The Armour Archive

St. George

T-Bob, My Byzantine rig was based on the Basil II Icon. I had several different incarnations of it. My new rig is going through transitions right now as I make new pieces, and find out what works- as well as what is appropriate. I am working with a couple of different shield shapes, as I try to figu...

St. George

How are you a celt in a greathelm, or with plate? You are not a celt, but just another guy who wears a mishmosh of armor and essentially fights in protective gear in the SCA. Gregory's Mycenean kit idea would probably look great, especially if he made it half as well as he writes, but it is not with...

St. George

The main ballroom in the Michigan building can probably seat a similar number of people. Its design isn't the same, but it is another option. Also, you might be able to get by some of the food service restrictions that the AIC would otherwise place on you. I guess we'll agree to disagree about the p...

St. George

Gregory, In your email, you basically summed up why I just put my Byzantine rig on the shelf in exchange for a 14th Century rig. I was at a demo not to long ago, and I was fighting a gentleman in all steel (not pretty but all plate) armor. After soundly defeating my opponent several times, I was sur...

St. George

Mike, I am glad you brought up steel- The way I look at this is similar to the way I looked at the steel purchasing situation- I lok at the overall dollars and cents, not just how many sheets of steel I want. I plan on the total amount. I think that where many people are are seeing a loss of income,...

St. George

Sooner the better

I have a few projects I need to get started on (and one I need to finish up !)

Alaric

St. George

The above combined with the fact that students don't make much money- let alone enough to travel, get a room, and pay what looks to be an exorbitantly high rate for one day's worth of talks is pretty outrageous. Strictly speaking, the only students "worthy" of such a discount, the ones who could co...

St. George

I have to disagree with your by all rights statement. NO- no group has to offer discounts to anyone, let alone everyone. Research groups and conferences usually offer students a discounte rate. As you well know, this is because in many fields, students (masters and doctoral candidates) are performin...

St. George

I would love to hear your reasons for not giving students a discount. As an art historian and researcher, I would like to know why groups such as your's (or the field museum locally) and other major research oriented instituions are no longer offering student discounts. This is not the only time I h...

St. George

What about a rate for Art Institute students? I don't pay $30,000+ a year to go there for nothing For that matter, what about a student rate for both the ARS and the Conference in general? There are a lot of us poor students who would love to be able to take part in a conference such as this (especi...

St. George

Maybe there should be a genericelt vs minnesota viking vs mercenary vs bad pirate battle at Pennsic.

St. George

Reminds me of this story about Ugo and Titanium...

St. George

Gruber,

Ugo tells me that you drop to your knees all the time

St. George

I am not sure that the library has to do the copying- otherwise in colleges all across america students would be lining up for the librarians to copy stuff for them.

Alaric

St. George

Hi Gregory, I laud your interests and hope you get the chance to fight in the SCA. In regards to your wanting to reproduce mycenaean warriors in the SCA, there are a couple of things to consider. I really think that by consciously choosing to be a "Mycenaean" you are really breaking both the rules a...

St. George

everyone start thinking in dollar amounts not pounds- we will actually all end up with a lot more steel that way.

Alaric

St. George

as the price goes down, I am looking at something like a minimum of 10 sheets of each 18 and 20. It doesn't look like anyone else wants 22 so I'll skip it. If a couple more people go in, I think that we can easily get the price down below a dollar a pound (hear that Ugo?). Also, Kiyohara, Gruber, an...

St. George

I guess I should be asking what the price breaks in a dollar amount? I have a budget in terms of dollars not necessailry pounds of steel, but as that budget is somewhat loose, I would be happy to throw in an extra $100 here or there to put us over anothe price break and get us all steel at a cheaper...

St. George

Hey, Sorry to be a bother, but I guess you all plan and order steel in a significantly different fashion than I do. I usually call and ask where their price breaks are and what number of sheets I get at each break point, and plan around that. I often find that for an extra $100-$200 that I can almos...

St. George

BdeB wrote:
Cuan wrote:I wouldn't mind seeing some pics of the fat guy in the viking outfit who won the tourney.

Cuan

Who was that Masked Viking?!?!?

That helmet looks familiar...

Alaric

St. George

I can't remember the name of the woman who we dealt with there, but she was pretty cool and has given us a couple of decent deals at Preceision steel- she also managed to get the "pallet fee" knocked off for us. Pallet feels suck (they are like $75 or more) especailyl when your whole order is only o...

St. George

Animal,

I state the obvious because it is clear that many people, many Tuchux in particular, miss the obviious fact that the SCA is a Medieval rereation group, not a fighting club.

If you have found your own path, then why play in the SCA game at all?

Just askin'

Alaric

St. George

LOLOL So in other words if Tamock wasnt Tamock he'd be a knight? I think that what makes a good man is the same for Tuchux or SCA. It's our choice of how we express that that dileneates what we look look or what our name is. There are knights in the SCA that I hold in the highest regard because the...

St. George

I don't think that it would be that hard for Tamok to get knighted in the SCA. If he made the extra effor to get a repro medieval kit (not medieval looking kit) and wore that to SCA events, and changed his name to something more appropriate, I think his stock would rise super dramatically. If at Pen...

St. George

I need to talk with Kiyohara and Gruber about going in on steel, but I am personally looking at dropping about $500 on the order. Probably split up across the gauges. Kiyo and gruber are probably looking at putting in a simillar number. Will this help meet another price break? Also, I personally wan...

St. George

Hew wrote:
White Mountain Armoury wrote:No.

How about if there was still a "Classic Swimming Pool"?

EEWWWWWW! Well that would definitely make me not want to do it.

Alaric

St. George

here is my new kit- no one said I had to be in it

Alaric

St. George

Ram'sey,

Wow, I COULD be a dreamy master mind. Now I know my life goal!

YiS,

Fancy Pants

St. George

Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:Oh, on a related note: Hockey would be a lot more popular if they wore the outfits from "Strange Brew" instead of the goofy diapers.

Gaston

Gaston,

I have never agreed with you more

Alaric

St. George

You got me MacTavish, lucky I said that they were the same helmet unless the fuzzy one was one of Dirk's guys- which I think it is- I am pretty sure that is Riley's helmet. For all intents and purposes they are the same though.

Alaric

St. George

yes they work fine

Alaric

St. George

Sure your equations are correct, but balance, and footwork, and reaction to blows based on how "hard" someone swings (whether they are swinging or being struck) plays a large role in how the game si played. "Controlled" blows generally does not mean "full force" while "full force" does not mean "wil...

St. George

I might play, but I think that I would still want my stuff to look period. I am the kind of guy who wants a classic looking car, but replaces everything on the inside with brand new kick ass stuff so that it looks like a normal car, but can kick the crap out of anything on the road. I might play wit...

St. George

the major difference here is that sca sport combat is full force (except for those two kingdoms..... ) non choreographed contest and the rest are not. [b]I get a laugh out of this every time I see it. I played with sticks a long time and marshalled a long time, too. Anybody that hit full force i.e....

St. George

helm 1- a technically well made rendition of a gladiator helmet. out of period for the SCA. The brim has to be made too small to be a real version of the helmet. helm 2- looks like the type of helmets worn by Duke Kynan, Duke Trelon, and Phelan (king of Atenveldt). I am not sure who is making them r...

Re: full contact? blows not pulled?