The Armour Archive

Maeryk

Furthermore, this risk occurs in all instances of SCA Heavy combat (where CA occurs only in a distinct minority of the total instances of SCA Heavy fights). Obviously genuinely "hard" numbers aren't available, but I think it's fairly safe to assume that the amount of added safety risk fro...

Maeryk

That's a lame excuse. How is that ANY different from a stick hitting an unarmored area? LOL. East Kingdom fail. Before you make that judgement, have someone shoot you in, say, the upper arm with a golf ball on a stick, fired from a 60 lb or so bow, take notes, get back to us. Or your shin. or your ...

Maeryk

And that's fine.. the SCA's focus is more on the events, and less on the quality. And I think that's the gripe a lot of people who like the high fidelity side have.. that they look perfect, but nobody is jurying the other folks.. but I don't know of anywhere else in the US you can get combat of the...

Maeryk

There are a number of quite fantastic groups out there. But they (mainly) aren't huge. You can't field 2K people in a battle in those groups.. unless it's a goof battle at a timeline event. What the SCA lacks in quality, it makes up for in quantity (And I can only speak to the SCA.. I'm not _IN_ an...

Maeryk

Yep. They aren't medieval by any example I have seen. They are close though.. and not nylon and aluminum.

Maeryk

A hook can be made with layers of foam, and outer layers of leather. My best results were a full sized, on piece leather layer.. IE: it wrapped ALL the way around the pole with the ends being the shapes of the hook.

Maeryk

That's probably why there are so many fantastic groups out there. Sorry, but I couldn't help but take this line literally. Please, when you have time, take some to defend your position. There are a number of quite fantastic groups out there. But they (mainly) aren't huge. You can't field 2K people ...

Maeryk

That's a lame excuse. How is that ANY different from a stick hitting an unarmored area? LOL. East Kingdom fail. Before you make that judgement, have someone shoot you in, say, the upper arm with a golf ball on a stick, fired from a 60 lb or so bow, take notes, get back to us. Or your shin. or your ...

Maeryk

any chance this can get back on track of factual data, rather than arguing?

Maeryk

rwenzlaff wrote:No, that's $6 for a 10 pack.

I'd ask before assuming.. if it's a 10 pack

here's 50 for 15$

http://compare.ebay.com/like/2505843348 ... r&_lwgsi=y

Maeryk

six bucks a piece? I'd think you could find a machine shop to custom make you some for that price.

Maeryk

Gypsy Madblade? I was apprenticed to Master Gregory Finche/Popinjay's, another arms merchant at Pennsic, and Gypsy would come by often to chat with Gregory, and I remember he did demos with his blades chopping up cinder blocks. This would have been 1997 to 2002 or so. I have an old saber which I bo...

Maeryk

I always prefered to only shave the two sides.. thus the rounded side still fit in my fingers/palm and gave me positive feedback on where my edges were without having to look. I used to make heads out of foam and leather, and tape. And tape em TIGHT so they have progressive give, but don't bottom ou...

Maeryk

If you want to know if it is good carbon spring steel... take it to a grinder or bring an angle grinder with... if you grind it and it gets really nice shower of sparks it will work for making a striker... if you get none or only small sparks then its not good enough... m Ditto on the using old fil...

Maeryk

I can't for the life of me remember what the spiral colored band that wraps around the brows of helmets is called, so first I am looking for a gentle reminder in that regard. Secondly, I am wondering if folks have ideas on how to make them? Are they one solid coloured tube with a second color wrapp...

Maeryk

perhaps I'm misreading your words (which would be about normal for me) but there seems to be a misconception that people "turn merc" only due to bad experiences with "someone in power".. that's simply not true across the board. I'll wager it's happened with a few people.. but I k...

Maeryk

Glaukos the Athenian wrote:Like clear plastic printing paper?

Printable transparencies. Staples (or wherever you work) probably has boxes of them.

Maeryk

What Odd said.

Maeryk

This video is just used as an example. m If I was to go to an automotive junk yard looking for a spring to use for this what should I be asking for? ( so I do not look like a complete idiot ) well, he says "coil" and "spring".. so coil spring. That said, you aren't going to find...

Maeryk

Well, in looking at many illuminations and artistic renderings of the period, it is not just the wealthy that are pictured. Often its groups of soldiers and the like. Or, looking over old documents, they should provide insight into what was supplied to a company of men. I personally think that ther...

Maeryk

You cannot recreate something you can't prove existed. We _know_ they had great walking wheels to use as cranes, for example. We can go off drawings, even if none exist. But anything that deviates from that, is conjecture, not recreation. The beauty of this game is your status in game has NOTHING to...

Maeryk

The baseline is set at the average level people feel comfortable playing at. You obviously are comfortable playing at the very high end of that pool. Others are comfortable only at the very low end. Neither of you has a right to demand everyone come up, or down, to your respective levels. What we ha...

Maeryk

I'm dissapointed. Ever see one of those quarters that's got a seamless wood rim all the way around it? and you wonder "how did they do that?" Here I figured Vitus would cut a slot in a cow, stick the shield in there, let it grow over, the cut it back out a few years later and whittle away ...

Maeryk

Just wanted to point out, and thank, the posters for the wealth of info in this thread. Half of it's over my head.. but it's still interesting to read and learn! Most of what we're talking about is actually pretty simple, but we may be using verbal shorthand that makes it sound confusing (or some f...

Maeryk

Isn't pugil training still part of all military basic training? How can what we do be any more dangerous than that? Ingelri Same reason we were told to leave a public park, but the guys playing rugby weren't.. "I can't control what you are doing, and I don't like it, so no doing it here."

Maeryk

Just wanted to point out, and thank, the posters for the wealth of info in this thread. Half of it's over my head.. but it's still interesting to read and learn!

Maeryk

Is this the blond haired blue eyed Indian tribe in Louisiana, that died out eventually?

Maeryk

find one. find one example of the human body being so fragile as to suggest that a light tap to the face with a weapon would do anything, much less kill or incapacitate someone. the trick here is that ive never suggested the human body can take everything thrown at it. never said that. what i maint...

Maeryk

and for every one of these, there's a guy who got punched, fell down, and died. I don't think you can use extraordinary examples to set a baseline.

Maeryk

Bawls.

Maeryk

I don't like the "Every scenario" approach. Run some with, some without.. that way everyone gets to have their kind of fun. I don't think either side gains any ground by "demanding" they be included in every battle, or have it tailored to them. Those that hate CA can sit out the ...

Maeryk

Tweaks in the overall rules, in the senarios, and in the culture of both CA and non-CA combatants are needed. This isn't a 100% "fixable" situation, but it can be improved. . Don't let the best be the enemy of the good. I guess the best comparison I have to the feelings expressed here are...

Maeryk

The EVA stuff from windrose or polyolefin foam camp pads work well. I think the walmart version is about 7-10$ How did you pad/strap your gaunts last time around and what problems did you have; a common option seams to be street hocky gloves like the mylec ones Icefalcon sells. Hmmm I used the blue...

Maeryk

My walls are separate from the roof. F On my Past Tents round the walls are separate from the roof. The high wind lines from the center pole are, imo, necessary. The way the walls attach to the roof, it would probably be possible for me to stake the walls down (there are loops for this purpose) and...

Maeryk

Maeryk wrote: Might I point out that this: Quote: Use arrows and bolts that are safer than fiberglass shafts, limit the number of arrows someone can take on the field at one time, and limit either the targeting to faceplates or armor as worn, or require that the arrows hit with full force, and like...

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