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by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 23, 2003 9:10 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Armour Guy (Bill McCall)
Replies: 2
Views: 5

His email works. He's notoriously unreliable: screwed me hard, screwed POD but made up for it, and not too long ago did somebody really right, took care of the dude when he didn't have to. So the guy's a mixed bag. Keep trying, though, and pester him when he posts. If he ever catches the personal re...
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:39 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Mounting Bazubans
Replies: 5
Views: 10

Ditto: point the suckers.
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:37 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Leather Stitcher Query
Replies: 5
Views: 5

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B>"waits till the leatherworkers stop looking at me funny" </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yeah, no s**t... you could quintuple that, and you'd still be ripping him off bad... http://www.armourarchiv...
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 22, 2003 4:13 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Fishing for info: what's a good trade for finger gauntlets?
Replies: 19
Views: 10

Fishing for info: what's a good trade for finger gauntlets?

I have a sweet pair that were given to me as a gift by Janos, but I have really big hands for a guy my sized, and they bite me. I'm thinking of selling them, or else swapping them, for something of more use for a steppe-type kit, or raw materials, etcetera. Unfortunately, I can't find Janos' email t...
by Russ Mitchell
Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:14 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: tuetonic Knights,help!!
Replies: 5
Views: 15

NOWAKOWSKI (A.) ARMS AND ARMOUR IN THE MEDIEVAL TEUTONIC ORDER'S STATE OF PRUSSIA. 162pp., 68 sigs., P.B. 1994.

Highly recommended.
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 15, 2003 12:52 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: How do you fight with steel swords without killing the other
Replies: 29
Views: 22

Learn how to use the weapon before you smack other people with it. Sorry if that sounds harsh... but six months of hard work, with no sparring whatsoever, and lots of drills, drills, drills, will do more for your eventual safety than anything else. And if anybody wants to smack his friends with live...
by Russ Mitchell
Mon Apr 14, 2003 3:35 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: What should a guy whos got everything for 15th Century!....
Replies: 9
Views: 14

Chests to haul it in.
by Russ Mitchell
Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:43 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: MUST READ ARTICLE!!
Replies: 2
Views: 11

MUST READ ARTICLE!!

Milites, Knights and Samurai: Military Terminology, Comparative History, and the Problem of Translation, in The Normans and their adversaries at War," ed. Abels, Bachrach, pub. Boydell.

Absolute must read.
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:02 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Leather Jack
Replies: 8
Views: 9

My understanding was that even pine pitch was seriously not good for you. If that's not the case, groovy...
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 09, 2003 4:44 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Leather Jack
Replies: 8
Views: 9

For God's sake, even if you find it, don't use pitch for the inside of your jack, it's toxic as hell. Beeswax should be just fine.
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 09, 2003 12:27 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Looking for a used breast and back plate
Replies: 4
Views: 8

Dude!
Your kit coming along, then?
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 09, 2003 11:59 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Other materials besides steel
Replies: 18
Views: 14

Big-time major ditto/bump. My professor showed me how to work brass and copper in traditional Transylvanian style -- there's a lot of little stuff I could be doing if I could find ready access to sheet metals, rather than uberthick structural stuff.
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 09, 2003 11:43 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Fighting with a mace (SCA)
Replies: 22
Views: 26

Which is why, as a guy who plays a lot of sabre, I love the mace. It's my "I don't have to think" weapon.
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:59 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Fighting with a mace (SCA)
Replies: 22
Views: 26

(Non-SCA comment). Legalities of construction and such aside, a mace lets you throw lateral-arm shots that are nonsensical with a sword (imagine your forearm rotating, so your palm alternates orientation. Then put body english on it, and imagine being on the receiving end.) "I've played PingPong in ...
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 08, 2003 3:42 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Torse on a conical helmet?
Replies: 31
Views: 30

No idea why they call that a "Great Polish" helm... since it was in such wide use over the breadth of about a thousand miles...

On the other hand, I will be coming into the market for one in the next couple years, and so would like to second image requests...
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 08, 2003 9:01 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: some photos of armour VIII-IX C.
Replies: 7
Views: 8

Thanks. I got some help last time I was with Dmitry last month, but my reading skills in Cyrillic are still very rudimentary. Pity, it's a very pretty script.
by Russ Mitchell
Mon Apr 07, 2003 3:43 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: some photos of armour VIII-IX C.
Replies: 7
Views: 8

Haven't looked that closely on that side, you've got me... I was mostly still trying to understand what po?okh? meant... Ja tolka americanec, ya know. Image
by Russ Mitchell
Mon Apr 07, 2003 2:31 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: some photos of armour VIII-IX C.
Replies: 7
Views: 8

I know he describes that sort of stuff in his latest article, in Nicolle's "Companion to Medieval Arms and Armor." I'll take a look tonight and see what else he says.

