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by RenJunkie
Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:54 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: New SCA Helm Regulation?
Replies: 38
Views: 1773

Tatsuo, a titanium helm would probably be appreciated by those in the rapier communty who want something better looking than fencing masks. may also be perfectly viable for C&T fighting. I dunno what mass they prefer, but I do know a helm is required for it. I eman, yeah steel works fine, but if...
by RenJunkie
Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:46 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Beginner's question... black tarnish on sword blade?
Replies: 6
Views: 134

My Windlass blade says India on it.

Can't help you with the tarnish issue much. Just hit it with a metal cleaner/polish and see if it wotks. That's as much advice as my non-metal working mind can give...lol

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Mon Oct 13, 2008 11:43 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Musket combat archer-SCA
Replies: 263
Views: 5192

Eirikr the Eager wrote:Yep. Classed as a weapon. Requires an interview, reason for ownership (+ documentation/proof such as approval of landowner to hunt on their land), assessment of mental history etc.


:shock:

Lord, I hope no ones commits mass murder with a cricket bat....

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Sun Oct 12, 2008 11:01 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Musket combat archer-SCA
Replies: 263
Views: 5192

Eirikr the Eager wrote: Bungelista technology is allowed in Lochac (as it's very hard to get a crossbow licence in Aus)


Crossbow liscence?

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:32 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Musket combat archer-SCA
Replies: 263
Views: 5192

Why does the stock make it illegal? It's just an arquebes looking crossbow. Crossbows have stocks.

If he went with a more standard crossbow stock, would it be kosher?

Christopher

PS: The gun is SWEET!
by RenJunkie
Sun Oct 12, 2008 2:19 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Supposed 15th century maille
Replies: 17
Views: 472

Probably.

But I saw one of the extant shirts Erik D Schmidt owns, and it has the same flap sorta front. That'd be uncommon in a total fake, don't you think?

Still odds are it is extant to the Victorian age at best.

Need an expert....

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Sun Oct 12, 2008 1:54 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: glue recommendation (and other questions)?
Replies: 6
Views: 145

If you can still find it, Barge is great for attatching stuff like that.

Getting harder to find, tho.

Can't say about a shield, tho. Dunno how it would handle the whakety-smakety.

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:36 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: 16thC German Softkit NON-Landskekt
Replies: 37
Views: 958

Anyone know of books about the Electorate? I suppose if they're in German, I'll have to find someone to translate, but I needs info.

Thanks,
Christopher
by RenJunkie
Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:49 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: FS or trade-Von Sussen 18g Burgonet w/ articulated Bevor.
Replies: 2
Views: 234

PM Sent.

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:34 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Stonekeep: partial moving sale and auctions:prepare yourself
Replies: 16
Views: 825

I didn't know you did helmet tops.

Is that a regular item? I can't find them anywhere else on the site...

Or will they be a regular item?

Thanks,
Christopher
by RenJunkie
Thu Oct 09, 2008 6:18 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: SCA Legal crusader conical?
Replies: 37
Views: 863

OH
MY
GOD!!!!!

Adam, that last one is utterly amazing!!!!! Even by what I'm used to seeing from you, that is staggering!!

Get well.

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:48 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Best Tourney You Have Ever Fought In?
Replies: 48
Views: 1813

College of San Ambrogio Champion Tourney, many, MANY years ago now. Wasn't anything special, just standard double-elim, but it was my first time to the final 4, besting several knights on the way, and the day I realized I might not totally suck at this. And, this may be a bit of oversharing, but la...
by RenJunkie
Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:34 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Looking for 16th century shoes
Replies: 13
Views: 222

How does ev eryone like em?

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:22 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: check out this dude's Library
Replies: 32
Views: 671

James B. wrote:I think that library is bigger than my home :shock:


It's more than twice as big as my home. And we got 5 of us.

My wife is gonna get girlie wood when she sees that.....

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:22 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: What arcane academic book would you like to see published...
Replies: 20
Views: 338

Books on The Electorate of Saxony (the Martin Luther years) paistakingly translated into English to make sure its's correct. Or maybe even written in English.

At least that's today's...lol

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:24 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Stonekeep Armory: Quick sale on Spring fanless cops $25
Replies: 18
Views: 475

Matt, you could always use them for knees. Spring knees for $25....;)

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:47 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Hussite Reenactment Yahoo Group
Replies: 20
Views: 299

Mark, the rope helmet is awesome!

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:46 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Looking for 16th century shoes
Replies: 13
Views: 222

The thin leather doesn't scare me. If I get annoyed, I'll just take em apart, use the thins stuff as a pattern, and do it in veg. Then I can do do really wild variations. When I was at the shoe store today getting sized, I was amazed at some of the shoe designs and how adaptable they'd be. I saw the...
by RenJunkie
Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:38 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Making a greave crease?
Replies: 11
Views: 645

Hal has all kinds of nifty tools for fluting/creasing. Check with him, he can probably get you hooked up. yeh, there will be a littlie pounding, but it's just his rig, a blunt chisel (included) and a hammer. I think you can get away with that. If not, the v-gouge is a great technique. Christopher
by RenJunkie
Wed Oct 08, 2008 6:30 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: 16thC German Softkit NON-Landskekt
Replies: 37
Views: 958

Excellent.

