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Browin Auld wrote:The only thing I'm having trouble with is how those.. things that look like nuts are attached to the helm

Just different shapes for the vervelles. Not the usual tube or sphere.

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For you maybe.

For me, it sucked.

Anyway, we didn't steal it from the Mid, we rather inherited it.

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Nope, no Tom yet. Kingdom Law says to be resident for a year. I THINK that the current Crown tightened that up to physical residence (long story, I'd have to look up just what was written). Tom's got a couple months yet (and his wife hasn't moved yet, either, though he wouldn't be fighting for her)....

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The list just in from King Hrodir: Lord Jacques-Louis Defroi for Lady Rosamund McInnes frae Moray Lord Stephen du Bois for Lady Ailleanne Ingen Faelin Lady Roisin igen Ailill for Baron Mateo Montero de Madrid Sir Kaydian Bladebreaker for Mistress Cassandra Antonelli Vicomes Gaius Niklos Aurelius Luc...

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Some years ago, after Sunday practices, those of us left over would engage in 'javelin golf'. Whoever had won the last 'hole' would select a tree or other obstacle as the next hole. The winner would be the one who hit it in the least number of throws. Some of the throws were as much as 30 yards. Tha...

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p.s. we are in Northshield if that makes any difference in the rules of how such a device must work. No difference at all. It is not allowed, else I would have armed my peasants with them long ago, as that's what my persona would have done. The only place such things are allowed is on the rapier fi...

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See, if'n we could've gottn him an AoA as Humphrey, he'd never have escaped it. Oh well, at least he kept the Bexley.

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I always wonder about the 'unbroken tradition of technique passed completely unchanged down from yadda yadda' that I hear. It's not verifiable. On the other side, you have the written traditions, which may or may not have been rewritten, or may be misunderstood now (look at how many people disagree ...

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OK, Northshield then... 1. All our marshalls authorize people. 2. Shield configuration varies wildly. 3. Madus legal, but largely unused, and not by the guys at the top (for example, Duke Seigfried only started getting really good when he dropped it for a sword). 4. Still mostly sword and shield, wi...

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Thomas, I don't think taking stuff to GO is going to work -- Cannonshots looks like he's over in Australia. But as always, you're spot on with the comment about working from non-flat meterial. Cannonshots, sorry if I'm amused that you're going to use a cold chisel for hot work... Anyway, your basic ...

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I think that it's likely that the smith, if he needed to hold anything for some amount of time, would just heat up the jaws, and custom fit to the piece. Thus, there are no special tongs, just tongs fitted to the job at hand.

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As cheaply as possible is likely to mean mild steel, rather than aluminum or other metal. Personally, I'd just chop out the rectangles with a shear, and a little work with a rawhide mallet to keep them flat. As for designs, I guess I'd just get one of those letter/number stamp sets, and put the deno...

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Jehan de Pelham wrote:My wife loves garnets and amber; yet more evidence she was born six hundred and fifty years late.

Yours, too, huh?

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Here's what I do. First off, the carboard pattern with hole markings is essential. On my patterns, only the lames are marked for holes. I only center punch the holes on the lames before forming, because I find that if I actually punch them, they change shape when I work the lame. When both pieces ar...

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Steven Blowney (Mord) was kind enough to hunt it down via ILL. By the way, we need to take a trip up to Madison, WI. The university up there is reported to have a phenomenal library. If you do, let me know. We'll roll out the red carpet for you. As for phenomenal libraries, which one do you mean? T...

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Probly the same coat. -Possibly. I still have doubts about this but I'm probably wrong. The blue and white coats were done for the first Rene up in Nordskogen, which is well after the time of the first picture (somewhere in the very early 90's). You guys would have loved that event. Probably the to...

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How about a custom center punch? Much easier...

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What can the hydraulic press be used for? Lots of stuff. My next set of knee armour (hidden aluminum) are being made under a 36 ton press, using a sort of steel ball on a stick and a chunk of urethane as 'hammer' and 'dish'. Normally, the aluminum (.090 6061 T651) is really, really springy, so hamme...

