The Armour Archive

jester

T-bone and Bela in the finals. T-bone for the win. But I know absolutely nothing about the current state of heavy fighting in the Outlands so you can safely ignore any predictions I make.

jester

You really should ask Russ Mitchell. Here is a link and a search term for you:
http://warfare.atwebpages.com/Egypt/Nih ... l-1371.htm
furuslya

oops.

jester

Two Baron Alejandros? Deathmatch.

jester

Donal Mac Ruiseart wrote:I take it that the (synthetic) parchment is translucent?

Mildly. Spraying it with olive oil, patting it dry, and then air-drying it makes it significantly more translucent.

jester

woodwose wrote:Also, would carbon added as you say really get into the steel paricles, or would it just stay between them?

I don't know. I believe it would work like case-hardening.

jester

Lord Thomas the Black wrote:Is metal clay available in iron? I've only ever seen it in silver, gold, copper, and bronze.

Yes. And you can make your own so long as you don't sell it. The patent is publicly available and gives the general proportions of the ingredients.

jester

I'm not an armourer or a metallurgist. I'm just a guy who thinks outside the box. So bear with me. The idea is to make a knife using metal clay. Metal clay is a mixture of finely ground steel powder, a cellulose binder, a little soap, and some water or oil. Metal clay is shaped, allowed to dry, and ...

jester

I like this. Could you use two lights? One on the top and one on the bottom? I don't see why not. The tap lights I bought (at Home Depot) have an adhesive strip that allows them to be attached to walls or the underside of cabinets. Getting to the batteries might be a little tricky. I've got a piece...

jester

I've been musing on this for a while and finally got to make a couple last month. The short summary of the process (and a couple of pictures) can be found here.

jester

Um... leather retaining pins?? I am surely missing something interesting here. Not retaining pins. Retainer pins. As in livery badges. I use a CNC laser to etch and cut them out of leather. I'm exploring my options for coloring them because if you can color the base layer prior to etching you can g...

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Heh. Making white belts isn't on my radar. :) I ran into a hitch making some retainer pins and thought I could be clever and make them out of leather. As so often happens with my 'clever' ideas, I probably would have been better off just bulling through the original hitch. Since these are small pins...

jester

Anyone who references the removing white mold from leather thread goes on the list. You are warned.

jester

I'm looking at making some leather white. Bright white. Right now my options appear to be: paint it. Are there other options? If I do paint the leather should I go with Eco-Flow or should I go with something else? I've been told the Kiwi white leather repair dye works very well so long as it is seal...

jester

I'm not aware of any documented recipes in the English or Spanish languages. I'm still looking. Cider is a problematic term because it can mean 'fruit juice', 'apple juice' or 'fermented apple juice' depending on the time and place. Apicius mentions a quince-apple cider used in one of his recipes (a...

jester

HerrHirsch wrote:Hello,
Does anyone have an exatant example of a hard apple cider or apple wine pre-1600c?

Thanks

What, exactly, are you looking for? Evidence that hard cider was drunk pre-1600? A hard cider that's still being made the same way it was pre-1600?

jester

Sure. I'd be really interested to see just how much the average joe could train fast-twitch muscle. I think you & I have a difference in perception on how genetics plays into it. My out-of-my-butt guess says that people can be twitchier than we think we can, because we're originally hunters, and hu...

jester

Reflexes. It's hard to actually improve your neural performance to achieve actually faster reaction time. It's fairly easy to improve your hand eye coordination and information processing to achieve a net reduction in time between initiating event and response. Huh? When you put your hand over the ...

jester

http://el-blindado-personal.blogspot.co ... urron.html

Ran across this Spanish re-enactors blog. Even if you can't read the language he's got some very interesting photos and videos.

jester

I've got some Swordcraft aluminum wasters. I love them. And with the price of steel blades jumping precipitously recently, they're a great deal. But... They don't flex. Not a problem if you're hitting someone with the edge. But if you're thrusting? Problematic.

jester

I will fight.

jester

Are there just some people that no matter what they will never make the transition from Squire to Knight? Yes. I understand there is a Knight's Council or meeting of sorts that go over prospects. I know that it can't be shared what goes on, but can someone say some of what they are looking for in a...

jester

Jester, didn't we talk about this a few years ago? (don't read that as "you're a moron we already settled this" read it as, "my brain-fog is telling me that there's discussion on this somewhere") Yep. Several times over the years. I think the best four threads are: http://forums.armourarchive.org/p...

jester

I think the false alarms may have been an artifact of the testing method. The subjects responded to visual stimuli by pushing a joystick up or down. All the information the binary solution set allowed the testers to gather was: was a potential threat recognized or not? So I believe the experts were ...

jester

Duke Sean was talking about visual cues in one of his classes we had him down to Denver for. He hit me with a shot that I didn't see coming at all, he said as soon as I dipped my shoulder and started to extend my arm it triggered his reactions to throw a particular counter which was brutally effici...

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Hmmm.... Two thoughts. 1 - Is there anyone out there with the expertise and time to run this sort of experiment with SCA/WMA practitioners? openEyes is an open-source group that explicitly tells you how to make and use this equipment at a very low cost (relatively speaking). I think it would be fasc...

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Wow. Thank you, Hrolf! That was fascinating. Some of it I expected, others I did not. I expected the lower number of fixations on the part of experts (and the direct correlation between lower number of fixations and higher level of expertise). I did not expect the head to be the primary fixation of ...

jester

The synopsis for this article indicates the researchers did exactly what I wanted to do to test my theories. Has anyone read this article? Is it worth $40 and the time I'll put in to reading it? What I am specifically looking for is details on the visual strategy/ies used by the experts. http://www....

jester

I'll judge Murdock by the service he provides. If he is in the process of dis-entangling his business from its former owners then I won't make the process any harder. If he's continuing to do business with Brian Price then I'm pretty sure Murdock will end up bruised and rueful and will then stand up...

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Paulus Hector Mair, that is. I love the guy. A collector of fectbucher, he financed his hobby and his extravagant life style by embezzling public funds. For which crime he was executed. The fightbook he commissioned, using purloined money, is beautifully illustrated and, more importantly, has lots a...

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I had fun at the open house, despite having to leave early because I am a wimp when it comes to driving in the snow. The space is nice and has a lot of potential. If I can swing it personally (because Sir Flanagan had no problems with any of what we discussed) I'll organize some I.33 study group ses...

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Resurrecting this thread. Back in July I was toying with the idea of setting up a virtual lecture series on 14th Century topics. Well, the technology is now ready and freely available. I'll be working with a couple of people in January to iron out the bugs and put together a quick how-to guide. I'm ...

jester

Suggestion: Put the rules into a Wiki format so the Marshal of the Society can append clarifications and/or justifications at the source. Send rule re-writes to the BoD in itemized fashion so each item can be approved or disapproved rather than having to have the entire rule-set pass muster or be re...

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Be a symbiote. Find an existing space near you. Join. Make some stuff. Get some friends involved. Talk with the owners/group about adding some tools you need: forge, chisels, beverly shears... Be prepared to fund these purchases yourself. Teach some classes to get more people interested in using tho...

jester

I see that. Thank you.

I notice they've put up the price on these swords as well. They're easily $40-$80 more expensive than they used to be. At $160 a pop I think I'd rather put some extra money in and get a better quality sparring sword.

jester

Kult of Athena says these swords are no longer available. I've found a few for sale here and there at wildly varying prices. Does anyone know if these swords have gone out of production?

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Re: Period source for Hard apple cider

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