The Armour Archive

raito

My own experience is that a Jr. + drill will work fine for your purposes. I would not go cheap on the punch. The knockoffs have extremely variable quality control. A real Jr. will cost more, but ought to last your entire life, and someone else's after that (except for wear on the punches, of course).

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Gorm wrote:I also point out that running a car at an SCCA event will set you back $200+, not including any mechanical or fuel cost, that's just entry fees. Significant difference in cost scope there.

Not to mention the cost of the car...

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I remember Crinnan making a 10 ga SS bascinet, after his 12 ga. one got creased. He said he was just going to keep going thicker until he didn't need to pounds out any dents. I believe that that was in the later 80's sometime.

raito

I think I'm in agreement with all those other geezers. I know I took a lot more physical damage in the first 10 years of my career than I've taken in the last 20. Actually, it's pretty rare that I even get a bruise now. Sure, some of that is skill, but a lot is armour. And some of us know how to thr...

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Re: Nylon One of my roomates suggested that in 1980. He had a sample about 18 inches long. All I had to do was to smack it into my palm to know it wasn't going to work (yes, it hit really, really hard). But I kept that nylon rod under the grill at a particularly interesting place I worked at for a w...

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Maybe I'm out on the edge here, but... If it's a repair manual, then... The weight of replacement leather should be the same as the original leather, if the oringinal wore well. If not, go an increment thicker. Rivet size should be big enough to fill whatever used to be in those holes, of a length l...

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Like Wade (and Aaron), I used to be a professional, but am not now. 1. What is an average day like for you? Get out of bed, go to the shop, make stuff until I can't see straight. Go home and to sleep. On weekends, go to where the customers are and try to sell stuff. 2. What made you want to become a...

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The first thing to remember is that every choice is made on a continuum. Kozane material, for example. At one end, you may have plastic, which looks OK and is easy to work, but is not so correct. Somewhere in the middle you have leather. Also easy to work, and made of animals, but still not so corre...

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Well, I have answers, but you may not like some of them... First off, you may choose either leather or traditional materials for your kozane. Traditional is rawhide or iron. Leather, however, is readily available and easy to work. Molding of the scales really isn't necessary, and I haven't found it ...

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Gorm wrote:Have you submitted the name, and has it gone through the Heralds?

Why bother?

raito

who are on the Archive. Thanks. It's pretty often that the SCA gets bashed when it does something new as not going far enough. It's just a fact that the SCA is trying to be as inclusive as possible, and that often means taking baby steps. (Or it could be that organizationally, the SCA is scared of n...

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Made my own groin protection from some old sign aluminum. It's taken hits that dented it significantly, without transmitting any damage to my parts.

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Drefan, I'm glad you like my words. I, too believe in tought love. But I also believe in investment. Most investments don't pan out. But some do. I really don't mind helping the new guy. I was the new guy once. Very few people come to this game knowing anything about equipment or fighting. I'll teac...

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Some are in love with fighting, and some are in love with the idea of being a fighter.

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If price were truly no object, I'd get riveted and pay to have it welded, too.

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And I have some urethane dies as hard as bowling balls that squish like taffy under 40 tones of pressure.

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I'm not sure the SCA is ready for a female King. No, we're not. But we're more than ready for a Queen by Right of Arms! Wake up, Raito - we're not as Medieaval as the activities we pursue! I'm awake: That's just bullshit. Yes, it is. But please note that I said King, not Sovereign. (As I was answer...

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Which size are they selling? On the machine page they say that their #275 is .028" wire with .275" OD - that is very close to the .030" wire with .270" OD of my sleeve. The rings in my sleeves are round cross section wire with wedge rivets. This obviously isn't riveted, but the ...

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Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:You are out of date. Such "other ways" used be almost unheard of but more and more often they are the norm.

Now I'm not sure whether to be happy or sad at being out of date...

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You may have gotten it wrong, but all your points were right.

raito

Well, if you want to go that far, the rings are far too small for most re-enactment purposes.

raito

Isn't it also called a level 3 banishment? Not exactly. The Governing Documents call this "Absolute Banishment". Absolute Banishments carry with them a request to the Board for an R&D. So, the Crown issues an Absolute Banishment, and the Board decides whether there's an R&D to go ...

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Isabella E wrote:That's just bullshit.

Yes, it is. But please note that I said King, not Sovereign. (As I was answering JvR about Kings, not Queens). Certainly, any woman who wins is Sovereign, and Queen.

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No, not that kind. This just made my inbox:

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Short version is that ringmesh now offers black mail.

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You can be King and not a peer? cool. I didnt know that. can anyone theoretically be King? The original: In theory, anyone can be King. However, not everyone can be the Sovereign. You'd have to win Crown for that. And the edited version: Well, not everyone. I'm not sure the SCA is ready for a femal...

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Yes, he was placed on vigil in the morning and knighted later in the day. any persons travelled to see him put on vigil and he would not have wanted them to have to make the journey again for his Elevation. It was his decision.

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Haveing trubble find the exact numbers but after all is figured out but its split between East/middle and Aethelmearc the financial report is not spacific and the most recent one I can find is 07 (pennsic 35). Lists the shared profit around 64K it sounds like a lot but for the man hours and investm...

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I have never regularly fought in anything other than a closed-face helm. In the past umpty years, I can only think of 2 occasions I've worn a grill, and both of those had to do with my own helm being unavailable.

I have had some success.

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An example of stupidity: The Kingdom maintains a database of fighters. It knows names and addresses. The local marshall is supposed to, once a year, fill out a report that says, among other things, which fighters are in his area. Fighters are not required to attend any local practice, or have any co...

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tbeckett wrote:Bear pits are always fun to have

Bear pits are only fun for those who win. At a practice, the guys who lose need the time more. So run a bear pit in reverse. And if you lose 3 or 5 or whatever, then you yield the pit.

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One very good melee drill we do... Put your fighters in a line. The first 2 go onto the field. They are a team. The next 1 guy goes out on the field, and he's on his own team. That's right, you have 2 on 1. When someone dies, the next guy in line goes in, taking the place of whoever died. What this ...

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For those just tuning in: Making a multi-plate bachi with a large number of plates (16+, the 8 platers suffer less from this) has one part of the construction that nearly always is a gotcha the first time out. See, the plates are essentially vertical at the bottom, and curve around to be horizontal ...

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I avoid the stairstep effect by putting more curve in the front edges of the plates than the rear. That way, the plates nest together better.

Re: Questions for a professional smith/armorer

Re: Newbie with big project on hands

To all the non-SCA jousters out there...

Yeah, it's Edo...

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