The Armour Archive

Kel Rekuta

Yes, another term for this is "drum dyed" due to the continuous agitation literally beating the dye load uniformly into the entire hide. Any leather that is dyed with a spray process will tend to have an undyed core; beige for vegetable tanned, pearl grey for chrome tanned.

Kel Rekuta

Kel, you might be the person to ask about this. I believe I have run across references to couiir bouilli (by some spelling) relating to the bookbinding industry and seeming, from context, to relate more to an unfinished leather...or something.. I am sure it is not talking about hardened stuff the w...

Kel Rekuta

I am not sure why you think period sued was just full grain leather worn inside out. I can't imagine why they would not have been perfectly capable of producing suede splits. Deer is also an option to consider, it makes for really comfy - if not too terribly durable - clothing. Um, because the blad...

Kel Rekuta

mackenzie wrote:
But I want it to be 14C and this one too:

Is that one in Milan? I thought it was in the Polish Army Museum.

Kel Rekuta

Looks like we need to start a cuir buoilli guild...once we learn how to spell it. Whenever I get to that word I just wing it. I spell like Lewis and Clarke, who had something like a dozen different spellings of the word Sioux. That's okay... there wasn't a particular spelling of "bouilli" more popu...

Kel Rekuta

Kel, I can name a few MT guys that are pretty good at full contact - Shane Adams, Patrick Lambke, myself.... Honestly, I got hurt more working at MT in 3 years than I did on the fairce circuit in over 15. Lloyd, 1 - Did you or Patrick do full contact at MT? Or did you start that after leaving MT, l...

Kel Rekuta

I think the rodeo guys have a major advantage in riding skill, variety of experience and sheer tenacity. Professional cowboys are tough critters. From my perspective the hunter/jumper/crosscountry/eventer guys have the riding skill advantage. Centered balanced riding radically reduces the transitio...

Kel Rekuta

Seems like there are a lot of Medieval Times guys. I would think that the MT experience would give them an advantage. Only because they ride almost every day. However the quality of instruction and variety of choreographed "fights" they are required to learn limits them to very specific experience....

Kel Rekuta

Aaron, A couple examples of that size survive from the thirteenth century. Iconic evidence seems to support their use until plate leg harness developed in the early fourteenth century when the cavalry shield becomes smaller. Fourteenth century infantry seem to use either quite large shields or very ...

Kel Rekuta

Question: What kind of maille would you use if you should protect the armpit of a fighter that is using rebated spears, arming sword and poleaxes? The idea is that armpit are not a deliberate target, but I really fear thrusts that slip over the breastplate and are not catched by edge rolls of armpi...

Kel Rekuta

Andrew McKinnon wrote:
How cool IS Rod?

My coffee went cold when I was talking to him. Cool dude.

Kel Rekuta

I really like the box.

Kel Rekuta

I haven't received either of the publications I paid for two years ago. I haven't seen any new content on the website for at least a year. Other than the seminars organized in their name at the K'zoo conference, I do not believe there is anyone still doing anything for the DRM organization. Too bad,...

Kel Rekuta

I was thinking of something similar to a cobbler's shoe lasts. I've seen adjustable ones and was figuring the idea could be translated to arms and legs. Odd After twenty plus years supplying the shoe industry, and seeing literally metric tonnes of lasts sold at auction, I would be fascinated to see...

Kel Rekuta

I'll be in NYC & NJ in June. Maybe TX and NOLA in March.
I can only slip past your Homeland Security so many times a year.

Kel Rekuta

Bob & Wade - Point taken. Numerous data points beat speculation every time. Thanks.

Kel Rekuta

True, I shouldn't have said "cops" - plural. I've seen a hi-res photo taken of the little panel and the left cop appears to go around more than a simple disk would. I don't have that image though, I didn't take it. If I ever get to Bruges I will take one I can. Until then, we're picking nits. The OP...

Kel Rekuta

Ken Mondschein wrote:I suppose I do. Do I?

Nah, you're a wire weenie Ken.

