The Armour Archive

Maeryk

So.. I've got a lathe.. and tools.. and wood.. what do people out there thing there would be a market for in turned goods? I have made bobbins and spools and a bowl or two and some candleholders, and a bunch of little wooden mushrooms.. (its something cute to do with small branches and such..) What ...

Maeryk

I'll give him a month.. if he STILL feels that way.. then its fair game. Right now he is operating on emotion only.

Bob.. stop and think about it man. I have never faced you, and in all likelihood never will.. BUT I WOULD LIKE TO!

Maeryk

Maeryk

Most of the time I have seen monster rounds get that teepee-mushroom look its because while you _can_ put them up without perimeter poles, they really werent DESIGNED that way. We in the SCA tend to think along the lines of pavilion = lots of poles, historically pavilion meant 1, or _maybe_ two pole...

Maeryk

Does rainbringer have the ropes sewn into it leading from the peak down to the eaves?

Maeryk

Maeryk

Hey, did anyone else find the "art photo" showing pubic hair a bit suprising in a general interest mag?

In their mag, on their site, where?

Maeryk

Maeryk

Hej Hamish.. do the George Foreman. Sniping is fun.. but its useless against someone with a good guard.. concentrate on good, minimalist move blocking, and then just wait for the inevitable opening, and flatten them. Thats my only advice.. (from another guy who doesnt move fast, just steadily) Maeryk

Maeryk

YEah.. refractory cement is what you want. For serious operations, you can actually get sheet heat insulation.. they use it in the manufacture of wood charbroilers and such, and, obviously, insulating furnaces and other high heat situations. You could even, conceivably, build the entire FORGE out of...

Maeryk

OK, think about this for a minute. A company that sells a sports drink, is going to market it and sell it to people knowing that it has too many whatevers and its going to make it's focus group sick. Then Pro sports organizations have Doctors and trainers who say "Uh, ok. let's get the teem sick by...

Maeryk

SOME gatorade wont hurt you if you are exerting yourself. Water wont either! I say screw the gatorade, gimme a pickle or some olives. Its not really to my taste, especially half strength over Pennsic water. I tend to just drink water.. period. But I keep an eye on what else I am taking in... pickles...

Maeryk

THe forge itself shouldnt be too terribly tough. I've seen em made of nothing more complicated than an old cast iron brake drum, a metal table to support it, a clinker breaker in the tuyer leading down from the drum to the blower, and an old military surplus hand crank blower for air. Charcoal is re...

Maeryk

Long standing rumor (that kinda ties into the the "they found the AA post") from somewhere in the cold war or something has it that long range observers studying one of our aircraft carriers saw the "local" sca guys practicing on the deck, and actually instituted hand to hand armored combat training...

Maeryk

I know some EK crowns have been pretty much won with "non standard" tournament forms.

But I think the finals here are usually best two of three, and each person gets to choose what form..

I _THINK_ His Grace Balfar has won with a pole.. but I could be wrong.

Maeryk

Maeryk

No, those things you found are not coke. THey are rocks. I _THINK_ they started doing that mainly so the ash dumps on steam engines wouldnt set the world on fire.. they lined it with rock that wouldnt burn. The slag is the stuff "left" after they do the smelting.. and if it doesnt melt/burn out duri...

Maeryk

Probably not "cinders" per se. The Cinders that (used to) fall from steam engines are much smaller.. and look a lot like the left over slag ash from a coal stove. (fancy that!) A lot of railroads use slag from smelting or iron ore operations.. its very light, it sticks together, and its cheap (read:...

Maeryk

I remember one at Pennsic a few years back that consisted of basically a bunch of Marshals in a tent and a "docket". (think "Night Court"). I was kinda hanging out there in case someone I knew (who had been called) needed a witness to what had happened (me). I know one of the cases involved someone ...

Maeryk

I have seen: Person in "important" tourney who _COULDNOT_ say good.. finally "Yielded" and went home with cracked ribs. Person get button shotted with a spear, from just below the helmet, on down, progrssively harder each time, finally fall to the inevitable cup shot, then freak on the spear fightin...

Maeryk

I'd consider it.. if Ninja came with it, and if I had not just bought one from Icefalcon.

