY better than tiger balm and it's mint based so it doesn't burn.

Ceddie

Tim, I glued mousepad into the fingers of mine, The SEM inspected them at Gulf Wars and had no real problems with them. Duke Odo now has the ones Sir Fynn had and his are better padded than mine.

As an aside, my crossbowman can use mine with her bow with no problems at all.

Ceddie

It's not a matter of not liking them, I have a pair!
If I were you, I'd contenue to etch but only on custom pieces. By etching, you narrow your target market by quite a bit on stock but you open whole worlds of options for individualization.

Ceddie

Irish wrote:Marshalls give up their time, and a opportunity to fight, so the rest of us can.

Good ones try to help the rest get better.

And they put up with bullshit they have little or no control over.

thanks.

Ceddie

a notebook with a copy of the SCA rules, Trimaris rules, and host kingdom rules if I am out of Kingdom and blank forms a tabard glave or greatsword (I don't like the wooden marshal sticks, there is a reason fighters don't take wood weapons on the field.) Duct tape, straping tape, blade tape two diff...

Ceddie

Clay, you have raised the bar again.

Ceddie

I'll give it a shot.
then again, you and I and a few others are already on the front line in this fire fight.

Ceddie

no, Vitus we do not!

it's orange.

Ceddie

send the pic to me at
justcedric@gmail.com
I'll size it to fit.

Ceddie

that can't be right... otherwise It'd be against the law for me to say," I broke my arm fighting, has anyone else broke there arm fighting?"
Now if I was a Doctor and said, "Bobby broke his arm fighting has anyone else broke their arm fighting?" that might break some laws.

Ceddie

Lady Bianca wrote:Wow! That was fast! Thank you! I'd be happy to make others, if someone wishes to order one!

Lady Bianca the Inquisitive.

do you have any more pics of your work?
how about a price list?

Ceddie

Brother Vitus, Have you looked at

http://www.whiterosecastings.co.uk/buckles.htm

They have some nice stuff.

Ceddie

A note to all commenting. While it's easy to find the parts of the rules that "trip your trigger" and rant about them, I'd like to point out that 18 Kingdom's Earl Marshal's and deputies and the SEM spent a significant portion of their time, cutting into either work, fighter practice, event time. I...

Ceddie

CARLYLE FOR EMPORER!!!!

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Maeryk, As far as I can remember the rule has always been that you must cover the points of the elbow and knee. some Kingdoms required wings but the SCA did not.

Ceddie

For the record, I wear a maille aventail and no gourget and so do a lot of my friends we even play games where we TRY to hit each other in the neck. the maille protects just fine. I don't like the ides that we have been fighting with this standard for years without injury and now we have to change i...

Ceddie

Maximum weights for mass weapons and polearms is gone. Loosely laminated blades for poles are in. 12. No weapon shall exceed 6 lbs (2.73kg). [/quote] I will be interested in seeing how this gets interpreted: "9. No part of a weapon shall have sharp edges or protrusions with cross-section of less th...

Ceddie

If you come up wit ha run in Jeezuzyerfffaaattt I'll take one!

Ceddie

I think, Jehan has the right of it Perhaps the way to go is to compromise between this hard limit and the high goals of the Combat of the Thirty. I suggest requiring faithful looking footgear, and refusing grills. I am of the opinion that even if they can be documented, they are obscure and evocativ...

Ceddie

Johannes,
I'm glad you found your fire again.

Ceddie

I donâ€™t think that Jehan â€œstomped on youâ€

Ceddie

Yup. it MUST be padded.
I would, in fact, prefer that it was not moden sports pads or bright blue smurf skin. but in needs to be padded.

Ceddie

H. Leg Armor 1. The kneecap, an inch above and below, and both sides of the knee joints must be covered by rigid material, lined by at least Â¼ inch (6mm) of closed-cell foam or an equivalent padding. This armor shall be attached in such a way that the knee remains covered during combat. just becau...

Ceddie

The only addition that Trimaris has currently is fore-arm protection. As an aside, most kingdoms have specific rules that visiting fighters may armour to thier home standards (but weapon to the place they visit). It has been my experience that, when visiting other Kingdoms, I have been allowed to pl...

Ceddie

use shoe goo. it dries flexable, the gorilla glue dries hard and can crack and break over time.

I'd use the straping tape as well.

Ceddie

A little padding on the thumb and you are good to go as far as I can tell.

EDIT FOR SPELLING.

Ceddie

I have seen folks do this with mass weapons and it looked really good, not more accurate but a lot nicer, more "finished" look. I really am interested in how it works! **in the rules re-write, me made allowances for tape or equivalent to make it harder to get grief about working outside the box to m...

Ceddie

I like gaff tape. it can be found in matte just about any color you want and the black is very easy to look past. **not as in it hides the sword from you opponant but it doesn't say "LOOK AT ME!!!" that is why roadies use it on stage.

Ceddie

Maelgwyn, James said: a junk SCA version on a gauntlet he did not say: "SCA gauntlets" to describe unsafe junk or even "junk gauntlets" Relax. ther are quite a few good safe SCA gauntlets out there but there is also a lot of craptacular, unsafe junk being passed off as SCA gauntlets. we all know the...

Ceddie

A centergrip is more like a 2 weapon style. be agressive with your blocks on your opponents weapon. YES YES YES It was like a lightbulb coming on when this sunk in. when I block with the CG heater, basicly, I move my hand/arm like I am throwing a blow with the shield into the path of the weapon. Wh...

Ceddie

once, the blow was a spear to the face WHILE I was moving in, I got a bloody nose.
the strap was old leather. that'll never hapen again, I use an army chinstrap now.
I chalk it up to not yet learning to check my kit as often as I should and I steped into the shot.

Ceddie

Well I am 6â€™1â€

Ceddie

I can make that.

Transporting it... now that is another issue...

Ceddie

If I can make it, I'm in!

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