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- Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:23 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
Nobody seems to care about the demographic of potential members who show up to their first event expecting an all out medieval tournament experience, see the largely casual and mundane goings on and shoddy garb, and lose interest in showing up to any more events. Do they exist? Absolutely, I person...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:29 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Best Grills?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 1201
Re: Best Grills?
period "grills" that would work in SCA combat:
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/ci ... 375358.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... d_burgonet).png
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamkentisaac/4421284551/
There are more.. I cannot find the picture of the venus-flytrap burgonet.
http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/ci ... 375358.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... d_burgonet).png
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamkentisaac/4421284551/
There are more.. I cannot find the picture of the venus-flytrap burgonet.
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:04 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Running a practice like a practice.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 1004
Re: Running a practice like a practice.
I think it varies widely upon what people want. When it's "gear up for crown" season here, we tend to get a lot of high-end crown type bouts, and when it's summer melee season (and there's enough interested fighters) it turns into group practices. I would say that no structured schedule wo...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 1:18 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
Sigismund , I do not see how it was a well crafted response; it appeared to have no direct bearing on what was being discussed. Rhys, has posted many responses that in my mind defend the old SCA way of thinking, without hearing what was being suggested in this thread. The point I see with this thre...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 12:30 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
Wonder if it could be expanded to cover off-field kits as well. IE: "Yes, your armour is very nice. But since you spend the rest of the time wandering around in jeans and a t-shirt and site medallion, you won't BE fighting until you conform to the "make attempt" rule demanded by the S...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 11:57 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 655
Re: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
Spain, on the latter.
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:53 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: need advice and power steering unit for a 93 dakota sport V6
- Replies: 4
- Views: 121
Re: need advice and power steering unit for a 93 dakota spor
The pump is just that.. a pump.. and typically it has a high and low pressure side that feed to, and from, the steering unit. Probably (if it's the unit itself that's shot) the only thing you are going to need to worry about are the washers where the pressure hoses bolt into it.
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:06 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
A simple solution would be for the Society to allow events with higher standards. If a group of people want to run an event with higher entry standards then I think it should be allowed. There should be certain protections in place, obviously. Not allowing any SCA business to be transacted at these...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:04 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: East Kingdom Crown List of Entrants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1264
Re: East Kingdom Crown List of Entrants
I didn't mean to stir up a mess...LOL I was making a joke..guess it sounded funnier in my head.. even if we could have participated in this crown. It would have been one of the most retarded things I have done in the SCA... after just moving here and my lady starting her new job.. the possibility o...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:04 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
A simple solution would be for the Society to allow events with higher standards. If a group of people want to run an event with higher entry standards then I think it should be allowed. There should be certain protections in place, obviously. Not allowing any SCA business to be transacted at these...
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:01 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Sanding wheels for 6" bench grinders
- Replies: 17
- Views: 167
Re: Sanding wheels for 6" bench grinders
While you are there, pick up a full face shield and a cannister-type dust mask, please?
flap sanders tend to hurl stuff at a pretty high rate of speed.
flap sanders tend to hurl stuff at a pretty high rate of speed.
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:50 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Sanding wheels for 6" bench grinders
- Replies: 17
- Views: 167
Re: Sanding wheels for 6" bench grinders
Grinders are usually pretty high rpm.
Perhaps adapting an old blower motor or the like?
Perhaps adapting an old blower motor or the like?
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:43 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Sanding wheels for 6" bench grinders
- Replies: 17
- Views: 167
Re: Sanding wheels for 6" bench grinders
how long is your arbor? Most of the industrial flap-wheel or drum sander applications I dealt with had a longer arbor than the basic bench grinder style.
The thing you want to do is figure out what the RPM on your grinder is, and then spec flap wheels based on that.
The thing you want to do is figure out what the RPM on your grinder is, and then spec flap wheels based on that.
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 8:15 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
That kit is horrible. Hockey sticks were never used in WCW. If he wants to do the WCW belt he needs shinai or "singapore cane" shaped weapons..or a big ole duct-taped yellow and red boot. To use a hockey stick, well, he needs to have the WWE belt.
- Mon Oct 24, 2011 7:31 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: East Kingdom Crown List of Entrants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1264
Re: East Kingdom Crown List of Entrants
Maeryk, The East Kingdom a long time ago had a hard 1 year residency requirement to enter crown and I felt (and still feel) that strict crown rules are bad for a kingdom so in my last reign I made it "a year or at the whim of the crown" allowing for people who recently moved to the kingdo...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:51 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
"An attempt" is all that is required, per corpora.
