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drinking a Stoney's,

You actually drink that stuff?

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The back of the neck needs to be at least 7 rows longer than the throat, which means a defined front and back. I use a rectangle shape, although when attaching a coif it needs to be more rounded at the shoulders to match up to the circular coif.

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I don't like their shoes, but I bought an arming coat, coif & hosen from them with no problems.

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No, sorry, Patty & I are heading to Tennessee right now. I've got a load of things to do before we close on this house the 21st, then find someplace down there, buy it and move. I'm shooting for Border Raids for our next event.

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A close friend of ours recommends using sugar water to harden leather. You might want to give him a call for particulars...

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with some intergal padding in the knees and potentially strong enough that I could point a pair of floating knees or archer knees to them.

I wouldn't think wool would be strong enough to do that without stretching.

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White oak is closely related to English brown oak, red oak isn't appropriate. Poplar is an American substitute for basswood and is only used by furniture makers looking for cheap, easy to work materials, as it is a "soft" hardwood. I don't recall seeing any basswood chairs, though. Beech is difficul...

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I'd love to do a training session with Ripper. But here we sit in Indiana, sigh... We are supposed to close on this house in two weeks, but I doubt I'll be ready to take two weeks in June off after just having moved a month earlier.

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Personally, I find his stuff to be way overpriced, especially since he uses non-period wood and finishes. "Medievalesque" is what I would term it, with metal screws and biscuit cutter joints. The man can carve, however. The details of the carvings are better than what I could do, but then I charge $...

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Hmmm...I'm not sure - I think you just went over my head....they are made from strips of 100% wool, but "blanket weight", and were (hand)stitched the length of them, if that helps any.

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I am also interested in colours that were used and am curious to know if suade would be a suitable material.

Unlikely. The device for splitting whole hides into suede wasn't made until the 17th or 18th century.

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) Does anybody have good sources for garb especially that worn in armor? I'm particularly interested in sources for decoration, including trim or embroidery (so I can either buy or make the correct trim). Try the Beggars Workshop for tablet-woven trim. 2) Were winingas (leg wrappings) used by both ...

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I use mink oil in a wax form, and I still get bleeding for a few months after dying. Perhaps a little of Tandy's Supersheen on the inside where it touches the cloth might work? But that stuff looks terrible on the finished surfaces.

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Is it the helmet that's loud, or the person wearing it?

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I don't have any rivited hauberks that large, but I'd think you could get an Indian rivited one for about $400.00 - $450.00. I've got a used butted one I'd sell with coif for $300.00, 14 G. 3/8" ID. Do you intend to attend Border Raids?

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Like this? [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/flonzy/images/philly03/full/Image77.jpg[/img]

(From Flonzy's Phil. trip.)

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They are very nice. A few questions, though. What year/area are you shooting for? Do you use "velveteen" or real velvet for these? Are the buttons cast? If so, of what? How about the stitching, machine or hand? What are they lined with? Thanks.

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I've got a pair of his fitted greaves, which are magnificent. I'm speechless (imagine that!) over this close helm. And all tempered as well. Incredible.

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I had a subscription for a couple of years although I never purchased anything. They had a beautiful close helm for about 15,000.00 that I wanted but it was (of course) way out of my price range.

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Hey! I know that guy! And to paraphrase the Monty Python skit - he's not dead yet!

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I've made two out of 14' 1 1/2" dowel stock, which reduces to 3/4". I used a drawknife, chisels & a belt sander. One has a leaf-spear tip & one has a pile tip. The second is a full 14' long with a steel vamplate. I drilled out a piece of 4 X 4 3' long that I turned on a lathe for the armpit swell. I...

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Immediately try to steer him away from the plastic & polyester paladins and Walmart Warriors who will try to impress him with the "sports advantage" of weight while looking like a Mad Max reject. Try to bring out the importance of making the hobby legitimate and realistic by impressing him with "how...

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What are the little brass catches on the woman's arms? Do they "line up" the vambrace for the strap to hold tight?

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I don't see what the big deal is. I know I got annoyed with someone I respected a while back when they said "Why don't you look it up?" instead of directing me or ignoring me and allowing someone else answer. The question was more of an opinion question than a cut-and-dried one, and meant to start a...

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While Starfires & Paul Binns re-enactment swords are made for edge-to-edge parries, I chewed up a pair of del Tins in one fight using edge-to-edge blocking. It doesn't seem to work with real swords. You have to love these broad generalizations that one individual made up one complete style of sword ...

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Steve, you do beautiful work, but you need to getcha a better looking model! That last one set the dogs to howling! Actually, that is how I intend to do the next pair - straight columns down to the fingertips. You sewed your mitten yourself, didn't you? Will the palms be the only way to take your ha...

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That greave is absolutely beautiful!!!

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Since this topic doesn't appear to be limited to the SCA, I'll put my perspective into it. I look at it as experimental archeology. We know certain things about it through art & artifacts, but how does it feel to make it work? You can learn to ride a horse in "modern" times with "modern" methods. Or...

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I feel it is an interesting and useful subject to post a topic on. The "hide" is not only agricultural, but what military obligation was based on in a pre-money economic situation. Fealty was based on one tenant owing service to another in exchange for land, in a "pyramid" sort of structure, clear u...

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No, sorry, it's not us. While there are 5 of us, we are one family and I think the requirement is 3 different people since one group quiting would end it. When we finally sell this house and move to Tennessee, we will be in Bill's area, and in that land grant. I haven't kept up on the e-mails since ...

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I made mine from Gypsy Tieg's pattern which was basically a coif half-circle beginning at the fingers. I saw no advantage to that, and it was a pain, so on my rivited haulberk I am going to carry the arms down (rows going vertically, not horizontally like the chest), and add the thumb at an angle. I...

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I have a Paul Binns brazil-nut pommel rebated sword and a combat seax, plus one of those glob-welded spears, none of which I have used yet. Not to many Vikings around here. I have a custom-made Highland Steele rebated 14th C. longsword for most of the stuff we do. I have one of those MRL 13th C. the...

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We do two different things. We have an ARMA group that practices at my place every Tuesday and works straight out of the fechtbooks. When I go to a show, I will use those techniques against two of the guys I seldom see I know are not only familiar with them, but are better than me. A couple of the o...

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Besides Regia Anglorium & The Vikings (Hastings 2005), which I have both a 10th C. Viking and an 11th C. Norman persona, we have an equestrian group called The Knights of St. Denys. We, or at least I, prefer the 14th C., although I can do earlier or later as required. Occasionally some folks join us...

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I didn't realize that we were arguing. I merely stated my opinion. If you wish to argue about something, perhaps you could try the off-topics page, as there are plenty of foul-tempered folks there. I've seen hides described as from 60 to 150 acres, and 120 seems a nice round figure to use. Does this...