The Armour Archive

Maeryk

ANyone got a good pattern for making that quiver in the drawing? it _looks_ like a closed to quiver, but I did quite a search on the internet and couldnt find anything that remotely looked like that..

Maeryk

Maeryk

I have a hocky helmit I want to paint for my god daughter for youth boffer in east kingdome. What some of the local kids have done is not paint, but a torse of sorts with a fabric cap sewn into it that covers the helmet and has a drape down the back. It can be done in heraldic colors, or whatever.....

Maeryk

For patterns, I'm not sure what you are looking for, but Marc Carlson (who I think posts here occasionally) pretty much has _the_ exhaustive site on the topic of medieval footwear...

http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM

Maeryk

Maeryk

Waow chucka waow chucka waow chuckawuckawucka..

Maeryk

Maeryk

Maeryk

I may be being dense here but how are you sure the chest article is in that book?

Probably me being the dense one.. I assumed you were looking for both titles.. SORRY!

If you are looking for : Anker, P., Chests and Caskets, Norway, 1975

it is #20 on that list..

Maeryk

Maeryk

Number 20 right here.. 32 bucks..

http://www.abeauthors1.com/Author/12150/Anker+Peter.html

(chests and caskets)

Maeryk

Maeryk

Hey Mord.. how much do you need? I _think_ (but I would have to check) I have some white laying around from the "scrap bundles" the leather guy at Pennsic sells.. (usually brown on the outside and god only knows what colors on the inside!) I could get it to you at one of our fight practices up here ...

Maeryk

Ulrich, you were being a moron. This isn't Dungeons and Dragons, you're not a righteous defender of goodness. Demanding an apology was stupid. It was fucking stupid. You made me giggle like a little girl. I was embarrassed for you, and that's bad, because I am a LARPer! I see bad acting and melodra...

Maeryk

He's still working on Ringo and George.

(whap)

Maeryk

Maeryk

Linen. Absolutely the best material for helm padding. I made mine with quilted linen stuffed with raw wool, but you can stuff the quilted linen with linen fibers (tow) or raw cotton or horsehair or rags. Cool.. thats what I was figuring, actually.. but what pattern did you use, and, umm, how hard d...

Maeryk

Okay.. I have this nice shiny (emphasis on SHINY) Icefalcon close-faced sallet and I am getting ready to pad it up. I dont want to go the typical blue-foam route, and want something removeable, as I tend to sweat into my helm like a freakin faucet.. Soo.. im thinking of riveting the chin strap setup...

Maeryk

ooooh man, sigh... here goes, who is Sir Vitus?

Oh he's just a lippy pain in the as... OH! Sir Vitus! heh heh. Nice mace, man! heh heh...

Maeryk

Maeryk

BTW, just to put it into perspective. Our current SEM is the same man that is contemplating BANNING Siloflex Swords Society Wide on the basis that they are "Laminated blade" and that the reasoning for allowing them in the first place is now no longer an issue. God i hope so.. I so hate getting hit ...

Maeryk

THats only six feet long.. my zwiehander is that size.. if repelling a charge of horse or fighting a spear line that could be quite handy.. but its certainly not used as a whippy-whappy weapon... I don't agree with the "would have to have been 6'6" line.. lots of German swords were that long, or eve...

Maeryk

Also, checkout the Hausbuch (which is online somewhere..) I could _swear_ I remember seeing a brace and bit in that somewhere. Spoon drills can be found in a number of sources.. gimlets, (drawings of extant ones.. one broken, one whole) are in the Coppergate small finds, woodworking book.. the one a...

Maeryk

I, having no dog in this fight whatsoever, can see two sides to this: 1) The SEM is in a tenuous position. Theres a marked group that DO NOT want a "new" form of combat in the SCA. Whether that is due to ignorance, apathy, or misheld safety beliefs due to widely held but WRONG beliefs about "steel" ...

Maeryk

I agree a modern duel should be fought with Barrlet .50s and Claymores following the rules of Trails by Ambush

WHy limit it to Barrets? I'm thinking general electric miniguns.

Maeryk

Maeryk

WWSVD?

Kick em squarely in the junk while ranting wildly in German?

maeryk

Maeryk

a personal challenge to combat on a SCA list to settle a personal matter is VERY much not allowed and is in fact DUMB allround. What are you going to do jack up the force levels to lethal as both would be rinoing to all hell! As a squire you should know that or your Knight should have explaned it t...