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: East Kingdom Crown List of Entrants
- Replies: 35
- Views: 1264
Re: East Kingdom Crown List of Entrants
"Huh.... my name isn't on that list.........oh whoops have to wait a year...LOL...good luck to all that have entered" Unless it has been removed, it is a year or at the whim of the crown. I put that one in my second reign and I hope some "do gooder" dumb shit did not remove it. ...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:40 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Wade - Halloween is almost here!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 993
Re: Wade - Halloween is almost here!
sounds like it's time to open your own museum.
seriously.
seriously.
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 3:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Gothic vambrace pinching my arms terribly
- Replies: 5
- Views: 350
Re: Gothic vambrace pinching my arms terribly
Very slowly move your arm. Human limbs change shape when they flex. Is that the issue?
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: vids of fighters using strapped round-top ("norman") kites
- Replies: 24
- Views: 560
Re: vids of fighters using strapped round-top ("norman") kit
What's the "inherant disadvantage".. I'm curious?
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 2:47 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: vids of fighters using strapped round-top ("norman") kites
- Replies: 24
- Views: 560
Re: vids of fighters using strapped round-top ("norman") kit
Most of the Northern Army has used either round or coffin lids at one point or another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c54oE6dgres
There's a starter..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c54oE6dgres
There's a starter..
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 1:23 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: fire pistons
- Replies: 9
- Views: 388
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:51 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Falling Buffe(how it works)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 521
Re: Falling Buffe(how it works)
Do you guys think I can make a falling buffe mounted to a gorget, without the helmet if I make the plate for the back of the nect high enough? K Look around.. I know there's at least one SCA legal sallet with a full bevor/aventail out there, where the "top" of the helmet isn't connected t...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:24 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Falling Buffe(how it works)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 521
Re: Falling Buffe(how it works)
You can also put a notch in the pin, on the opposite side the buffe pressure is on. So it has to be moved up first, then back (or in) to disengage.
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Falling Buffe(how it works)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 521
Re: Falling Buffe(how it works)
Kang wrote:HA!
Disgustingly clever! I had crazy hopes that was how they worked.
Thanks.
I'm having ideas. Are there any crazy weak points to this thing?
K
I think that hinge rivet is probably the "weak point" assuming your welds are good on the peak.
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:19 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Falling Buffe(how it works)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 521
Re: Falling Buffe(how it works)
Has anyone made one of these that's SCA legal?
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:45 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 655
Re: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
hmmm... interesting. I always figured the diminutive would be written out with 'ette' but maybe noun gender does play a role. My wife speaks decent French so I'll ask her about the use of 'et' vs. 'ette' but I'm sure she knows nothing about helmet naming conventions. So at least now I can look up B...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:40 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 655
Re: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
hmmm... interesting. I always figured the diminutive would be written out with 'ette' but maybe noun gender does play a role. My wife speaks decent French so I'll ask her about the use of 'et' vs. 'ette' but I'm sure she knows nothing about helmet naming conventions. So at least now I can look up B...
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:29 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 655
Re: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
It's diminutive. "smaller". Not sure why it got applied to helmets, unless to distinguish them from something else of the same name. And my French classes were 30 years ago, so I don't remember enough other nouns. EG: Cigar/cigarette. "small cigar" (ette being the feminine of et)
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 11:19 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 655
Re: Why do helmet type names end in 'et'?
It's French.
- Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:49 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: CHIN STRAPPING, copper rivets, inside helmet
- Replies: 39
- Views: 572
Re: CHIN STRAPPING, copper rivets, inside helmet
shinyhalo wrote:Grimbah wrote:I don't have a big anvil, so to anvil my copper rivets I had to jerry rig this...
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Crikes. All this time I've been jury rigging... 8/
Only on the ship.
- Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:01 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Get Dressed for Battle -- Total ripoff?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 830
Re: Get Dressed for Battle -- Total ripoff?
Usually, you get what you pay for.
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 3:32 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Not Combat Archery
- Replies: 17
- Views: 424
Re: Not Combat Archery
you wanna shoot folks, fence. The fencers aren't tightassed dickwad dinosaurs like the heavys are. - Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:32 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
Chris: The problem there is that it's a bunch of individual marshals all setting their own standards. A kit that passes 10 times might fail on the 11th.. cause that guy has a bug up his ass. EG: I had a helm, with a leather drape (stiff leather) which was a bit short AND a gorget under it. 5 marshal...
- Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:28 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
- Replies: 363
- Views: 5146
Re: Is there a "NO PLASTIC. PERIOD" Movement in the SCA?
And there in lies the problem: A standardized definitiion for 'an attempt'. While I don't think it takes long to do a little research on the interwebz to find a reasonable depiction of arms an armor in use in a given time period in a given geographical area, but one persons 'attempt' at 15th C. Sco...