The Armour Archive

Saritor

The hilt is not ideal for some Silver techiniques: I don't recommend trying guardant with a sword without knuckle bow, let alone a basket. It's better suited for Bolognese. In usage, for me, guardia di testa and true guardant end up looking nearly alike from the motion of the parry/redoubled cut. S...

Saritor

The Hanwei practical mortuary sword tempted me until I saw that the blade is only 31", far too small for Silver. First off, I'm going to suggest you pick up a practical sidesword from Therion (pictured above) if you're trying to save money. There were a variety of hilt styles in use at the tim...

Saritor

Anshelm, maybe?

Saritor

LOGOS wrote:BTW the flamberge is supposed to feel odd as it makes contact with another blade, that's the idea.

Yes, but it's useful to forewarn the potential user who may not be aware of it, along with the warning for their opponents about the difference in feel for drawcuts.

Saritor

If only we were talking about a Zen Warrior product, Alejandro would be all over it, regardless of behavior in the wild. Scott's already got a disclaimer on his site about the weaker foible. The ones I've seen haven't broken, but they WILL take a bend to them. As far as behavior during combat, the a...

Saritor

eBay says Lawson, MO.

Saritor

None that I'm aware of at all in this region. There's some folks in Denver doing Viking, and some general talk in the direction of trying to do Elizabethan Trayned Bande stuff some day. Nothing 15th C...hell, I'd have a hard time thinking of anyone in the SCA doing 15th C. in the kingdom, much less ...

Saritor

ass wraps and stuff like that are ok though? The mechanics of and the actual shot of the wrap can be found in several places throughout period manuals. The wrap, as it exists in the SCA, occurs in the fashion it does because we lack grappling. Meyer's dussack has an awesome wrap on the pass that hi...

Saritor

Might be cheaper, at the prices you're getting, to make a friend who sews, or learn to yourself, and then buy a bunch of similar-looking lamellar plates from Polar Bear Forge and sew them inside a garment yourself. It costs time, sure, but could bring the cost back down to the $300-500 range for the...

Saritor

brewer wrote:First, [url=https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/index.php?s=&c=22&d=36&e=&f=&g=&p=285&w=21]RH111 - De Gheyn Musketeer or Pikeman.

Woo!

I knew you two really loved me!

Saritor

Damn Calontiri have all the fun. I wanna try this! Hey, Sieghart? We can do it in the Outlands, too. I just don't have a cohesive enough group up north to get things rolling. If you want to try some of it, I'll bring my spare gear and we can get folks to work with you and let you try it. You need t...

Saritor

jenzinas wrote:What kind of sword is that in the pictures?

Hard to be sure without seeing the blade a bit closer, but from here, it looks like a Hanwei practical longsword, 4th generation.

Saritor

For all your white clay pipe needs: m I've got one languishing about the apartment that I could bring up to Battlemoor. I am unlikely to ever have it for anything except the occasional smoke and mostly appearance. I couldn't find any, but they occasionally have the 6" pipe instead of just the 4...

Saritor

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Saritor

While a historical form is not a requirement to play, we are finding that those medieval guys knew what they were talking about so everyone leans toward the manuals at some point. Meyer's work on the dusack is one of the best things that has ever happened to what meager skill I had with a one-hande...

Saritor

Pitbull Armory wrote:Hi, Yes these are sca legal. They are worth more than 250, I need cash so they go cheap.

Can we get a pic of the fingertips?

Saritor

The next question is, 'Is rapier a sideshow'. For many of my friends, it's the whole game - as far as combat goes, at least. The same thing comes up in rapier combat, though...as I started doing more WMA, standard rapier got boring, and there are a lot of elements to the game that reward sport-ment...

Saritor

Does this leave a place for the WMA approach in the SCA? If so, is that place anything more than a sideshow? Is the WMA approach in the SCA solely a thing done on the rapier/cut-and-thrust field (and rapier in the SCA has its own set of authenticity issues...)? Or should people interested in armore...

Saritor

You might want to tell folks where you're located, and possibly what kind of armor you want to learn to make most.

Saritor

I think SCA combat sucks because Leo has cooler armor than I do, and he won't hand his armor over.

Saritor

Balin50 wrote:Excellent you think it is by accident?

That isn't what you guys put on the police reports when you run 'em over in the parking lot with trucks?

Saritor

whonew, here on the Archive, usually has a set or two for sale.

Saritor

Given that, I find it laughable to try and discuss what the original meaning of the SCA was... I disagree with this, somewhat. If you want to find out what the original spark of The Dream was, we have plenty of evidence available for that. Read Tolkien, and the works written by the founders of the ...

Saritor

Aaron wrote:...or basket-hilt blocks...

Hey, now two of my three basket hilts are period designs that would have been available to me in the mid-16th C. While it's not our presumed armor standard, I'm at least blocking with a basket that looks like it should be there!

Saritor

I would try, first off, making a wooden last I could shove in there that would stretch the ankle area just the bit you need. I would apply some neetsfoot oil to the leather after I had shoved the last in. I would then forget about them for a week, and upon remembering them, search the house frantic...

Saritor

They all taste the same in the dark, Godfrey.

Saritor

My wife gets that same thing all the time. That and people asking her in the mundane world what happened to her. The best one is, "we're you in a car accident or something". Our local B&B both fight heavy. His wife, wearing a short-sleeved shirt, has a partially visible bruise from a ...

Saritor

There are shots I can throw in the sport armor that are simply not possible in a full 15th C arm harness. There are body mechanics and movements in a kidney plated gambeson under a tabard that do not work in a 15th C italian breastplate with faulds. It's not even shot mechanics, either. If you look...

Saritor

So, I have some tall boots that I picked up for a good price, and I'm rather happy with them. Unfortunately, they're a large size 11, and I'm a 12. The overall fit, once I get my foot in them, is fine except at the ankle. It's a bit tough to get in them, and chafey at the top of the foot and the sid...

Saritor

Stephen du Bois wrote:Well crap..now I need to come up with a completely new battle plan because there's another army on the field

Meridies vs. the World scenario?

Saritor

Angusm0628 wrote:If it were raining in my office I'd be severely pissed. My bedroom is the room overhead.. If my office is raining I got a hole in my roof and very wet bed...

Look, I know you're a merc, but isn't working from your bed taking it a bit far? ;P

Saritor

Angusm0628 wrote:It's raining in my office? Wow, who'd a thunk it??

It used to rain inside my office. Nothing sucks more than having to mop a server room floor because some morons can't figure out how to seal an A/C unit properly.

Saritor

Jantien de Groet wrote:I will be making a number of these in Outlands colors, and will have them with me at Battlemoor.

Jantien, I'd like to get three of these in blue and white, but would they have time to ship before Battlemoor? Or would it be easier to arrange to snag them at Battlemoor?

Saritor

Hey, Aaron...this mean you're making Battlemoor?

Saritor

This reminds me...I need to go take pictures of the spare one I have and get it up for sale here.

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