The Armour Archive

jester

PS: I've fought in an A&S bout where we agreed we'd permit throws (or rather, I said, 'You can throw me if you like. I can't do it safely, so I won't, but I _can_ fall safely'.). He threw me. It enlightened me on those areas of rapier where our artificial rules alter how we play our game. YMMV No y...

jester

Jester, I think the other option would be some way to allow other groups with their own insurance to 'colocate' at a site as a separate event with some kind of clear arms length discriminators. This happens at Renn faires all the time. Guilds provide insurance riders for both site owners and the ho...

jester

I think the ideal situation would be a corporate agreement/partnership between SCA Inc. and BotN; such that BotN affiliated persons can meet and practice at certain enumerated SCA Inc. events without acting under the SCA's insurance umbrella. Essentially, BotN practice would be third party "enterta...

jester

Guys, BotN is the nightmare scenario for the Marshallate. It's what they see in their mind's eye whenever anyone ventures to say 'Hey, what if we tried an small experiment in allowing some grappling?' It's the bloodshed they see when someone says 'You know, metal weapons have a pretty big data set t...

jester

I think one other thing that we need to adjust on the american team is the fit of the armor. Some of our guys seemed really uncomfortable in what they were wearing. Watch the way the Poles and Russians were bouncing around and walking/running naturally. Everyone on the team needs to have armor that...

jester

why do we only have five guys on the field for all vs all? All vs All is different. You get points for being on the winning side but you can send as many or as few guys as you want. The makeup rotates each time this is fought so the teams get mixed up each time. There may be some convention about w...

jester

And on a "realism" front - it's just another very contrived sport. Nothing wrong with that, but it's not any more real than other modern attempts at fighting in armour.. For what definition of 'real'? I think this is an excellent example of a deed of arms using weapons of peace. Of course, I also f...

jester

What I don’t understand is why Team USA keeps fighting these Melee’s like prowess at arms counts for anything. It is obvious that the swords are simply there to apply punishment – you can’t put anyone down with them. The most successful teams just go out and grapple – period. Basic Football and Wre...

jester

Keep the updates coming, please. Government bandwidth sucks so it's not worth turning on the feed and the BotN website has no information worth checking.

jester

Sometimes it looked to me like the literally decades of SCA melee experience our team has caused instinct to take over. I feel that the rules against sneaking up on you enemy has produced a artificial sense of security when you in the sca melee fight with someone. BoN rules seem more realistic for ...

jester

Brennainn wrote:Anybody know what that fella"s name is?

Mikhail Morgulis.

jester

ok after three bouts why is the Isreali guy still fighting ??? Sometimes, in a fight of this format, it's all about being too bloody obstinate to know when you're beaten. A few minutes ago he was a staggering fighter. Now? Say what you want about the son of bitch but he's got balls to hang in there...

jester

Did the Latvian just do the litter box?

jester

Stick a fork in the Israeli guy, he's done.

jester

More Western tradition fighting practice is needed. I'm just waiting for the team to start putting together practice melees using SCA weapons and BoN rules. It's called either the Combat of the Thirty or Tuchux rules depending on the ration of steel to leather. Tuchux rules fighting, I have been as...

jester

More Western tradition fighting practice is needed. I'm just waiting for the team to start putting together practice melees using SCA weapons and BoN rules.

jester

Somebody needs to do a live feed of some of the tournaments from Pennsic and feed that to the Poles, Ukrainians, and Russians so we can get them to come to us.

Put Sir Vitus on live commentary.

jester

Is it unchivalrous that my first thought was, step on the cape?

jester

Pommel smash! Pommel smash! Come on, club him to the ground the next time he drops his head and bulls in!

jester

dukelogan wrote:can i get a link to watch the fights????

regards
logan

streaming live now: http://usaknights.org/index.html

jester

Watching the raw footage, not just the highlight reels, I think the US is gonna kick some ass in the singles. These guys don't have the conditioning the US has and it looks like most of them don't have the skill-set. I'm having as much fun watching this as I did the world cup.

jester

Thanks for all the good info, guys. I appreciate it. I was cheerfully setting up my little knife experiment with the mild steel blanks I cut with the plasma machine and my mind, as is its wont, began to wander down paths of speculation. Specifically, I began to wonder when high (or higher) carbon st...

jester

Is mild steel a good analog for the material that would have been used for late iron age knives? Some carbon to make it steel rather than iron but not yet high-carbon, high-quality steel?

jester

Nissan Maxima wrote:Grab grab grab. No means no, Ice.

I thought safeword meant no and no meant I like that, do it again!

I'm so out of touch.

Have fun bashing the Poles, boys.

jester

Not if you need someone to fight. Nissan, I'm sure that you don't really mean this. You have never struck me as being short sighted. Warm bodies in miserable armor are a cheap fungible commodity. You get three or four new ones every time your group does a fighting demo. By contrast, person in good ...

jester

Aaron wrote:Counted blows are not allowed? How did that happen? WHY did it happen?

Not what I said. I asked if they were still permitted. That's all.

jester

It also makes room for the more historical "counted blows" style of fighting, the "Vitus System," etc. Are these even permitted anymore? The rule provision that allowed for them was removed from the Marshal's handbook a while back. EDIT TO ADD: Sorry, I forgot the Blow Acknowledgement rule was bein...

jester

Talk to me. I did a little research last night in support of a wild hare idea and it looks like you can cut a blank from a sheet of steel, heat it, use a hydraulic press with a form to push the hot blank through an open form and, voila, out pops a piece of simple armor, say a pauldron. It seems to m...

jester

Depends on the plasma cutter, the amps, and the nozzle you're using. Last time I was cutting it was 0.06".

jester

Rough draft. Please nit-pick and suggest. I'll add images later. This is going to seem really complicated. But once you have done this a couple of times with simple pieces, it's going to be revealed as being very simple. Preparing Files for a CNC machine Short Answer: Get a CAD program and learn to ...

jester

Is there any interest in this? I can tell you how to get your design from concept to a .dxf file using entirely free software. A .dxf file is what you'll want to import into a CAD program to generate the g-code that a CNC machine uses. If you've got the .dxf you can do it yourself (look for makerspa...

jester

Louis de Leon wrote:Ah, that's the one! Thanks Dougal!

http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s294 ... d20314.jpg

Added to project list.

jester

I have a scale order I need to do on a tight budget, need about 400 in both brass and stainless, shape is simple, I would guess around 1.5" x 2". Is that so, for me, is that something you may be interested in doing. Not me. Not right now. I've cut exactly one thing and haven't had a chance to work ...

jester

So how large of a piece of metal will the smaller home use ones cut? For example, could I use it to cut shields? Or to cut faceplates/grills for helms? Mike (ive been googling this today, but Im at work, and I have to be sneaky) Look up hackerspaces/maker clubs in your area. I know there are at lea...

jester

MJBlazek wrote:how do these guys not die???

A more narrowly focused understanding of what it is they are trying to do and how they are trying to do it.

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Hot Pressing/Forming?

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