The Armour Archive

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From what I understand, the difference is that you are supposed to block with the rattan, but if you "miss" the block, and hits your basket, it is ok. Kind of hard to justify raising your shin the same way.

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Have someone else stand up, and lock their knees. If you stand to the side, and look at them. you will notice that the ankle and the hip are both in front of the knees slightly. Not sure if it is truly 200 degrees, but it is slightly behind the line created between the hip and ankle. The knees look ...

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And the price for such wonderful items? It looks like it sits on his head more than actually "clinging" to it, such as a modern skicap would. Is this a trick of the photo, or more how they were designed?

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You might want to try and get closer to 200deg. When you lock your knees, the line betweem your hips and knees is actually slightly curved backwards a slight bit.

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Yeah, I would suggest the same thing, especially if you plan on going earlier than about 1300. They are designed to protect your tailbone when jumping off a 15ft cliff on a bike

, so they stand up pretty well to those ducal wraps.

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Right now I use Lacrosse arms, to no ill effect (other than forearm bruising).

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Sir Justus, can you provide the references for your pictures? I am slowly trying to combine a list of 11th/12th/13th century manuscripts, and am missing these. Thanks.

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This semester? Planning on making two FP a week, an occasional event (1-2 a month) and supplementing everything with rockclimbing. Greatest full body workout you can do. The only problem is that it is hard to specifically work certain muscle group. But for overall workout, serious rockclimbing is gr...

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I think Halberds has done an SCA face helm as well. Not sure how much it would run for thought.

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Actually, adding a heavy leather drape to the insides of it, and scavenging a 3-weapon mask, it looks to be a pretty good start to a fencing helm. Or C&T. I havent done either, but have seen someone else with a fencing morion. that looks along hte same lines. Edit: Looks like we had the same ide...

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Just dont trust anything on it that has any political connotation. Apparently, George W. Bush's page is the most updated, and keeps bouncing between both extremes.

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Pictures?

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And smile. People find it really creepy when you smile, and kind of let your eyes go out of focus.

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Actually, Edric the Bastard fights with a Atzinger shield, and aside from the "frequent" thickness questions, it was passed without issue. A rewrite is in process (we were waiting on Society Handbook) as I know several people who have shields that violate the 1lb/sqft rule.

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That is not correct, no authorization is required to particpate in throwing weapons at targets, its the same as target archery. There are different marshals for each, but no authorizations. Hey Chris, I was joking. I didnt think you guys needed to authorize for Live Weapons. Jocko mentioned Thrown ...

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Yeah, unless you start grabbing the seax with your left hand (and pulling it out to the right

), it wouldnt be having two weapons. Same way you can carry it with a spear or polearm. Even if you dont use it, simply having it there would do wonders for the look of your kit.

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The best technique would be to block (assuming SCA rules). As Tasius said, he can only block or strike, whereas you can do both (assuming you dont swordblock). Just stay within your range.

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If that were the case, Tor, all door trimlock would be illegal. If/when you make it out to practice, Edric has one you can look at. If you can escape from Torlandia, that is.

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Glen, I havent emailed you yet, but have been meaning to (upcoming Conroi event). If you could shoot me a line as well, that would be great.

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"a) non fighters b) way out of date fighters c) new and getting any opportunity to use the power they have taken " A and B imo should not be inspecting esp A This piqued my interest, and figured out that Society Rules say nothing about being a fighter to be a marshall, but in Meridies, no...

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Totally understand Matt. They have stopped government employees (City Hall, etc.) twice at least, and it was over 8 years before that when they canceled once. I went out to visit my fiancee's parents twice, and narrowly missed both Big snowstorms (once by about an hour).

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I'm sure if you pushed reaallly hard, you could get it to fit.

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Actually a rattan seax attached to your belt as a dagger does wonders for bringing together the kit, and really moving it up. Several different armourys also sell nice sword furniture for rattan.

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What exactly are you looking at for trade?

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Mike, do you or Terry have a website, or are you currently working through the backlog, and getting him back on his feet? I might be interested in some stuff, judging by his prior images.

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I was talking about something going up to 4ft. So sounds like they would be fine. I just know some people only consider the biggest they go as 36" (which doesnt make sense, since as you pointed out, most stuff is 2x4'.

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There is flex, more than with laminated blades. Rattan flexes naturally, but hard gule will affect it.

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I would definately be interested in one. Are you looking at being able to do "oversized" shields (as in bigger than 24x36)? These look like a great idea, and means I wont have to mess with making it myself.

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Every marshall I have seen has tested the rigidity of the leather, rather than the thickness. I can take a piece of 15oz. saddle skirting, and work harden it down to 6oz. It will be hard as hell, but is less than 11/64". I have never seen a marshall take a caliper to leather. Most of us rely on the ...

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Most of what I have seen, being a pretty normal portryal with some well selected bling, really would be pretty unique. Take a really good LH portrayal, see what needs to be added to make it SCA legal, and do it. Get some low-profile stuff. It is pretty easy to get knees/elbows that will fit under tu...

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If you get something, please let us know!

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So would lacing around the edges work to hold it on? Trying to get away from bulky heater hose.

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Be aware though, that what Nissan and I are mentioning technically falls into a polearm category (even though it can look and act like a historical spear), so you might want to check authorization requirements.

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Looks like you forgot the site link.

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The other thing to do is make a "boar spear". Basically a "spear" that has a bit of a hewing edge on the front, so you can actually swipe with it. Add a buttspike (not period, but if you nail someone with the end of a hardwood in the in the face or gut, they are probably going down for a bit) and yo...