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(Although I have found a short-cut: any picture in which I can see anyone wearing obvious TENNIS SHOES and/or visible WHITE SOCKS generally doesn't make the grade for public display. Hint, hint...) Ursus Historically, though, I would wear white socks. Of course, I wouldn't call them socks. Just for...

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Guy Dawkins wrote:
Murdock wrote:according to the autocrat at great court total was 300 or so higher than last year.

But the Mid looked a little thinner than i remember.

We've cut back on the cookies.

It sure looked like Omarad did.

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Actually, if you read the rules carefully, they are not legal. The rules state that shields cannot be equipped with thrusting tips and used as weapons. Madu has a buckler. Buckler is a shield. Also to my knowledge, spears cannot be equipped with a buttspike. Madu has a spear... GrimR You may wish t...

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You have just verified Dennis McCain's Second Law Of Electronics:

If it's not working, take it apart and put it back together again. It will work.

The First Law is:

Every wire has 2 ends.

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Personally, I use the 45" Darkwood bated rapier, as they were the longest I could find. However, at this last Gulf Wars, discussing the subject with Don Simon Morcar, he said that they could produce blades up to 53" on an extemely custom (read bucks) basis.

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Clermont wrote:I'd follow the suggestion above of pushing the end nipper (I call them "dykes", is that not a widely used term? Too un-PC?) up to the edge of the steel and letting the bevel of the cut determine the length of the shank.

Not too un-PC, but 'dykes' (diagonal cutters) aren't end nippers.

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Ingvarr, That liner in my pic, is not adequate for SCA combat. It does not meet the 1/2" padding rule. While your particular liner might not be adequate, that doesn't mean that SCA rules require padding. Here's the quote: All parts of the helm that might come into contact with the wearerâ€™s h...

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I almost wonder if you couldn't have done some sort of Negroli grotesque with that design.

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Raito- Do I HAVE to? Of course not, especially if you come up with something else. But half the kingdom now knows you by that name. (For the rest of you, I got tired of waiting for Josh to come up with a name. So I researched one. And asked everyone to use it at Gulf Wars before he got there. I did...

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It was mostly fun this year. I got to meet a lot of you (don't want to try and name names, because I'll forget someone I shouldn't, I always do) and that's always good. We made the traditional food stops along the way (Lambert's, Waffle House, Sonic, and Bandana's barbecue). Just stuff we don't have...

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I knew he was touching himself...

(yeah, it was tres cool.)

The guy who seemed to kick mucho was Sir Gideon.

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Praetor, you always start from a rectangular "scutum blank," and you then cut your heater from that with a saber saw. Considerable scrap, but you'd have that scrap anyway. Burn it in the fireplace, as its shape makes it unlikely to be usable in anything else. Yeah, if you like burning glue.

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This'll be my last word until after Gulf Wars, but so far I like the conversation. As far as my knowledge allows, Sir Nigel is correct about the insurance. It is not there to protect you, it is there to protect the corporation. As far as actually having insurance, I have been to many (non-SCA) event...

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I think that Geoffrey and I have hijacked this thread enough, so I started a new one here:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=934815

Besides, Nigel is doing a fine job of helping the new guy out, and doesn't need us arguing here.

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In the interest of not hijacking (further) an otherwise excellent thread, I've created this one. Last time, Geoffrey said... Geoffrey, your statement that it's right to do makes little sense. The NMS goes straight to the corporation, and one could quite successfully argue that paying as you go is th...

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If the victory condition is to control the baggage train at the end, it becomes another 30 second pile up at the end of the scenario. I don't like those much because how you fight them to win isn't fun (sit around until the last minute, then charge) How's about this? Have some number of sacks in the...

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I mean, here in Meridies the NMS fee is about $3 as I recall. If you go to one event a month that's $36 a year. Membership is $35/year, as I recall. So that makes membership free! On top of that, you get a newsletter, you can be an officer, and you can receive awards. Membership is not required (SC...

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