The Armour Archive

Saritor

Fish scale has the bascinet at 6lbs 12ish oz. Oddly, I could find the fish scale, but not a flexible measuring implement. My head's a 23.5" circumference, and it goes on over my head, but doesn't leave a lot of room for padding. I'd estimate it was made for a head in the range of 21.5"-22&...

Saritor

Definitely like the breast and back ...any measurements on it? I'm around 5'11'' with a 43" chest (bit larger with padding on). I'm 6'4"ish and about a 44-46" chest. It fits me snugly/tightly, but I haven't messed with the shoulder straps for a better fit on the back plate. Might nee...

Saritor

In my ongoing efforts to empty out my storage unit, I've got another load of items up for sale. Pembridge Great Helm, James River Armoury. Unstrapped, and unpagged. Mild steel. A bit large on my 23.5" head. $150, shipped anywhere in the USA. http://www.lsrinc.org/images/aa/pembridge1.jpg http:/...

Saritor

Telling a fighter a blow wasn't good is the same as trying to tell him one was. This absolute needs to be tempered a bit, I think. If a shot lands flat, but out of the opponent's range of vision and they call "good", I need to tell them not to take it. Telling them that the force was insu...

Saritor

I hadn't responded to this yet, because it occurs to me that I have bias in this matter, having done work* for <a href="http://www.zenwarriorarmory.com/">Zen Warrior/TCA</a> in the past, so my response might be seen as one long lead-in for a plug about the company. So I want to avoid that. Wait, it...

Saritor

I'll start it off with $20.

Saritor

m Baron Larke (Daniel Larke del Glen) and crew had their booth set up at War this year with quite a few crossbows left in stock. Not being terribly good at archery, I can't vouch for the quality, but they're all pretty heavily involved in archery and combat archery in the Outlands for years, in addi...

Saritor

So when I am working on the Pell, what practice tips can you give me that will help me add thrusting to my repertoire? or some other training device if the pell is not a good place to practice thrusting. Like a tennis ball hanging from a string or some other aid. The tennis ball on a string is goin...

Saritor

Nissan Maxima wrote:In war I hold my stick over my head and run for the sidelines screaming like a little girl.

$20, a rasher of bacon and a case of beer for the first one who brings me video of this.

Saritor

Leo Medii wrote:....and to sing the Rainbow Connection....

Doesn't that violate the rules of the list AND the Geneva Conventions?

Saritor

No gathering of men at arms. Thursday, Saritor, Thursday. I'll talk to my deputay in Dragonsspine about his calendar that says Tuesday. It's about a 9-hour drive each way to make it to Dragonsspine fighter practice, so I rarely manage to show. I can tell you when Citadel practice is, though.

Saritor

Thomas Powers wrote:Be warned though as I recall the symbol used by one kingdom as an award indication was used in one Italian renaissance town as the required symbol of a prostitute and so might cause some confusion!

...was it a service award?

Saritor

Tasha McG wrote: Does "weather" also include temperature? Because this Estrella noob learned what 'sleeping in freezing temps' means for the first time.

Freezing? You wimp!

That was merely a bit chilly for Estrella.

Saritor

Well, that blade, no where. The only Darkwood blades which are approved at Society Level are the flexible sidesword, backsword and the various rapier blades that he makes. http://sca.org/officers/marshal/docs/rapier/bladetypes.pdf That list is a little out of date. There's a newer list of C&T-a...

Saritor

If you're going back to Ft. Carson/Colorado Springs until you move, fighter practice is on Tuesday nights from 7-9pm.

http://www.dragonsspine.org/wiki/index2 ... Directions

Also: I'll have to make it up to the Denver/COSprings area to try and catch you at an event. Dang it, I was trying to spend less money.

Saritor

I've seen mention of what seems to be lack of proper armor in the SCA for what is considered heavy rapier (Del Tins and such) My question is now, what is your ideal armor for such weapons? Huh. I tend towards thinking it's the other way around. We're armored to prevent broken weapons (foils and epe...

