The Armour Archive

Hew

Here's an 18th C. trammel: http://www.janicestrauss.com/Photos/PhCJ03l.JPG When we did any camp cooking in my Roman group (or even my Rev War light infantry unit, for that matter), we just set the pot or kettle on logs over the fire. More than adequate for boiling peas or cooking oatmeal. As long as...

Hew

How about pewter casting, on a stovetop? It seemed simple enough at this camping event demo. m Yeah, some historical coins were thicker but alot were much thinner than can be easily achieved with sand casting...or even lost wax casting. But... this method (shown in link) used soapstone molds. Prett...

Hew

Estaban wrote:I made this one for my girlfriend.
( corset 3.jpg attached )

Hey .... it's empty!

Hew

I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere there was turtle or tortoise shell armour. (On a human, I mean.)

Hew

Even a mill file can raise a nasty invisible sliver of steel.
Yay for gloves.

Hew

I would like to see a change in attitude toward nerdy newbies. If somebody is nuts enough to spend three or more hours in the car to get to an event, then pay a gatefee for the privledge of sleeping on the floor, as far as I am concerned, they are "my kind of people" (until they prove otherwise). I...

Hew

From the audience: Ooh - a wet gambeson contest. I'd have no concern other than drowning. That's why instead of waterbearers, they have airbearers. I sweat so much and pour so much water on me to keep my core temp down that I don't think I could get wetter by entering a stream. [snip] It's just the ...

Hew

How about pewter casting, on a stovetop?
It seemed simple enough at this camping event demo.
http://www.northernelectric.ca/medieval ... .htm#aands

Hew

Either:
Heavy combat marshals must have SCA membership cards (as rapier and archery marshals do),
Or
No marshals need SCA membership cards.

One or the other.

(edit)
I just realised this is the wrong forum for this topic.

Hew

wind chime? That was my first thought. Maybe a xylophone? Not as pure a tone as say, a set of crescent wrenches, but certainly more attractive. Barrel of a small-bore potato cannon? Coil up something like 8 or 12 feet of it into a 2 foot diameter helix, and I bet it would make a passable trumpet. F...

Hew

I bet the flaming arrows sounds really cool too.

Hew

MeadDrinker wrote:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=19255&item=5594180451&rd=1

Size for this item is S, M, and L.

Emphasis on the S&M?

Hew

Salt water? Why? Salt (or any solute) lowers the boiling temperature of water, thus maing it faster to boil but cooler in temperature. If plastic bends at 300, that'd make 212 (or less, I won't bother with specifics) far less desirable. Nope. It's the other way around. Salt in water lowers the free...

Hew

Your armourer should wear ear protection and at least one glove. And sensible shoes, preferably steel-toed safety boots/shoes, anything but sandals. Since she's sitting down like that, it's not a big deal, but even so, there's the chance the piece might slip out of her hand when she's walking somew...

Hew

That people, both women and men, did not wear hats or cover their heads. Hhhmmm. I've been interested in correcting the opposite problem -- the assumption that people *always* wore hats. They simply didn't in various times and places and circumstances. Just as bare heads aren't universal, neither a...

Hew

Have a look at http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/Shanwenkia.pdf or http://www.flatbow.com/shanwenkia/index.html on "Mountain Pattern Scale Armour"

It has a couple of features in common with the statue/model/whatever.

Hew

<personal taste> I generally dislike the notion of animals maintaining objects. It usually means the object is way too small to be distinguishable, and (like it says on some heraldry style site, somewhere) "animals have their jobs, we shouldn't make them do ours too". The same goes for "three maces"...

Hew

The Inuit will sometimes sew 1/2" wide cleats of untanned "ugiuk" (bearded seal) skin on the soles of boots, which are also made with the same skin. You'll also see strips of smoke-tanned moosehide on moosehide soles.

Otherwise, I'd vote for small dots of Shoe-Goo, placed like silicon hobnails.

Hew

Yes, I think so. I can't recall for the life of me who it was that made it, but I thought he was Canadian. I could be wrong, though... Possibly one of Eric Dube's (in Quebec)? He has a few fanbtasy helms: m Maybe not "transverse chevrons", but a bit different:[img]http://www.armurerieduduche.com/Ph...

