The Armour Archive

RenJunkie

I'm not new to the SCA, but some of my reasons are much like new guys. Now keep in mind, I do want to get on the heavy field. I don't want to get broken. I am self-employed in a very new business venture, I have no insurance, and would really like to not need to visit the ER and then do follow ups. ...

RenJunkie

Great. I picked me up some neatsfoot today. We'll see how this goes

Thanks!
Christopher

RenJunkie

My experience was very similar. In 2003, I went to a fairly big event in Midrealm (where I lived at the time), a Kingdom level war practice for Pennsic. I don't have any idea how many fighters were there. But most of them looked gut-wrenchingly awful. I went expecting it to look at *least* as good a...

RenJunkie

So, is that striking edge the only part with the foam? And is it clackered, or does the mass of the leather behind whump enough to be acknowledged? That looks a lot like stuff I do out of thinner leather and fewer layers for faires. I thinks I'm gonna have to try one all beefed up now.... Thanks! Ch...

RenJunkie

True, but we're getting back into a monthly outlay of money. If I could do that, I probably wouldn't even have started the thread, I'd be hitting iron at a gym. But the lack of monthly due money forced me to look into more home-based plans using what I got on hand. But there's been a lot of good sug...

RenJunkie

I'm looking to use oil to take undyed leather to a nice brown color. Which is the best oil to use for this? I'd like to avoid using an actual dye, I just want the oil to stain the leather evenly. I'm thinking neatsfoot, maybe?

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Sweet. Thanks for the books ideas!

Christopher

RenJunkie

Can't say that it will help for sure, but, you can have a look at this thread: m Ive settled on (in my mind) 13th century Saxon/Bohemian. Largely because buying properly made 16th century Saxon clothes is expensive, and my wife refuses to make anything post 1300 due to complexity. And as I hate sewi...

RenJunkie

I think your detail is plenty fine enough, sir!

I think I'm gonna have to give it a shot. The simpler dot designs and stuff.

Anyone know where to find pics of extant leather tooling/stamping?

Thanks!
Christopher

RenJunkie

That's a cool link, Cliff. I poked around a bit under the armies link too...lol. Thanks!

OK, so basically, any hacky, whacky, or stabby item an archer could have afforded. That sounds pretty reasonable.

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Christopher

RenJunkie

That is very sweet.

But wow, to make a fleur that small....You gotta da steady hand.

Christopher

RenJunkie

Hmm, hadn't considered that. I have yet to procure or make a pair of causes.

Hope I don't have to end up wearing the footless kind and using ankle socks.

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Aha!! Anshelm!!! That is precisely the one I saw!

That Hessen Ironworks guy...great googly moogly! I believe you when you say he can make about anything. I may have to come up with something for him one day.

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Hmmm, have to look into that....

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Ah ok, I got ya. I've never studied it enough to see that it was a linguistics issue.

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Are there any extant examples of these, or good reconstructed drawings? Or even good period visual sources?

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Rootin frootin slash mark..... I fixed it. One quarter of an inch. I appreciate the offer. I think tho, I'm gonna hang onto these and see how it goes in the long term. Nothing experimented, nothing learned. I doubt they need opened up. Probably more me fumbling than anything wrong with them. Thanks!...

RenJunkie

A few nights ago, I was researching...something. I was zonked, and can't remember what I was looking up. But somewhere I came across SCA hilts that were a single piece for pommel/grip/crossquard. The rattan just plugged down into the pommel thru the guard and grip like a tang. Only I don't remember ...

RenJunkie

I'm doing this as a separate review, as Viking Leather Crafts doesn't make these. They're very good looking boots. Stitching was well done, the nails (I got the nailed on sole, as opposed to turnshoe) seemed well set, nothing stabbing me or hitting the floor when I wore them. There were two weeeeeee...

RenJunkie

I just got my Norse 2-toggles boots from VLC today. Frank did a great job of answering emails and got them here very quickly. Woulda been quicker, but Monday was Columbus Day, so they shipped out a day later. Very good experience, and I'll very likely buy from Frank in the future. Thanks! Christopher

RenJunkie

Moisture.

Ever pick up a 2x4 at the lumber yard, and then pick up another one that was waaay lighter or waaay heavier? Moisture content is huge in wood weight. Try re-weighing them in a few months and see if they're not closer in weight.

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Why not go back to leather disks? Just harden them. 15 seconds in boiling water, and you get a thick wood-hard button. Or just soak it in a 1 part Titebond 3 (waterproof) glue to 5 parts water solution. put in the oven for 10 or 15 minutes. Easy, shapable, and should clack. Can even make them a bit ...

RenJunkie

Link to the Red Kaganate:

http://www.redkaganate.org/

It's in Norman's sig line. His site, I believe.

It looks like the earliest clothing he's covering is the 9-10 century Magyar.

I love that name. Magyar.

Christopher

RenJunkie

I thought a carrack was bigger than a nao? I've been on Columbus's replica of the Santa Maria. I still don't get why all the decks were curved. If the Jamestown replicas are right, by 1610, someone had decided "Hey, you know things might not walk away on a rolling sea or tip quite so much if we...

RenJunkie

Well said. Even if the debate rumbles on in this thread... I too am not a fan of combat archery, and I share some of Johnathan's concerns, and yet I am determined to work with its practitioners in good fellowship at finding middle ground. I do not feel that this conversation is appropriate to this t...

RenJunkie

Any reason they don't allow clackers? Just curious.

Christopher

RenJunkie

For the sole. go to a cobbler. The guy I worked for would tear off the old soles, put on new ones in about 20 minutes for about 10 bucks. The right tools (expensive ones, mind you) make it go real fast. I wouldn't glue a leather sole to it. I'd go with a thin modern one. Talk to the cobbler, tell hi...

RenJunkie

Marizipan uses rose water.

I know this cause my wife loves the stuff...lol

Christopher

RenJunkie

What would he have carried? A dagger, no doubt, but, a short sword? Small axe or hammer? How about a falchion?

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Christopher

RenJunkie

Actually, I'm not being grammar police, I'm being practical. Let's say you need to go and appeal. But they are meeting on the opposite side of the continent. Say you're from Nova Scotia, and they're meeting in LA. CAN you really afford to go there? Maybe yes, likely no. Not if you plan on doing any ...

RenJunkie

I thought the consensus on that Churby was that it was fingered gaunts with the fingers missing?

Christopher

RenJunkie

Don't worry about it Daithi. There's people who hate CA so much, they'll rant and rage and piss in anyone's Wheaties who says they just realized they like it. I've seen the arguments blaze on here before I even got involved in the SCA. Play within the rules, but play how you wanna play. If someone t...

RenJunkie

No, anyone *may* attend a BOD meeting. Not everyone who would can get there.

Christopher

RenJunkie

I got the same message as Norman.

Christopher

RenJunkie

Watergaroon? You know if his water is all discolored, or if there's just hunks of rusty metal in the water? Cause I'd love to be able to do it without everyone complaining about the tin pickled fish smell. Back to vinegaroon for a minute - it actually doesn't require the vinegar. there's a rather we...

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