The Armour Archive

Maeryk

I think the consensus on the 7' and such is that they were bearing swords more than anythign else.

Maeryk

Maeryk

WOW! and WOW! Thanks! A wealth of woodworking info in that as well!

Thanks!

Maeryk

Maeryk

Bituminous will burn in a deep pile, anthracite wont. Reading Railroads "The anthracite line" used to haul anthracite out of PA and down to VA and up to NY.. while burning bituminous. Until Wooten designed a wider, flatter firebox that allowed them to burn ANthracite in the steam engines, they had t...

Maeryk

Trevor, can you point me to some good pics? I usually do Japanese, so I'm not the most familiar with wearing long weapons like this one. Also, bear in mind that I'm only 5'3, and the sword in question is roughly 4 feet long. Whta period/garb are you trying to use this sword with? That might be a be...

Maeryk

DO it from within the sheild wall, not hiding behidn a hay bale!

Stand weaponless second row in, wear gauntlets, and grab the things as they come through your shields!

Discover rapidly which spearman wear lanyards and which dont!

Maeryk

Maeryk

heh.. carry it.

Maeryk
(makes a good walking stick at times)

Maeryk

Ummm.. Jost Ammon, (sp?) Durer: st George on Foot, 1502: really long sword in a scabbard on the hip Durer: a plate from "the book of the ritter von turn" (which I also probably spelled wrong.. guy about to behead some woman with a BIG sword Melchior Feselen (1538) "the SIege of Alesia".. if you look...

Maeryk

German zwiehanders.. I can find you many woodcuts and paintings showing them carried by soldiers and used in battles with pike lines.

Maeryk

Maeryk

wrap it in leather! or... Sharpie! You cannot go wrong with sharpie! hehe. Dunno about hte gel stains.. you will _probably_ have to be using skinned rattan for that.. if you have the skin on it.. (its shiny) I'm not sure what will penetrate that! I never did the hafts in heraldic colors.. just the h...

Maeryk

ERic, have I ever told you how much that close helm makes me drool?

I just love that sucker. Its truly "boogie".

Maeryk

Maeryk

Rhys.. you ever see those wooden dinosaur 3d puzzle thingies where you assemble it out of flat stamped parts? Thats what he means. (At least, thats what it looks to me like he means) FIgure out the height and front to back and side to side dimensions. cut two pieces of MDF.. say one is the front to ...

Maeryk

save all the little bits up over time, and in five years, weld them into a modern art dragon and donate it to your city as "art" and take a tax writeoff on it. Maeryk (you should see some of the godawful stuff littering Allentown as "public art".. and its all one "philanthropic" (and apparently blin...

Maeryk

Maybe he is running a polishing stall, bring your gear along and have it shined up for a small fee. any documentation or reference to a business like that anyone can think of? I was thinking maybe he is a silversmith.. and since he has the "gear" to polish silver, would take on other things as well...

Maeryk

There has been a lot of discussion and experimenting on this subject. The theories I gathered so far indicate that it basically is an arrangement like they used in the olden days to sharpen razors- some leather, rubbed off with a fine grinding/buffing/polishing compound. Old days? Hehehe.. I keep b...

Maeryk

Just as a suggestion, your physical size might be a good thing to put in here.. most of the armor any of us might have lying around was, well, built for us. I'm 6'3 and about 160 lbs when my last suit was made.. that would not come even close to fitting a 5'8 300 lb dude... So.. what are you built l...

Maeryk

So perhaps a better answer would be two sliding rivits, one on each side, and no central rivit (or a false one for decorative reasons). Are there ever cases where there are three or more rivits that do not slide and simply lock the two plates in place? If , with some practice, you put the ones on e...

Maeryk

That's the perfect reason to look at recreating ITALIAN gothic, rather than the germanic stuff...more rounded surfaces, less fluting.
(hint, hint...)

Listen to this dude. He has done the single prettiest piece of aluminum armor I have _ever_ laid eyes on.

