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Cian of Storvik

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Cian of Storvik

This is a bit fuzzy, but Hal's sabatons in stainless w/brass rivets over turnshoes. *IF* he still is taking commissions these are lovely and elegant in their simplicity and could be the icing on proverbial armored cake. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2365/2160318176_0a411fca3b_z.jpg For finger gaunt...

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I'll let it go for what I paid for it; $70 + cost of shipping.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

With the helmet sitting base flat on the table, it is 10.25" tall (the back point is slightly lower at around 10"). The face opening is 7.25" wide. And from base to brow the opening is 6.5". At the brow it's 8.75" to the back of the helm. And ear to ear it is 8.25" The ...

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I'd read many reviews of it years ago. The only drawbacks are that it's not actually a Korean bow. It's sort of "koreanish" or Korean inspired. It's not a full reflex. It's actually more like a simple modern recurve without a defined riser. It comes with a grip that is evidently VERY hard ...

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I have a stainless bascinet, but I think it might be a bit closer to 16 ga. (I'll split the difference and say 17ga). I was going to make a cut and thust shovel faced bascinet for a friend, but he already bought a helmet so I have no plans to complete it. I can take pics when I get home and give mea...

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If it's for SCA combat, shafted ammo is limited to being used on 30# @ 28" draw bow. If it's tubular ammo, you can go upto 50# @ 28", but some kingdoms do not do the tubular ammo. A cheap recurve is the PSE Buckeye (discontinued. It now looks like the replaced it with something called the ...

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I am so glad that the archer's sallet is only 57cm. So that my big head and I don't have to be tempted by it.
Just like the other armor, it looks great.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

The armored baby Jesus just died a little inside the second this thread was posted.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

So around $165 including shipping to the US?
And these are made of iron or brass/bronse?
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

Sir Gaston (M.K.A. Chris Gilman) did his chausses by stitching them directly to fabric and leather hosen. Basically, tight fitting pants. His only cover the the feet, ankles, shins, calves up to behind the knee. But it seems like a great idea. But it would require some tailoring of the mail to get i...

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I haven't practiced in months and months so take this with a grain of salt. Atlantia has a LOT of good unbelts. I would add 1 person that stands out in my mind. If he shows up for a practice, Baron Henry West is good to fight. But I don't like him because he does change-ups like a pitcher. One perso...

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I haven't dealt with Eric in a few years, but No Frontiers Archery used to be the most affordable place to purchase custom arrows. He had/has several price points; adult economy (solid color fletches, basic cedar shafts and field points for $45-$55), his top of the line with barred fletches, stained...

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Who's Siegfried?
Is he fighting for his consort Roy?
Shoprat, Sean and Giacomo are not in crown. Sunniva is right, Giacomo was going to fight but injured himself and is out.
Shoprat, Sean and Joselyn should be there, but just to fight TOC and pick-ups.
-Cian

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Yeah. I just turned around told Jos "Did you know know that you're in Crown?" and he's all "I am?! Oh okay. If you say so." (he sits about 15 feet away from me at work).

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I use 16 ga galvenized picture hanging wire (solid; not stranded obviously). Nip off a 3-4mm length, use beefy linesman pliers with a divit on jaw to crush in place. This is, of course, if you're not OCD about all of your rings having identical round headed rivets in place.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

That Lego font is appropriate for 16th c? I must have missed that manuscript. Clever! I possibly would have gone with LEGA; sounds Italian, and is the second person imperative Latin verb form of Legare, which means "to unite", or "bind", or "connect"! And can be an acro...

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I don't have plans written-up. But some people seem to like my folding stand as a basic upper body and helmet stand. m This doesn't have a way to hang the legs, but a second crossbar can be set in place, to hang your legs from a kidney belt/weight belt. If memory is serving correctly, I think it col...

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If the buyer for #2 (shoulder cops) goes MIA, I'll be happy to match the bid (I think I had the second highest bid for #2). I also got the helm top today. Looks great. Thanks for going to the effort of making and throwing in the paper pattern. I'll let you know how it goes (and probably commission y...

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I've got a split hauberk that I've started stitching to a gambeson (sleeves, color and down the front split). As Robert Downey notates, I hate the hair on my head getting ripped out at the root on entrance and egress. For my upper body armor, I just slip on my gambeson (with maille and armor pointed...

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It's still sitting on the shelf patiently waiting for me to drill and file out breaths and lacing holes for a liner. Working on maille at the moment and my addiction to Dragon Age 2.
-Cian

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Crap. Sunday morning, I put $500 on Osama Bin Laden to win. After seeing the news yesterday, I have a feeling his odds have dropped significantly. -Cian

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I have a couple of their helms, but simple kettles. The finish is nice. They're heavy, but they don't feel "solid" like a good SCA armorer made helm. I would use it for combat archery, but not where people are smacking me with rattan several hundred times per day. The GDFB topfhelms don't ...

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The fact that the U.S. is shy a couple of balls has no bearing on the subject. I think I had read or told of something about a huge influx of inferior bearing products (oblong in shape, under-hardened, brittle, flat-sided, ad infinitum) from the East flooding the american market about 30+ years ago ...

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About 5 years ago, it was simply illegal. There was no trying to get around any import tax. If you imported something that was taxable, I would get a bill in the mail from customs. In this instance, I was told that unless I explained reasonably why I was importing bearings into the U.S. they would b...

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Ball bearings are the one thing you do NOT want to try to import into the U.S. just below weapons grade plutonium, and panda bears skins on the difficulty factor. I have a nice annecdote about trying to get some british parts into the U.S. where the seller made the mistake of putting the word "...

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I like the stick idea, but on an english longbow, there shouldn't be a flat to the bow. They're sort of rounded capital D in cross-section. The belly is very rounded, the backs also are rounded but at a much larger circumference. If you have a bow with a flat back, then the sticks would definately d...

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Another thought: you may not have the string the proper length. If you get a fistmele on it, it should be the right length. Fistmele: String the bow. Place your fist with thumb extended, braced against the belly of the bow. The string should be at or just beyond your extended thumb (~6.5-7"). I...

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I agree with Maeryk that limb twist is the common culprit. Look down the length of the bow, like you would sighting in a rifle. The limbs should align perfectly. To help with this, you can take a silver sharpie or pen, and at the very center of the back of each nock, draw a centerline (like you're d...

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#2 (Shoulder cops): $25
#6 (Kettle bowl):$100

-Cian

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The closest thing is the gutter type plates that appear on some English brasses in the first and second quarter of the 14th c, and German effigies in the second half of the 14th. The invariably are floating over maille, and not attached directly over arming garments as seen in the 15th c. See the br...

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I'm not able to get any of your links to work. But if you're talking of Hugh Hastings c1340. You should look at the large image of him 1288x3540, and you will see smaller images of other knights with bascinets in profile. 3 have visors, but each is subtly different from the others. This will give yo...

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I made a grill for someone and just did it one bar at a time. Bent the first bar into the profile I wanted so that it gave enough clearance for his nose and glasses. Then clamped the individual bars with a pair of vicegrips and tack welded them on one at a time until they were all on. I did leave en...

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$4,187/tonne which is up $500/tonne (12%) from this past December and up $1,200 (25%) from Jan of 2010. The spike this month probably in no small part due to the Japanese reconstruction. I can't find the projection now, but I saw a price forecast showed a trend to increase through the summer months ...

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One sort of questions the necessity of a chin strap when you have the aventail pointed or strapped to your armor.
-Cian

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