The Armour Archive

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'Metric' is not oddball.

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2) Change the armor rules so that our armor won't damage your hands - my helmet has a small blade right above my eyes that won't harm a steel gaunlet but often chews up rattan swords. I shudder to think what it would do to a hockey glove punching at me. It is my opinion that you should seriously co...

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So anyway, I began to consider how, as a kid, many of my favorite fantasy/sci-fi movies involved sword-play in one mode or another. And then I realized that sword fighting had to absolutely be the geek equivalent to a sports obsession. I mean, just watch the amazing fight between Robin Hood and Sir...

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In Northshield's last TOC, every member of the Chivalry fought close to 60 bouts in an hour and a half or maybe a little longer. The Unbelts fought 9 times in that amount of time.

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As said, you can't get more than atmospheric pressure with vacuum. Look up hydroforming. Interestingly enough, plate hydroforming is a raising process, not a dishing proccess (like the usual pressforming).

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Tool & Die is an expensive process. The dies are costly critters, and they only amortize well over production of several tens of thousands of identical items. It's only prohibitively expensive if you need those tens of thousands of items, or have someone else do it so that you can make a single...

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Most 5 gallon buckets are HDPE, which will hold up to combat. Doesn't make for very protective armour, though. Most 3 gallon buckets appear to be LDPE, or some such. They get brittle pretty quickly. This is my experience. 55 gallon barrels hold up, and protect. Painting simply does not work. It alwa...

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Thomas, I disagree with that reasoning, and always have. The reason to throw blows in an authorization is because you are there to show what you know. If you don't throw blows, you aren't showing much, unless the other guy is swinging at you. Also, you don't win an authorization by hitting the other...

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Ok, Raito- you have a general listening to you right now. How would you make the ravine more fun? I replied to this via PM, because some of it gets personal, and has little bearing on the thread. But I will say that it's not the setup or victory conditions that make the armoured ravine battle borin...

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The Ravine Battle: it started late and so began in the heat of the day. The fight became a line battle dominated by spears and combat archery. Boring. I agree with Raito here. Despite my best efforts one year, it always does. For me, the ravine ends up being a nice long walk in the shade. If I can ...

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Ii, I'm not seeing the difference. When I put my proximal interphalangeal joints (had to look it up so I could be specific) so that they line up with my edge, I also get the back edge just inside the meaty part of the thumb. It may be a matter of hilt size. Even in kendo, I found the wringing moveme...

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The 4-point chin strap, of any type, solves the up/down, and back/front movement. As an example, a friend bought a beautiful sallet with a 2 point (up/down) strap. Every time he wore it, he got his nose cut. He tried putting in more padding, and then he couldn't see. Tightening the strap made the pr...

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The delay of the ravine battle for the earlier tournament was a bit long. My only comment or request would be to HRM Radu. Could you maybe not be so tall next war? Again? Really? (To both comments, but I'll only address one. I don't think there's anything reasonable to do about Radu's height...) No...

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Not Royalty, and I didn't go this year, but one of my guys mentioned that battle scenario victory conditions were again changed at the last minute or during the battles. It has happened when I have attended in the past, and it I've never found ti pleasant. Some 'Fog of War' gets a little too foggy. ...

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If any of you are interested in learning some of those techniques, I can hook you up (PM, please).

No, not me teaching, nor the guy from the video, but I do have connections.

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As far as beakage at a metallurgical flaw, I have seen a single instance of something that I believe could only be that, on a schlager. It did not break perpendicular to its length, but broke with the fracture an elongated s-shape, where each end was on the opposite edge of the blade from the other....

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqC_squo6X4

If nothing else, you'll want to watch for the video of Mac's Capwell harness in action.

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Yes, I own several whitney punches, of course. Except on the aluminum parts which are, unfortunately, too thick for the punches. I use T6 aluminum for the kusazuri and sode because with all those holes you need massively thick (12 ga +) metal to withstand the beating of combat. T6 does the job nice...

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Just look up garniture.

Unless you consider toggle lacing guards on Japanese great armours to make said armours asymmetric.

Suer looks like some of the garnitures were for a lot more than jousting.

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Easy to say where my sweet spot is. After all, on a stright stick the COP is in the same place as you hold the stick, just on the other end. Mine tend to get damaged equally. But it's hard to know which of those marks are offense and which are defense, seeing as I'm one of those godless two weapon f...

