The Armour Archive

raito

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 ...

raito

Here the kingdom has a responsibility to define what is "safe." In Atlantia, "safe" means they can throw a blow of sufficient force, and that they can at least attempt to block a blow. They don't have to make the block, but their shield better be moving to do so when they get hi...

raito

I don't know why I had this in my head, but for some reason I had thought a white belt was essentially a permanent auth card in any form the wearer chose to use. Learn something new every day... This was some time ago, so those conditions did not apply. Then again, personally, a white belt should n...

raito

Northshield has multiple authorizations. I prefer it, and prefer sword and shield as the first authorization, but it would be a very long post to describe my position. And I have lived in other Kingdoms that had (essentially) a single authorization. I found that I really don't like the 'you're safe ...

raito

i know, for a fact, atlantia doesnt own a lawyer. when a scumbag had his hack lawyer write me a letter threatening me (as king) for heading an investigation on his behavior i was told very clearly "do not respond to this lawyer, any and all communication will be handled with the scas legal cou...

raito

Count Johnathan wrote:Kingdom lawyer????

WTF? Never heard of such a thing.

But you're apparently qualified to speak about it.

raito

Count Johnathan wrote:Kingdoms don't have lawyers dude.

Demostrably false. In Northshield, the former SCa President, Patrick Anderson, filled that function prior to becoming President. Unfortunately, it was necessary at the time.

But thanks for playing!

I think this still applies.

raito

Perhaps. Perhaps it is possible. However, the shots that I WAS hit with would have probably BEEN light had they been with a normal tip. I have not experienced, even when attempted, a "light" shot. I have. Here's my experience on the receiving end of a Mandrake 2" on fiberglass... Las...

raito

Jess, I, too find the showers really awful, but I've only used the ones in the corral. The rest of Northshield assures me that some of the shower trailers are much better. It's just that I'm usually in one of the cabins, so I've never tried other showers. I also recommend eating at the camp store. T...

raito

I have short fingers, so I really hate those twisted bits some people put under their tape. I use the required cap on the end, then I use 3 pieces of stair tread tape about 4 inches long, laid lengthwise. 3 pieces just about covers the circumference, and 4" long means that the thumb and forefin...

raito

I wish I could find it now, but I was surfing around looking at Chinese swords, and up pops a photo of a guy with a sword as large as Cloud's (some old Master such-and-such of the so-and-so style). I remember thinking I'd have to no longer think that it was unrealistic.

raito

Absence of the Audible Foam thrusties and edge padding remove from the acknowledgment process the audible information used with every other strike. The absence of the audible also let's people lie, or make many honest mistakes, about the face thrust, body or limb thrust, or the padded polearm strik...

raito

Graedwyn wrote:I have found manly fortitude
to be the best thing to wear under mail.

-Graedwyn

But not everyone has your store of that.

raito

Dishing the lames should not be necessary. If you notice on that pattern, the lames are curved. That makes the lower side of the lame shorter than the upper side. When making this type of dou, when curling (to use TOMAR's terminology) the lames to fit the body, the axis of the curl need to be perpen...

raito

The virtue to quenching brass is not that it makes it softer, but that it gets you back to work more quickly after heating it.

raito

Most tekko conver only the back of the hand, if that. They are not attached gauntlets (OK, there's that one, but there's alwas something funky in Edo-land).

raito

And you can do the same on a flat piece by holding it at a slight angle to the table. Slightly more cleanup, but the speedup is worth it.

raito

The formula given is a good approximation, but in the interest of complete pedantry, is not completely correct.

raito

No wonder they seem to favor falchions.

raito

Ever heard of recon? That's why you go first, and figure out if that will happen.

raito

Unfortunately, the pattern making and armour making processes go hand in hand. Getting better at one makes you better at the other. One thing that hasn't been stated is that the process you'll be using to make the item changes how the pattern looks. For example, If you're going to do an elbow via 'p...

raito

I like your note about the curved shields. I agree with the argument (Hand, again) that the shield style developed because it closes the line in front and sides of the wielder, making it possible to attack without having to expose too much of the body. Anybody using curved shields find this to be t...

raito

We're talking about a one-handed, standing thrust against mail, right? I'm sure there are fellows out there with the ability (Paul Bellatrix, Uther), but for the other 99% of us humans, what you propose is a nigh impossibility. Given the weight we grant the technique within the ruleset, it is dispr...

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face thrusts. They never were dangerous, really. The Middle just thought so. They were dangerous if your helmet wasn't padded & strapped for them - I learned that by bloodying the nose of an Eastern Duke who visited us at Estrella once. Strikes to the face were always legal, and full power here...

raito

Patin Windward wrote:I've only seen this done once. By the original owner Khai (now retired) Its in my possession now.

Khai retired? That's too bad.

I've seen it done twice. Once by Khai, and the other was inspired by his.

raito

Following on the premise that the "standard" is mail, there is greater hazard to the blunt-force trauma of an edge attack than the point. The underlying argument is that armor does not need to be rent for an edge to be effective, whereas the same cannot be said of the point. I disagree. I...

raito

Well, I've been through the same stuff as Wade, except that I've been active the whole way through. (Remember the shindig on the UW Library Mall when we were 16 Wade?) I think that the biggest change that I've seen in the last 30 some years is in how blows are thrown (unless your last name is Bellat...

raito

Jeff W wrote:...the lack of control.

That's rich.

raito

All the madu's around here (and they're a dying breed) have only a basket, and no buckler, so that's the sort I was referring to.

As for length, I guess one might be able to do something shorter in the context of an assegai.

raito

It might be legal, but I can't imagine any possible reason you'd want to do it, as it would be neither a good tactic for sport fighting nor historically accurate for any persona. If you can get away from the emotionally-charged word 'madu', and see the weapon for what it is -- a pokey thing with a ...

raito

We have the 4 on 1 rule in Northshield, except...

Someone holding that ball pointed out that CA engage everyone they can hit, so if you're within range of 4 CA on the field, no one can hit you with a sword.

Lookee! I have my own rule.

raito

Most of the folks on the AA read all of the forums - so posting exactly the same thing in three different subforums just looks like spam... On the other hand (digging a bit), it certainly appears that Steve posted this on this forum, the want ads, and interpretive recreation. Which happen to be the...

raito

Yeah, but I'm kinda puzzled because that's not the sort of thing I'd expect from Steve. He's usually brighter than that...

raito

We did this 20 years ago. I told everyone we did it to keep in shape, but that wasn't the whole truth. The rest of it was that nothing shakes down a suit of armour like running in it for more than a couple steps. We had a lot of new guys, and it helped them identify how to omprove their kits for com...

raito

Reminds me of a conversation I had with someone once, where they were complaining about a particular Knight. One of the things that came up was that said Knight lived in a trailer. My reply was that at least he owned that trailer, which is more than the other party in the conversation owned.

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