The Armour Archive

Saritor

Sorry...misread the question as "based upon what weapon" rather than the intent of "what criteria in the SCA rules".

Saritor

Bumping this up, since the auction's still got a bit to go.

Saritor

The longsword. Oakeshott types XVIa, XVII, XIIa are probably the most typical examples of reproduction swords you'll see out there.

8-12" hilt, overall lengths ranging from ~46-52" (give or take a bit).

Saritor

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Johno wrote:"eventually superceded by great bascinets"

Yeah exactly.

Johno wrote:Thats pretty groovy but a bit to bulky for my taste. Neat though.

Saritor

Saritor

For use, with some discussion about handle lengths, etc:
http://www.scabastardsword.com/

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I'll rest comfortably on my bid for the nonce, then.

Saritor

It's why they rarely show the ground in some of those clips.

Littered with dismembered corpses and the crippled and wounded, it is.

Saritor

RichardofEssex wrote:I couldn't find my measuring tape, but with paper and a ruler, I was able to get a rough measurement and it come out to about 26 -27" in circumference.

26.67 is about a 23.5" head with padding all around, for reference.

Saritor

Vasilii wrote:BUMPAGE!!!!

Bumping the thread, or are you bidding me up?

Saritor

Well met Sir Robert, I agree in some aspects, but I am an odd bird in the terms of an SCA fighter. I don't look at a bout as an SCA fight, I look at it as a fight. Sure it means I'm not the best SCA fighter, but I am OK with that as a combat "student". I love to talk mechanics, technique ...

Saritor

I picked up one of the full-size splinted kidney belts at Estrella this year, and they're pretty damned sexy. They hide nicely under clothing, and there's been a couple of times where I've taken it off to find a pretty serious dent...without being able to recall ever being hit that hard. Definitely ...

Saritor

Baron Alcyoneus wrote:Proficiency with 2 weapons systems is a requirement to become a fyrdman.

I'd hope they're selected for having good aim, too...

Saritor

Saritor

Entirely up to the whim of the Crown, but usually shakes up as a double elim, best 2 of 3, with the weapon formats changing. The first round being an unbelt challenge round happens sometimes -- it was a kick this past coronation to have a peer challenge round where they had to pick a non-peer. Large...

Saritor

That's the original set...it came to me by way of three other folks, and I recovered it with the black canvas that's on there now. It was in pretty beaten-up shape when I got it. Rock solid, but the canvas had frayed in several places. Never got around to replacing the covering on the faulds, but th...

Saritor

I have GOT to get my Adria-legal heavy kit together.

Saritor

Jester, Most of Darkwood's blanks have been approved (I'd say all, but Scott's constantly tinkering with stuff, so I never know what all he has), and I've seen him mount the single sword blades on a plain crosshilt (he had some at Estrella War last year). It might be a slightly more expensive arming...

Saritor

Now just need to work on a 16th Cent personna, maybe a privateer. Don't need to do it unless you want to. There's plenty of options on the forthcoming list of blade types approved (certainly, on the list I have for the Outlands) that would let you keep your current persona and clothing and fight C&...

Saritor

Yikes! This magnificent coat of plates was made famous by Duke Albert von Drackenveldt. I met him but didn't get a picture (Doh!) and when I asked him if he was still fighting he said "I just fought in Crown!" This coat may have been made by Sir Polidor. Yeah, Duke Albert's pretty regular...

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Sieghart wrote:And as to C&T, well I've been following it, waiting to hear more about it. Sounds fun to me. And what better Kingdom is there to do it for?

If you're going to Stagscon, shoot me a pm, and we'll get together and talk about it. I should have all my shiny toys there.

Saritor

I see. My search for things like this in CO have come up extremely short. Closest you're likely to get in Dspine is the Vikings guys in the Denver area. Rocky Mountain Swordplay Guild is gearing up to do some armored stuff, but that's a lot of training yet to do for you, and some ways off for the w...

Saritor

I was wondering how many folks try to â€˜playâ€™ their persona in combat? Iâ€™ve made a personal vow that I will only fight with weapons, and work toward SCA Safe proper armor for my persona. This includes creating SCA legal variants of those weapons, i.e. no basket hilts, weapon recognizable as pe...

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At one point I tried to say my persona was only 5'8, so headshots didn't count. I even offered to chalk an outline on my chest of my head for people. No-one liked it. Can't think why. I'm okay with it, so long as you're willing to be blinded when you hold your shield over your "face" in s...

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Gorm wrote:Why do I suspect this isn't just testing your ability to get through the alphabet 4 times on a single soda??

Your version would be less vomit-inducing.

http://www.exrx.net/Aerobic/Exercises/Burpee.html

Saritor

http://www.pennsicwar.org/

http://www.estrellawar.org/

Saritor

m There's some photos at the end of us testing live weapons against the swordfodder foam targets. There's no photos of the cuts, but you can see the aftermath. I'm not sure what happened to the video of it where we did some cuts with the boar spear...that was tons of fun, and demonstrated that a pro...

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I'm with sha-ul on that.

Who made the boots?

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Can we count the Bible?

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My money's on Timmur.

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Dante della Luna wrote:Canada is a bit of a drive for me.

Clearly, you lack commitment.

Saritor

Eamonn MacCampbell wrote: Maybe an Irish Wolf Hound...But I've never seen one with those colors...

Irish Greyhound/Wolfhound.

Re: Is anywhere else in the SCA as weird as the West Kingdom

Re: The Persona in SCA Combat