The Armour Archive

Russ Mitchell

Pick a day. One where you've got time. Pick a blow. Throw it a thousand times. Every thing you do that's bad form will go away, because all those extra little muscles are going to get exhausted to the point of not being able to function, and eventually, lizard brain will take over and say "hey, why ...

Russ Mitchell

Desti,

I've got a picture of the museum reference that measurement came from, but am having "failure to upload" issues. If you'll slow me an email in PM, i"ll forward it over to you.

Russ Mitchell

I'll try to upload the image later.

Russ Mitchell

Twisted-iron flail head measurements from a Silesian buddy of mine: > 15th c., total > length 35.9 cm, greatest width 6 cm. The width surprises me a bit, since I'm used to the wood being roughly 2" diameter, but I guess if it was a touch tapered, that's still not all THAT far off. My friend's search...

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Tom B. wrote:Read this thread on making scabbards the correct method is to use thin slats bent around the blade not carved / dug out wood.Tom

Holy under-the-nose-syndrome-Batman. Thanks.

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My Czech buddy has moved on, I don't know how to get in touch with her, but I"m reaching out to some folks in Krakow (where some of these are kept, too), to see if I can get dimensions and weights.

Russ Mitchell

::bump::

Have leather, need address....

Russ Mitchell

Heh.
Check your PMs, Desti.

Russ Mitchell

Yeah, I've seen several articles over the years about how to "really" work with bellifortis' drawings, and what they're "really" supposed to be.

Russ Mitchell

For those who don't know Bellifortis, be advised that his stuff is an "idea book," and doesn't necessarily have a close reflection to things which were actually used (though, in a cracked.com sort of way, it would have made the fifteenth century more "awesome.") It's far more likely for a remdih-sty...

Russ Mitchell

You'll know you're getting power when you throw blows that feel like nothing and your friends ask you politely to ramp it down...a lot. Good form feels as effortless as picking up a cup of coffee.

Russ Mitchell

Jesus... I didn't specialize in flails... I specialized in the Hussite Revolution . But man, if you're willing to trade, I'll go back and rape every reference I can get my hands on. PM me with specifics and I'll bust some ass for you. At minimum, I've actually BEEN to Tabor, so I can take images and...

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/Destichado/Tabor213.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v696/Destichado/myarmory_pic_to_post_182.jpg I have a little jobber on order that's sort of a pale shadow of the second (but still somewhat close to a couple originals I've seen), but nobody's ever been...

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And no, that TOY made by GDFB does NOT count.

Russ Mitchell

What he didn't tell you is that the first batch of photos is from the Museum of Tabor, essentially the Mecca of flail-lovers.
Still waiting for somebody to make me a Taborite war flail -- never had a single person agree to do so.

Russ Mitchell

Ignore anything that differs from Avery's first sentence: Power cometh from Form.

Russ Mitchell

Did you carve from the center of the veneer, Tom, or was the wood thin enough that it reshaped? I have to hilt several swords over the winter but am horrifically bad at woodwork -- anything you can advise would help.

Russ Mitchell

Tod: I can't justify having you send me a full cut-off, but I'd *love* to see a couple good photos of it, if you don't mind.

Scott, still need your address again, please.

Russ Mitchell

Speaking of which, Scott, do me a favor, and re-PM your address. I accidentally nuked it this weekend.

Russ Mitchell

The original here is "go," not "repent."

Russ Mitchell

Jhn 8:1 Iesus autem perrexit in montem Oliveti Jhn 8:2 et diluculo iterum venit in templum et omnis populus venit ad eum et sedens docebat eos Jhn 8:3 adducunt autem scribae et Pharisaei mulierem in adulterio deprehensam et statuerunt eam in medio Jhn 8:4 et dixerunt ei magister haec mulier modo dep...

Russ Mitchell

Sorry, those picks are absolutely revoltingly common in Hungary.... in the 15th century.

Russ Mitchell

They are common on the back of axes in Hungary more or less primordially, but real war picks, the single-handed lightweight jobs don't become common until the fifteenth century, and even then mostly in Central and Eastern Europe. Some significantly heavier warhammer designs are used in the west, but...

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Damn, that sabre looks good.

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Somehow I missed that you were in Egypt. the first time around... yeah, drying shouldn't be a problem! Do you intend to strap the shoulders, or make a strap-of-scales?

Russ Mitchell

Leather scale is well-documented in Hungary.

Russ Mitchell

Lost your email, need to email you regarding your beads, please.
scholarsvoices@gmail.com

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Actually, Thomas, that's a ciupaga. These are fokos:
http://turania.hu/catalog/index.php?cPa ... =1&sort=1d

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Well, it was slightly OT... 19th century, early. Count Wesselenyi is with some other nobles and there's a visiting English smallsword instructor. Wesselenyi is... distinctly unimpressed, and says to one of his cronies (don't know who, and arsed if I can remember *which* Wesselenyi this is), "my swin...

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Italian rapier stuff according to a buddy who studies it, once it's starting to turn into epee, seems to focus a lot on thrusts that impact how the body moves -- hitting the hip, pinning the arm to the body or the leg, that sort of thing. No experience from my lineage, unfortunately -- false edge th...

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Murdock, You got anybody there who knows how to wrap hands for the ring? If so, they should be able to completely immobilize that wrist so it's well-supported. I'm arthritic as crap and that's what I've done in the past (have arthritis in my left where I had a complex fracture that was "healed" via ...

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Well, that sucks -- I will never portray anyone of high enough social standing to give me an excuse to buy that. But dayum, it's pretty.

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Can't get to site for some reason - anybody post a pic?

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Paladin: it's round-rivet and somewhat pop-tabbish, but looks solid as a rock. If the guy can learn to taper/smooth his joins to something more period, I think people will be THROWING their money at him soon. As it is, still a good-looking shirt.

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Closest equiv I can think of is something I heard a long time ago but never really followed up on, b/c it was out of my specialty, and that was that in some parts of the HRE, when you came to town you were required to stay at hte local "guest house." If that were so (big if, out of my specialty, can...

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