The Armour Archive

Maeryk

IT'S A TRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

Maeryk

Maeryk

This is unfortunate, as it appears that I am unable to communicate my intentions clearly. But as long as there is no misunderstandings, it is for the best. I think the challenge noble and good.. very "walk a mile in my shoes" ish, though you are providing both the shoes, the road, and refreshments ...

Maeryk

How objectionable would you be to having this printed out and used as a paper notebook at actual Demos for someone to work on, if the url is clearly given and you are given full credit for the authorship?

Someone on our local list asked, and I figured I'd ask the source.

Maeryk

Maeryk

small claims court?

I'm not sure what the "legal limit" on passing a bad check is at which point it becomes a felony.. you might want to check on that too...

Maeryk

Maeryk

Hey, I'd just be happy if there were SOME arm of enforcement. Someone gets their card yanked permanently at Pennsic because they said "hey! Get your arm under your shield or it could be broken!" and later it gets broken.. that was a "threat". However, someone walks out of a tourney with broken ribs ...

Maeryk

Wolfram died in 1230

What, did his ass get poached for the extremely valuable rabbit-ears/rum/slave trade triangle?

Maeryk

Maeryk

Hey, Rowan.. Matsuyamaji no mokurai's "mundane" name is spelt wrong on the intro page.. its "munson" and he is no longer an Eisental officer.

(apparently, you live not terribly far from me.. I'm _in_ Eisental)

Maeryk

Maeryk

For an edge beveler, theres a couple of ways to do it.. get some wax on the edge, and then use a slicker (eitehr bone or nylon.. looks like a tubing bender kinda.. a half-circle indentation that you run along the edge).. or you can just go over it with some heavy plastic thing.. I have used the edge...

Maeryk

Personally? I wouldn't bother camoflaging it. I have always thought some of the "camoflage" attempts I have seen were FAR worse than just having the obviously modern thing in plain sight to begin with, especially something as obviously necessary as a wheelchair. However.. I would imagine some form o...

Maeryk

There is no substitute for sound basics not matter how much mutant talent you possess. This coming from one of the gods of Mutant Talent I have fought.. I have literally heard people bitch that there is no WAY you could have hit them "with a real sword that way" with that whip-whap stuff you do. Di...

Maeryk

I think that force escalates because of a number of factors. Better armor is one of them, but I think a lot of it has to do with the seperation of echelons among fighters. The big boys hit hard and hit often. If you cant or wont you arent generally a big boy. This is my observation anyway. And this...

Maeryk

I still canÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t fully wrap my head around the whole argument that if I only deliberately hit you lightly in the groin the first time that we should still be ok with one another. But if that doesn't work, I am ok with hitting you hard in the groin, and afterwards its first off your fault for no...

Maeryk

you can also try VanDyke's restorers. (sorry.. dont know the web link.. but I have their catalog).

They carry a lot of oddball stuff.

Maeryk

Maeryk

My gothic suit was made out of the straight sided black barrels (the big ones) and we cut them all with a jigsaw, then used a blowtorch to smooth the edges.. practice on a piece of scrap, but you can get a beautiful glassy finish on the edges once you get the hang of it. Scrape the fringy bits, then...

Maeryk

anything 13th or 14th C.. ugly crap.

Maeryk

Maeryk

would pitch soaked rags wrapped around the head work?

Maeryk

Maeryk

Your premiss is incorrect; the weapons did evolve. The primary weapons on the battlefield in the latter part of the sixteenth century are the gun and the spear. By that time, battlefied use of swords and bows were anachronisms favored by conservatives. teppu had also gained a lot of favor by then, ...

Maeryk

Funny, then how do you account for the various forms of folding chairs recorded from Egyptian history to the present day? The three legged folding stool (Renn Faire special) may not be documentable as medieval furniture. There are better designs available. I suggest you do a quick search for the wo...

Maeryk

Technically my second kit, but here goes..

Thats me on the left, Vermin on the right.. 1996.

Maeryk

Maeryk

Well, according to this page http://www.habite.com/newsletter/tables.htm Gate legs gained popularity in the 17th C.. (whether or not they existed before that I do not know.. but if you don't know what a gate leg is, think those victorial half-round folding tables that can sit up against a wall on th...

