The Armour Archive

St. George

I think Michael is on the right track- Whenever you do a custom job, quote them for the number of hours it will take to finish it as is, not for "the job." Make sure the "hourly rate" etc is in your quote. If changes are required because of a booboo on your end, you don't charge ...

St. George

I will be moving to the Charlotte area in the next month or two.

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St. George

Hey,

When is the Nutley practice?

I am in NYC for a few weeks (maybe a month or so), and wouldn't mind going. If anyone gets together while I am here for lunch or anything, let me know.

Also, does anyone have contact info for Balin?

Thanks,

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St. George

Thank you,

The greaves were added in on purpose I hope they made up for some of the issues your order had.

Our apologies again for your order taking so long.

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St. George

Looking forward to hearing all about it... haha!

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St. George

What kind of pell are you hitting?

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St. George

You have no idea...

St. George

Apollonian wrote:
She's not a calendar girl in a mechanic shed. She brings a lot more than pretty to the field and is our equal there.

Falcone

She did used to work as a mechanic...

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St. George

Why not just core out some lexan or similar product and fill it with the glow stick juice...

Just don't hit each other toooooooo hard with the lexan.

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St. George

I have sent out everything but the stuff for Ang Nee. I have lost the address- please re-send (my apologies). The stuff for Gunthar went out last week (sorry about the delays). I have a payment going to Cet very soon, which should even us up there. Is there anything that we have left out? We have a ...

St. George

They spelled Brian wrong, so it took me a minute to find.

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St. George

Looks good and everything seems to work.

The stuff looks darned nice!

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St. George

What are you practicing? Without knowing that you can't plan/have a good one...

I would bet that a "good practice" for me would be differ significantly from that of other people.

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St. George

a more skillful type of game. Pretend that your armor would never actually protect you. Throw hard take light. Your skills will improve when you do not depend on your armor to keep you safe or determine the outcome of the fight. Why do you think that thinking that your armor won't protect you makes...

St. George

Under current rules, our opponent gets to decide what is "good", regardless of how much force we felt it was delivered with. Yet, there seems to be a feeling that the opponent cannot decide independently if what they received was "excessive." Isn't that out of sync? And no, I've...

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.....So, lessay, you're in Meridies when you start fighting (NOT picking on Meridies!) and you learn to fight to the local calibration. Then you move up to someplace right in the heart of Atlantia. You learned to fight at a local calibration in Meridies and you should NEVER throw shots harder than ...

St. George

There are two questions to the "force level": 1) Will the blow cut through the "armor standard" of the SCA 2) If not, is that blow hard enough to incapacitate someone anyway? The following quotes are from the handbook: [u]When judging the effect of blows, all fighters are presume...

St. George

Nicolai, (I am not the peer he spoke with) I think this is partially your inexperience speaking when you say this: "I still stand firm to my belief that there is NEVER any excuse for throwing more than the average calibration (learned over time and experience) that is acceptable in your local a...

St. George

I think "Excessive Force" is poor use of terminology. "Harder than I would prefer to be hit" "Harder than I like to see people get hit" and "Harder than is safe in that armor" are much closer to the intent of this thread. I have no clue what "excessive&qu...

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I, personally, don't understand the above comment. Let me try to explain my position then. The original poster said " At various other events I went to I heard others say that because of their attitude they forcefully hit them as hard as they could. You know what I am talking about, butwrappin...

St. George

I think that all activities in the SCA are currently suffering from overscheduling (or is it underscheduling...). From Pennsic where there are too many battles, and classes all at once, to smaller events where you get major activities such as fencing, archery, and heavy all going on at the same time...

St. George

Hi, No need to flame. I would be interested to know who said what, and how exacting your quotes are. I see you live in Raleigh. I would be happy to discuss such things with you in person, as I live in Raleigh as well. There are many relationships and issues within SCA fighting culture that drive suc...

St. George

One issue that I think you will run into while traveling is that in many places, you won't find much of an opportunity to "just fight spear." For that matter, in some places, you could show up looking for a pole arm to borrow, and there would not be a single one in sight.

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St. George

You did mention you might be changing it for a bascinet... But for now, you own it, and the trouble you are going through is enough. It is certainly OK for now and for a travel suit. Check the note I gave about breastplates. See Dave Rylak and Ron Simmons for an aluminum kit, or Ice for a finished o...

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OK, being honest with you again- Dump camelback. For practice that's a waste anyway. Don't even travel with it. Buy a gallon of water at each practice for your use only if you have issues with that sort of thing. That will save you some travel weight, and get that thing off your back. Dump the "...

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Why don't you just put the chest protector under gambeson?

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I don't know if you are going to be able to get lighter... 38 lbs isn't all that much. I wear a bascinet with aventail that weighs 18 lbs. All the rest of my armour and fighting clothes weighs 18 lbs. (just weighed it all on a scale) And my armour... plastic legs with steel knees, a leather half gu...

St. George

My lamellar suit (brass lamellar) weighed around 25-30 with 12-15 of it being helmet, 6-8 in the lamellar, the rest in arms and legs. This one from the CoTT probably weighs around 35 tops. g- http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f49/Murdoch_McArthur/cOTT3009bEACHTRIPANDBABY019.jpg

St. George

I need to weigh my CoTT rig.

I doubt it weighs over 35 lbs.

Even if it does- take the helmet as a carry on, and the weight certainly is under.

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St. George

Spring Steel is much easier to work than thicker stainless. It is thinner and not as hard, and much easier to work. It is in a similar price range to purchase the raw materials as well. People just don't work it because they are afraid of the hardening/tempering processes. The fact that it costs &qu...

St. George

In many instances Caid runs a "random" draw every round- they really don't like using draw trees for some reason. This means that more than two can end up in a "finals." It is off but happens quite a bit out there- not as often in Crown, but all the time in regular tournies, or a...

St. George

I am in the process of totally changing my style to a more Bedford like form (heater short, different sword strikes, etc). If there is something specific you want to see, especially regarding VDK kites let me know, as what I do is slightly different from the standard there.

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Passion a word used all too often where I work- a small arts college.

Passion is something that burns out. Love is something that remains.

My love for fighting is unending, my passion for it wanes and waxes with the seasons.

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St. George

Believe it or not, I had on a chestplate and tassets under the jupon!

The chestplate was a little more fitted than the one I used last year, as I felt that one stuck out toooo far. I'll find the happy medium soon.

Next year I might have mail again.

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http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f49/Murdoch_McArthur/cOTT3009bEACHTRIPANDBABY019.jpg If you consider my armor as "bottom level" for the CoTT, then you too could join in for about $500 or so (if you borrow gauntlets). My armor is not perfect, but I have made at least 1 or two improvement...