The Armour Archive

Koredono

Whee! Thanks, Koredono-sensei. Can't wait. I sent my stuff into, and have had correspondence with, the Yamamoto(?). I should be all squared away. 'Hatamoto' - in historical terms, the senior aide of the daimyo; in our practical terms, the organizational center of the clan and camp master. Looking f...

Koredono

Arriving Wednesday the 10th, camping (for the first time) with the inestimable Clan Yama Kaminari. I should be either there, or on the field, or working at the Zen Warrior Armoury booth. Come say hi. Alejandro Welcome to Yama Kaminari! Speaking as Clan cartographer (i.e. the person who figures out ...

Koredono

price:Part Number: 8586K392 $41.59 Each Okay, so it's the same stuff, I just found the .25" thick sheets as opposed to the .5" thick sheets. Dang, for that price, that works out to be >$650 for a 4' x 8' sheet (though the price/area drops with the bigger piece, but even using 24" x 48" sheets it st...

Koredono

http://www.mcmaster.com/ has what you want. Type in ABS plastic sheet in their search bar and you will be there. Hey Nissan, did I do something completely wrong? The search didn't work for me, so I dug through and got to a 24" x 48" sheet of black 1/4" ABS ( http://www.mcmaster.com/itm/find.ASP?tab...

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I don't know of any source for 1/2" ABS, but www.gepolymershapes.com/ has 1/4" for ~$60, and they will both cut it into smaller pieces (I get mine cut into 2' x 4' sheets, but you seem to want 1' x 2' sheets, which I'm sure they'd do too) and ship to your residence or business.

Koredono

Sir Graedwyn mab Tiernan (sp) of AEthelemearc was knighted last year, he was over 50. He started fighting at age 18 in 1972. Not quite correct, but close - Sir Graedwyn turns 50 this fall (thus he is too young to fight in Sir Bear and Sir Berengaer's tourney this Pennsic, but will qualify next year...

Koredono

Name: Magariki Katsuichi no Koredono Kingdom you live in: AEthelmearc Years you have been fighting in the SCA: 19 Your level of fighting recognition: (None, AOA award, GOA award, Peer, Royal Peer) Knight The overall length of your sword: 45" The length of the blade: 30.5" The distance the balance po...

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Do you want only one-handed sword info, or any sword?

Koredono

Tallish, skinny? I remember him taking a blow as having 'stunned' him... That's Hrothgar's trademark. Fun as all hell. Also "screamed" in agony to call a limb shot... AoC Yep. that's him. I remember him flinging himself backwards through the air while loosing a bloodcurdling scream, to lie limp on ...

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This has been done by both Sir Hrothgar of Farley (probably the Ansteorran knight Alc refers to, now living in Aethelmarc, I believe) and Duke Albert von Drachenweldt (formerly of the Midrealm, now living in the Outlands). Albert was doing this as far back as the mid '70's; Hrothgar when I fought h...

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no. nor does it pass the requirement that all marshals be in black tabards with golden swords crossed. at least, it was my impression that had been made a societal rule (someone please correct me if i am wrong). either way its tacky and ruins the otherwise nice picture. regards logan As far as I ca...

Koredono

Learning to use your off-hand well is one of the more difficult things in becoming a good two-sword fighter; we have someone here who is (relatively) a natural with two-sword, but she still doesn't throw blows with her off-hand as often, or with as much power and confidence, as with her on-hand. Duk...

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What I do at practice is honestly mostly determined by who's there. I tend to work one-on-one with less experienced fighters, but that's at partially because that's who's been coming to practice (with two notable exceptions). And when we're sparring, I intentionally give myself some handicap (fighti...

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I believe there were only 36 combatants. The way the list was run was pretty cool as well. I will try to explain. It was double elimination. Since there were 4 more fighters than a perfect 32, the Crown (I am assuming) had four fighters challenge in for the right to fight in the first round. If the...

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http://www.pbase.com/darter02/awp_16 is now up; lots of really nice pictures, even if none of them have me in them

(Hmmm ... maybe they're nice because I'm not in them and ruining them ...

)

Koredono

This was a great event. Kind of like being at pennsic 15 or so. The fighting was great. It is worth noting that the 'chux were the most numerous, effective and disciplined force on the field. The combination of the atlantia, midrealm and tuchuks swept the broken field res battles something like 5-0...

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... Did you take it up with his 'boss'? I don't think "I don't like it" would fly very far... He's a canton knight marshall, and I'm the baronial knight marshall, so I'm his 'boss'...but, as it was his practice, I didn't want to pull rank. I think the way I handled it worked better; I convinced him...

