The Armour Archive

jester

Looking at Fashion in the Age of the Black Prince and they've got a picture of an embossing block used to make bezants. My question: how? Searching here and on the internet in general it seems like they would have carved the negative into the block, placed the metal on top, put a layer of leather on...

jester

Jester, this really isn't meant as one of those 'state something obvious in a sarcastic manner' ... but, don't you just need to make a hinge that stays on the bascinet through a pivoting rivet and a series of corresponding ones on the visors that can be swapped out easily with a drop in pin? If you...

jester

My search-fu has failed me. I need to modify my bascinet to be able to switch out visors so I can have a close-face, grille, and perf-plate. I've been looking at the designs out there but can't quite figure it out. Am I just going to have to buy a pre-made system from Revival?

jester

What's the intent? If you're learning a new technique you go slowly. If you're practicing a new technique you've learned you speed up the practice, while maintaining form, in order to build muscle memory. Crawl, walk, run.

jester

All y'all just rock. This thread is great.

jester

I was always led to believe blocking with the flat was the one and only proper way to block with a blade but that blocking at all with a blade should be avoided if at all possible. If I've read this correctly it ignores the dictates of every manuscript I've ever seen. With the exception of hakensch...

jester

Word of mouth still works. Where do they live and what do they want to learn? Not all schools are a match. I helped found one here in Denver and the majority of the students wanted to take it in a different direction than I did so I'm back to doing independent studies. :) Sometimes that's the way th...

jester

Sigurd of Jorvik wrote:Ok: Awesome Klappvisor Bascinet with aventail: check
Steel legs, check
Wisby finger gauntlets: check

Need vambraces, rebraces, CoP, spaulders, shynbalds, gambeson

What else do I need to join La Cosa Nostra?

Style, baby. Style.

jester

In the Middle Ages objects were named for their functions rather than for their construction. E.G. A person who commands a body of men may be called a Captain. E.G. A garment intended to be worn on the outside of your clothing is a cotte. The same garment worn under another layer is a shirt. This cl...

jester

Jester, when are you going to write a book, or at least teach a seminar on the west coast? As the kids say: your ideas intrigue me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter. I will tell anyone who cares to ask what I think I know about I.33. Just about anytime or anyplace that I can get to....

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Christianity had an internal debate on slavery from the very beginning and while it is mostly settled now there are still a few die-hards arguing the pro-slavery end of mattters. Early Christian assemblies argued that slaves should accept their fate and obey their masters and even went so far as to ...

jester

Good God! Why are so many of y'all still wearing duct tape? Between Windrose, ArmourBug and me you can get something that looks a lot better for like $4.

jester

The math involved in pre-railroad logistics is fascinating. Once you start looking at the supplies required to maintain an army and the methods available for transporting those supplies you start to develop a real appreciation for medieval strategy and military performance. And the Roman genius for ...

jester

Do you step first and then strike or do you strike and then step?

jester

I haven't yet tried this. Some people have and it hasn't worked. Get together with your seneschal and knight marshal. Approach real estate companies that have commercial properties: warehouses, big-box stores, strip-malls, etc... Your pitch is this: "We need a clean, empty space to meet in to practi...

jester

Ah the Girandoni air-rifle. I love those things. Check out the Beeman Airguns page on the Girandoni design. It was so good that the French resistance used them. Anyone with access to a shop that can manufacture a bicycle can make one. I've got a couple of designs that I'm considering working on once...

jester

BdeB is not for everyone. Do not use if you have high blood pressure, arthritis, mange, or gonorrhea. Talk to your doctor before using BdeB. May cause swelling, blackouts, depression, or rectal bleeding. If you experience an erection lasting more than four hours seek immediate medical attention.

jester

Smooth is fast. I subscribe to that (while recognizing that I am neither). But I think that misses the layers. In fighting you practice individual skills and you struggle with each of those skills and you improve in them. Painfully. And then you go out to fight and forget all the details and just mo...

jester

You know, turning 'my' composite image into a silhouette would more than satisfy any copyright requirements. Shoot me a PM with your e-mail and I'll send you high-resolution copy of the image for you to work with. Or you can work with the equally fine image Max put up.

jester

Like this ? Holy crap, that's perfect! Is that yours? I have permission to use Leo's image on the shirt and I would have to ask him about using it for anything else. I haven't been able to identify the person on the right and would like to. If we can, I'd like to release this image for use in SCA a...

