The Armour Archive

Maeryk

After that one I began requiring an affirmative verbal response, I ask, are you wearing your groin protection in the prescribed manner? and require a yes or no answer. It's not hard on the people doing it right, and it's not hard on the others either, just makes it harder for them to ignore the rul...

Maeryk

"Master Feral" Josh, do you know, have you ever even _MET_ Feral? Does it occur to your somewhat myopic worldview that some of these people have been around far longer than the more "modern" interpretation of what "chivalry" is in the SCA, and were belted when you were still crappin yer diapers? Ju...

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I had heard of that suit.. the story I heard was some Knight (or so I heard it) could make it to Pennsic, but could NOT get his armor there, except for his helmet. He "ordered" his squires to whip him up a suit in plastic.. but neglected to specify a color.. and voila.. arrived to find that. Or so t...

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Jugging. THats the name of the game. The "quick" tries to put the dog skull on the stick at the other end.. while everyone else tries to beat the quick into a bloody pulp. We've played it as well.. Vermin even made a plastic dog skull once.. it was quite a piece of work! Nice looking kits, too! Maeryk

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And combat boots with little "toesies" coloured in with a magic marker.... Which look a HELLUVA lot more period-correct for Owen than either Nike SWOOSH cleats, or modern combat boots with no work, or the tons of bad 70s ring boots I see out there.. there is a _LOT_ of "SCA" footwear that just isnt...

Maeryk

I love one or two cups of strong coffee a day. But not before fighting--coffee is diaretic (it make ya pee). Dehydration is big no-no. Another myth commonly bleated at me by "chirurgeons".. right up there with "you need 8-10 glasses of water a day". Caffeine _CAN_ be a diuretic, but if you are used...

Maeryk

this does beg the question of what we (sca) are trying to accomplish with the sport of sca combat. if it is to relive a medieval tournament then perhaps bedlams question is extremely relevant. if we are playing at a sport based on dominance, which i feel we are, then such a potential injury would m...

Maeryk

No offense whatsoever meant to you Josh, but those pictures are exactly why people laugh at us. All I saw was the totes, the big coleman recliner, and the ubiquitous "period" hat.. *sigh* Not to say people werent entertained.. but that is the sort of thing I have been going to great lengths to avoid...

Maeryk

Shoot Karl an email if you have questions. He's an east kingdomer, plays in the society.. I have a couple of pieces I have picked up from him.. they are pretty much what they look like.. somewhat pretty, rust like crazy (at least my Katar does) and costumey.. and his prices are reasonable. I have no...

Maeryk

Knifemakers commonly use materials like coral or cactus skeleton which are more not there than there---we have methods of stabilizing and filling soft stuff... Turners too.. theres a pile of ways to stabilize an otherwise punky wood.. like a box elder burl, or a severely spalted piece of something....

Maeryk

Honestly, one of the reasons I took a military persona (Landsknecht) is so that I _CAN_ do that kind of work and be "in period". Luckily, the german "camp followers" had pretty good taste in clothes too.. but theres nothing shameful in a soldier being in his undershirt chopping wood or hauling water...

Maeryk

I remember more clearly a variety of efforts through channels and back channels inside the SCA to force rules changes and punish the individual who struck the offending blow. I thought it was the other way round.. that they told her to actually wear arm armor and quit blocking her head with her arm...

Maeryk

I have found I don't even _need_ a bracer if I concentrate on which way my arm "rolls" when I shoot. Is it possible you arent standing the same way they were, either arm position in front of body, or the rotation of your arm when you shoot? (By rotation I mean if you stick your arm straight out like...

Maeryk

Ok, I stand corrected. However can we keep this conversation on topic. Still no one has presented any evidence of legal action, taken by an individual against either the corporation or another individual for injury sustained on the field. I know of at least one from the EK, a woman who had a habit ...

Maeryk

As pointed out by an astute reader of another list I'm on, this also means that you also need to have the inside of your wrist on you shield covered. This could be a problem for folks who use just a shield basket that doesnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t cover the whole wrist. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ve also seen some types of hockey ...

Maeryk

You can add a heavy leather extension to the cuff to make it legal. Define "heavy leather". WOuld a sleeve of a gambezon that covers my wrist count? How bout the cuff on a heavy welding glove? I know Sir Ed Beerslayer (maker of beerclaws) used to just use a square piece suspended on a loop of parac...