Maeryk

first get hold of some ferrous sulphate, coperas as it was known in the olden days.

Wow.. sounds like you know your stuff! Thanks!

Now.. what gives blue, green, red, and white? *grin*

Maeryk

Maeryk

YOu are going to have a helluva time getting any color to NOT be that color anymore, if its drum dyed. If you want white, check out the Altoona leather Factor, or The Real Leather People.. they both stock white leather in both veg tanned and something like a latigo side.. you can get just about any ...

Maeryk

However, there are effigies that indicate supplemental armour over the hauberk for the torso. Cuir-bouill breastplates, rudimentary coats-of-plate and (in rare instances) scale corselets are shown. Bob, how does one tell its cuir-bouilli from an effigy? Whats the identifying features that give that...

Maeryk

I was wondering when they went completly out of style.... Right about when they finally tore the last real Disco club out of the east village, actually.. so about 81? maybe 79, but I think it was later than that. (this is before "retro disco" and the cheesy NEW maille gauntlets!) Maeryk

Maeryk

Rawhide is basically dried skin. Leather is tanned. Thats pretty much the difference. (allow tanned in this instance to also include, salt cured, tawed, brain tanned, oak tanned.. anything that involves another agent to cure the hide). When it comes off the animal it is a "hide", as in "I have a dee...

Maeryk

Did you form that over a block of some sort? I have seen that technique used for purses and odd shaped things (like holsters) where it is basically press-formed between a positive and negative image of the shape. Magyar quivers looked like that, too.. only shorter, and if you check out the turkish t...

Maeryk

I'm waiting for my Tower Crane operator's apprenticeship to start, and I've heard that it's one of the most dangerous jobs on the site. But crane operators say that the safest place to be on the site is up in that crane cab- nothing can fall on you. So what gives? Dangerous to whom? you the operato...

Maeryk

Ogier.. I can turn you handles out of _real_ wood if you want.. rather than colorply..

Otherwise.. cool looking blade!

Maeryk

Maeryk

Looks REALLY sweet!

That quiver looks like a rather elongated version of a magyar quiver I once made for someone.. Hmm.. need one made? *grin*

I would assume the bow is in a quiver as well.. but have no way to tell that.

Maeryk

Maeryk

I would far rather have a good grip. Slipping is as likely if not more to cause you to re-injure an ankle or knee. That totally depends on how one instinctively falls, Owen. because I took ballet and did a lot of gymnastics in school, I tend to fall rather lightly, without doing much damage to my j...

Maeryk

I used a LF A101, and a LF A101 that I ground down to 1/2 size for the really tight nooks and crannies. Curious.. when you grind them, do you re chrome them? or are you using stainless tools? Only reason I ask is one of my backgrounders got the coating chipped off and I soon realized I was busily p...

Maeryk

Hmm. As an aforementiond "stitch nazi", I prefer to be referred to as "authentiSnob". The nazi think is a little over done, don't you think?

Yes, quite overdone. How bout "Fashionista"?

Maeryk

Maeryk

I would make Count Reese of the East head of all combat archery for the SCA, and make him shoot a crossbow at an effigy of knight (sir)Dude.. I will PAY to see that! Are you up again next round? Had an absolute BLAST when you were on the throne last time.. and your heirs are pretty damn spiff too! ...

Maeryk

hey guys, well on the subject i have some vegi-tanned leather, natural colour, and i was wondering what a cheap way to dye it black would be, i have been considering a black "dubbin" shoe polish, i dont know if dubbin is jst australian so jst to elaborate, it is a soft almost clay like polish, appl...

Maeryk

I wonder if that negative got reversed.

See.. the "gaps" on the overlap are to the users left.. or where a thrust or a blow from a _right_ handed individual would come from. Wouldnt it have made much MUCH more sense to lap them the other way?

really neat photo tho!

Maeryk

Maeryk

Have you actually _WRITTEN_ To the SEM and asked those questions? or are you waiting for him to come out with a statement? This was posted earlier in the thread: Greetings all, First, let me say thanks to the vast majority of you, that while not exactly pleased with this news, at least did as I aske...

Help with helmet padding