jester

Like this?

jester

It shows up in Mandragore Espagnol 99 in illustrations of Peter IV with his ministers. I'm trying to remember where else I've seen it.

jester

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FMuxeQOrl-E/UAwY6InqwqI/AAAAAAAABQY/mS5Ex79qYNY/s1600/Sultanes+granadinos+b%25C3%25B3veda+Sala+de+Reyes+Alhambra+2%5B1%5D.jpg The man in red in the center has two white tabs at his neck, sticking out from under the beard. These tabs are common in illustrations of moorish/I...

jester

I was there for a squire. He made a screaming Tuchux. Falcone That's not hard. oh id love to hear the story on this one 10 years ago after some resurrection field battle I went over to the Tuchuk shade looking for one of the guys who'd fought on the field. I recognized Shaitan and asked if he knew ...

jester

Apollonian wrote:I was there for a squire. He made a screaming Tuchux.

Falcone

That's not hard.

jester

Yeah, and did you wear the thug sticker? I still have it. :oops: I did get the others to Murdock and those Green and Gold guys. They seemed happy. Thank you for that. And I assume thanks are due to Falcone for bringing the package up from the remote Appalachian hamlet you guys inhabit? Wally said i...

jester

Yeah, and did you wear the thug sticker?

jester

Russ Mitchell wrote:Jester: interested in anything you've got to share.

I'll have to re-dig up the stuff. I was going through some of the Battle of the Nations material and stumbled on this stuff.

jester

A few weeks ago I'd have said "I'm not particularly educated in aspects of medieval armor but I suspect the answer is no." Now? Now I've been looking at some of the resources the Russians have been turning up as they search for leather armor examples that will justify their use in the BotN and I'm n...

jester

I'm pretty sure the last line of each stanza should be translated as:
Lady, have pity on titties.

Which has not quite replaced tuttenseck at the top of my inner 13 year old's giggle list.

jester

I just took a look at the documents that have been added to wikitenauer in relation to I.33 and I'm about two years behind the curve. With the addition of the Breu/Mair documents it's now possible to catalog the basic footwork of I.33. From the standpoint of technique that's going to open up some hu...

jester

It is a woman but it falls into the category of the cuckold theme like almost every other image we have of women wearing underwear. Also there is no reason to associate the objects together judging by the sheer amount of stuff found. Can you clarify how this image fits the cuckold theme? Very inter...

jester

Love the Aragonese marginalia even more. The guy on the bottom right is in 1st ward (possibly the Priests Special Guard/Longpoint) illustrated from a side we don't usually see. I think that figure is right foot forward. Note the way the gown hangs? That's a gown with a split front and one corner of ...

jester

Thank you, Karen. Now that I know the find contains playing cards I'm all sidetracked.

jester

I found this and a picture. http://www.kangausa.com/tie,backtwistturban.htm I did a variation on this (intended to be more 14th Century Spanish) at Pennsic last year. I took a long rectangle of fabric and draped it so that one end rested just below the point where my tunic stopped, ran the fabric o...

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Re: Removable visor attachment

Removable visor attachment

Re: WMA (or SCA) Formal training question

Re: 14th c gloves

Re: Sword & Company Review Needed

Re: WMA schools

Re: Essentials for 14th cent kit

Function, not construction.

Re: I don't like your socks

Re: Norse Slave Trade

Re: Pennsic pics

Re: Supplying an Army

Step-strike or strike-step?

Re: Indoor Fighting sites

Re: Lewis&Clark Airgun

Re: Pennsic XLI - Marshal's Courts

Re: Fast is fine but...

Re: CoTT Image request for sticker

Re: CoTT Image request for sticker

Re: CoTT Image request for sticker

Re: Moorish bib?

Moorish bib?

Re: Pennsic XLI - Marshal's Courts

Re: Pennsic XLI - Marshal's Courts

Re: Pennsic XLI - Marshal's Courts

Re: Pennsic XLI - Marshal's Courts

Re: leather body armour period?

Re: leather body armour period?

Re: C15 Bras from Lengburg castle

Re: I don't like your socks

Re: C15 Bras from Lengburg castle

Re: I don't like your socks

Re: C15 Bras from Lengburg castle

Re: Swiss Turban