Saritor

I'm all for eliminating light rapier as the first authorization in the Outlands. Maybe follow Middle Kingdom's path and make light a training weapon only, not to be used in tournaments. My first step along that path for us would be removing the rule that epee is the default weapon for the kingdom, ...

Saritor

Getting? You have, heretofore, only seen "mildly annoyed", but I'm working on it. We'll see whether my brain explodes come March or April. I swear, if I have to deal with another question about why we have C&T if it's unsafe (because the Outlands doesn't have tournament combat for it)...

Saritor

Let me know when arming swords get approved and I will buy two and start to play. Email me at jalantri@gmail.com and remind me, and I'll send along the C&T approved blade list Excel spreadsheet I've got at home. There's a hell of a range in approved C&T weapons now, and I think a few more s...

Saritor

Sweet. I may hunt you down and borrow it if I end up being able to do any of it on Sunday.

Saritor

There's an on-going and visible split between the heavy rapier community and the epee community here in the Outlands that's getting to the point of annoying me greatly.

Alas, Blackstone wouldn't follow any of my suggestions before he stepped down as KRM.

Saritor

That site's seriously out of date, btw -- at least for the Outlands. C&T has been out of experimental stages and has had an official ruleset in the Outlands for a couple of years now. I've emailed the site admins requesting that they update it, but to no avail. So, how accurate it is will depend...

Saritor

It's a blast! I love it. I won't be able to do it at War this year, though, even though the KRM is permitting us to fight in other kingdom's tournaments. Loaned my C&T helm to someone so they could get some ideas on a pattern for other folks, and the helmet didn't get on their bus to War. But I'...

Saritor

azommin wrote:As I recall, Sasuke had made a really cool anime breastplate. You might consider PMing him or something about it.

Sasuke still has that breastplate, AFAIK. It's made for someone pretty dang thin, too. Otherwise, I'd have bought it outright.

Saritor

I'll risk breaking the bank and go $10!

Saritor

Dammit...I've been thinking about an Almain collar for a while now...why must you tempt me so right before Estrella War? *sob*

Saritor

I own a couple of pieces made by his apprentice, Benaiah Anderson, who sometimes posts here at the Archive. Fabulous work. You should see what Ben's done to the Hanwei 4th Gen stuff. The blade he uses for practice at Rocky Mountain Swordplay Guild is pretty awesome. (Minus the fact that it's still ...

Saritor

I've seen some of his work first-hand, and it's fantastic. I haven't handled many pieces, but the balance and workmanship each time was superb.

Saritor

*shrug*

Looks to me a lot like Sinric's Visored Sugarloaf, with a more conical top (instead of the back pointed look from the pictures page).

http://www.eskimo.com/~cwn/sugar_loaf2.html

Saritor

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Saritor

I think it's this one, from his earlier posts:

Beautiful work.

Saritor

sha-ul wrote:that sure looks nice,I would order one, But at this time I wouldn't have anything to put into it.

If you'd just move out of Calontir, anyone else would let you hang a rapier from one of those belts.

Saritor

40K (and associated): Space Hulk Rulebook Titan Legions: Rulebook and Codex Titanicus Chapter Approved Index Astartes Rogue Trader Warhammer 40K Compilation (1st Ed., yellow cover with Eldar, etc) Realms of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness BFG Rulebook BFG 2002 Annual 3rd Edition Codices: Imperial Guard El...

Saritor

Hadn't forgotten about the post, or anyone who posted/pm'd! Cataloging the GW stuff now, since work's been 15 flavors of insane. As the first post states, I went ahead and put most of it on eBay (there's a link to the auctions in the first post) except the AD&D stuff, which I'm waiting to hear b...

Saritor

Blackstone wrote:That might have been too loud, Saritor...

Non. I was only directed to not say that the weather might be ok for War this year.

Storage Sale, part II

Re: training to improve thrusting