Maeryk

As for a lashed trinity of legs with a cloth or leather seat, I don't recall ever seeing one actually documented. Have you sniffed around the medieval pavilion resource site under the furniture section? Well, I can clearly document them back to Thomas Jefferson.. he had a walking stick that turned ...

Maeryk

Maeryk- The year was either 87 or 88. I actually had more of a mundane work relationship with Sir Tyrak, but we did co-autocrat an event at one point. I learned how to fight from his brother, Sir Veikr of Wales. At that time, his squires were Remus Fletcher, Darvon the Tranquil, Sugitori Yamamoto, ...

Maeryk

Which reminds me of the time a bunch of us in Nemoralis Noctua were sitting around Sir Tyrack's house watching an Unsolved Mysteries episode wherein a young man was found washed up dead on a beach, and his car was parked on the cliff above. Couldn't have been _THAT_ long ago if Tyrack was already a...

Maeryk

Maeryk, yup, I was there. Were you there for K&J's second court? Muriel and I were called up and made to stand facing the populace so that Kelson and Jane could stand next to us and explain that we were the ones who made their clothes. It got a little silly. Kelson started pulling on my liripipe, w...

Maeryk

Marcele.. were you AT coronation? I'm gonna be really dissapointed if I was that close and missed you!

Maeryk

Maeryk

Katanas also had to defeat a far more primitive armor, so a thrust really wouldnt have been needed as much, as opposed to the scale ,plate and mail that weapons encountered in europe Uhh.. have you ever looked at a real samurai armor in a museum or anything? I wouldnt call it "far more primitive". ...

Maeryk

Thanks! It's a .56 cal matchlock, the one Syke's carries as "the Burgundian". Thats not SCA combat armor.. way too thin.. but I _DO_ have a Bishops Mantle and a bevoir for it.. they were just packed away where I couldnt get them (they don't hang on the wall.. the other stuff does) when the photos we...

Maeryk

Umm.. he was looking for one of the one-inch monsters that Greywulf used to make.. I have a .56, but a .75 might make him happy. The only thing is that the powder wouldnt really be an issue up here.. we have Dixons, which is pretty much the mecca of black powder right up the street.. I'll mention it...

Maeryk

Maeryk, are you just going to tease us or are you going to post pictures? Hmm..well, just got back from EK coronation.. and I _DO_ have my court-garb LK stuff on.. and I _COULD_ Drag the dress stuff off the wall and suit up.. http://www.ladyacreations.com/maeryk/fullarmorwgonne2-sm.JPG Theres a tas...

Maeryk

I realize ya'll are only looking out for my safety and continued interest in the SCA but, if I am going to fight someone I want them to bring there A game.. Now to clarify , I dont want to fight a guy who can and does whoop my ass in 10 seconds.. I want some one to fight at the same level I am putt...

Maeryk

Back to the original idea here: who all out there in e-land actually owns and fights as a Landsknecht? Can you all please post photos? Me.. but my dress outfit is a very VERY simple breastplate (no tassets) and sallet.. and a baldric with the apostles and a burgundian matchlock. My combat armor is ...

Maeryk

I really wouldn't worry too much about the blade. It's been my experience that the blade is really the "disposable" portion of the weapon. As long as you still have the bell guard, grip, and pommel you still have your grandcestor's weapon. " This is a genuine antique axe! USed during the days of Th...

Maeryk

I securely pack items I send out because the Post Awful can at times be quite determined to "pre-stress" anything you give into their care. Yeah.. no shiznit Therion. When I got that breastplate from ya I was pretty sure you had mistakenly packed a Panzer in that box until I opened it. I was somewh...

Maeryk

rather, i suggest that all fighters live by my 10% above or below rule. thats how things are done at my practice and has been so for over a decade. i will give 10% above or below what my opponent gives me at all times in practice. should he want to slow things down and attempt som new type of body ...

Maeryk

Well this is gonna make me look like a total newbie but, I really need to know.. Where do you pick up all these different techniques and skills ?? In my local SCA group there's only one heavy fighter.. How much can you learn from one person before you cap out your potential .. Do Archiver's get tog...