The Armour Archive

Kel Rekuta

Pure Neatsfoot Oil is refined or "fancy" beef tallow. Seems pretty straight forward to presume well rendered tallow was used then as well. Modern Saddle soap is based on glycerine so I'm not sure how that would have been refined in period. But any fatty soap would work fine as a period lea...

Kel Rekuta

I agree with what you are saying here except the strikes. While the strike isn't the same as when out of armour(obviously your opponent has more protection), it can be effective to some degree. I have on occasion got into(with rebatted weapons) some grappling while in a bind, so I did the first thi...

Kel Rekuta

Your friend can find some of these online - some not. I don't think anyone has attempted to create the sort of summary of cereal production you suggest. I would be happy to be proven wrong. Food in Medieval England - Diet and Nutrition (Medieval History and Archaeology) 2006 Oxford University Press ...

Kel Rekuta

Very true! But, gotta start somewhere, right? Is there any group out there that teaches one how to fall down in armour? ARMA and AEMMA are the only two groups I know of in the US. [/quote] AEMMA and OMSG are in Ontario Canada. Les MaÃ®tres d'Armes are in Gatineau Quebec. Chicago Sword Guild does so...

Kel Rekuta

Modern grappling training, from compliant aikido to competitive judo, teaches you how to fall. NOT how to fall in armor. Do you find it that different, Jon? A bad fall is a bad fall. I find most of the throws in armour are balance manipulations. They are not dead lifts and tosses that spin the vict...

Kel Rekuta

I'd love more pics, especially from the Midrealm (including Calontir, Ealdomere and Northshield.) I presenting a lecture at the Midrealm 40th anniversary in October on the history of armour in the SCA. Ha! Looking for something else yesterday, I found a few dozen slides of the Northwoods Heavy Crui...

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WTB - (preferably available in Canada)
Needed to create a memorial for a family friend recently lost to cancer.

Resin or concrete casting of an armoured knight;
approximately 2 feet tall. Could be a reproduction of a grave slab or brass effigy.

Thanks in advance for any leads.....

Kel Rekuta

What's the edge on a scraper really like? The link above says theirs are made of 0.032 high carbon steel ground with a square edge. I have sheets of that just laying around the shop... Then you have what you need, make several sizes and at least one french curve scraper. Its really handy on any cur...

Kel Rekuta

I'm sure a lot of people would benefit from a short article on that topic.

Kel Rekuta

Technically they are called iron lasts. A set of six for $35 is a serious bargain, if you have a use for them. They are useful for nailing soles or heels as well as pounding out newly cemented soles. Not so much for making new shoes.

Kel Rekuta

- it's irresponsible to place too much emphasis on it. That's a bit harsh. My point wasn't about turbidity but about the practice of consuming ale soon after primary fermentation - i.e. while it was still "quick." Admittedly, I could have been more concise. While I agree that secondary fe...

Kel Rekuta

Duke Icefalcon wrote:Tell you what. I will give you the discount that you would have earned towards your next purchase.

Sound fair?

Yes it is, thanks. I'll see what I can afford next.

Kel Rekuta

Duke Icefalcon wrote:Buy any one item from our large in stock selection and take 10% off.

Buy any 2 pieces or more and get 20% off!!

http://store.fastcommerce.com/icefalcon ... 8053f.html

You gotta be kidding! I just bought this stuff last week!!!

Kel Rekuta

Hey there is probably a place like this in Calgary. m You could roast your own beans on a cookie sheet in the oven. Or in a cheap wok on the barbeque grill. Really smoky, smelly process though unless you are obsessed with that fresh roasted coffee smell. Been there, done that, had to open every wind...

Kel Rekuta

"For pre-industrial societies, the only effective way to sanitize water is heat. " I would ask the question how did they know that boiling killed off organisms they did not know existed in the first place? the idea of water sanitation is based mainly around palpable pollution, ie taste, s...

Kel Rekuta

Hi, A medical doctor and I were discussing historical methods for purifying water â€“ boiling or treatment. Boiling works mostly for the Asian cultures, and there was tea to flavor the water. Tea has caffeine, a stimulant. European cultures used alcohol to treat water, a depressant. How do you thin...

Kel Rekuta

Evander has a nice hat. I like it.

Kel Rekuta

"Anything else is just weighing you down, and if you don't like getting hit in the uncovered portions, then learn to block and raise your pain threshold or start doing A&S". That person is Henry West. If you see him...go for the thighs. -Cian If he's pretending to do armoured combat i...

