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by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jul 14, 2009 6:56 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Where do you buy files?
Replies: 7
Views: 174

Otto Frei
by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jul 14, 2009 5:05 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Size of center grip ovals? Shape? Where to put the boss?
Replies: 17
Views: 385

DukeAvery: Technically a kite would be more period for me, but I am hesitant to use one. With a center grip, wouldn't the bulk of the weight be above my hand, making it harder to balance? I use a center grip kite, 20" x 40", with the grip placed at the exact center of balance, which works...
by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:12 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Clearinghouse- House of the Wolf
Replies: 142
Views: 5104

Still want a pair of vambraces per my previous PM.

Just the plastic pieces, not a finished pair. Not sure which size I'll need; is the old web site with sizing info still on line?
by Blaine de Navarre
Sat Jul 11, 2009 5:14 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: rope belts
Replies: 3
Views: 322

http://www.matthewfsheehan.net/index.cfm?event=Products&CategoryID=151
by Blaine de Navarre
Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:17 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Researching heraldic device,
Replies: 43
Views: 543

Sounds like what you are describing is "sable, a bend vert" which is color on color.
by Blaine de Navarre
Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:55 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: painting aluminum
Replies: 17
Views: 347

Rough it up a bit before priming.

If you're willing to spend some $$, get in touch with and industrial supply and get some of the high performance urethane primer.

Or, for a little more accurate period look, cover it with canvas, then paint.
by Blaine de Navarre
Thu Jul 09, 2009 1:59 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Plaque belt closures.
Replies: 6
Views: 177

The way I've always seen hinged plaque belts done is to just have one of the hinge pins removable.
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:10 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Your most intense fighting moments?
Replies: 38
Views: 1925

Many years ago, there was a fighter named Morton Hartwood of Cheshire. It happened that he and I were both at that point in our fighting careers where we were just getting good enough to think we might be "up-and-coming," and getting excited about it, at about the same time. We were also v...
by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:55 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Clearinghouse- House of the Wolf
Replies: 142
Views: 5104

PM sent.
by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:41 am
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Question on how to deal with brass
Replies: 11
Views: 263

Brasso.
by Blaine de Navarre
Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:51 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Your goals as a fighter
Replies: 74
Views: 1587

To have people smile and thank me for whipping their asses.
by Blaine de Navarre
Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:27 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Bias tape?
Replies: 5
Views: 266

The neck of the St Louis shirt has silk bias tape, IIRC.
by Blaine de Navarre
Fri Jun 26, 2009 3:17 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: Review of Robert Mantell's Stealth Gauntlets
Replies: 15
Views: 1376

Nice.

Contact info for the armourer?
by Blaine de Navarre
Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:40 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Armored Combat - If you had to pick just one....
Replies: 63
Views: 1305

I was curious which of the two was more disliked. Combat archery seems to get all the bad press.... But more people dislike Knee-fighting. or... Would live with CA if Knee-fighting went away? Is it just because we think there is a better chance of being listened to when complaining about CA? I figh...
by Blaine de Navarre
Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:31 pm
Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
Topic: FS: Albion Constable, Squire
Replies: 64
Views: 3199

Someone please take that Reeve off his hands, so it stops taunting me every time this thread gets bumped...like maybe a new SCA knight with an early period persona....COUGHCiaranBlackruneCough!
by Blaine de Navarre
Thu Jun 25, 2009 1:04 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: West Crown
Replies: 17
Views: 898

Dirk is not listed as having been squired to Ivan here, and I'm pretty sure Ed didn't start training with Dirk until after he was knighted.
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:23 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Sort of Thought Experiment
Replies: 40
Views: 889

a way to hijack some of the survival mechanisms of the human body and turn them into tools OK, off on a complete tangent. Experiments done with cats have isolated separate regions of the brain for "hunting" and for "fighting." Remove one part, and a cat will hunt mice perfectly ...
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:17 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Shield dimensions for the smaller folks?
Replies: 9
Views: 327

Shoulder-to-shoulder and chin-to-crotch is a good general rule of thumb, but adjust it to what other people in your Kingdom are doing (it would be small in Atlantia, way small in Ansteorra, and big in the West up until fairly recently, for instance, but I have no idea of shield sizes in Trimaris).
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:13 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: SCA Combat resistant writing emplement?
Replies: 34
Views: 628

Traditional "survival kit" wisdom is to use a plain ole wooden pencil; not because it won't get broken, but because the pieces of it will still write.
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:11 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: West Crown
Replies: 17
Views: 898

DukeAlaric (George S.) wrote:Blaine,

Wasn't Dirk technically Ivan's squire?

g-


AFAIK, Dirk was only ever squired to Sir Aethelred the Jute.
by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:02 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: West Crown
Replies: 17
Views: 898