Hew

Eric Dube - (if you're reading this thread) - What are we looking at here? [img]http://www.armurerieduduche.com/Site%20Anglais/Making%20of/Making%20of%20Elbow%20A-2/3.jpg[/img] Is that some sort of fluting or crimping tool, for "stretching" the plate edge, which then gets flattened out in the next f...

Hew

I wasn't there for it (Ruantallan Baronial Investiture Anniversary), but this looks like a great localtion for an ... under-the-bridge(?)... battle:
[img]http://ruantallan.org/images/zoom/bi2004_1.jpg[/img]

Hew

Ta-dah. The photos... http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/armoury/heater/c_heater_01.jpg (That's a dead bumble bee on the floor at the bottom of the photo. I don't know how they get there without me ever spotting any live ones.) http://northernelectric.ca/medieval/armoury/heater/c_heater_02.jpg

Hew

Ah. My favourite piece of garb, spans several centuries and cultures, depending on how it's worn. What Tim said is almost exactly what I do. > 1) Stick your head through the face hole (instead of the neckhole) > > 2) Adjust so the edge of the face opening is around your temples and > the fabric touc...

Hew

My first half-sheet of 18 gauge mild steel was from a place that sells supplies for auto-body work. No 16 gauge though. I found another place for sheet metal with better variety farther away, and they charge $5 per cut. As it happened I was only buying half a sheet, and it was already cut, so no sur...

Hew

If you're going to use Rapid Rivets, get different lengths, because you can't simply cut off excess length for thinner pieces. They come in "Small", "Medium" and "Large". The Large is long enough to go through a layer of barrel plastic plus a layer of latigo leather, but not long enough for plastic ...

Hew

Just being able to buy a set of patterns for a specific body measurement might make it worthwhile.

What's not clear is whether they're intended to be actual fighting garb, or just costumes.

Hew

Most priests got around the not shedding blood (with a sword) bit (Bible? Church?) by using maces Does anyone know where this idea came from? It's one of those medieval fun-facts that gets circulated around, but I don't know it's origin. The first thing I thought of is the notion of avoiding the sh...

Hew

I've got a curved heater (my first shield) freshly cut out, and I didn't use as elaborate a setup as the Scutum Press. From a description I posted for a mailing list... I scavenged a packing crate from work, enough for two or three shields. I took two 30"x28" pieces and glued them together with whit...

Hew

Russ Mitchell wrote:*I* robin-hooded my first arrow today, and destroyed the nock on another.

Granted, it was at only twenty feet (I'm working on my form), but it's still the first time I've ever done it.

If only they weren't both buried in the grass beside the butt.

Just kidding. Just jealous.

Hew

That's about what I figured, given the likelihood that a lot of rattan patio furniture gets left out in the rain occasionally, despite manufacturers' warnings.

I'll probably just wrap the ends in wide plastic tape.

Hew

Normally I don't like the look of that kind of visor (just personal esthetic choice) but I'll make an exception for that one, with the demi-sun breaths.
(Double-checked my spelling there.)
It's a marvellous effect.

Hew

If I simply strap long poles of rattan (with skin, not shaved down, and not made into weapons yet) to the top of my car and drive through rain with it (say, a 2-hour trip) would that cause permanent damage to the rattan? Would it permanently warp or swell up or do something bad? If I wrapped just th...

Hew

m ASSAULT - Whenever one person makes a willful attempt or threat to injure someone else, and also has an apparent, present ability to carry out the threat such as by flourishing or pointing a dangerous weapon or device at the other. An "assault" may be committed without actually striking or injurin...

Hew

I find this shield to be the most ap-pall-ing: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/primer/apall.gif *Hew [img]http://www.robertbody.com/minis/images/1999-lake-pleasant-duck.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.robertbody.com/minis/images/1999-lake-pleasant-duck.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.robertbody.com/minis/images/199...

Hew

attach the top straps 1" above each ear. take a second strap about 3 inches long attach it below the upper strap locating it 1 inch below the jaw line. [snip] this lets the upper one kill the downward motion of the helm and the lower one keeps the helm from rocking up. That's much like what I'm thi...

Re: Armour for your Lady

Re: Training breakthroughs? Or, what I did this afternoon..

Transporting bare rattan