Maeryk

Maeryk

I couldn't find anything to back up my foggy memory, but isn't the 15th century pavise in the Met made of plywood? That's not to say plywood is necessarily the right thing for your targe, just that I'm not so sure it should be avoided entirely for shields. It quite possibly could have been! I do no...

Maeryk

I believe a lot of the push for a flat earth comes from religious sources, including the temptation of the Christ, where satan takes Jesus high above and shows him the 4 corners of the earth. this strongly implies that the earth is flat. "earth" or "world"? As we know "world" is rather subjective.....

Maeryk

Oh. Theres a place (I think its right on Yonge street) in Toronto 'Northbound Leathers".. they have a front room (mainly biker and fashion gear) and a back room (fetish gear).. some of the nicest (and in some cases, scariest) stuff I have ever seen.

I _love_ Toronto.

Maeryk

Maeryk

but once we got moving we stopped at a local leather store that rocked,

In Toronto? Was it NOrthbound?

Maeryk

Maeryk

1/4 inch thick isnt that hard to get. You are going to end up with plywood though.. I _suspect_ a lot of those were made with single layer, but braced across the back .. i could, of course, be quite wrong. Think with your medieval mind though.. like the discussion a few months ago about how someone ...

Maeryk

That is _EXACTLY_ the one I'm looking for. You dont need to post photos.. just tell me.. is it the one with the fluting on the lifting part of the bowl?

How much you want for it?

M

Maeryk

Re: finding only flat interpretations on the internet: When did cartographers start using the peeled-orange style representation we use now that allows you to flatten a globe?

maeryk

Maeryk

Thanks for the link, Jiri! None of those are exactly what I was looking for.. there is one in there that is close..t hast the round top with the hat-brim, (flattish brim.. not those wonky near-moiron shaped ones) But the front half of the brim pivoted on pins, like a sallet visor, and had eyeslots a...

Maeryk

Preferably the one with the eyeslot between the brim and the skull, and if anyone has the one iwth the lifting brim, that would be REALLY cool. I know some place in teh Czech republic used to make them.. wondering if anyone has something similar laying around collecting dust. This would be for a bud...

Maeryk

TOO FREAKIN COOL!

Good on BOTH of you.. him for doing it, you for your courtesy in battle, and BOTH of you for playing it out as far as it can go!

maeryk

Maeryk

I always ask for a deposit, like Johannes i feel its a godd way to lock a customer into an adea and a commitment. I am also always preparred to refund a deposit at any time, some folks prob run on a realy tight budget, i know i do, but i keep enough funds available to make any potential refunds. I ...

Maeryk

Why, God, why, did he have to shoot it directly into the wound??) _________________ Uhh.. that was probably novacaine or lidocaine IN the wound.. stitches hurt like hell without out it. (but you can use your hand right away). Tetanus tends to be an IM shot.. so shoulder, or butt or thing usually. M...

Maeryk

My favorite part was the shooting streams of blood in the emergency room. It looked like the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail! It has at least three inches of vertical arc before it shot horizontally over the doctor and onto the floor. WHen I put the chisel into my hand between thu...

Maeryk

DOnt know if anyone saw the ad in the PI re: the large heavy chicken, but apparently it was _made_ to be stolen.

Maybe they were trying to get people to stop doing the roaming gnome game with VonSuessen's giant playmobil dude?

Maeryk

Maeryk

Rawhide: I have the chews soaking in a bucket. These are almost white and have no stink (yet). I'm planning on mounting a bit of rope or nylon strap before I put the rawhide on to keep it from getting cut by the AL edge. They will. THey are quite literally dryed leather. So when they get wet, they ...

Maeryk

I've had good success with the Home Depot canvas painting tarps (they've become de rigeur in WWII Commonwealth camps). They're good, solid canvas and have grommets already installed. Put the middle of one end on the tent's ridge pole, make more poles for the front end of the tarp and the corners. N...

Maeryk

For the record my black HE elk boots have never bled on anything and that's even after I fell in a watery ditch with two Swedish girls this past Pennsic (seriously). Probably has more to do with the tanning process than anything else. Boot leather (especially Elk) is a completely different animal (...

Maeryk

I may be off base here, but I'd avoid anythign with Chlorine in it and linen.. (assuming its a linen tunic.. you didnt mention). I seem to remember Chlorine eats holes in linen as a hobby.

Maeryk

turned re-enactment goods.. what is needed?

wanted: non-combat visored kettle