Now all I need is a German doublet...

Thanks,
Christopher
by RenJunkie
Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:33 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: So what's up with the pattern archive?
Replies: 32
Views: 824

Patterns are hugely useful in making leather armour. Leather has a bizzare tendency to be simultaneously more workable and less workable that steel. You can't raise it as much as steel. You jit a point where you've made a place on the leather really dense, the heat from compression hardens it a bit,...
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:38 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: 16thC German Softkit NON-Landskekt
Replies: 37
Views: 958

Yeah, you're probably right. So, for starters, at least, I'm good doing a garment that is shaped like a super doublet in the top, and a rok at the bottom. Cool. What were the doublets like? Were they like Kass' 1560's common man patterns, or closer to Wams? Or in between? Where did you find your pat...
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:31 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Architecture in the middle ages (or earlier)
Replies: 22
Views: 305

There was Longshanks' castle man, Master James of St John. The guy who oversaw all the great Edwardian castles in Wales. My personal favorite. If you wanna go classical, you gotta hit Vitruvius. Wasn't all military architecture, but the man wound up influencing European and Colonial architecture a g...
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:15 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: German Language Stuff
Replies: 39
Views: 603

Research is a weak point of mine, I must admit. At this point, tho, I'm looking for everything about the Electorate in the 16thC. Material culture, social culture, military culture. I'll take mining techniques if they got em...lol. I wish I could go and visit the museums, but cost prohibits me for n...
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 10:11 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: 16th C. German image library
Replies: 10
Views: 303

Well, first of all, you send a copy of all the files to me...... :D

I would so love to see that. I mean really love it.

Can't help you with how, just make sue we can see BIG HUGE versions of the pics....lol

Thanks,
Christopher
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:42 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Musket combat archer-SCA
Replies: 263
Views: 5192

And there were guys wearing maille and open faced helms in the gunpowder age.

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:58 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: 16thC German Softkit NON-Landskekt
Replies: 37
Views: 958

So, I should go read my Machiaveli? lol Ok, so the personna progression I'm gonna go after is a town guard (not high born, but not from a pauper family either. From the lower end of middle middle class as we now think of it), who gets some experience there (and training? if they did that), and then ...
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:39 am
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: German Language Stuff
Replies: 39
Views: 603

I wish I could. How is it that the place where Protestantism was born (Saxony) is such a backwater historically to Protestant nations like the English speaking nations. Augh. Giano, is there someone or some institution in Saxony (I would guess odds are best for Dresden) that I can write to who can h...
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:34 am
Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
Topic: IWTB soldier in the Electorate of Saxony, 1520-1555
Replies: 2
Views: 339

There's lots of good info on those threads, but not really what I'm after. Not looking for Landskechten. I don't know how much crossover in style there is between a bunch of guys mass excommunicated for codpieces, and the syles in the place that sheltered Martin Luther when he posted his Thesis. For...
by RenJunkie
Tue Oct 07, 2008 2:20 am
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Banded armor
Replies: 29
Views: 864

From the website, 2nd paragraph:

As one will note, this reproduction, was made for a Woman.


That could epxplain the uber-loose chest lacing. I'm sure it could have been tailired in a tighter fashion and work fine. J

Just sayin'.....

Christopher
by RenJunkie
Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:40 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Little known Henry VIII Cloth of Gold Brigandine
Replies: 9
Views: 510

Aw man, when you can land some picks of the jack of plates hatt and especially the leather helm, I would be so dreadfully interested in seeing those, I can't even tell you.

Thanks,
Christopher
by RenJunkie
Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:37 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: German Language Stuff
Replies: 39
Views: 603

I would be extrememely interested in more info about the dialet Luther used, as I am really leaning hard towards being a Saxon personna from the 2nd quarter of the 16thC.

thanks,
Christopher
by RenJunkie
Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:22 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: 16thC German Softkit NON-Landskekt
Replies: 37
Views: 958

You mean like a garrisoned troop? Or like "town guards"?


Let's go with both for now.

I'll see if I can find the Osprey books.

What about material culture? Can anyone point me to a site or sme books for that?

thanks,
Christopher
by RenJunkie
Fri Oct 03, 2008 5:08 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Leather Shield Cover
Replies: 3
Views: 206

Any acryllic will work. In fact, the Tandy stuff like the Cova Color paints are translucent. Sorta like an acrylic paint that gives the look of a dye. Sorta. If you want it really bold and stong, go with regular artist's acryllics. I think Sir Vitus uses the Creamcoat stuff. Look up his sheild advic...
by RenJunkie
Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:44 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: I'm looking for jugs like these?
Replies: 83
Views: 2600

Saritor wrote:I'm not even sure where Dweezle found a pic of my High School prom date...


BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAAHAAAA!!!

Oh, that hurts.....lol

Christopher

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