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Cian of Storvik

I never did any planning besides estimating linear footage of dimensional board length, quantity and square footage of plywood. Since it's just a couple of open sided-boxed with legs at or near the corners off-set from each other so they nest. Then it was cobbled together as I went along. It origina...

Cian of Storvik

I sleep single, and built a pallet box. Still not light, but it holds all of the bed stuffs except for the tack. It's basically a shipping crate that gets me off of the ground but doesn't allow air to flow under me. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4095/4802488276_cf3e375c9e_m.jpg http://farm5.static....

Cian of Storvik

Nice.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

There is the one true century and it is neither dark nor reborn.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

If nothing else, this thread has made me question why a person of my station should have a $1600 double bell tent. I'm not even a man-at-arms and I certainly don't share the tent with 10 other people. I remember some extreamly cold and miserable nights in civil war shelter halves, but that was all p...

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I'm just being snarky because of the "It's okay for a SCAdian, but I wouldn't cought dead in one of those" type of attitute that is pervading the thread. But the reality is that if you were in a civil war reinactment group you would sleep in your shelter halves and snuggle up to the random...

Cian of Storvik

Kult of Athena has a Crecy war sword (44" long) for $775, 44.25". I would consider Albion a good sword. Personally, I don't even want to cut paper with it. (My gf is a sexy goddess, but I don't even let her touch the Albions). If you keep an eye out on myarmoury, Trims and Tinkers come up ...

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For real authenticity, most of us (non-dukes & kings) wouldn't actually have a tent to ourselves. We should just be huddled together with only our armour and cloaks between us and the stars. Or sleeping 8-10 people (including knights, squires, men at arms) in a 10 x 15' tent.

Cian of Storvik

Are those teepees/sibleys or are they possibly just badly drawn wagon wheel pavilions with sloping walls? The fact that they have a cone seperating the top from the sides (indicated by a horizontal line) tells me that they are just roughly-drawn pavillions.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

If you bought the flat ring stainless riveted links from Ice Falcon, they are already pre-punched, and come with rivets. I prefer to use 16 ga. wire rather than trying to peen those tiny rivets. I nip off about 3-4mm of 16 ga galvenized picture wire available at all hardware stores. It's easy enough...

Cian of Storvik

Yes. It sounds like a good summer project. I've got my eye on some durable decorative washers. I may play with some cardboard plate patterns in the near future. I've come to realize that with a mail haubergeon coming down on the hips, I may not need the cuisse plates to come up so high, and that cou...

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I think there have been a couple of threads discussing the likelyhood that mid 14th century fabric cuisses with studs are most-likely the same plate arrangement, due to the similarity between nail patterns on coats of plates. Yet most of us tend to make vertical splints or the nails simply hold a cl...

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I think the fees for eBay auction items, rather than 'buy it now' fixed price items, tend to hover around 12.25% to 13.0% of the item when you figure in paypal. All auctions default to paypal payments, and most people make use of it due to the fact that they can use credit cards and get the money ba...

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It's not quantity but quality that ultimately counts. “I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.” -F. Castro (Okay so he's a ruthless dictator, but it's still a poignan...

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But if they had velcro they would have used it.
-Cian

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If you leave the leather plain, not only will it have a greater tendancy to crack or mold, it also will stain very easily from incidental contact with fingers, greasey food, water, metal. etc. And will become irreversibly blotchy or mottled (which probably would not in any way look good). When dyed ...

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http://www.hoashantverk.se/hantverk/hoa ... index.html

That is 25 coat of plates for you in various shapes. I think they're all pretty schnazzy.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

I overspent my discretionary income this month. I'll probably get one next month. In the meantime,I'd like to see picks of it worn, to get an idea of the amount of fill.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

You're right about the 40". I was wrong. It was a limit that was 84" maximum length + girth. I don't see that they even have that showing any longer on the U.S.ps website. I remember being denied shipping a long tubular item for that specific rule (a longbow possibly?) through them due tha...

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I just got a sword shipped to me in a heavy double or triple-walled box. I think the seller said he got the box from Albion. It is about 47" long, 11" wide and 5" deep. It has foam for retaining the hilt in place. and foam at the point end. The box weighs about 5 lbs. I would calculat...

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Does anyone have information about the daggers called an analace/anelace/aunlaz/anlace? Arms and Armor has a replica of one that is attributed to the Royal Armories, and their write-up says that the term was for a short dagger of English origin used primarily in the 14th century. But in use as early...

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It's not my sword and I have no financial interest, but I recently purchased a sword from Gary Graley who has an Albion Sword St. Maurice of Turin (retail $1,725), and he's letting it go for $1,350 (That's $375 in savings and no wait for manufacture). I know everyone is feeling the economic crunch, ...

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Effingham wrote:Cian, I love you, man.

Smooth move! Now they all know how I acquired the VD!
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

Meh.
-Cian
(That was not directed at Maeryk. Just bad post timing.)

Cian of Storvik

The short side-walls are not period. The conical shape (even if it didn't have side-walls if it looked like a teepee) is also debatably do not have a medieval analog. Though techinically, unless your tent is made of hemp or linen canvas, it's not a faithful "period" european medieval tent....

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I am not some great proponent of soulpads, but I still have yet to see anyone show me an off-the shelf tent that is canvas and less than the soulpads. All of the examples of cheap "period" pieces exclude the posts, ground-cloth, ropes, and stakes. My double bell wedge (of similar size as t...

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Sheathed swords are a problem as they can block leg shots. Back-up weapons tend to be smaller and less likely to interfere with shots especially if they are in the small of your back or on your shield side. If you get hit in your weapon, you should take it as a good hit, since gauging telling blows ...

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I found another vendor of the Deepeeka lantern that is cylindrical-flat-topped with a wooden handle (the one that Leo wants and Wolfesco posted pics of). The Knight Shop International out of the UK. They list the dimensions as 21cm (8.25") x 8cm (3.1"). They don't show the conical version....

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As far as I'm concerned, JT does all the work of keeping this thing running. However he wants to organize it or delete boards/stuff is fine with me. But as a semi-pro armchair quaterback, a couple of things I would like to see are: 1) The classifeds have a lot of "I want one of those. Sorry no ...

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Oooh that is so nice. I really do not need another big chest though.
I may have to unplug the internet when that goes up for sale to resist.
The shape is similar to this chest from Germany (15th c) but yours has better ironwork.

http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI07857g09a.jpg
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

I saw them originally on www.bytheswordinc.com and on Amazon. Amazon appears to have it listed as "unavailable" now. It wasn't a few days ago.
-Cian

Cian of Storvik

flat stainless 9mm w/rivets are $2.50+ ship for a pack of 50 (You actually get 55. the 5 extra are in case you mess-up or there are any bad ones). Shipping is about $1 upto about 10 packs (500 links). Email me if you want more than 10 packs. I include some 16 ga galvenized wire so you can make your ...

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Um...Yeah. I got a few. What I do NOT have is a decent camera.
In the back with the grill is a WMA. Front middle and rear are GDFBs.
The other three are worthless basinets. Disregard them. They are unworthy of your attention.

-Cian

Cian of Storvik

Thank you Gaukler. I tried to find out by emailing a couple of vendors of the replicas but 3 days later, I've had no response on their dimensions. As far as the originals, it sounds like you also believe the pictures look similar to the MoL pieces, and that they (MoL) date them to the middle ages, N...

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Deepeeka and it's associate distributors sell some lanterns that are commonly referred to as "roman" replicas. In an old article of Dragon (#9 from the companie of Saynt George) one of the pages, there are two drawings (slide H #28 and #29) which the article identifies as being examples of...

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