The Armour Archive

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Vlasta wrote:Then again, Michael was trained in the south bay while I played mainly in the north bay area. Could be a regional difference.

Gonna need a smiley brigade for this one.

Regional? Half our single groups are bigger than that...

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The West is Small? King City CA (nearly the farthest south) to Crescent City CA (almost at the border with An Tir) is a distance (by road) of 504 miles. San Francisco CA (farthest West) to Wells NV (nearly farthest East) is 550 miles by road. Geographically we aren't that small. Still looks pretty ...

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This is a geographic SCA division. I've noticed in my wanderings that Eastern (per Western POV, "everybody east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains") SCA folk have a sharply different opinion on the subject. But there's various reasons for the difference. For example, most eastern kingdoms hav...

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That sounds, kinda normal, really. Just keep making passes around that brim until it's down where you want. There's a lot more emtal in a helm than in an elbow, which is probably why it's more noticable.

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For some reason, I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI1-4mSCUbY

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Kilian_the_warlike, The reason the EK is going to a league like that because (I believe it Vermont, maybe PA) has a law that is an adult strikes a child, they go to jail. Blame sweeping legislations. I researched exactly that item for the states in Northshield (didn't manage to figure out Manitoba,...

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Murdock wrote:i love it when my friends get cool stuff!

You may mean 'work their ass off to succeed'. Stephen worked 3-4 days a week for this (and that's just when he was working with me, Keg, or Zig. He also worked out on his own.)

Heck, even his shield work looked pretty good.

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Makes me wonder if the ideal solution might not be to use welded mail, and stamp the rings to appear riveted.

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I can't quite agree that choosing persona first is the way to go. I know way too many who chose their persona based on what armour that would have had.

If the armour is cool enough (to you), then the persona follows. How the heck to you think I ended up doing Japanese?

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I'll be MIC for an upcoming event and I thought I'd poll this group for ideas. Seems an efficient way to ask folks with a very wide range of experience. I expect no more than 30 fighters, likely less, and we will have a Royal presence. I would prefer fighting scenarios that don't require an extensi...

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That depends somewhat on what language you're reading in, and which side of the world you're reading about. Such as? EDIT: serious question, btw. I wouldn't suspect otherwise. About Japanese (in general), and in French (again generally). Russ, I'm not disputing anything you say about European stuff...

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That depends somewhat on what language you're reading in, and which side of the world you're reading about.

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Hey, the guy doesn't even know definitions (though from reading a few of the pages, English might not be native to him). Whether it's made from bands or scales, it's still lamellar (although you could laces scales in such a way as to make it not lamellar, but nobody really does). And the reconstruct...

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I'ma gonna have to politely disagree a bit with Irish (bot agree a bit, too). Full-on plastic wasn't used, no, but polymer-coated was, which is essentially plastic (unless you're a materials science sort of person). But not in Europe. Leather wasn't used, perhaps, but rawhide certainly was. Again, n...

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Sure, having done all of them over the years... Leather works, but seems to require hardening or a pretty high pain tolerance. Mine is pretty high and I still wore padding underneath. Also, it may disintegrate agter 20 years, like mine did Metal protects the best, but take the longest to make, becau...

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Yeah, I'm not quite sure what you're asking either. Your profile says Germany, so maybe English isn't your native language? It may be that you're asking about singled handed swords specifically, because there's darned few non-quillon style great weapons out there. Or you may be asking about a single...

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Technically, it IS lamellar. 'Lame' refers to the horizontal band, not the small plates. And yeah, I make it and wear it. I find that the tassets provide pretty good leg protection, at least for as low as they hang.

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If you know where to step, you can probably take your time getting there. It's not that I have a problem with speed, but I do think it's a relatively small part of footwork. I regularly beat guys who can smoke me in a sprint with footwork. I do that by figuring out where to step long before they do....

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Reminds me a bot of Denys de Caergwen's son. Even as a baby, he'd crawl around to the hilt end of a sword to play with it.

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Vigmund Gunnarson wrote:Wow 5/16" ? ThatÂ´s about 8mm just very little under that, yes? Does 1/4" get bent from use even if it is from stainless? If so, IÂ´ll go for 5/16"
Thanks for the quick answers

Yes, eventually, even for stainless. I should also mention that I put them on 1" centers.

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Personally, I go 5/16" on all bars. Keeps them from bending longer, and doesn't seem to interfere with vision.

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I won't really comment on the content, as I don't fight by your rules. I'd simply say what I usually say to people making training videos (because it applies even to the porfessional ones). 1. Get a script. 2. Edit it. 3. Video allows for multiple takes. In your particular case, saying "OK, now...

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And for aid in wagering, here's the specific format: 1. The tournament shall be a standard double elimination tournament, save that each bracket shall be fought until there is a single combatant remaining, those two to meet in the finals. 2. The first round shall be seeded by challenge, the challeng...

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It works on metal, but the usual application is to silk-screen the resist to the metal through a screen done with photo emulsion.

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Animal Weretiger wrote:Wow, I guess we know who wears the hakama in THAT family! Sheesh!

Animal, you'd think that a LOT funnier if you saw the difference in hakama length at Coronation. Her nagabakama trump my my uwabakama (in length anyway).

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It has been decided that I will not attend Pennsic in 2009 (not if I want to stay married, anyway). So if anyone wants it to happen, I can help with scheduling, rules, etc., but I won't be there to participate. My Pennsic days may be over for a while. We'll see. The 6 of us (Nissan, Torashi, Gembei,...

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I've been in just that situation, and we authorized 10 of the 12 in time for the next Pennsic. In fact, I developed an entire curriculum for them that I still use, but I'm way too lazy to write it all down. But here's some high points: I began every practice with a bit of a lecture. I always asked w...

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I've been in just that situation, and we authorized 10 of the 12 in time for the next Pennsic. In fact, I developed an entire curriculum for them that I still use, but I'm way too lazy to write it all down. But here's some high points: I began every practice with a bit of a lecture. I always asked w...

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I have a standard rate for stuff I'd never do...

(it involves not ever having to work again)

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And yeah, Stepehn's BP is hanging low, but he borrowed it from me, and didn't want to punch any holes in the straps. It's OK, he'll have his own soon. Actually, it hangs funny on me, since I changed what I'm wearing underneath.

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Dontcha mean Sabu?

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Thus the disadvantage of wearing gauntlets fighting with two weapons. No hold is called in that case, and the second blow through that line generally hits.

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Less Hagakure is good. Not only is it post-period, it does not reflect anyone's reality but the author's. It's his idealized version of what ought to be.

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Put the lever back to position 1 prior to firing.

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Greylond wrote:Could you explain 'countersink' and 'chamfer', please?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Acountersink

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3Achamfer

It really is that easy.

Re: Heavy list ideas?

Japanese Battle, Pennsic 2009