The Armour Archive

Saritor

I'm having no luck finding it, but if you can find the web site for Redwolf...I picked up some Irish pieces from him at Estrella last year (but lost his card, alas), and I know he had various Viking pieces of different styles.

Good prices, great guy to do business with.

Saritor

Heh. They should be pretty close.

Hell, I'd be worried about you being undersized for them.

I'll drag 'em out. Guess that cuts down on S&H.

Saritor

One large Global Effects plastic corrazina for sale. Taking up space in the storage unit. I can take a picture of it, but it's just a pile of black abs pre-shaped plates. Size large, since my chest measurement at the time was about 48". Paid $125 + S&H, but I no longer have the paper patter...

Saritor

I have one pair each of 14th century arms & legs for sale. Made by James River Armoury, pre-strapped, but with no holes punched or straps cut. I bought them a while back when he was having a sale, but had been doing some thinking about things while I re-assembled other parts of my kit. So, they'...

Saritor

I think that's a marvelous suggestion except for the fact that I'm currently on a crusade to get enough unused stuff out of the garage to be able to squeeze my Mini Cooper in there. Well, when it comes time to throw out that burgonet and peascod just hanging there doing nothing, you let me know.

Saritor

welder wrote:
Okay, technically that would translate as "Roak of the Killer Whales"...but where's the humor in that.

I think he'll find plenty of humor in it.

But he already smells like an orc anyway...

Saritor

I use the slightly more offensive version at JFGI.

Saritor

Dame Selene wrote:I purchases these and later decided to go with a later-period rig. My S.O. is grumping about having no space for his stuff in the SCA closet so it's time to find these a new home.

Meh.

Tell him to shove it all in the garage where he stashes everything else he rarely uses.

Saritor

RoaK wrote:See you after January 15th by the way... I'll be back till the end of March and I'm going to try and get up to Estrella for that weekend. How long a drive is it from El Paso?

However long it takes you to drive 400ish miles.

Typically, 6-8 hours.

Saritor

I can't get it to resolve via DNS unless I use the Wolfstar.CA DNS servers (where alchemyarmory.com is hosted).

I tried making a static host to get there, but it didn't work for me on Time Warner's network.

Uhm. Short form: There appears something wrong at the hosting company level.

Saritor

Outlands has had spear, 2 sword, sword and madu...the last two several times. That's what I can think of off the top of my head...there's probably more.

For a while, years ago, there was a streak of Crown Tournaments here where the final four were pretty much guaranteed to be sword and madu guys.

Saritor

Agnarr wrote:It was a principality of the outlands, i believe.

Don't make come kick your arse.

I can't afford it, really. Bloody long trip.

Saritor

I think Leo would do ok. He might get a bit frustrated at first, but I fairly sure he would adapt soon enough. Wolf, it occurs to me that we could get Leo out here some weekend and find him an Amtgard sword knight to fight. I mean, we do sort of have a couple of people who play Amtgard here in El P...

Saritor

Y'know, I wonder why it did take so long. You would think that baskets would have developed earlier, especially as elaborate as armor became. Integral hand protection on the sword seems to be a no-brainer. You start to see the early versions of hand protection on swords, rather than baskets like we...

Saritor

Sticking your unarmored hand in a full basket and the rules saying it can't be hit is just as lame as putting a smurf hat on an unarmored head and the rules saying it can't be hit. This is why I'm happy with later period. "My hand's in a basket hilt? Of course it is. We've had these for nearly...

Saritor

Yeah, I'm pretty sure she can find someone who knows what they are doing, if she looks hard enough. Don Maelgwyn, who can remember way back when Bryn Gwlad only had 4 Dons...out of 8 total in the SCA. You were one of the people that came to mind. But I've seen too many people, even trained (perhaps...

Saritor

I do have an intention to try rapier at some point. When you do, please, dear GOD, find someone local to you that will force you to learn footwork, and not just throw you out there to fight without going over it. Folding your knee and causing MCL/LCL tears is NOT fun. (Been there, done that...but m...

Saritor

Looks like a silver precious metal clay sculpture from here, or some kind of metal clay, based on some of the non-polished examples I've seen, but meh. Hardly an expert.

Saritor

Sugarloaf pictures, from same:

[img]http://www.lsrinc.org/images/aa/sugarloaf-1.gif[/img]

[img]http://www.lsrinc.org/images/aa/sugarloaf-2.gif[/img]

[img]http://www.lsrinc.org/images/aa/sugarloaf-3.gif[/img]

Saritor

Bascinet pictures from the ones that were emailed to me, all resized an' such:

[img]http://www.lsrinc.org/images/aa/bascinet-1.gif[/img]

[img]http://www.lsrinc.org/images/aa/bascinet-2.gif[/img]

[img]http://www.lsrinc.org/images/aa/bascinet-3.gif[/img]

Saritor

jester wrote:We could do something like this in the Outlands.

I've certainly thought about it.

It's just finding instructors, and, you know, getting the actual job.

Gotta find some poor sap to be webminister first.

Saritor

If I'd known about it further out, I'd've procured plane tickets.

Who do we have to bribe to get copies of the teaching material from the classes?

Saritor

I think you'd have to end up talking to a cutler...it might be a project they'd set an apprentice to. Dennis Graves at No Quarter Arms, maybe? He's pretty local to you, being in Denver and all, so might be easier to talk to, or he might be able to point you in a better direction for this sort of thi...

Saritor

You don't really, for whatever reason, have "Irish weapons" that are anything other than a "look" thing. (Ring-hilted longsword, for example, with the tip a little more square.) A lot of armour by that point was scavenged from either family stores (so, out of date armour, even ba...

Saritor

So far, I've used a combination of: Demi-gauntlets (always) with my regular fencing gloves and either the Darkwood mid-16th C. basket, or the Darkwood Arms & Sidering sword. For longsword plays, I've used regular gloves and demis, OR the Revival kevlar-padded gloves and the demis. I find that th...

Saritor

Try taking a look at the French copy of the Fiore manual that's online and was passed around here not too long ago. there should be some sequences in there that clearly show the dagger and sword placement on the belt. (Dagger at the right hip, which is why the overhand grip in the style, for example...

Saritor

freiman the minstrel wrote:"professional camp follower"

Well, there WAS that one picture of you wearing a dress...

Saritor

That's damned sexy.

How much would the additional perf faceplate run?

Saritor

Is the CoP 20% off the retail price of $65 on the web site?

EDIT: I mean, if it's your personal stuff, does that mean it's already assembled, etc, and has a price hike? Or is it just the $65?

Saritor

Also looking for an update on my Pembridge helm.

Saritor

Friedrich von Bayern wrote:I bought the burgeonet from him last week.

Bastard.

Saritor

(I ALWAYS need someone to help me get dressed). What? Dude! I thought you just wore that suit around all the time, like in Excalibur! Seriously, there's plenty of things you can do to not only help, but things that you can do to keep yourself entertained above and beyond helping. And you'll find th...

Saritor

What you're looking at is essentially an escrow service. The buyer pays the escrow service, who holds on to the cash (keeping the interest), and after completion, the money is forwarded to the seller. Or returned to the buyer if things were unsuccessful. The other thing offered by both real services...

Saritor

We know people on the archive who could get this done cheap.

Saritor

Timo wrote:Plenty of tore up knees and broken fingers, concussions sometimes. Never heard of anyone with neck/spinal cord trauma.

Estrella, a few years back, during the rapier war point on Sunday.

Fractured larynx.

(Substandard gorget, IIRC, and he was always a bit...fragile.)

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