The Armour Archive

Kel Rekuta

Yes, and as I mentioned somewhere in this thread, you can also use it to drive the head back, exposing the throat. They are sort of "set-up" thrusts, and ways to break measure, I think. Now, that is extrapolation from how they are presented, no one *says* that. Kel - I hope we'll see a tr...

Kel Rekuta

No, Will. I understand that and have read those accounts. Its just that rebated swords go clean through hands, as we have found. Dave was out of the game for months due to that armour failure. (gauntlet improperly maintained) After that incident we are careful not to target the hands, let alone the ...

Kel Rekuta

Thanks Ken! That's what I needed to know.

Kel Rekuta

You are a wise man.

Kel Rekuta

So Ken... you've Novati'd the Getty except you didn't have to draw the figures yourself? Have you added anything or is it a straight fascsimile of the manuscript? Not really clear on what this publication is.

Kel Rekuta

Very interesting, guys. I haven't noticed anyone pulling that stuff successfully since I left the SCA. We do fight with fully covered faces so the open helm thing is a given that that doesn't go for us. Also presenting a clear urgent threat as steadily as humanly possible seems to keep that diddly s...

Kel Rekuta

#1 Kudos for responding so quickly ... I just about packed it in tonight. Really good of you to post those pics. #2 Your helmet has so many targets with which to crank you all over the place, I just dont't know what to suggest. Build a wicked heavy neck brace... immediately. #3 Use your current gorg...

Kel Rekuta

Depends on your fighting style. Most modern sport fighters take large steps which will cause you to slip, historical manuals tell you to take short steps for a reason I hear this stated fairly regularly, but it seems like every illustration I see from fechtbooks has at least one of the people in a ...

Kel Rekuta

Any chance you'd be willing to post a photo of your helmet & gorget arrangement, as it was when you were injured? I am really curious how you could be taking such injuries with regulation equipment. There is bound to be a lesson for others in such a discussion.

Kel Rekuta

It has been my experience that a firmly braced weapon, couched under arm or against the hip, presented at a brisk walk is sufficient to bowl over a playmate that fails to dodge or set aside the point. Since most attempts to set the point aside drive it up, a stroke to the gorget or visor is common. ...

Kel Rekuta

I believe it lost momentum and petered out. Doug Strong is trying to retrieve and collate the remaining collection of articles submitted for the journal into a publish-able form. There is at least one article, on bascinet linings, that I am extremely eager to see published. I must imagine the others...

Kel Rekuta

Marco Signori wrote & Brian Rainey translated an eight page study of it, with excellent photos, for the ARS. The PDF should be on that site if its still online. Whether Signo here on the AA is the author in question, I do not know.

Kel Rekuta

A little more detailed image.

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Kel Rekuta

Yes, quite true.

Kel Rekuta

Okay Ivan, you got me there. I have no idea what the Dwarven Forge makes. Are they rigid and heavy like rattan? I got a pair of the Knight Shop / Dave Rawlings longsword wasters. They are Mattel toys compared to our AL wasters. Frankly, someone would have to jam their hands into a full on - wild aba...

Kel Rekuta

Best thread EVVVAAAAAHHH!

Kel Rekuta

If this fellow in the west is using SCA type steel gauntlets with nylon wasters to do some form of historical combat, he just doesn't get it. We that was uncalled for. Sorry that offends you, Ivan. I suggest you try to wield less than two pounds of plastic effectually while wearing three pounds of ...

Kel Rekuta

To add to Logos' comments, WMA isn't one type of fighting. Its a great number of disciplines, often barely related to one another. Medieval period studies fall into armoured and unarmoured. Armoured fighting can be done with SCA targeted gauntlets but many of them, especially clamshell types are far...

Kel Rekuta

And you have to get over that "full power" "full force" concept. It isn't a reality in the SCA. If it were, there would be broken and dead bodies after every event were large men smack smaller people. There is a blow calibration convention in the SCA for a very good reason. What...

