The Armour Archive

Kel Rekuta

I didn't think he looked that big. ;-) Moose All a matter of perspective ;) And personally, I've only ever seen one guy I had to admit was bigger than I was - at least until I took his leg. And no, I'm not a big guy - but part of my fighting mindset is that I am bigger than you, whoever "you" may b...

Kel Rekuta

I couldn't be bothered to sew gloves into them for that price.

Some WMA student should snap these up. They're a bit light for SCAdians, unless used with finger bucklers.

Kel Rekuta

Well, if you will go back to the front of the thread, you will see that you specifically quoted MY response to Conal's (the OP) question about SPECIFICALLY striking unarmored and unpadded body parts with steel vs. Rattan. My response was focused at that question and had nothing to do with all that ...

Kel Rekuta

Dougal Forester wrote:EVERY TIME you lose consciousness from a blow to the head, GO TO THE HOSPITAL.

Mike, (RN)

Thanks for the concern but I couldn't have been down more than a second. No puddle of drool. More annoying than painful to get dropped by one of your own tools...

Kel Rekuta

I was diagnosed with severe, and now chronic, depression and have been on medication for it since then. I developed migraines, which I now have a few times a month, and I still have some short-term memory issues (thankfully, that has decreased markedly over the past four years). Check but don't see...

Kel Rekuta

Any better now? :) mmm.. maybe. Seems that you're talking about what happens if the steel sword doesn't hit "right" and that missing a bit with steel makes the blow minimal, while the same sort of misaligned edge with rattan is irrelevant to the energy delivered by the blow. To the extent I got tha...

Kel Rekuta

Ah, yeah. I'm not being the communicator Tony Robbins wants me to be. :( Still, I am curious how much exposure you have had to rebated steel blades against plate armour. This stuff is pretty clear when you see it happening. Except that the original question posed was it it hurt more getting hit wit...

Kel Rekuta

InsaneIrish wrote:
I am colored confused as well.

An unfortunate side effect of Insanity, no doubt.

I hope I've explained myself more clearly.

Kel Rekuta

Wait a minute, Kel, because what you are writing here reads at about 180 degrees from what you wrote before and I responded to. No, I don't think you understand what I wrote earlier and I failed to explain it more clearly. If you have a good steel sword in your collection, you could try the flex te...

Kel Rekuta

Use plank construction instead of plywood. Massive difference in survivability. Even then a well made shield should last more than one fight. Cheap disposable softwood shields designed to catch blades, though...different story.

Kel Rekuta

Kel, a couple of thoughts here. First, you do have your physics wrong on the rattan power transmission - all that bending is energy being used in the rattan and not delivered to the target, plus it increases the area over which the energy that is delivered gets distributed. That flexion is the fund...

Kel Rekuta

What we don't get with rattan that does matter with steel is that even when it is the edge that strikes, if the sword isn't properly aligned behind the edge, a steel sword won't strike true and a rattan simulator will. You know, I hear that from a lot of lifetime SCA fighters who jump into WMA. And...

Kel Rekuta

Having done both SCA and WMA for a long time, my experience has been contrary to yours. Good fighters know when they hit flat and generally, call it so. There are a few over-competitive dirtbags out there but they are uncommon. Training and experience tells. I find this to be a stray man argument. R...

Kel Rekuta

HURTS. The blunt skippy is you can not throw as hard with a steel sword as you can with Rattan. The force transfer is MUCH MUCH greater with steel. Rattan flexes A LOT even if we don't see it. Steel does NOT flex edge on. You throw at the force levels of SCA with steel and you will be breaking limb...

Kel Rekuta

Dafydd wrote:
Dante della Luna wrote:I hope not. I'd rather swordfight than play, "who can trip who first".
>BotN
>SCA Heavy
>swordfighting

Pick one.

+10

Kel Rekuta

Botn is the SCA what Grand Am Racing is to your local dirt track. BoTN is to medieval combat what Car Crash Derby is to Death Race 2000. No modern rule set, however rough, can compare to melee combat found in the historical record. Even without the horses... :wink: Personally, I don't see the attra...

Kel Rekuta

Dibs if you still have the parts you cut off.

Kel Rekuta

The thing that struck me about the armour there was that it was all open to be fondled by tourists. Anything less than artillery pieces that might have been real were in sturdy glass cases. It is an artillery school and museum after all. There was an excellent crossbow in one of the tower galleries ...

Kel Rekuta

Hmm, I usually don't think of rapiers unless they are in a case in a museum. :twisted: I do have a suggestion based on a protective scabbard some one had at an HEMA event. Instead of round PEX plumbers tubing, the person took a larger diameter tube and flattened it to an ovaloid cross section by hea...

Kel Rekuta

Well that's a good find Sulla!

especially BDF4156

and
BDF6732

Kel Rekuta

When everything is perfect cut a bunch of stock and set it aside for later. Mac This cannot be emphasized enough!!!! It takes longer to set the bugger up for just the right thickness than it does to run enough wood for twenty scabbards! :wink: Oh and on the topic of carrying around a bunch of rebat...

Kel Rekuta

Plastic inside a helm fogs up pretty quickly. Insert perf plate and paint it dull black on the outside. Less noticeable but very safe.

Kel Rekuta

Peikko wrote:
Kel Rekuta wrote:...So you see a lot of WMA folks doing armoured training? News to me, but good news.
Presumably many of these folks are his own students.

Yeah, I was assuming something more along these lines.. but I see where he's going.

Kel Rekuta

Yes indeed, how to waste time and materials in hope of making it back.

So you see a lot of WMA folks doing armoured training? News to me, but good news.

Kel Rekuta

Actually, most of the WMA people in N.Am wear running shoes or some kind of martial arts shoes for normal training. Some do wear turnshoes all the time or at least some of the time. Most of them don't do armour so that's pretty much an irrelevant "problem." Although I've had swords dropped on my fee...

Kel Rekuta

I am sure it has been discussed somewhere but I cannot find it right now. My copy of Armor from the Battle of Wisby is at home and I am in Afghanistan and need to settle a dispute in my mind. What was the thickness of the plates found at Wisby? By this I mean not the thickness of the plates AS they...

Kel Rekuta

The GDFB 14 ga houndskull is/was available in XL. I have one in the shop. I have smaller soup kettles at home.

Its fairly inexpensive and available from various vendors.

Kel Rekuta

I'm still wearing the legs I made in 1988 for SCA and now I fight rebated steel exclusively. As soon as James Gillespie has a break restoring real armour, he promised to find time to make me some repro Milanese legs in mid-carbon steel. Until then, the old ones still work fine.

Kel Rekuta

I understand that type of arrangement would be described as sollerets. Maybe that's just another word for sabaton though.

Kel Rekuta

Kel Rekuta

I'd love to see that thing strapped and on the horse. Please share when you get the photos. Such a cool project...

Kel Rekuta

That dude is a marvel.

Kel Rekuta

Beech isn't exotic although it might be a challenge to get better quality European steamed beech. Go to a real lumber yard that deals with cabinet makers. (most of them will resaw for a small fee as well.) Steaming brings out the "freckles" and gives beech its character. Otherwise its fairly bland w...

Kel Rekuta

Poplar has worked well for me, as has soft maple. Beech is my preferred wood for folding chairs but I had no idea it was used for scabbards. Interesting. 8) I second Mac's comment on the thinness of the wood. A light moistening of the outside makes the wood swell out slightly, especially if you wax ...

Kel Rekuta

Sad thing is it isn't black anymore. I heard the person who bought it had the finish removed and taken back to a bright polish. And then took it to South Africa where it will never again been seen in the European jousting community. Or so I heard.

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