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Matt for the past 4 years I have been training under one of Pauls long time students. He (my Knight) has taken Paul's ideas and techniques and in Paul's on words "gone the farthest with them" meaning he has turned them into a significant training curriculum. What Sarnac said is spot on. Paul is teac...

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I am sure that you are receiving many of the above sentiments, I echo them and will add my thoughts and prayers.

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'Shanghai Express'

And the magic cats ass is equally effective without a rope.

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Jeff Hedgecock had some fantastic 14th century carbon steel stuff that might fit you.

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3. Squires, how did you become one? I approached my knight after having trained with him and his wife for about two years. For him it was a mere formality, for me it was a leap of faith that he would accept me. 4. Fighters, how do you feel about the peerage of Chivalry? I look to the Peerage for ex...

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I haf fotted inna 16gaje hlemut fer yearZ sand years and hav no trubles whutsovere!

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I imagine that you are using the name you are hoping wil pass, I would go ahead and use the arms you have submitted until you either learn that they have been bounced, or someone comes to you directly and says something about them conflicting with someone elses (theirs for instance) If you have conf...

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I just got two from him, there was a bit of a wait as they were apparently out of stock - though listed as in stock on the site. One is pretty good, needs a bit of grinding to be used the other I consider unserviceable, when it was cut from the sprue the cutter gouged a hunk out of the main body of ...

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Christian,
What is your schedule likley to be? Weekends or weeknights?

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I sure as heck wouldnt want to go out on the field wearing a 16ga helmet. It is acceptable for the average force level of rebated combat, but the average SCA rattan combat will easily dent that, and there will not be enough mass to soak up the inertia of the blow delivered by a rattan stick.

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Gonna be hard to move wearing a ton of buttons. How about 20 or 30, probably cut the weight back to a pound in the button department.

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Bill, I saw a prototype that HRM was wearing at hundred minutes, it was probably in the higher end of the range being made of a nice brocade looking material. But it looked very good. I would be willing to work with you to make one for yourself if you are so inclined. I am drafting one now for mysel...

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Sure, its a fairly impressive piece for the spectators. Great for use as a ceremonial sword, or just to look mighty with.
Enjoy

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Oddly enough I have that very sword. Bought pre internaet and for a great deal more. The pommel is threaded onto the tang which is roughly pencil sized and shaped right up to the shoulders of the blade. The blade itself is springy and thin, giving it similar consistency to a fencing foil. Your milag...

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Magic Cats Ass!

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He keeps locking the door and turning off all the lights when I drive by. I dont get it

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PS: Can you name all 7 dwarfs in "Snow White" without using your fingers?

No...

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There are various theories on the appropriate style of shield to begin with. Really it boils down to what people around you are teaching. I like people to start with a small round, I prefer center mounted but strapped is ok to. I feel that you learn active defense better, and develop your perception...

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John you would be at the end of a long and resonably prestigious line.

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Earl Valsgard Stonecleaver has something like that. It is white about 3/8" thick and fairly dense, looks sort of like a nylon relative, it is dense so you get good absorption of the weapons inertia, and it pretty much looks indestructable.

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I currently use a round shield made from 1/4" plywood riveted to a frame work of 1/8" aluminum of an unknown alloy and temper. It is quite beefy and is only now after two years of fairly constant fighting starting to look like a sombrero. However I am undergowing a persona shift and starting to look...

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Sizes?

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Would the good and verbally vociferous Otto have asource for said linen tow?

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He also happens to have a small mountain of lamellar plates in stock. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif I have bought two helmets from Adam over the past couple of years, his work is top notch and his customer service sets a standard within the community of armourers matched by few.

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Caid had a similar rule iirc, it strikes me that they were written during a period when alternative shield materials were more difficult to come by for the average fighter and were thus frowned upon and discriminated against or is that equal opportunity at work there. Any way I never saw it enforced...

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3
1 basic no frills sca bar grilled helmet
2 one of Adams Roman Cavalry helmets
3 a klapvisored bascinet from Cold Steel

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Man joseph beat me to the punch.
Make more we will buy them

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I've tried several roads here. Currently my maille resides in a parachute bag - easier to get into than a duffel. But my new 14th century harness will have a chest that will double as a seat - and I am tinkering with ideas for how to make the box roll with out it being obtrusively anachronistic (mig...

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I agree. The poles used in pole vaulting are spun carbon fiber - at least the one I have is. I thought it would make a really nifty spear so did it up and toted it down to war. The marshals didnt agree and after actually thinking about it I could see why. The walls are so thin that any good whack is...

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Vitus do you have pics of her work that you own?
Interested anyway.

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Yep

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Sebastian,
Please do write that up.

Adam I dont know why I asked that, I should have known the answer imediately lack of sleep.
Yeah thats my story and I'm stickin to it.

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Congratulations Munz, say hi to your brother knight Drogo Fitzwilliam for me - I started with him and his wife waaaaaaaay back. I sure do miss Caid, especially when its cold and wet here and I am looking at pictures of warm and pleasant there.

Enjoy
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A question of durability: shield materials