The Armour Archive

carlyle

This would normally be the duty and honor of the Queen's Champion, an official court position in Caid. The Queen is the Inspiration for the Kingdom. While one may not presume her favor, she may have as many champions as she chooses. No one, not even the King, may gainsay her in this. Respectfully, ...

carlyle

Do without. The path you lay out in the first paragraph is a sure way to heartbreak, hatred, ill feelings, warfare, and hell. No, no, no, no, no, no..... Though my respect for the good baron and my lord Vitus runs deep, I disagree most strenously with the singular assumption that one's inspiration ...

carlyle

Michael de Buslingthorpe wrote:I use brewer's pitch with a bit of beeswax in it (to cut the stickiness a little).

What brewer's pitch are you using? I only ever bought the thermal plastic, and while I found it to be unfortunately brittle, I would have never called it "sticky".

With curiousity... AoC

carlyle

...I accept your challenge... In sooth, the challenge is thine ... ...and your choice of champion. Then I offer thanks for your generosity. Clearly, Sir Brandr chooses his vassals well. Bee-otch. Such a distressing noise, cousin! Hast thou sought the advice of a good physik? I have heard that such ...

carlyle

I think you are making the assumption that the Crown list is the best tournament for testing ones skills against any particular kingdomâ€™s people. Some Kingdoms do not expect all their fighters to enter... That would be sad if it is true. The romantic ideal requires that the winner of Crown Tourna...

carlyle

Its sad to me that this is limited to belted knights. I am not a knight but it is my trade to enslave the people and do harm to widows, orphans and churchmen. And such is the curse of the mercenary man-at-arms ... On the other hand, I am a belted knight, and as this emprise is both fair and seemly ...

carlyle

Duke Icefalcon wrote:We have some of the completed helms in stock.

Dang, you're fast

carlyle

There was one up for sale here recently; check the threads, it may still be available. It was made from a Zweihammer kit, but sold through Icefalcon. I believe Ice can get you one assembled, if you would rather go through the process of doing it yourself.

carlyle

it is my understanding that the bod can be removed if all of the crown heads petition for such an action. True, a petition of impeachment signed by a majority of the current Crowns or Kingdom Seneschals will force the Board to consider removing the named director. The actual removal, however, is st...

carlyle

Duke Phelan wrote:Oakleys are period.

Of course they are, Your Majesty.

carlyle

... isn't it valid to view the BOD members like our senators? If we see a law that's not just, shouldn't we tell them directly and often? While this would be a reasonable assumption, in practice it has never worked. They do appear to be individually influenced by their immediate circle of friends a...

carlyle

Not tottaly true. The seneschal is a legal representative of the corporation for contract matters. There is some valid reasoning behind requiring them to me members as well as exchequers. This is a fallacy foisted upon us for years, Bran. There is no legal requirement for an officer of an organizat...

carlyle

Its sad, life's not fair, shit happens, they got screwed, bad things happen to good people.. This sort of thing pushes all my buttons at once. "Life" is already unfair enough -- we don't need to contribute to it by screwing our own. What we do has the potential to be much more than a week...

carlyle

... if the rule states you must do X or Y will happen then it is what it is. they failed to do X so Y did happen. that, to me, is fair. fair in that the requirement is well known and the punishment is also. The issue of fairness does not hinge merely on the fact that the rule was applied. It is the...

carlyle

I was speaking with Sir Andrew Greencloak this weekend about the situation, and from what he was saying, it has been posed to SOMEONE in the Midrealm that the Kingdom should pay for Royal Memberships back when he was active (aka like the 80's) so this is not really new, though the situation may be....

carlyle

This is not directed at Logan; his words merely provided the catalyst for the following editorial... the bod did what it had to in the midrealm case and i will not argue that as it is just and fair. It is easy to be trapped by the idea that something is fair or just simply because a rule was applied...

carlyle

I'm not at all interested in (grappling) and would really not like to see it shoved into the SCA's general fighting. I empathize with you, Dan, but ... The SCA's arch-conservative definition of grappling encompasses all body-on-body and shield-on-body contact. And while I agree that joint locks and...

carlyle

Being able to grab arms would be nice. It doesn't even have to be a grab. Binding with pressure from an open hand, closed fist, or even forearm-against-forearm would expand the repertoire significantly without begging the question of breaking locks or forceful counters. As a two-sword fighter, I've...