You can have a piece of me if you come up to T.O. for our tournament April 14. I'd like to see that new kit of your's at the end of my spear. I guarantee you crash space and as much beer as you can manage.

Kel

Kel Rekuta

The archer in the Martyrdom of St. Ursula so frequently copied is wearing fully enclosed elbow cops in his spleynts. Its hard to tell until you get a close view of the painting or a hi-res copy. This has been discussed at length on the AA within the past couple years. No reason you can't have simple...

Kel Rekuta

Any functional clamshell gauntlet pattern can be made in medium weight 9-10oz leather. How much you harden the pieces will determine how much padding you might need underneath. Kilkenny's Titebond method is practical for most people.

Kel Rekuta

Ken,

Don't you mean "betterer?"

Kel Rekuta

Well, I don't play SCA anymore but the moment you comment on appears (and I mean that with the vaguest accuracy) to be an onside rebound set to draw the shield up into the non belt's vision, followed with a crossing shot that lines up the true edge to the now exposed head. Most of the other shots se...

Kel Rekuta

Russ, I was writing you a PM while you responded. Have a look.

Don't worry, be happy mon.

Kel Rekuta

Cheaper than going to Leeds, even if you can get an appointment to view the MS.

I think I'll wait for the commercial edition though. I neeeeeeeeedddddd to buy Carlo Paggiarino's latest book as well as Toby Capwell's soon to be released update of his PhD thesis. So many books, so little beer money.

Kel Rekuta

I do. Mostly a' plaisance but frequently to submission. We often describe it as a l'outrance but we don't use sharps so that's not strictly accurate.

The opening page has a video of this type of fighting. www.aemma.org

Kel Rekuta

Thank you, Mephit! The hat was a lot of fun. The wand was more of a technical than an artistic success. The scales in the grip are individually raised up by means of a crafty artifice I read about many years ago in Fine Woodworking. The wood is punched down with a shaped tool and the surface is the...

Kel Rekuta

i am currently looking for about 3 gallons of honey, so if you have a line on raw stuff let me know, and i appreciate it http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vinduska-Apiaries/210675778950462 Calontir's first Duke, and founding Baron of Vatavia has LOTS of honey! That is the coolest thing I've seen in age...

Kel Rekuta

Andeerz - excellent job digging. Well done! As my earlier comments were for the general reader and were dissed anyway... Russ, you clearly know everything you need to know at this point and can do just fine without my input. I will add one thing, again for the general reader. The previous comment to...

Kel Rekuta

If that reference book you mention is by George Cameron Stone - take anything in it with a huge dose of salt. The most useful thing about it is the large number of images of the armour of various world cultures. His descriptions and especially the names of many items have been corrected elsewhere in...

Kel Rekuta

Ah, Russ. Your timing is impeccable. I'm working on the quarter and year end reports for my business right now and you have to dig into something interesting... :roll: I haven't read this stuff lately but IRRC it is the collagen in the presence of sufficient tannin and moisture that polymerizes at 1...

Kel Rekuta

MacKenzie, I don't know what your hidden armour would be used for but I strongly recommend you don't count on this stuff to save your life against anything stiffer than the springy "rapier" blades approved for SCA combat. I can poke you harder with my index finger than those things can. For armoured...

Kel Rekuta

Rebated steel swords thrust through it like it wasn't there. It is designed to deflect butcher knives in the meat processing industry. I don't understand how it will keep a shark from ripping off your arm but it is also sold to the diving market. As a fashion statement in SCA context, why not? Its s...

Kel Rekuta

Its not that they don't hurt, you just stop caring once a hundred have come and gone.

Kel Rekuta

For that, unless you can read German or Dutch, which I can't - either book on brewing by Richard Unger. I've been trying to collect information on Hanseatic city brewing, especially Hamburg and Lubeck but its sparse in English.

Kel Rekuta

Yes, a pleasant read with a surfeit of quotes from historical and literary sources on everything from the brewing practices of ancient Sumeria and Egypt to specific problems faced by ale conners in small English villages. Any student of British brewing should have it. Not a single useful thing about...

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