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by JJ Shred
Mon Jan 24, 2005 8:21 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Vintage Marshall 45 Watt and Fender '57 Stratocaster Reissue
Replies: 8
Views: 127

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by JJ Shred
Mon Jan 17, 2005 2:02 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Vintage Marshall 45 Watt and Fender '57 Stratocaster Reissue
Replies: 8
Views: 127

Vintage Marshall 45 Watt and Fender '57 Stratocaster Reissue

I am selling a few more items out of my collection of musical instruments to be able to afford one of these saddles: [img]http://www.qcvweb.net/webshop/media/PortMixta-hell220x220.jpg[/img] I have a 1965 Marshall plexiglass front 45 watt amp head hand soldiered in Jim Marshall's original garage/musi...
by JJ Shred
Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:53 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Poleaxe Heads *finally* in!
Replies: 93
Views: 4072

I have used massage oil to get a Mandrake axhead on.


Whoa----way too much information!!!! :shock:
by JJ Shred
Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:33 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Roman/Gaulish re-enactment in Germany (Nudie pics)
Replies: 29
Views: 581

Owen will love it!!!!
by JJ Shred
Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:29 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: WHAT DO YALL THINK OF RAWHIDE ARMOUR
Replies: 21
Views: 680

Linen stuffed with wool weighs a ton when you have to ford a stream. Personally, I think it would be easier to stay afloat in plate than in a padded jack. Haven't tried it though. Conjecture is better than drowning.
by JJ Shred
Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:32 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: My own "something shiney".
Replies: 44
Views: 2336

Studbuckle, show us yours!


No, please! Keep that thing in your trousers! We want pictures of beautiful women not one-eyed turtleheads!
by JJ Shred
Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:13 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: WHAT DO YALL THINK OF RAWHIDE ARMOUR
Replies: 21
Views: 680

My rottweiler is gonna love you!
"Here Dakota, have a chewy!"

Perhaps the Huns wore it, and that is why the Romans developed rottweilers as wardogs!
by JJ Shred
Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:17 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Crossbow Prod
Replies: 4
Views: 112

Valentine Armoury has about a half dozen for $16.00 a piece on their specials page. They are about 60 lbs. pull, which I believe is SCA legal. I was going to get one as a replacement for the aluminum prod on one of my Iolo bows, but this %$!?&%?! computer crashes every time I try to get on his site.
by JJ Shred
Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:45 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: MAKING 12 C PRICK SPURS
Replies: 20
Views: 605

I'm sure you realize that these are rowel spurs, not prick spurs and are probably 14th - 15th C.
by JJ Shred
Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:28 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Wanna learn about the Guillotin?
Replies: 4
Views: 113

Like how to spell it? :P
by JJ Shred
Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:23 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Period or Fashionable?
Replies: 100
Views: 1176

Back to the chair example, but simpler: We have a 15th C. bench made of green oak, mortise & tendon construction, no glue, dowels or screws. It is real and exists, located in a church. It has been used since then. Similar examples are shown in paintings and drawings. Similar tables are shown in pain...
by JJ Shred
Tue Jan 11, 2005 7:54 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Period or Fashionable?
Replies: 100
Views: 1176

If you show up in a polyester T-tunic and lime green spandex with Nikes, that is "Not Period". If you wear a bascinet with a Viking persona that is inauthentic. Both the bascinet and the Viking garb are "period", fitting into the pre-17th C. aspect of the SCA, but are not appropriate on the same per...
by JJ Shred
Mon Jan 10, 2005 7:25 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: where can i find pre made rings for rivited maille
Replies: 5
Views: 177

I bought some from Gwen at Jeff Hedgecock's site, Historic Arms. They weren't on the website, but she had 2 sizes.
by JJ Shred
Sun Jan 09, 2005 9:14 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: [ I M P O R T A N T ] Fake about armour from BEL-KNIGHT.COM
Replies: 10
Views: 647

Thank you Sir, for bringing it to our attention. I hope no one else has seen this and fell for it.
by JJ Shred
Sun Jan 09, 2005 12:22 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Azon Maille
Replies: 3
Views: 182

I wanted to bid on it, but it was too large for me. I intend to wear it under my stainless armour, both for equestrian and SCA, as it is light enough for SCA (compared to my riveted) but won't rust from the horse sweat and slobbers. We have another one that's too small (my lady wears it) that I boug...
by JJ Shred
Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:21 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: K + K Art, Czech armour place, missing.
Replies: 3
Views: 170

I had one of their archers salades, and while it was cheap and they delivered promptly, the welds/grinding was awful and I had to put in hours polishing it. I don't think they were really worth fooling with, as there is plenty of poorly-made Indian armour around.
by JJ Shred
Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:14 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Normans and the Bowl Cut
Replies: 6
Views: 200

Bowel cut? It does look like shit!!!!

I thought the military shaved heads to cut down on head lice.