carlyle

This is not an art for armored combat. There is nothing historically that backs it as a good idea. I realize we have images of it being done, but even in the sagas it was done until submission or death. There is a historical precedent; the images you cite prove that. All armored combat was ostensib...

carlyle

The real sticking point of grappling is that it is blanket banned without even giving it a chance... It seems like another issue of people who are good at the game as is not wanting to change the rules any and having to deal with something that would change the fundamentals of how they play; they d...

carlyle

Not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. Gotta disagree with you here, Rev. There is nothing more frustrating than running into the inter-kingdom BS of interpretive inspection. If the kit had been previously passed under their home kingdom standards and was not in disrepair, then it should be al...

carlyle

Think of it like the 14th cent. Mafia guys. But for women, not 14th cent. At least on this point, Oswyn, I'll disagree. This is not the same as a debate comparing the "Chain Gang" to the "14th C. Mafia". Your impression is a matter of choice; your gender is not. Segregation by g...

carlyle

The Presiding Royalty must state the reason for the refusal to the Crown, the Kingdom Seneschal, and to those whom they refuse entrance in a timely manner. Wow. Thanks, Stephen. Clearly, prevailing wisdom has changed somewhat since I lived there. This is not your father's SCA, that's for sure. AoC

carlyle

... the Crown does always have the right to not allow a person/consort to fight in their crown tournament, but ... must have a VERY good reason. Good Lady, I will admit I don't know the details of Northshield law, but if it is consistent with past practice in the Midrealm and elsewhere, the Crown d...

carlyle

I have seem the crappiest things passed because the marshall's recognize the name and trust it based solely on that. That is nothing compared to the sh!t that finds its way onto the field because the person holding/wearing it is wearing a white belt... ...which only further proves that our safety s...

carlyle

"I hate paperwork that includes people being blinded, it looks bad on my watch" Direct quote. Brothers, let us come together as one, dig deeply into our purses and turn out our pockets for those poor, unfortunate Eastrealm fighters so foully robbed of their eyesight by shield edges, elbow...

carlyle

Kel Rekuta wrote:My drinking jacks are subjected to a 20-30 second dip in very warm water (160-170F)

Are these on the form or off? How much, if any, shrinking do you experience?

With thanks in advance... AoC

carlyle

RenJunkie wrote:I think a 10 year old Irish whiskey is less a fighting drink and more the relaxing with a woman in your bed drink.

Anything less than an 18yo (15 in some states) is just cradle robbing... AoC

carlyle

DarkApprentice wrote:75:1 Theron Andronikos

Just got Knighted. This will be his first time in the big show since then.

There was a time in the Midrealm when this was often the best indication of who was likely to win the next Crown

... AoC

carlyle

Thanks to all for the information. Gavin, does your photocopy have enough information (title, conference date, conference name, etc.)? I tried a couple of different searches, but couldn't come up with the specific text (and Chris' website is currently being 'renovated'). I'm very interested in his f...

carlyle

... the particular shot I'm trying to describe uses good mechanics but requires some different applications than most people are used to. When I figured it out it took me awhile to find the coordination and then to integrate it. I thought you were a two-sword fighter; what are doing throwing palm-u...

carlyle

I'm definitely going to need video/visual aids; I just don't get what you're saying. The blow I'm describing can't (easily) be thrown as a follow-up to an off-side, if only because the power train requires the shield hip to drive it (palm up is already a weak linkage; relying only on the upper eleme...

carlyle

Fascinating. I'm a little too busy with work to follow up on this at the moment, but I'm keen to try it for myself. I probably made over a hundred jacks in the 80's, but as noted, my objective was to dry them completely to remove the potential of creating a water barrier during pitching (nothing mor...

carlyle

I have heard of "water hardening" being described as the soak in room temp. water, and then bake. I'm not sure how this would work, unless it's just an attempt to control the process while the water, heating in the oven, plasticizes and then hardens the leather. I suspect it would not be ...

carlyle

The recovery tends to be one more offside - head, body or leg. That's something I can't visualize. If your shield hip is forward and your hand is lower than the tip, how can you follow this with a second off-side strike? i suspect there's an intervening action I'm not aware of (such as pulling the ...

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