The Armour Archive

St. George

Your Grace, Well I should clarify one point on the limb thing... I would probably only make that kind of offer to someone I felt was my equal, and by giving up my advantage I only brought the fight back to an equal status. I would never make the same gesture to a Duke (if I was lucky enough to wing...

St. George

The squire's tourney usually has over 100 participants and many vieweres. It is also usually run in a "Speed Tourney" Fashion which usually doesn't allow for much time at all between rounds, certainly not enough time to run off to another whole tourney area. I have also noticed in the past that the ...

St. George

That one looks great- in a way it makes me feel a lot better about the one we just did

Alaric

St. George

He is a good reliable businessman.

Alaric

St. George

Gruber and I wanted to get some advance pics of our latest breastplate up. It is made from hardened 1050 Spring steel. I have not yet put the stop rib or straps on it, but I think the shape turned out very nicely.

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Alaric-

St. George

buy some swords, and save yourself some time, effort, and a lot of wasted tools. I regularly work with 18 ga spring steel, and I can't tell you how much trouble you are going to havce working with 1/4" and no tools. a sheet of 18ga spring steel costs me like $30-$40 when I buy it in bulk. Finding a ...

St. George

DKFB is against the basics ideals of what we are doing on the field in the SCA. Since we are playing a game on the field, and not really fighting unto death, there is an unwritten code of fighting to the last man. Where in real life, many of us might be captured, surrender, run away, or be ransomed,...

St. George

Juliana, Logan had the through right in his explanation, but I will clarify... "Engaging" your opponent allows them a chance to defend themselves. "DFB" seems like sneaking up on someone and stabbing them in the back. In my Crown final against Drogo, he had every opportunity to defend himself, and l...

St. George

one of the main problems with recruitment is that at demos, etc, it always seems like the biggest dork possile is the person who walks over and starts talking to people about the SCA. It bothers me a lot, because while I am out on the field fighting, I am watching many of the people around, and they...

St. George

Is that Sheridan in the Jeep? If so, he is one of the people from Caid whom I miss.

I have always considered a "Last Boy Scout" moment from Pennsic, where while charging across the field, someone pulls out a paintball gun, and starts firing.

Alaric

St. George

The basic difference between Declared Death on the Ground, and Declared Death from Behind is that the combattant is (Generally) engaged with their opponent in the Death on the Ground situation, but is stabbed in the back in the other. One seems to be a courteous end to a struggle enjoined by engaged...

St. George

My experience with DFB is that the better fighters on the west coast simply don't use it even when they are able to. It promotes dishonorable combat, so many of the West Coast Knights won't even consider using it. It's a bad rule, and like Vitus, I am against it. Death on the Ground, however, should...

St. George

Logan got it right...we've argued this point before but I still content that we are turning out a race of fat, lazy sloths, with great hand/eye coordination... BdeB, Don't you know that we are all just being trained to be gunners on the big alien staship that is on its way to pick us all up? Alaric...

St. George

Hrogn, I see you are from An Tir. I have to tell you, that worst experience I have ever had with CA was at an An Tir event- An Tir/West War of last year. The number of archers, and the scenarios with them were utterly not fun, and completely imbalanced. The Westies and I couldn't even come out of re...

St. George

If you are fighting in the SCA I would recommend against full greaves. They get in the way in all the wrong places for SCA combat.

Alaric

St. George

Shafted arrows can be dangerous for several reasons- 1) they fly farther and faster, so a misplaced shot can injure a non armored combattant or audience member much more easily. 2) a broken shaft, or one with a "bad" head or ABD can kill someone. Yes, I am uncomfortable with the construction of shaf...

St. George

Matt, If you are going to be at Pennsic, I'll give you a hand with wraps there. I have an effective and simple method of teaching a wrap that doesn't damage your arm. Until then, think of wraps this way, they aren't really a "big swing around things," they are really just more of a turning over of t...

St. George

Although I hate CA, and my choice would be to have it eliminated from the CA- this is probably not going to happen. 1) We need to ban shafted arrows, they are unsafe- for fighters, non-fighting participants, and the audience. Requiring all Heavy participants to change their armor in order to make th...

St. George

Hushgirl, Bows cost much less than the average amount of money and time that I spend on my fighting equipment every year. On average, I spend over $200 a year on rattan. Plus probably another $50 on tape to make those swords usable. I also spend around $20 on shield edging, $20 on paint and canvas, ...

St. George

Angus, I disagree about CA making more people have fun on the field. Total Number of people having fun fighting without CA>Total number of people fighting and having fun with CA, because the number of people who dislike CA is greater than the number of CA participants. I am in the middle of moving a...

St. George

T-Bob and Hushgirl, You aren't in my situation. You aren't the targets of hundred of arrows at wars. I have been shot at over 100 times in a day. I have counted. You can only block two or three arrows at a time for a while before one gets you. Even when we PLAN for and PROTECT against CA, the imbala...

St. George

Geoffroi, I guess you are just better than I am. Or maybe far fewer arrows get shot at you, because you can only knock so many arrows out of the air before they overwhelm you with sheer numbers. Maybe you were at last An Tir West War? If not ask Uther, Alden, Merlin about the crappiness with the arr...

St. George

Geoffroi,

To clarify something, I also carry a sword and shield almost all the time in battle. It doesn't seem to do much good against arrows.

Alaric

St. George

We're going to try making a couple out of spring steel.

Alaric

St. George

Hushgirl: Sorry it has taken me a while to answer your question. I am in the middle of moving, but let me take a moment now. The reason that the organizers of a war wouldn't tell the archers which Battle the "charge" would take place in is that if the Archers knew, they would all sit down and not pl...

St. George

Valharik has been having some problems with his basket weave helmet as of late. It doesn't seem to be holding up to repeated blows well, and is starting to dent more often. I think he is considering replacing it.

Alaric

St. George

butted mail made in India is very cheap. Can you make it for less than they do?

St. George

tickets.

St. George

These helmets are usually too smal for most people's heads. They are round.

Alaric

St. George

Vacuuforming is fine- you just have to make the right kind of machine.

We used to vauuform 1/4" abs. Trust me it was plenty thick when we were done.

Alaric

St. George

it's a "V" cut.

Alaric

St. George

Hi everyone-

Here is a pic of our munitions gothic archer knee, and regular knee.

We hope you like them.

Alaric and Gruber

[img]http://www.geocities.com/snakepliskin1971/gothknee.jpg[/img]

St. George

The problem isn't with newbies. WE all understand that there must be a time during which they make their first costumes, etc. The problem is with the long timers who think that they are giving newbies a hand by helping them out. We have several new people in our local area. One really nice guy start...

St. George

indestructible shield make anything like pole arm or two handed/bastard swords pretty worthless. Though they are fun to play in matched weapons.

Alaric

St. George

I'd say Gruber- it is fun watching him progress very quickly into the world of real armoring as opposed to the metal banging he was doing before Me and Ugo follow a close second- me because my armoring pays my bills and Ugo cause he makes really cool stuff, then shows me how he did it. There are a w...

re-designed Churburg

Gothic Knees