Having long hair and wearing a riveted haulberk with attached coif, I can think of one other reason to shave the back of your head - it hurts when your hair gets caught and you turn suddenly!
by JJ Shred
Sat Jan 08, 2005 11:23 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Original Barbute, ebay... ha!
Replies: 34
Views: 550

It looks like an SCA helm that didn't pass inspection so they ran over it with a truck.
by JJ Shred
Fri Jan 07, 2005 8:22 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Tying an Arming Knot
Replies: 12
Views: 415

I'm assuming you mean tying points. Hard to explain, plus I screw it up all the time. Patty here: Make a loop with both ties. Twist once. Pull the part of the ties that are closest to the garment/shoe, through this loop and pull tight while pushing the knot toward the garment/shoe. Make sense???
by JJ Shred
Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:56 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Poleaxe Heads *finally* in!
Replies: 93
Views: 4072

What I think I'd like is a pollax with the warhammer, and a pair of the spear tips, one on the butt and the other on top of the hammer, legal for SCA combat.
by JJ Shred
Wed Jan 05, 2005 8:22 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Kingdom of Heaven movie
Replies: 9
Views: 389

Ahh, thanks. I just found one of the old posts on it in O.T. as well. I was hoping for a 1st Crusade portrayal if we are going to do this movie opening down here. I'm currently kitted out for that, and am too lazy to finish the late 12th C. details to be more accurate. Plus, I liked the sheer bloods...
by JJ Shred
Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:52 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Now for something shiney. (Moore Mandy!! warning)
Replies: 94
Views: 7426

As for the fittings I form fitted it and had several fittings to make sure all was well.


I'll bet you did....
by JJ Shred
Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:48 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Live-Steel Fighting...and sort of an introduction
Replies: 17
Views: 387

A fechtbook is a manual of fighting techniques written in appr. the 15th - 16th C., and usually refers to German manuals, although we also refer to Italian ones with the same term. They usually have a drawing, a verse about the combat, and counters to it and such. They usually require someone to tra...
by JJ Shred
Wed Jan 05, 2005 7:41 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Kingdom of Heaven movie
Replies: 9
Views: 389

Sorry for a really stupid question, but, this computer crashes constantly, won't open a second window and definitely won't tolerate any of Hollywood's flash websites, so:

Which Crusade are we actually talking about here, the 1st?
by JJ Shred
Tue Jan 04, 2005 10:04 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Hey fellow Heralds, thoughts before submission..Please
Replies: 22
Views: 276

Why not do something funky to the lion, though? Maybe have it swinging a sword or something (e.g., Norway has it holding an axe, and the Jancovic arms has one holding a scimitar in one paw and a heart in the other)?


Or holding a midrealmer's head on a pike?
by JJ Shred
Tue Jan 04, 2005 6:47 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Jousting Armour
Replies: 22
Views: 593

An Italian 1450's harness with a frogmouth helm, a second pauldron to fit over the first on the left shoulder, a larger elbow piece and a grandgarde, or fixed mitten guantlet would be a good choice. Take off the 3 pieces of exchange and use a barbute or a salade instead of the frog for SCA combat. T...
by JJ Shred
Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:53 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Plate Breastplate or Cuirass
Replies: 6
Views: 233

From about 1410 to upwards of 1430 the solid breastplate is shown in effigies and artwork, having only the "wasp-waist" then faulds. This was several inches below the solar plexis. The placart was at first seperated by a pair of straps front and back, then sliding rivets further on in the 15th C.
by JJ Shred
Tue Dec 28, 2004 6:45 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Is there a market?
Replies: 19
Views: 427

I've seen breastplates that mimic a woman's "assets" for sale at SCA events. I almost bought one at Gulf Wars a few years ago except the armourer (a large black man who hailed from Florida, don't remember the name) wouldn't take either checks or credit cards & I was short on cash to buy it outright.
by JJ Shred
Mon Dec 27, 2004 11:07 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Scale Leather
Replies: 17
Views: 270

I made a leather "jerkin" and have been sewing wax-hardened scales on it...for a lonnnggg time.
by JJ Shred
Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:33 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Because I just can't let a dead horse be...
Replies: 24
Views: 645

I, for one, can definitely understand why he wants to sell it....
by JJ Shred
Sat Dec 25, 2004 8:59 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Creating a viking scabbard, how were they hung?
Replies: 26
Views: 685

I'd assume they were well-hung, as they quickly bred into the native pop....oh, you mean the swords! Kim Siddorn (of Regia Anglorium) has a book called Viking Weapons and Warfare that show several archeological finds of baldrics. Basically, a shoulder strap comes down to a ring, and from there two s...
by JJ Shred
Sat Dec 25, 2004 5:04 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 16th century LH groups: where are they?
Replies: 24
Views: 386

It's the correct page. From the very bottom right-hand side, there is a pic of me in a 13 C. gambeson, a pic above that that doesn't show up on my computer, then the harness above that one. Sorry that website is such a mess, but this computer doesn't have the capabilities of dealing with the freeser...
by JJ Shred
Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:40 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 16th century LH groups: where are they?
Replies: 24
Views: 386

m I'm having a terrible time with this computer crashing, so I'm unable to post the image. If you go to this page on our old website, scroll to the far right, it is the second from the bottom. The harness is shown in our old living room on a stand with a curly maple base with the close helm and the ...
by JJ Shred
Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:28 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 16th century LH groups: where are they?
Replies: 24
Views: 386

m [img]http://www.mackenziesmith.com/assets/images/wladwback_shadow.JPG[/img] That's the complete harness with the armet. I have a fancier rondel and a wrapper. I'll have to search for the pic with the close helm. I took pictures to put it on e-bay, but we can't find the scanner software after our m...
by JJ Shred
Fri Dec 24, 2004 10:57 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 16th century LH groups: where are they?
Replies: 24
Views: 386

I've often thought how neat it would be to put an impression together of a Henry VIII-era soldier, but I realize that I'd be completely alone in the world (not that that's bothered me before... ). I commissioned Rob MacKenzie about 10 years ago to make me an appropriate harness, loosely based on Ki...

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