The Armour Archive

Maeryk

Yeah but not for a while. Been meaning to go since I know they've got some black and white stuff just haven't got around to it yet. That's why I mentioned it. You can get a pretty good view of this harness: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a181/maeryk/Medieval/th_IMG_0607.jpg Which might give you ...

Maeryk

Matt, have you been over to the ROM to see their collection?

Maeryk

Recently, whenever I try to curl vambrace pieces, they come out twisted along the long axis. The effect of this is when I put the 2 halves together, on one of the side of the vambrace, the halves will not match up at the cuff. (by up to half an inch.) Even the totally straight rerebrace halves are ...

Maeryk

What's your film, Grimbah?

Maeryk

I'm still waiting for a copy of the last SCA doc I paid for.

Maeryk

It can be viewed as cocky. I for one would _NEVER_ do it.. unless it was with one of my house-brothers and that would mostly be, well, cocky. I fought hard to win that advantage. To then give it up just doesn't sit right with me. The logical conclusion of that "attitude" is that every figh...

Maeryk

What Kilkenny said.. my grip had to sit so the "edge" was lined up with my knuckles (the middle set, not the ones at the base of the fingers) and once that happened, bingo, no more flatso.

Maeryk

Musician's Friend carries new ones.. but you can get one pretty cheap there, just to see if you want to continue with it. They aren't awful, I had one for a while.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/mandolin ... tid=233560

40 to 60 bucks is about as cheap as you are going to find them, anywhere.

Maeryk

Used to use these and card stock for patterning. Worked great, reuseable, and cheap.

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/6 ... 2000000020

Maeryk

Can you make tax deductible donations to SCA, Inc?

Maeryk

So you have a bracket that is actually bearing the weight. The washer on the pin is just to keep the pin from sliding through, and as a bearing place for what I assume is a nylon or HDPE washer that the door rides on, right? _IF_ that is correct, then the pin only has to fight gravity, as the washer...

Maeryk

John Wooten invented a firebox for locomotives that could burn anthracite. Bitum burns better in a narrower, deeper pile, and Antrhacite in a wider, shallower pile, for the purposes of heating water in a boiler. This solved the Reading and other railroads problems (up here) of having to haul tenders...

Maeryk

See if you can find the right size in drill rod, and a washer that fits. Set the washer at the right height (middle) and peen it into the drill rod with a punch on both sides. Not sure how to draw it, but basically, you hit it right near the joint with a punch at the cardinal compass points to mush...

Maeryk

See if you can find the right size in drill rod, and a washer that fits. Set the washer at the right height (middle) and peen it into the drill rod with a punch on both sides. Not sure how to draw it, but basically, you hit it right near the joint with a punch at the cardinal compass points to mush ...

Maeryk

No this is not a prop. It is an itialian import. Made by IAB. And it shoots a 45/70 paper cartridge. Here are some pics of the sharps. http://i635.photobucket.com/albums/uu79/fungiforge/misc/sharp001.jpg This one shows the sholder sling ring. they dont normaly come with one. http://i635.photobucket...

Maeryk

your link isn't working for me.. I get a velcro popup banner and a yard sign.

Ashraf: I think he's talking about using it for ground cover, not for battle scenarios.

Maeryk

Caitlyn has two galleries up:

https://picasaweb.google.com/1075308224 ... c2011Disk1
https://picasaweb.google.com/1075308224 ... 11Disk256#

Maeryk

I'm looking at the late medieaval high boots (the REALLY high boots).. anyone have these. Mainly, how does their sizing run?

I'm nominally a 12, but wear a 13 in sneakers and the like, so what am I looking at in these things?

Do they run large, small, true?

Thanks!

Maeryk

Seriously? Zorich? REALLY?

Maeryk

Sword looks like an old pre-CAS Iberia sword.

Is it pretty thick? or does it go "wubba wubba" when you wiggle it?

Maeryk

Any Weapon that Emulated the "Use" of gun powder. "Black Powder" has "Always" been strictly forbidden "ON or OFF" the field. Sr. Semper Fidelis "My Other White Belt" What are they using in the cannons at Pennsic? A metric assload of black powder. Th...

Maeryk

So you mean a ban on weapons that emulate gunpowder weapons of the period? Or was someone enough of a complete moron to actually try and build an SCA weapon powered with gunpowder?

Maeryk

Footwear in this day and age is easy. China flats are about 20 bucks, and look fine. There are plenty of (gak) cheap importers doing medieval shoes that don't even come CLOSE to breaking anyone's bank.

Maeryk

spats/gators don't look any more period than black reeboks. In fact, they look even more jarring.

Maeryk

"gunpowder lost"?

I don't think so.

I've seen what even a small cannon can do, up close and personal. And I'm talking 1 or 2" gun. You can wear all the armor you want.. it's still taking you out of the fight, if not out of the world.

Maeryk

huh? i thought that was hand drawn missiles...... logan And "knights in shining armour" really went out in the 1700s when gunpower started trumping armour of the time. But they kept their breastplates all the way into the 1800s. -Aaron Nah.. everybody knows that cannons firing square grap...

Maeryk

Hi, I guess this is "evolution of the SCA" related. Today I had to go on an appointment with my wife and enjoyed watching my daughter for a bit. And we went for a walk through the mall-ish area and saw a Quiznos restaurant for sale. And I looked at it. With the seats removed there was a n...

Maeryk

We had a rubberized one that had conduit framing, I believe it was medieval miscellania? Loved it, but it didn't breathe, it was HEAVY, and a huge pain in the ass to set up. Sold that, got a Panther (Icefalcons used special, every war!) and love it. Have since gotten the ridgepole-mounted front fly,...

Maeryk

I wonder . . . were they "demonstrators" made by the armourers to illustrate what features they could add to a buckler, in the expecation that a customer would choose one or two, not the whole catalog? Probably more like the Landsknecht Armour made for Henry, or any number of whimsical fa...

Maeryk

you are looking for metal aglets, yes?

any reason you can't just get hobby-sized tubing and make your own?

Maeryk

Maeryk, Do you use modern hardware to join it or just mortise and tennon? If mortise and tennon do you find that the bed rocks when engaged in 'coed activities'? I tried a mortise and tennon bed once and the joints never pulled quite tight. I was always afraid that any bed-rocking would be waving t...

Maeryk

my bed.

With the exception of the two side boards, and center runner, all pieces are flat.

Maeryk

the backside view is even more itneresting..

Maeryk

That would work too. I suppsoe I would want to model it somewhat off of the La Prova Dura tourney. If you were closer, I'd offer to help. Work up a proposal and present it to your group. It cannot hurt to try.. that's how we ended up with the German event (Pool and Bar Part 1), as well as the Hafla...

Maeryk

I have had an idea floating around in my head for a long time, to run a tourney, where the winner is not only the one who fights the best, but the one who best displays the ideals of Chivalry. They have to have a consort to enter, they have to submit letters of intent. They get points for pagentry ...

Re: Finished black and white breastplate

Re: Finished black and white breastplate

Re: vambraces/rerebraces coming out twisted, so annoying.

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Revival boots?

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