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by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:07 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Steel fighting video from "The Fete of the Sabaton"
Replies: 29
Views: 583

In Artemisia all blows are judged based on an unarmoured combat with sharp swords and are fought to the "Fight ending blow". this means no fighting from your knees or with one arm, It's either good enough to end the fight or not. Outlands still allows for one arm to get mangled, but a hit...
by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 2:05 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Steel fighting video from "The Fete of the Sabaton"
Replies: 29
Views: 583

If you look at those videos you an see Fiore, Liechtenauer, and possibly some Silver in there. I couldn't tell for sure if that was Silver or Marozzo LOGOS was using (that is LOGOS, isn't it? The buff coat looks right). Imbrocatta is more of less the same for either, and open and guardia alta only ...
by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 10:31 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4382

The culture of rapier I was raised in (and, I'll wager a large number of my fellow practitioners) placed a high value not just on prowess, but also on making your Art as accurate to the ancient masters as you can. In the first few years of rapier, this set us apart from our armored brethren. I beli...
by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:37 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4382

Neither is combative. Neither shows your skill and honor against another person head to head. Yes, there are competitions, but those are judged, not by the competitors, but by judges. I dunno. I've been in some rough kitchens at SCA events. Rapier,archery (combat, at least) and seige are combative ...
by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:59 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Raglan Fair
Replies: 19
Views: 532

Blackstone wrote:I think the only complaint I've heard is 'I should have brought my own kit' from Selene once or twice. :)


Tell her that next time it goes in her checked luggage... ;)
by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 6:57 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Living History and the "Usual."
Replies: 37
Views: 1033

Let's not forget that there are plenty of folks who are somehwat overweight that also feel that dropping *armor* weight will help them be faster on the field and essentially undefeatable.

I think they're dropping weight from the wrong component. ;)
by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:10 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Cast Quillions and Pommels
Replies: 10
Views: 443

That second one? EXACTLY what I'm looking for. :)

Well, more or less. As close as I'm likely to get for heavy, anyway.
by Saritor
Fri Sep 19, 2008 12:01 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 754

A boar ermine is probably too busy -- but would be a furry boar. And with four wings, your piggy would have twice the lift! [/silly time] Alex, think of heraldic erased as "deracinated," ripped out by the roots. Don't make me redo that image with a boar potenty vert and argent on some hor...
by Saritor
Thu Sep 18, 2008 5:34 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4382

Baron Alejandro wrote:Don't forget the Renaissance.


Who? Were they a tribe in France?
by Saritor
Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:53 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Cast Quillions and Pommels
Replies: 10
Views: 443

have you looked at Stefan's stuff? His stuff was what I was thinking of when I commented about the German ring guards. I like the German stuff, and have been tempted to go German in the past, but it's really not me. http://www.myarmoury.com/images/swor_aa_dres_a_s.jpg Not quite that exact hilt, but...
by Saritor
Thu Sep 18, 2008 10:16 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Cast Quillions and Pommels
Replies: 10
Views: 443

Have you guys worked on any designs in the 16th century range?

I snagged a basket hilt for rattan from Darkwood that's one of his 16th century designs, but there's not a lot of plain non-basket stuff, aside from the occasional 2H German ring guard.
by Saritor
Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:15 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: So i'm looking at You Tube vids
Replies: 29
Views: 1160

Standard internet troll tactic #36 should now have him posting comments with "LOL", talking about make-believe titles and people who want to beat him up and either professing to be a master of 389250089365 martial arts, or one REALLY obscure one, or perhaps just commenting on his marksmans...
by Saritor
Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:11 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 754

I'll goof around some more tomorrow. :)
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:51 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4382

Corwin of ArgentLupe wrote:When there is a peerage for drinking I will vote yes.

Otherwise, no.


But...but...then we won't have ANY squires any more!
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:19 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: WTS ASAP! Armor (in bits or as a whole)
Replies: 31
Views: 1839

Cool. I'll take the gorget. The brig's too small for me, height-wise.

PM incoming.
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:13 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 754

Except that roses conflict with bloody everything. ;)
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:57 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 754

I can toy with it some more. Believe me, if your lady sews, she'll come to hate me for the lures. They're a pain in the arse to sew. Got anything else you like besides generally winged thingies? Any sort of period for your persona? Ooh. Maybe fire-balls instead of lures... I swear, I'm really not a ...
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:33 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 754

And I personally never liked a proper brown on an or field anyway -- I'd thought about it, but...eh. Just doesn't do it for me. Thank God I was never a Spanish herald in the Middle Ages. There's also a lot more that could be done...with arrangements and such. I just kind of tossed that together from...
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:53 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4382

We have laurels for A&S, pelicans for service and chivalry for heavy combat. The "fourth peerage" as a "catchall" would mean that everything else (which, at this point, is: rapier, equestrian, siege engineering and archery -- to include both target and combat, sigh.) gets dum...
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 4:24 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Non-Rattan Combat Peerage Survey
Replies: 205
Views: 4382

logan tried to fight the good fight, but it didn't go over so well.