Maeryk

most roadsigns are aluminum.. but some are amazingly brittle.

Dont know exactly what galvy is made of.. but if you weld/cut it with heat, DONT BREATHE THE SMOKE!

It will mess you up.

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Dan.. when and where? THe styles and size varied from place to place and time to time.

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Geez...a bunch of people on the Archive (including me, in various forms) have been whining about "sport armour." Now we have to watch out for "appliance armour...?" I wonder if the "Tide" logo could be registered as a device within the SCA...? I remember reading an article in a magazine about someo...

Maeryk

I know they aren't period, but For my needs they are polished brass and not the crappy "red" ones, they supposedly function well and give off a decent amount of light. I guess it all depends on what you are going for. Pesonally I am aiming for a Periodesque feel to my camp and not necissarily compl...

Maeryk

The paint is usually an enamel. You might (might) be able to cook it off in a decent fire pit or something.. not sure how that would work. The horrible grinding noise sounds like the clutch.. typically not a terribly expensive part to replace.. or it could just be a dime stuck in the pump or somethi...

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Oh.. and someone mentioned looking at Sutton Hoo .. which isn't viking.. its Anglo-Saxon. True, but as a gauge for prevalence of tooled leather in early medieval period, its a site to check. Wasnt trying to use it for documentation of Viking, specifically, but more of tooling in general. Maeryk

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Couple of things I found:

http://www.regia.org/leatwork.htm

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... /bibl.html

and check out Jorvik online.. they have a huge pictorial repository, viewable from the PC, that covers just about everything ever dug out of Coppergate.

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Thomas, Well, we have some extant "viking" shoes and they do not seem to be decorated. I don't think you can trust modern thinking on this sort of thing. How many shoes in period en-toto were tooled though? The closest reference I have ever seen was small cuts (thought to be decorative) and or glov...

Maeryk

I wasnt even paying attention to their portrayal of _him_ vs _them_ as much as their attention to the "period" detail. Most of the characters look like they stepped off a woodcut.. and some of them definately walked right out of the "book of costume".. the professors at the school have an almost uni...

Maeryk

Anyone else see this movie? To my semi-trained eye it looked REALLY good, at least as far as interior shots and garb and such.. I highly reccomend taking a peek at it.. the symbolism gets a bit out of hand (The peasants are all filthy beggars at the beginning, but by the time the revolt starts due t...

Maeryk

Thanks for the tips guys. They are much appreciated. Have fun.. make sawdust! The nice part about woodworkign is even if you screw up as badly as humanly possible on the piece, you still have firewood! I have found that modern tools and finishes are nice when I'm making modern pieces (like the high...

Maeryk

BTW: enough coats of wax applied right, and even a "rough" (well, to the sandpaper eye) surface (read: finely planed and possibly card scraped) can look really good.. and not at all torn up. I highly reccomend learning how to use a card scraper.. they are cheap, once you learn to square it and turn ...

Maeryk

Yes, both stylistically and culturally.

Dragons were divine.

Ahh! Wow. YOu learn something every day!

Thanks Eff!

Maeryk

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It's just the angle I was not out in front of it and I was about 8 feet to the right of it, it was fired, next image in the series is us in the smoke.

Cooooool.

Neat gun too.. looks like a real adjustable split trace! I'm assuming thats a muzzleloader tho?

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Oh, for the love of....

Jeez, just kill me now. I never want to see anything like that and live.

Is it really that far from some of the bird faces and such? or the grotesques?

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man James.. is that you on the right, second in?

Arent you guys getting a bit ahead of that gonne? or is it just a posed photo?

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Maeryk

Hehehe.. you should see some of the lurkers!

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Well, for turnings I use a mix of laquer, beeswax, and carnauba wax. I know its a more "modern" finish.. but most of my turnings arent meant to be "period" anyway. Its a friction polish..in that as you apply heat (or as the rag on the spinning wood applys heat) it evaporates the laquer, which is the...

Maeryk

Not bascot.. but linseed oil will make a nice finish if you can let it dry for a while.. slop it on, leave it damp, wipe it off after 10-15 minutes, and let it sit over night. Repeat a couple of times and you will eventually get a very nice, hard-ish finish.

maeryk

Luther..