Kel Rekuta

Beeswax should actually be pretty good with rum & Coke. Its fairly acid resistant, and as long as it doesn't get too warm, will not be dissolved by the booze. I believe brewers pitch is favoured by many, Michael de Buslingthorpe is the man to ask. Ditto on the brewer's pitch. Scotch or rum have...

Kel Rekuta

Fire Stryker wrote:You forgot the shades and the cellphone, and I suspect it'd be some form of beer or ale.

No, no white belt and jeans there. He does need a drink or at least a toadie carrying one for him. Nice hat Rod!

Kel Rekuta

Oh right sorry I was thinking I didn't need a date because by armoured cavalry I meant an armoured lancer on an armoured horse, my apologies *slaps forehead* Any other Armoured Lancer on an armoured horse from a country/region/era that I don't know about Thanks for clarifying that. So then we can e...

Kel Rekuta

Kelly Devries "Infantry Warfare in the Early Fourteenth Century" goes to great lengths to discuss the occasions when cavalry didn't defeat infantry during that period of the High Middle ages. It isn't a very large book. It might be more helpful if you could define a place and time you are ...

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Duke Icefalcon wrote:Sent you an email. Anyone want to get something? I am ending this within the next few days.

Ice

Got it, thanks! Will call you this afternoon.

Kel

Kel Rekuta

Anyone else interested in anything? I have to get this order in soon. I will have a 6mm round alternating link standard and chausses please. The 9mm flat links are pretty stiff at the throat and knees. With the CAD$ back up against the USD, I can afford to buy mail again. I can't go on your site fr...

Kel Rekuta

Fulke wrote:Anyone have a reenactor's opinion on the brig and it's look relative to say mid 15th century continental?

Doesn't look like anything I've ever seen, either in illustration or surviving artifact. It does look perfectly safe to fight in though. Depends what your purpose is.

Kel Rekuta

Any reason to presume the underlying bascinet or cerveillier has to be as heavy as SCA regs require? Medieval people didn't have to deal with those. They just balanced the practicalities of staying alive with equipment of bearable weight. Men at arms wore harness a lot more regularly and for longer ...

Kel Rekuta

Sian, A well constructed and well fitted articulated leg with an attached closed greave could probably substitute for a hinged knee brace. That is to say, rather than figure out a way to get your armor *over* your brace, you could make your armor *be* your brace. Mac I'll second that. I am convince...

Kel Rekuta

Having been hit with a head identical to that one, i can say they do hit like a ton of bricks if you arent careful (i was browning out). Unfortunately that's all i really know about them. I'd have been happy to pass the rubber heads when I was an SCA marshal. They are not very stiff or heavy. Its t...

Kel Rekuta

No. "Poll" = head as in poll tax.

Kel Rekuta

"domesticating moose" m I almost typed meese. Holy Shlamoley, that takes some big brass you know whats. Moose are some of the orneriest, mean spirited, biggest sob's around. They're the deer equivalent of hippopottami. They have nothing on camels. Nasty ugly smelly bastards. At least moos...

Kel Rekuta

hmm... I think I really should have said this. Budget... $400- $600 though its not a hard cap... but I'd like to keep the pricing close to that if at all possible.. Also: I just want the style akin to that... not an exact replica(good lord how much THAT would have cost?) Really. Shop it around. Tha...

Kel Rekuta

Could anyone share photos of wedge rivet setting pliers? I made a serviceable plier for round rivet setting but I can't get one working for these tiny wedges. They set the 9mm flat rings from India.

Kel Rekuta

I will add a strong endorsement for TTC products. I've listened to and watched most of the medieval and rennaissance history and philosophy collections. Excellent and entertaining presentations, all. Very approachable; conveniently packaged in half hour - forty five minute chunks suitable for commut...

Kel Rekuta

Endre Fodstad wrote:This:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Warbow-Robert-Hardy/dp/0750931671

is the most amusing book in the world.

Just skip the crap by Hardy. Strickland is a top notch researcher IMHO. Pleasant fellow to chat with too.

Kel Rekuta

Anything ever come of this request? I'd like to stamp some strap buckle plates and tips out of sheet brass. A coin die might be the ticket for the project. Casting doesn't interest me.

WTB - Resin or concrete casting of an armoured knight

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