There was some attempt to not make it a catch-all peerage, it just didn't work out that way, I guess.

If anything, they should focus on one thing at a time.
by Saritor
Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:49 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 754

The emblazon of Saritor's design would be: Per chevron azure and argent two hawk-lures Or and a boar's head affronty cabossed proper. Yeah, sorry. I was too lazy to do the emblazon, since it looked like we were still in the stages of "And what about this picture?" Though I did tusk the he...
by Saritor
Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:40 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: School of the Renaissance Soldier: North Country Muster
Replies: 36
Views: 692

sha-ul wrote:I've got 80 acres where you can stop & play on your way through :wink:


I didn't think they'd let rapiers into Calontiri land... ;)
by Saritor
Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:11 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Help with device
Replies: 71
Views: 754

What about something like this?

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by Saritor
Tue Sep 16, 2008 7:21 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: WTS ASAP! Armor (in bits or as a whole)
Replies: 31
Views: 1839

Assuming the whole lot isn't already sold, I'd be interested in the brig and the gorget, depending on measurements (in the "I will happily PayPal you money for them" sense of interested).

What neck size will the gorget fit? What chest size will the brig fit?
by Saritor
Mon Sep 15, 2008 4:06 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Lanyards
Replies: 67
Views: 1737

Somebody mentioned rapier not requiring a lanyard. I haven't watched a great deal of rapier fighting, so I hope this isn't a stupid question -- does anybody ever bind his opponent's blade and flip the whole sword out of his hand, like in the movies? In addition to the above comment, even when you d...
by Saritor
Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:40 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Deeds of arms for early period personnas?
Replies: 26
Views: 617

With respect to those who've posted before, don't make it an event, melee, or tourney. Because that has been done before. Do something different . Find something new, and raise the bar for your interest area. Does this mean you're not in favor of a 16th century styled tournament where the battles a...
by Saritor
Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:46 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Scientists Get First Photos of Long-Lost 'Unicorn'
Replies: 16
Views: 556

Maeryk wrote:It's news because it's yet another animal thought to be lost in the wild, which is apparently _not_ lost.


I don't know...

I'd say they lost the okapi pretty well. Just not in the way they'd thought. :D
by Saritor
Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:32 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Deeds of arms for early period personnas?
Replies: 26
Views: 617

And, today's opponent was often tomorrow's ally, especially in Ireland. Cattle raids were almost as much sport as anything else - and often treated as such! I once set about designing a melee scenario that was a cattle raid, involving large, unwieldy, "rolling" cattle constructed of somet...
by Saritor
Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:29 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Raglan Fair
Replies: 19
Views: 532

Hah!

Well, I guess Charles (Blackstone) wasn't kidding when he said he was going. That looks like him fighting in one of those.
by Saritor
Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:31 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: hand pavise
Replies: 11
Views: 544

The I-shaped handle is also seen lots in the woodcuts from Marozzo's Opera Nova.

A friend of mine has a somewhat thinner one (sort of a V-shaped "pavise" buckler for fencing) and it is a thing of beauty. He does evil things to people fighting case, especially.
by Saritor
Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:26 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Resource for term'market or merchant bar'
Replies: 5
Views: 88

Merchant bar: High quality wrought iron bar stock re-processed in fineries by piling, reheating, and re-rolling bloomery-derived bar stock or puddling-furnace-derived muck bar. See ancony, bar stock, bloomery, chafery, finery, and muck bar.


Not much help in the way of sources, though.

http://www.davistownmuseum.org/PDFs/Glo ... yTerms.pdf
by Saritor
Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:32 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: She giggles when she's nervous
Replies: 34
Views: 1115

audax wrote:"A womans nautal instinct is to mother or nurture. Not hunt and gather."

NOt to put too fine a point on it, but bull puckey. Women are just as murderous as men. They were also the main gatherers among early humans.


And Audax is willing to kick your ass to prove it... ;)
by Saritor
Wed Sep 10, 2008 11:24 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Show your kit- Second 1/2 of '08
Replies: 211
Views: 23109

sha-ul wrote:photobucket automatically resizes for ya. I may see if I can edit out the red eye for you.


Is that red-eye? I thought they were just naturally demonic under that armet... ;)
by Saritor
Tue Sep 09, 2008 1:01 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: WTB Burgonet and Gorget
Replies: 9
Views: 286

If he's not, I can think of a few others who might be. :D
by Saritor
Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:14 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Co30, outrances, deeds, Pas..... So many threads....
Replies: 8
Views: 382

The site deedsofarms.org is registered already, and we have combatofthethirty.org registered. We have 3Gb of space on an unlimited bandwidth server for the cott.org web site...I just haven't seen/heard from Thomas Zetty in a while. I'll try and ping him tomorrow, but if I don't hear back from him, I...

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