Middle/Northshield has: Duke Andrew of Seldomrest Duke Talymar Duke Finn Duke Siegfried that I know of, and I'd guess there may be others from Seldomrest, as that was quite the large brood in it's day. Here in Caid we have Duke Adrian Duke Averey Duke Ivan Count Rorik but no Dukes yet in the 4th gen.
by Blaine de Navarre
Mon Jun 22, 2009 6:11 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Sort of Thought Experiment
Replies: 40
Views: 889

How about just empty your mind? Works for some people. On the other hand, read up on Col. John Boyd, who not only advocated thinking while fighting, but even elaborated on a fairly complex decision-making model, and never lost a (one-on-one) fight nor took more than 00:00:40 to win...with jet aircr...
by Blaine de Navarre
Mon Jun 22, 2009 4:51 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Sort of Thought Experiment
Replies: 40
Views: 889

Re: Sort of Thought Experiment

Any thoughts on how I might be able to put this hypothesis (specifically the eye-tracking portion) to the test? Have them read (out loud) the label on a spinning record. It won't test their tracking in combat , but will give you a good idea of whether thay beat the average for visual tracking in ge...
by Blaine de Navarre
Fri Jun 19, 2009 6:46 pm
Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
Topic: Restoring ancient Valerius relics
Replies: 62
Views: 2304

That's a much better lookin' kit than most new fighters start in. See, and you thought "friends with benefits" had something to do with sex... Finish it with a nice jupon or short houppelande and it'll be smokin' hawt. Also, I would recommend some vambraces. I realize lots of folks out you...
by Blaine de Navarre
Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:34 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Falling safely in heavy helmets?
Replies: 15
Views: 446

DukeAvery wrote:Avery, who just took a former ranger as a squire. 8)


Wonder if he'll turn out like your Navy squire...
by Blaine de Navarre
Thu Jun 18, 2009 12:30 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Does Armour Offer Some Protection During Grappling?
Replies: 19
Views: 371

In any wrasslin' match between a guy in armour and a guy without, my money is on the guy in armour unless there's a HUGE difference of skill.
by Blaine de Navarre
Thu Jun 18, 2009 10:47 am
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: Falling safely in heavy helmets?
Replies: 15
Views: 446

At one time in my life I was an enthusiatic but rather dramatically clumsy horseman and motorcyclist, so I have taken a lot of falls in armor and out, with steel helmets, modern helmets, and no helmet. If you take any fall headfirst in any helmet, the danger is not to your head but your neck (Christ...
by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:49 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: New clothes: what are you making?
Replies: 294
Views: 7128

Tasha McG wrote:
AlexendreBautista wrote:banned form sewing for life LOL ...


breaking three needles in a row?


If that were enough to get one banned from sewing for life, an awful lot of us would be naked.
by Blaine de Navarre
Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:17 am
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: New clothes: what are you making?
Replies: 294
Views: 7128

I'm planning on giving a class on 19th Century Romantic Medievalism as it relates to the SCA at our next Collegium Caidis, and besides the class prep. would like to have a full-blown Pre-Raphaelite get-up to wear. Given my extremely limited sewing skills, we'll see what I can actually do, but these ...
by Blaine de Navarre
Fri Jun 12, 2009 8:45 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: What do you call this garment?
Replies: 53
Views: 1576

Avitoria_vidua wrote:I am not a fighter... but i have always wondered....

does this sleeve style interfere with your fighting in any way,

or do the sleeves serve almost as a non rigid parry device, distracting and redirecting shots from others?


Neither.
by Blaine de Navarre
Fri Jun 12, 2009 4:55 pm
Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
Topic: Tongue-less belt buckles
Replies: 26
Views: 604

My own, purely speculative, best guess: In one of the period descriptions of a knighting ceremony (knight of the Bath, IIRC), the candidate is described as wearing a white belt without a buckle; the ring belt, knotted as per the Garter, was someone's best guess as to what they meant. This interpreta...
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:52 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: What is a madu?
Replies: 203
Views: 3587

We have a Duke here in Caid who is an agent of evil with a madu. While I personally lean toward the madon't camp, I figure it's not my place to make too much noise about it until I can pwn Edric on a regular basis. It gives me a goal to work toward.
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:50 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: What is a madu?
Replies: 203
Views: 3587

That too.
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 10, 2009 4:32 pm
Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
Topic: What is a madu?
Replies: 203
Views: 3587

A true "madu" is and 18th-19th Century Indo-Persian weapon consisting of a small buckler with pointy bits sticking out top and bottom. The original versions were made with animal horns for the "blades," but there are examples with steel blades. http://www.oriental-arms.co.il/phot...
by Blaine de Navarre
Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:23 pm
Forum: Historical Research
Topic: Coffee
Replies: 48
Views: 1249

Another avenue of research would be how much actual contact there was between Muslims and Mongols during your time period. We know there was eventually a lot, as Islam spread among various Steppes people, but how early was there significant contact? Not my area, so I have no idea, but probably an ea...

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