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No, but I'll give it a shot. I've got a pair of galvanized chausses I hope to utilize if I can get this to work....

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http://www.gothiceye.com/index.asp

Was this what you were requesting?

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I tried that to get individual links to match an uncoated shirt, and it discoloured the maille, but didn't strip it to bare metal. I added salt, heat, left it overnight, but it never completely stripped. I also tried putting a dozen links in a jewelry polisher with white sandbox sand. That stripped ...

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I've got the .56 cal. gonne. It's easy to shoot. Get some chinese firecracker fuse & slow match from Dixie Gun Works and black powder from any gunshop and your ready to go. I bought mine because we were taking our 2 year old colt to the Muster on the Mauwee and I wanted him to be used to gunfire. At...

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I started out in '79 on the road with a rock band. The first night I went home with my future ex-wife, her next-door neighbor came over and said he was splitting on his lease, anything in the apartment was ours. I took the complete Savage Sword of Conan comic collection, plus the original Robert How...

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No, several of the people listed in the "questionaire" have deep jealousies for ARMA's success. Go to "Nutsword" or the other weapon UBB (?Sword Forum?) to see the same constant attacks on individual members of ARMA from these people. It's pathetic, really.

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Yes, but Embleton takes the fauld from the 'Trial and Condemnation of St. James', a panel on the Pistoia silver altar, made by Leonardo di Ser Giovanni in 1371. The breastplate has a crease down the center, and is a little more dished, but as to the brass trim, I can't tell. The plaque belt is made ...

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Gee, our guys put over 1000 grains in a home-made cannon and it just ripped free of its frame and bounced around a bit. No damage other then to it, although we weren't using shot, just cream-of-wheat packing. I have one of Hal's .56 cal. handgonnes and it takes 50 grains just to make a pop. The only...

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So what were you posting as last week?

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Ahhh, the sound of armour clinking in the distance. The neighing of the horses. The barrage of cannon and handgonnes, the smell of sulpher and burnt grass thick in the air, the snap of bowstrings, the trumpets, then the ring of steel-on-steel as the armies crash together! Oh, wait, that's the sound ...

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The shaping & riviting look good! I don't like the eyeslot though, it needs shaped better. And you definitely need to deburr and sand the edges. Overall, good job!

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Pathfinder posted a link for "The Knight Life", a group that appear to have a program like that.

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We just photo'd my fighting harness about an hour ago. The new covered cuirrass was cutting into my collar bone so I added wool padding to the arming cote and quilted linen/wool to the leather the spaulder connects to. Solved the problem. I've got a quilted linen liner I am stuffing with horse hair ...

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I'll bet you do! So would I, those guys rock!

Three of them - 2 Germans & a Dutchman were at Pennsic selling lost wax castings, Russian tablet weaving and some other really nice stuff. The Brit selling the lamellar shirts isn't, though.

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You don't need a chin strap and the marshal will never know the difference if you do it right. The overhelm attaches to the breast and back of the coat-of-plates with chains, has a linen quilted liner that holds it fixed over the skullcap, which also has a liner, over the maille coif, over the padde...

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Landwerlan leather in Indianapolis, a cobbler supply shop carries the belt, or strapping pieces. I don't know about hides. Perhaps your city has something similar? Try the yellow pages under shoemaking supplies.

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They've got some nice stuff! I love the tablet woven straps and glass beads on the woman's apron, as well as the spangencauldrons.

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A brass plaque belt from Talbots or Quiet Raymond.

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Panther Primitives, and a round pavilion for authenticity. Crows feet all the better. There is, to the best of my knowledge, no documentation for these spoked wheel designs. A rim of wood works well although it is hard to transport. It is by far the most attractive method in terms of a "perfect circ...

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Some of those look more like brigadines from what I could see.

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Beautiful! Patrick has turned into one of the better armourers around. Is that cuisse going to articulate at the thigh on a sliding rivit, or will it be fixed?

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I bought my 16 guage through MSC Supply in a fairly large spools, at least 10 lbs. each. The 14 guage was galvanized electrical wire for 220 volt cattle fencing. Depending on where you are located you can buy it in 1/4 mile spools. I don't remember how much I bought, but it was about 20 - 25 lbs. I'...

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With Tuchux, genericelts and all of the medieval hockeyplayers, Mad Max wouldn't look too out of place in the SCA. Perhaps you could incorporate your motorcycle helmet into your kit?

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[img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/bascot/man-at-arms.jpg[/img]

Normally I wear a pig-face bascinet with a camail instead of the coif.

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[img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/bascot/viking_scabbard.jpg[/img] On my Viking baldric, I wrapped the elkhide around and stretched it before sewing it with waxed linen thread. I also used barge cement to hold it in place. Notice the folded-down fleece at the mouth, which protects against r...

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[img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/bascot/norman_sword_and_swallow-tail.jpg[/img] Here is a typical 12th C. - 13th C. lacing pattern for the belt as described above. I used one piece of heavy leather as described by Broadway to make the scabbard (notice cracked fold line in center) rather th...

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I couldn't figure out how to open the attachment you sent me. Can you simply paste a pic on an e-mail?

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The procedure for constructing a Viking/Norman era scabbard is as follows: 1) Take a piece of unwashed fleece, shave it down to about 1/4", wrap it fur side towards the blade. Stitch it up one side & turn so stitches are at flat side of blade. Leave about 1/2" extra at the hilt, and do not trim. Tri...

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1420's France saw bascinets commonly equipped with steel gorget plates instead of maille camails. The pig-face became flatter and more round. By 1450's these "grand bascinets" were specialized for tourney use with some having a frog mouth for the joust, and some having a barcage for melee's.

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">That at SCA events there are so many activities going on that no one other than the fighters watch the tourneys any more. It does seem several events are so full that there is little room for people to watch the fighting.</font> First off, this assumes the main ...

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I see what you mean now - the additional strap! I left that out because I wear them with some Viking spurs that serve the same purpose. Likewise, those straps aren't really noticable to walk on, but they do wear out and they catch on roots and stems in the woods.

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I'm not sure I understand the question - the soles are the center of the leather and the leather is folded up and stitched across the top. The back seam starts at the heel and goes straight up. The lace weaves across the top of the ankle, meeting and tieing in the middle across the seam. Making the ...

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My first attempt at making a turnshoe was with this pattern: (Scroll straight down page to bottom, there is a moosehide shoe, a shield, the carbatines, then two tent pictures. The pattern was easy to sew, but I had one huge problem with the tie around the top. It pulls those seriated edges right int...

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Originally I joined because I was interested in swords & armour. The SCA had the largest assortment of armourers together at Pennsic, so it seemed logical. I heard all of the "rah, rah, rah" from the fighters about how that is the only reason for living, and I tried it for several reasons: 1) I want...

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Interesting link, as well as the fabric-lined birch-bark tent. I'm having trouble picturing it.