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That's absolutely right, Raito. I had to go do some homework on this one, and apologize for the mistake! Why is it commonly accepted that 16 gauge is the minimum? .0625 inch is almost exactly 14 gauge (which is .064) while even 15 gauge is too thin (.057) What the hell? -Gerhard Because for ferrous...

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16 gauge steel is light and generally "squishy" for SCA combat even though it's the minimum requirement. This is not correct. Helms shall be constructed from steel which has a thickness of no less than .0625 inch (1/16 inch or 1.6mm), or of equivalent material 16 ga. is not 1/16" inc...

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It does not surprise me that your armour that you paid real money is marvelously good at doing his job (keep your bodily parts attached together). I'm surprised by people that buy cheap large production pieces and then expect them to last to the end of days, and they are even capable of blaming rea...

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losthelm wrote:Sander that hearldry looks a lot like newbridge....

Try Cleftlands.

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The late Master Price from Jararvellir authorized when he was about 60 as I recall. Fought past 70, including at several Pennsics. He was from Caer Anterth Mawr (right next door to Jararvellir, so you were pretty close). He fought in Coronet at 80. I have heard or read that the oldest person to pas...

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Thorstenn wrote:That is the kind of dip shit that SHOULD go to a marshall's court because he does not get it.

Thor-

6. Any behavior that takes deliberate advantage of an opponentâ€™s chivalry or safety-consciousness, or that takes deliberate unfair advantage of an opponent, is prohibited.

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As well, Jeu de la Hache makes numerous references to using the queue to drive the opponent backwards, presumably without injury, and likely because forcing the opponent out of the lists made them lose. If you can't hold your ground, you lose. I'd cite more specifically, but the books aren't unpacke...

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I will be taking my 8 year old son with me. I haven't been in years. What goods does the bakery carry..thanks Things with sausages, though I hear that if you want bread you have to get there early. I'm also amused by the comments on possible cold weather. When I go, I go to get away from the cold w...

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pallidus wrote: -Remember that the Do's weight rides on TOP of the hip bones. The Do doesn't completely hang from the watagami.

This is not especially true of o-yoroi dou, but is mostly true for later styles.

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When I was 35 or so, I had to get a hand x-rayed. The doc said I'd busted a bone in it previously, and asked if I knew when I'd done it. I had to think back, but I'm pretty sure it got broken through hockey gloves back when I was 17-18. The problem, which the docs never figured out, was that I had i...

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It seems likely that they aren't spaced correctly. They should ride between the trapezius and the shoulder, where there isn't any slope. From your description, it appears that they should be placed wider.

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We shall have to see how this one plays out. My understanding is that the primary purpose relates to filing tax returns. My understanding is a little different. Mine is that it relates to regulation of non-profits having to do with auditing (which is not directly about tax filings). In Wisconsin, a...

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Count Johnathan wrote:I see. You know what that means?

It means Kingdoms don't have lawyers.

Whether any Kingdom currently has a lawyer, I couldn't say. But as I did say, I know of a Kingdom that had one in the past. So does Kilkenny. So does Omarad.

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For SCA use, the standard is 0.075 inch (1.9mm) (but of course there's no alloy or treatment standard so YMMV). My gauntlets are .090, but I have to replace them every several years.

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Kingdom lawyer???? WTF? Never heard of such a thing. But you're apparently qualified to speak about it. Yeah never heard of one because it's not a position that kingdoms hire someone to do. SCA legal matters are dealt with by the SCA Inc. legal team. Show me the list of these Kingdoms lawyers that ...

Re: My throatless shear has malfunctioned.

Re: Legal fist weapons?

Sword fighting as geek sports obsession

Re: Is it Possible to Fight 60 Rounds in a Single Day?

Re: Vacuum forming...

Re: Could you make greaves with a forming die?

Re: Bucket plastic for Lamellar?

Re: Aggression on the field.

Re: Gulf Wars - Bad Experiences?

Re: Gulf Wars - Bad Experiences?

Re: Knuckles forward: Question on proper grip (mostly SCA)

Re: Question for HG Alaric regarding chin strap attachment..

Re: Gulf Wars - Bad Experiences?

Re: Gulf Wars - Bad Experiences?

Re: Great video of tsuba being made

How to Mount a Horse in Armor and Other Chivalric Problems

Re: Battlefield Bakery