The Armour Archive

Joe Skeesick

Just so you know Russ. R&R is run by Bob (Gaston) Hurley. He is moving into rapier fighting and has set up a discussion forum for all things fencing. Now, as for you comments.... Awwww!... but I wanna! I suppose you are correct and it is a sort of excuse for me to continue to play at an earlier pers...

Joe Skeesick

Here is a post that I made over at The Rose and Rapier concerning Early period Russian fencing.... Here is an interesting blurb I read which give the possible opportunity to have an earlier period (same time frame as I'm currently working on) fencer. "koncher or konchal, it was a long, straight swor...

Joe Skeesick

doing my part for the team..... I've posted a couple of questions on the board. (sorry, questions is all I have to offer on this topic).

Janos

Joe Skeesick

Two things.... Cheval and Cunian.... Thanks for the comments. Good stuff. Everyone else (especially the ladies).... congradulations on a excedingly intersting discussion. All egos seem to have been checked at the door for the most part in a discussion that has more than a little ability to incite an...

Joe Skeesick

Bojei, I'm glad I reread your post because I don't think I at first understood it fully. I can understand why my attitude may lead a woman to question wether she had actually beaten me or not because of my desire not to injure them. However, let me assure you that that comment does not mean I hold b...

Joe Skeesick

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Timo: Olympic sports where females compete with and consistantly beat males: Archery Shooting Equestrian All are run without any gender classes. Timo <HR></BLOCK...

Joe Skeesick

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Owen: Remember Billy Jean King, beating the stuffing out of Bobby Riggs.... <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, but Joaquin put them as equals, average to average. Riggs was old and ...

Joe Skeesick

Personally, I use paracord. Comes in nice colors, is strong, resists rot, you can get it any length you need, its cheep and its easy to work with.

Big draw back..... its hardly period.

J

Joe Skeesick

Thought I saw some AB in there too.... nice work sir. You two have done a number of really spiffy projects together. Not unlike the historical partnership of artisans. Beautiful stuff. And Russ, the only reason I didn't tell you about them is that I'm still pissed off about you not getting me a hat....

Joe Skeesick

Perfect? No....damn nice? Yes.... the frightening part about it is the boy's age. A bit more expeariance and years under the belt he could be one of the greats. Its nice to see someone so young interested in doing (mostly) period gear and not D&D caracitures of armour. Quite impressive. Thanks for s...

Joe Skeesick

Looks a bit like Nagy's work. I don't know the man but just what I have seen from him strikes me as being in the same family.

Regardless its beautiful stuff. Nice to see someone putting so much work into the little details like this kit.

J

Joe Skeesick

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bob Hurley: I love fighting, but my body's getting too worn to continue armoured combat. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Do you mean on a regular basis or at all? Don't make me come o...

Joe Skeesick

Humour a neophite here... but are you really saying that shipping a few discarded signs is likened unto drug traphicing?.... surely the only harm in having/selling sign is if you went out and took em off the road...... ah but now that I look back, you don't actually own the piece of land they are on...

Joe Skeesick

I'd suggest a Chahar-Ai-Ne

http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/page4.html

or perhaps bands (depending on if you have the metal for it or not...)

http://www.geocities.com/normlaw/page7.html

Best of luck.

J

Joe Skeesick

Thats one spear head an 2 hats Russ.... don't discount the hats...

J

Joe Skeesick

I concur, I would love to see it but come on... Christopher Lambert as Vercingetorix? ... He looks like a doobie brothers roadie, or some Timothy Leary drop out barber shop quartet singer not the 'King of a hundred battles'.

J

Joe Skeesick

Accdnt, Just slap a "?" on the end of the link and yer fine, as below... http://www.geocities.com/accdntprone/baculus.JPG? hope that helps... Just checked what I did and it didnt work, however, if you click on the link you supplied then add the "?" then it works... ah well, it was worth a shot. J [T...

Joe Skeesick

Reversing the shape is an old engravers technique and in this case probably "sells" the shape better than reversing it to a concave shape. I've done the same thing a number of times (not in armour) and I really like the look.

Just my 2 p

Janos

Joe Skeesick

Gosh, what the hell are you doing Russ? Is that good business practice yer doing there? Your confusing the hell out of me. Aren't you suppose to disappear now?

J

Joe Skeesick

Somebody should smack you upside the head for not getting into this market a long time ago LeB. Great stuff, could be a nice little racket for you if your of a mind to do so.... Impressive.

btw, do you have a price point on your stuff yet? (you might of said and I missed it)

Janos

Joe Skeesick

Just want to say how glad I am this seminar got finalized. So far it looks like we have a nice contingent from Oklahoma. Hopefully I'll have my wasters in time for the event but if I don't I'm glad you gave the alternative you did Bob.

See you all on the 14th...

Janos

Joe Skeesick

Will do Ron. I knew you were originally interested and then communication between us just dropped off. Not sure who's message was lost first, irregardless I'll send you a email.

J

Joe Skeesick

You'll have to give more info than that for someone to know if they want it. A "performa" doesnt say much. I have a performa 400 out in the garage that anyone here can have if they need a paperweight but its worth little more than that. Performa was a line that mac came out with to make them a bit m...

Joe Skeesick

Measurements sent, though I'm still not happy about the whole nutella issue.

J

Joe Skeesick

OH NO!~~!!~! Are you saying that my case of nuttella didn't make it? What about my collectable spoons with the image of Vlad Dracul on them? What about my rubix cube with Hungarian instructions??? Thats it, I'm pissed now. I want answers and I want them now! http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gi...

Joe Skeesick

Replied via email.

If someone else is interested I'll entertain offers till I see this thing done.

J

Joe Skeesick

Thanks,

I have gotten in touch with him. His internet access has been pretty limited lately so I was unsure of him getting my emails.

Thanks for the help though.

J

Joe Skeesick

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Sasuke: am willing to make just about any style or piece of armor (except SCA legal helms right now). <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Because of bargrills, responsiblity or met...

Joe Skeesick

I have a new (several months old but VERY lightly used) G4 with (if I recall correctly) 512 meg or ram and all the standard Mac spiffy bits... ATI rage, 10/100 network card, (I think) a 20 gig HD... it has OS9 and a beta version of OSX installed. I have two of these and depending on the desired trad...

Joe Skeesick

...and a single bump before I let this fall off.

J

Joe Skeesick

Also Morgan, Texas and Oklahoma both as regions got pretty involved in the Ostrich raising craze of a few years back. I'm sure you could find an ostrich ranch in your area with out much looking.Might be able to do yourself better on pricing depending on how much you needed. Of course you'd be dying ...

Joe Skeesick

Ziad,

Thanks for the support. Since your interested in the topic you may well like this link.

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/7729/home.html

Found a couple of women that are building something fairly similar to what I'm interested in.

J

Joe Skeesick

I know your connectivity has been spotty lately so, I thought I'd post a message here in hopes you had some access.

If phone works better for you than email feel free to call me @ 405-205-1468

Hope things are going well.

Janos

Joe Skeesick

Well, in an effort to be more realistic with combat archery from my period, Russ and I plan on taking turns banging coconuts together and skipping around the feild "snipping" knights with our spiffy new hungarian bows. That will make it more realistic..... wont it? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/s...

Joe Skeesick

Brodir,

Hold tight, he will. Just seems to take a few days. Took right at 1 week to hear back for me.

J

Russian Fencing... (cross post from Rose and Rapier)

Graphite G4 for Trade......

T. Richards please contact me....