The Armour Archive

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@raito: Only light contact with the wood ones. The nylon one's are mid to lightish full contact. We switched after 3 people (including me) broke knuckles or fingers. Would this idea still work? Keep 'em comming Then... no. I haven't used any of the current nylon wasters, but the rods that were an 8...

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1 pair of extra-large leather gloves. 1 pair well-fitting cotton gloves. Some pieces of good quality closed cell foam. You did say light contact. Cotton gloves on the inside, leather on the outside, foam between. Alternatively, I'd also put in some metal from the scrap bin on top of the foam, under ...

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Um, why not just put the nail part down through the die, and punch it that way? We've done it that way for years, and you don't have to clip the nail at all.

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And I know that mine cost me nothing in that regard.

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Many in the SCA who do Japanese are a foot taller than their personas.

There's 2 ways to deal with it -- either scale the armour up so that if they were of 'correct' height the proportions would be correct,

or make correctly proportioned armour for someone who, in period, would be very large.

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Unfortunately, enforcing that one rule is quite difficult in practice. Even with the following line in the governing documents: The Earl Marshal bears primary responsibility for promoting both the safety and the authenticity of the martial arts in the kingdom... I can fully understand Effingham's fr...

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I use closed cell polyethylene foam from MSC. Absorbs force quite well, and lasts a decent amount of time. No foam lasts forever. And for the rest of you reading this thread trying to get an idea of where to get foam, a simple search will show that this topic has come around before. I'm not complain...

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Except for Koha. He had been doing Doce Pares since he was 4. So he had no clue what to do with a shield. But did know what to do with a stick in each hand.

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Thomas, The BOH armour is quite a bit higher class than what that anime stuff was probably based on, which appears to be a, uh, reinterpretation of some ashigaru stuff. 'Cept the ashigaru didn't divorce their kuzsazuri from their dou, nor really sew their sode on their sode, if you know what I mean....

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Leo is right when he says there are advantages, but I don't quite agree with his reasoning. Nissan is right about pussyage. In the Middle, some time ago it was declared that a basket is part of the weapon, and is not armour. This made hand-blocking completely legal. It ia also true that dropping a w...

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Leo Medii wrote:SCA fighters don't bind. It is almost as foriegn a context as winding.

I do both. But then, I'm a wrestler disguised as a swordsman.

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I greatly prefer the padded mandrels and graded scotch-brite like abrasives over sandpaper of any sort for rotary applications. They seem to last a lot longer, and not have troubles with curves or the occasional low or high spot.

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36" overall, 8" handle, but then, I use 2 of them, and I get good use of the handle that's below my hand. I don't think you'll validate your thesis. I think many SCA sword do have longer handles because of the hand protection that's usually worn, but the period pieces I've seen generally h...

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Go read this first:

http://sca.org/officers/marshal/docs/marshal_handbook.pdf

In particular, look at page 29.

Once you've read that, you'll be in a better position to ask questions and solicit opinions.

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We all know that grabbing the haft is legal. But if someone grabs mine, that doesn't mean that I have somehow lost the freedom to move my weapon around. Is it really wrestling for me to attempt to maneuver my own weapon about? I don't think so, even when that maneuvering twists the other guy's wrist...

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D. Sebastian wrote:Could take a year.

If you're lucky. I know of one domain that's still being squatted, 8 years later.

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Talk to Effingham.

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you could also call the weapon an Adaga, which is a 15th century moorish weapon which is a small shield in center, point on top end of stick and blade/point on bottom of stick The real question is when does the handhold become a shield vs a basket hilt what is the size limit, because if it is a shi...

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Magents are used during harending, not during tempering. In general, simgple carbon steel lose their attraction to magnets when they reach critical temperature. In other words, when the thing becomes non-magentic, it's time to quench. It works because of the changes in the structure of the metal abo...

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My google fu has failed me so ill ask here is the battle of the 30 what A.C. Doyle used as a basis for the battle in Sir Nigel when the english and french were at "peace and not supposed to fight. So they decided to meet over an insult ( i think). Think in the story there were some germans the...

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There used to be a lot of conveyor belt armour in Northshield, because the father of someone owned a conveyor belt factory or somesuch, and we got a lot of ends and offcuts. But the stuff was never a half-inch thick. And it didn't punch well at all, you had to drill it. The holes ended up with a fuz...

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Personally, I don't have a problem with wheelchairs. But I do have a problem with pushers, which is really a problem with people who are unable to move themselves from the sidelines onto the field and off again under their own power. I admit I do not know if this applies to the original post.

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Hello, If a Madu is a single handed weapon, is it required that it be less than 48" long. Not exactly, if I understand the intent of your question. It is allowed to use two handed weapons in a single hand. Weapons are inspected according to different criteria depending on length and usage. Whi...

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Japanese armour could be broadly categorized into 4 types/periods: I'd like to slightly correct Otagiri's statement. Tanko and keiko are also Japanese armours, but are pre-Samurai armours. Unfortunately, many people refer to Samurai when they mean Japanese, much as they say Viking when the mean Nor...

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What does "being a good/bad businessman" have to do with actually making a damned thing you've contracted to make? Especially if he's a "good artisan" -- he should, therefore, actually be MAKING stuff and being artisan-like. I don't get it. "Artisans" have "patron...

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You probably don't have to PM. I tend to make my offers via PM because I found I didn't like getting PM spam. Of course, for auctions and the like, I'll offer on the thread, because it's polite to let others know what's going on.

Anyway, I did send a PM, and nails did respond.

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You're bumping the thread, so you're logged in. But you haven't answered any of the questions asked. Nor have you checked your PM's. I have one to you with a timestamp of: Mon Aug 02, 2010 8:47 pm (which would appear to put dibs on the Type X). (sorry to the rest of you guys, but there's reasons I d...

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Rats!

On the 14th, I'll be in North Carolina...

OK you guys, lots of you have to show up so that Lloyd will do it again.

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I teach the novice to have the sword back. I have found that many who begin to fight with the sword forward tend to block with it, which is usually ineffective for a beginner. They tend to not get off shots, and not learn to use the shield well.

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Sounds awesome! Remember than any standard maze can be gotten through by consistently turning to either the right or the left. (That is, nothing but right turns, or nothing but left turns.) But there are non-standard mazes... (the easiest to envision is a maze that consists of a circular wall with ...

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I will say it's a better solution that sandwich boards reading:

"Will attend class with your child"

(which was my original thought)

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(Edit: Saw someone post about the A&S thing above - if anyone else missed it, enough people wrote in their complaints about the policy that the "no youth in A&S" bit was rescinded - youth may now attend A&S classes without a babysitter, same as last year.) That's an interestin...

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I see a difference between whether we mark minors, and how we mark them.

They're already being marked wherever I seem to go.

All this does is address the how in such a way as to regularize the markings. And that's good.

Whether to mark them is something else.

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I've done this a few times in South Dakota. Lots of fun. Yes, we treat the stalks as solid. So visibility is down, but you can't get squashed up against a wall. I don't remember the scenario so much, except that it's res, and mostly deals with getting to a cleared out section in the middle of the ma...

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I am a senior Marshal and I not only have passed helms and such with brass rivets, but have built helms and such with brass rivets. I use the same size brass rivets as I would the steel rivets. To my knowledge, none of my brass riveted pieces has ever broken or failed as a result of using a brass r...

Re: Technical question about madus