I'll be back your way in about three weeks.
by Russ Mitchell
Mon Apr 07, 2003 12:47 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: some photos of armour VIII-IX C.
Replies: 7
Views: 8

Gorelik's work is just amazing in general... I can't imagine the breadth of skill digwise in being able to separate out all the different cultures' materials. And his work on the "mixed state" around Kiev is simply a bombshell in the historiography. I hope more of his material becomes available out ...
by Russ Mitchell
Fri Apr 04, 2003 12:28 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Leather Armour
Replies: 11
Views: 19

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by knyaz: OH MAN! Is there any way for you to get a pic of that? </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Oh, I intend to... it will probably be Christmas until I get back to Budapest, though...
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 02, 2003 3:26 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Wanted: donation of two (2) golf-tube arrows.
Replies: 0
Views: 0

Wanted: donation of two (2) golf-tube arrows.

I've heard numerous complaints at how worthless these things are for SCA battles, and as I've learned more about how reed arrows were constructed in period, have an idea as to how they could be improved, if my understanding of their construction is correct. Therefore, I am wondering if anybody who c...
by Russ Mitchell
Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:30 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Leather Armour
Replies: 11
Views: 19

Last week on the phone I heard from Prof. Hidan in Budapest of an engraving of what was a leather armour of an odd sort. It comes from "Bashkiria/Magna Hungaria," and consisted of a scale aventail, a separate scale "shoulder aventail" covering the high upper arms, shoulder girdle and high thoracic v...
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:42 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Water hardened armour and dye
Replies: 5
Views: 11

I get dramatic darkening when I water-harden leather. To the point that I've never felt the need or desire to dye it.
by Russ Mitchell
Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:40 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Scythian/Hun leather armor find?
Replies: 4
Views: 9

That's it... thanks.
by Russ Mitchell
Mon Mar 31, 2003 5:10 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Scythian/Hun leather armor find?
Replies: 4
Views: 9

Scythian/Hun leather armor find?

Guys, about three weeks back I could have sworn somebody posted a link to a leather scale armor find... and I can't find the puppy at all. Anybody know the thread/link?

Thanks.
by Russ Mitchell
Fri Mar 28, 2003 2:40 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Gambeson Review (Keara) -happy dance-
Replies: 7
Views: 13

Cool. Now, color me clueless, but who's Keara? Keara who? Society name or mundane? Url? Contact info??? Eep? Oop?
by Russ Mitchell
Thu Mar 27, 2003 2:14 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Convincing the unbelievers
Replies: 24
Views: 18

"Bro, working in aluminum just doesn't cut it for me. I'll help you pattern out the leather and all that, but if you want to work aluminum, you'll have to get one of your buds to help you cut and drill and all that."
by Russ Mitchell
Mon Mar 24, 2003 11:38 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: asking for suggestions from armorers to resolve problem w/ m
Replies: 29
Views: 17

ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS get the parents involved if you do any business with a teen. They are simply not bound by contracts, end of story. Otoh, their folks are bound by any such contract.
by Russ Mitchell
Fri Mar 21, 2003 2:03 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Leather scales, how many you need?
Replies: 8
Views: 11

Don't forget that they'll shrink when you harden them, too...

I'd like to get my hands on a lot of scrap for that purpose, but a little lighter, so I can make the very fine Hunnic leather-scale... that stuff looks SWEET. I've got a punch that'd be perfect, too...
by Russ Mitchell
Fri Mar 21, 2003 1:59 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Waivers: coming soon to those who asked, really, I promise..
Replies: 5
Views: 6

Yeah, I forgot again. I just don't spend a lot of time online at home. But this time I have an excuse. I'm leaving town and my wife distracted me with a sushi dinner...

That's pathetic. I'm going to ask her if she can send them for me this evening...
by Russ Mitchell
Fri Mar 21, 2003 10:42 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Riveted maille for sale
Replies: 11
Views: 7

I'm going out of town, but if my wife approves, I'll swap a sword for it *with patches* if they'll work and you'll send me a pic... can you email me at the yahoo address? I"ll be on the road, but can check yahoo...
by Russ Mitchell
Thu Mar 20, 2003 3:11 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Waivers: coming soon to those who asked, really, I promise..
Replies: 5
Views: 6

Waivers: coming soon to those who asked, really, I promise..

Sorry guys, opened up yahoomail for the first time in a few days, and realized I'd never sent them. Tonight I'll do so w/o fail.
by Russ Mitchell
Thu Mar 20, 2003 1:05 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Chainmail shirts for 99.99$ on Ebay
Replies: 17
Views: 9

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Steve -SoFC-: Closer to $6000... </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Right on. My roomie did a quick labor analysis of the banded lamellar I'm working on (where, outside of the fact that ...
by Russ Mitchell
Thu Mar 20, 2003 12:20 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Speculum Journal of Medieval Studies
Replies: 6
Views: 5

Damn, Gwen beat me to it. Arggh. Gwen, when you're done, can I beg you for some select photocopies?
by Russ Mitchell
Thu Mar 20, 2003 11:53 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Blacksmith looking for Commisions
Replies: 24
Views: 12

Email sent re: arrowheads.
But I also need some replica axe heads made, if you can do one w/o the temptation to make them too heavy... cost WILL BE an issue, however, so they'll have to be phased in one a month or what-have-you depending on production schedules and your interest...

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