Maeryk

Maeryk

shouldnt you armorers be welding in a forge anyway?

Maeryk

Maeryk

This one is on the shelf.

My god that looks the the nosecone of a sounding rocket at first glance!

Maeryk

Maeryk

WHile most of hte armour here is custom made for a perfect fit, I cannot believe that _ALL_ armour in period did so. My plastic suit had a three piece front, with sliding rivets.. and it worked.. one, you can bend over.. and not get stuck, too it helps with side to side mobility a _lot_ for SCA figh...

Maeryk

I have a friend who picked a picture off the GAA site and loves the hat, but unfortunately it is too rich for her blood at that price.

ANyone else making them, possibly cheaper?

Thanks!

Maeryk

Maeryk

Way. Fricken. Cool. See? Theres a way to do stuff _FOR_ someone, and a way not to do stuff _FOR_ someone. This is the correct way. Eislinn's war (Sp?) and some of what went on there was the way not to. Vivat to all who were involved in this endeavor.. spiff wa! Maeryk (got a place to send other cont...

Maeryk

Well, how well do you know your armourer? I have seen people here in _full_ plate, including all the appropriate chain at hte gaps, run rings around guys in plastic. Its a combination of A) conditioning, B) skill with fighting, and C) well fit armour made out of proper materials. I think that is the...

Maeryk

Cinder blocks, bags of play sand, bags of cement on the lower supports of the bench can work too. Its something wood-turners do with lathes to keep them from picking up vibrations from out-of-balance work (or when doing off centered turning) Maeryk (turning wobbly wood is a pain.. you start subconci...

Maeryk

Did you mean "to the left of", or am I just really, REALLY confused?

Maeryk

Maeryk

The reason I dont use a marble slab is I tool sitting on the ground with the work in my lap. It is most comfortable for me.. so the 2xwhatever works great. I routed a drip groove aroudn the edge, and drilled a bunch of holes along the top to hold tools.. its a portable desk I can haul to events, dem...

Maeryk

I _THINK_ there was a comment along that line in 7 samurai somewhere.. but I could easily be wrong.

I'll poke around.

Maeryk

Maeryk

Stahlgrim, Heiarn (sorry if I misspelled them) THanks! Thats kinda what I suspected.. but I had never gone to the trouble of looking it up.

Maeryk

Maeryk

Corpora states that a candidate must be given a choice. It does not state that the Sovereign must follow through with the elevation. Elevation to any armigerous award is solely the perview of the Crown. Whether one agrees or not with that philosophy, it's one of those traditions that help define th...

Maeryk

Yup.

So my next question, is, since CORPORA states they exist, and its a SOCIETY award, how can a Kingdom get away with saying "nuh-uh.. we aint gonna do it"?

Maeryk

Maeryk

Ask him next time you see him. I have never had the guts.

hehe.. Feral is one of my all time fave SCA folk..

"Oil is what you is.. Earl is what you put in your cah..."

Maeryk

Maeryk

Any truth to the rumor that Unca' Feral is why theres no buffet given to Masters in the east? In that Feral, having been a boxer at one point, instinctively ducked and counter-punched?

Or is that yet another of the rumors of dusty time and space that has grown legs?

Maeryk

Maeryk

None in Atlantia.

I had heard that Atlantia patently REFUSES to make them.. as in, if you make it known that you would take a baldric over a belt, you arent given the chance..

Maeryk

Maeryk

I dont know if you want my opinion or not.. but I'd go with vellum. Its erasable, durable, and much MUCH easier to write on that most papers you are going to make.

Just my .02

Maeryk

Maeryk

For some reason, practically every knife for leather cutting and trimming that I've seen included in leatherworking kits from the factories has been, well, utter crap. No edgeholding at all; they are too soft. Use Ex-acto knives or something else that suits you better. Weavers Leather carries some ...

Who is making SCA barred kettles currently?