The Armour Archive

Saritor

Blackstone wrote:Oddly, I have a peascod, made by Duke Kelson, banged out in Cet's shop!

How's that lint collector working out for you?

Saritor

What? Like reviews using the Freiman scale? That could never work!

Saritor

Aaron, do you know where you're camping yet? Have you decided firmly on the dates? I've got a spare tent that I can bring out with me...if you're a go on moving to Ft Collins/Unser Hafen, it might be a good time to get to know them. As for food and feast gear, you might be able to buy in to someone'...

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Saritor

Are the drills one you plan to share? Yep. Just gotta get them hammered out so that they're appropriately "random" when the playlist is generated. They're for a couple of different projects, one of which is remarkably (and unfortunately) similar to Alvarro's "Little Bit" stuff t...

Saritor

If you're studying Lichtenauer, then your cutting and ward transition drills are the same. Each ward, as Meyer points out later, is the end point and start point of a cut, and they pass through some variant of langen ort on the way. I've got some random footwork drills I'm hammering out for the iPod...

Saritor

One of the more intriguing versions I've heard would make the War into a huge game of "Risk" where there would be a whole bunch of battles and depending upon the scenerio, and your allies, you would deploy different kingdoms/units. I don't remember all of the details, and I'm not sure it ...

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As above, plus cutting and ward/guard transition drills (depending on what you study, this can conceivably be the same thing -- Meyer, for example, makes a big point of this). You've got to train the muscle memory so your brain is taken further out of the active decision loop. This frees up more of ...

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Jestyr wrote:He's a Norman, not a Scot. Duh.

(Wow, that joke was so dumb I think I just lost an IQ point.)

...but at least Uric was wearing clothes in that picture...

Saritor

Balin50 wrote: Even with the one less day of fighting you would be hard pressed to find more battles stuffed into 3 days of fighting

Not unless you also count fighting the line to get to the bar at the West party.

Saritor

They did, but this year the schedule looks back to normal. Nobody I talked to liked the schedule last year, so I'm guessing enough people bitched about it to get it put back. I think it was mostly a victim of lower attendance last year, and the fact that many people from the Outlands can't get in u...

Saritor

This one may have been done that way for SCA purposes, to give the required back-of-the-head protection. I've seen woodcuts of morions worn both ways, though it usually seems to be somewhere between the way this cabasset sits, and the way of wearing it described above. How much of that is the artis...

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Derian le Breton wrote:Considering it only shows one practice for the entire kingdom of An Tir...

Y'all should fight more.

Saritor

But Thursday night is usually the Outlands party, and you shouldn't miss that.

Saritor

I usually try to get out there Thursday-Sunday or Monday, so you're about spot on for what many people do.

Saritor

RoaK wrote:Yeah and I think it's close enough so maybe they could combine all three (the field, castle and woods battlefields) into a grand battlefield for an all day mega battle.

That would be...disturbingly cool.

Saritor

Malcolmthebold wrote:
Saritor wrote:"Advice, $0.50."

beatings are free

They're going to do that anyway, but they could throw in "You should've blocked that." for some extra cash.

Saritor

"Advice, $0.50."

Saritor

Oh, good. I've been checking your web site to see what that one turned out like since before last Estrella. And it's too small for my head. Good God, Iohannes...that thing is *beautiful*! I also love the perf plate interchange option! Is that something you're thinking of doing as a standard option ...

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Malcolmthebold wrote:also, what the hell job do you have?

Click the WWW link in his profile.

You've probably already seen a bunch of examples of the awesome stuff that he does for a living in various movies without knowing it.

I keep finding new stuff in the portfolio I didn't know they'd worked on.

Saritor

Maeryk, those chairs look like crap. Ship them down here so I can dispose of them.

Saritor

Balin50 wrote:...but not Darth

...sooo...you leave that mallet outside your tent at Estrella?

Saritor

I've seen a number of suppliers on the Internet selling beeswax, but don't know which ones are particularly reputable or not. I need several pounds of white(ish) non-bleached beeswax for a couple of projects, and thought we might have people here who could recommend some places to buy from. (Leather...

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What's all that green stuff they're standing on?!

Great photos!

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Still looking for other folks who might also be interested in this project.

Multiple products is never bad!

Saritor

I am putting up a stainless Cabasette this week, we'll see how long it sits. If these jumped off the shelf, we'd make more of them, but there just doesn't seem to be enough market without making each one a custom job. I hear a lot of talk about people wanting helmets from this era, but our experien...

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Those numerous helmets sell for much more than people are willing to spend on a single Morion. Trust me on that one, the expression on people's faces when they see an $800 tag in a mild steel morion with embossing is funny the first couple times, but in the end what people want and what they are wi...

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Maeryk wrote:(Which leads into a totally nother nit picky bitch about Peerage awards. "I need to know about 8th C turnip twaddlers!" "Oh! Go ask X! They are a Laurel!")

I was going to ask Karen about those, but I was afraid she'd have pictures of them already.

Saritor

But I can only guess that when the discussion of person X being considered for the Order of the Laurel comes up, somewhere in the discussion they would probably ask the opinion of the candidate's Laurel. I would guess that at a minimum they would ask the candidate's Laurel if they think their appre...

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Steve -SoFC- wrote:Your Laurel functions as an advocate. They speak for you in the Laurel's circle.

That part depends on the kingdom of origin that the laurel is from. Here, that's considered more than a bit tacky to bring up your own "student" in any of the peerage circles.

Saritor

Looking for something that just covers the back of the head for C&T and fits inside a standard rapier mask. It needs to cover from the top of the mask to the top of where the gorget starts (C1 vertebra) and have a bit of room to stick closed-cell foam in for padding. I need to get one to test fo...

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Save the money up for a Darkwood economy weapon. I have a Darkwood blade that got run over by an 18-wheeler going about 60mph. I had to replace the guard (quillons and knuckle bow survived fine, though), and the foible has a slight bend. It's been in continuous use since Scott sold me the blade year...

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I'm looking for a reputable armorer that would be willing to take on a simple commission project. Mostly, I want someone who could produce these occasionally and affordably. I need a shaped "plate" that would fit under the tongue of a fencing mask, sit, at the bottom, right around where th...

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Here's the online Paulus Kal:
http://mdz10.bib-bvb.de/~db/bsb00001840 ... index.html

Various sources for Meyer:
http://www.aemma.org/onlineResources/meyer/meyer.htm

Saritor

I'll take the Wallerstein and the Ringeck.

I'm in 79912...let me know the paypal address, and shipping and I'll get that over to you tomorrow.

Beeswax?

Looking for an armorer