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In the same lines as Nissan and Duke Gavin, the blade of my swords is "hand at rest to same side big toe" (what I recommend to all my newbies), which for me is 30.5", and my katana has a hilt of 14.5", and those dimensions exactly match my steel (nothing like being consistent and accurate); my sole ...

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No, I don't think we're a special case. At least as far as fighting goes, GA rules and conventions are nearly identical to Meridian. Ours were too, except I think there was a disagreement over who the entrants had to be acceptible to, the sitting Eastern or AEthelmearc royalty. In the end, the Boar...

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#2 - substance over style A good friend of mine, and one of the people who formed my earliest concepts of SCA knighthood (being the only knight in a barony w/ 200+ paid members) told me (with regard to his own fabulous harnesses) "if you can't fight well, you should at least look good dying"; note t...

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I eat a couple of hours before fighting; if I don't have a large lead time for whatever reason, I just eat less. I don't eat while I'm fighting (like when they have lunch at tourneys) unless I've been expending a lot of energy, or unless it's something small and either salty (like a pickle or olive)...

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Is there a controversy about buttspikes? It is my understanding that archeologists measure spearlengths in european grave-finds from between the buttcap and spearhead. The buttcap usually being a sheetmetal cone of varying lengths and therefore sharpness. I think a good hard thrust with a sharp ste...

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I have a 6' Nagamaki, a Japanese polearm with both a 3' blade and haft. I like it, and but it's technically both a polearm and a greatsword...(fits the rules for both descriptions). Sounds like an unpadded glaive to me. Not allowed over here I'm afraid (but if used without the buttspike it's OK acc...

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I tried searching on here for info on this but to no avail. Does anyone on here use this technique? Does the sca allow it? From what I understand, this was an extremely common historical combat method but I never see anyone use it. This is a perfectly allowable form; while I myself would never use ...

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We understand that, Alcy. But in terms of the GA list, the combatants must be acceptable to the Meridian Crown? Or the GA Prince and Princess? (I'd personally guess "both" is the answer.) Ding, ding, ding! You are correct. Give the man a cookie. Broinnfinn I don't know whether we were a special cas...

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I just have two words for you: MAD CELT (Duke Sir John of Ean Airgead)! He is about to celebrate his 30th anniversary of becoming a knight. He received his AoA 31 years ago which means he was fighting sometime in his twenties. I also know of one fighter who didnt pick up fighting until after he was...

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Frist, let me say that by and large, when I'm figthing with a 'greatsword' against a polearm, it's almost always with a sword significantly shorter than what I expect you're using (my katana measures 30.5" of blade + 14.5" of hilt, exactly the same as my steel, and in addition to it being 'right' fo...

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Not banned yet...I intend to start using a syloflex sword right now...to do some research myself. When the ban is official, I will ditch them but till then I intend to use 'em. Which is odd...because up till now, I hadn't ever used a syloflex sword. What does that tell ya?? Baron Hamish That someti...

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Hi folks! Picking up a second helm, a pembridge style, so I can do all that helm crest goodness. I know that this style of helm was historically worn over a small bascinet...do people do this in the SCA? Not very often, though I know that it has been done. A long time ago (Pennsic XVII, so, 17 year...

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And Random Wronghand active, inactive, whatever, still the worlds most dangerous spearfighter. I was easily put him in the top ten in the Known World, no question, even at his present activity level; that's one of the reasons why I try to keep track of where Clovenshield is, if you guys are on the ...

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Aethelmark: Random Wronghand Katdavar You need to come back and fight here more; maybe at the Order of the Gage 'hold the field' before the melees Saturday at War Practice? Mostly because of their present level of inactivity (I wish Random had been fighting more over, say, the past decade, and Katd...

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It should sting the palm of my hand a little That light? I feel a nice bruise should form if you get hit in an unarmoured area. Cheers I could be wrong, and please correct me if I am, but I think what Nissan means is that the palm of the person delivering the blow should sting a little, not the one...

Koredono

Owen wrote:
Koredono wrote:It's be a pretty ineffective mace, too, I think.

But it's a great shield, that I can poke you with!

Exactly!

Koredono

By 'single sword' do you mean 'single-handed broadsword' or 'one sword' (i.e. bastard sword / katana, &c); given the limited numbr of AEthelmearc knights who were there, I'm curious to determine who that could have been (with a description, I might be able to figure it out). Now, if it was a previo...

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[snip] Now the first two may not sound too bad, but as Koredono accurately put it, I'm roughly 6'6", 300-325 lbs out of armor (and I still didn't mean for that shot to hit that hard ...also didn't realize it ranked that high on the richter scale... ) Havoc Hi Havoc! No, I know you didn't mean for t...

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