Kel Rekuta

To the OP... Don't assume that what you saw at an SCA C&T bout has anything to do with what the HEMA/WMA community at large does. Judging only by the videos I've seen of it on this forum, I'd say it doesn't. Its a beast unto itself, burdened by numerous disabling safety conventions. And you have...

Kel Rekuta

A lot of good comments here but the one I don't see emphasized and probably most important to appreciating the WMA/HEMA scene is simply this. There is no umbrella organization setting the rules or structure everyone plays in. Academies, guilds, study groups, backyard get-togethers: they are all doin...

Kel Rekuta

Actually the fellow had a complete late 12thC knightly harness that might not have been out of place in any Templar castle. The mail was butted of course but who had riveted mail back then? I would guess the man was 40-50 years old, perhaps someone remembers the man. He was around at a few Pennsics ...

Kel Rekuta

Authing at Pennsic has never been allowed in anything to the best of my knowledge. I am really resisting the urge to be as snarky and dismissive in my response as you are in yours. It is difficult. Hey Gavin, let me. Sir Omarad, if you don't recall authorizations at Pennsic, then you haven't been a...

Kel Rekuta

All the 15thC fighting treatises, German or Italian lineages.

Kel Rekuta

Anyone who fits some riveted or even welded mail over appropriately constructed arming garments, wears minimal plate reinforcement over that to represent a late 12th or 13thC man at arms will do just fine. Its more than most high end fighters seem to wear, especially full mail chausses but its trai...

Kel Rekuta

Interesting and thoughtful questions. I haven't seen a Crown tournament for a few years but the highly appreciated fights that turn up here don't look any different than the numerous crown tourneys I fought in the Middle and Ealdormere fifteen years ago - aside from much better tabards. Please accep...

Kel Rekuta

Leo Medii wrote:
Good luck in your search. Toronto or Chicago might be a better place to get the kind of bouts you are seeking.

We keep inviting him. AEMMA has another Pas d'Arms at the Royal Ontario Museum Oct 1, 2011. You should come and play too Leo.

Kel Rekuta

Make a plywood blank the length and slightly less wide than the proposed final width. Curve it to whatever shape you would normally make a heater or kite shield. The pavises I've seen in museums have very little apparent curve because of the flatness of the center pile. The sides curve. Once it cure...

Kel Rekuta

Dr Rogers,

Thank you for your response and generous offer.

Kel

Kel Rekuta

Kel, I take it you think I'm "on the warbow side" and failing to take "due measure of their inherent bias and hyperbole." At least marginally. Perhaps more, perhaps less; I haven't read the two latest articles you mentioned. But it is both French and English sources that testify...

Kel Rekuta

And the armour penetration wheel spins 'round and 'round... The armour side focuses on breastplates and helmets; the warbow side focuses on primary source anecdotes without due measure of their inherent bias & hyperbole. My apologies Dr. Rogers but the Gesta reads like a recruiting letter to the...

Kel Rekuta

All "American" style sole leather is marketed as "oak tanned" - it presumes a premium grade leather. Not a fact but that's how its marketed. The stuff Tandy/Leather Factory sells as sole bends is readily available, fairly priced and acceptable quality for re-enactment shoes, etc....

Kel Rekuta

Usually white oak is used as its virtually identical to European white oaks. Except for the much coarser grain. I had the opportunity to handle a scrap pile of freshly cut French oak last week. Aside from the heavenly scent that came off it, it was all pretty select grade, straight and even striati...

Kel Rekuta

Yeah, beige works very well too. Under-dyeing is about the only use for that colour.

Kel Rekuta

You would be farther ahead buying a globose breast and back from Cet then finishing it up yourself. Unless your materials are incredibly cheap and your time has little value, you'll more easily achieve your goals of lighter armour and self construction. Plastic armour, even covered in decent cloth o...

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