The Armour Archive

Blaine de Navarre

Lefties have their sword on the side your shield ain't, so you need to consciously cock your shield farther over thataway when you fight 'em. Eyes on your opponent's weapon. Borrow and try fighting with as many different shield styles as you have access to and find the one you are most comfortable w...

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Darrell and Darrell

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Agreed on Camric, his was the first I thought of posting when I saw the thread title, thanks for beating me to it.

Here is my knight (v1.0), Duke Armand:

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I believe there were a few splinted limb pieces in some of the Valsgarde graves.

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if anyone knows the armorer who made this or can make one very similar let me know!! m THL Feia's armour was made by her knight, Sir Patrick, who doesn't really do armouring commercially. But, many armourers who do custom work would probably be able to reproduce something similar from the pictures,...

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If I were you, I'd buy this helmet from Hjalmr if he still has it, or order one much like it from him.

Blaine de Navarre

Aelwyn, Welcome to the Archive! You'll probably discover that most of us on the Archive have a certain bias toward steering people away from "generic SCA with some knotwork," and into more carefully researched armor styles. Some of us are nicer about it and some of us are jerks; I hope I'm...

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Just some chick fighter

(I'm pretty sure that's my arm fighting her in the 2nd pic.)

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1. My comment on how stylized that helmet is wasn't meant as a discouragement, just a factual comment...I'd wear it. 2. For a portrayal of any time from about AD 1000 to AD 1300 in Western Europe, you want mail. Anyone wearing less was a commoner; anyone from serjeant/squire on up wore mail. If you ...

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All I can find for them are the enclosed tutorials/petterns Use the same pattern, just leave out a few rows at the back. are they period for those crusades? In the Bayeux Tapestry (late 11C), there are mail chausses shown, but very few and only on very high-ranking persons; by the Maciejowski Bible...

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That helmet is very stylized but based on helmets of the late 12th Century. It would be appropriate to a veteran of the 3rd or 4th Crusades. The plus perfect kit to go with it would be about a knee-length mail hauberk with attached mufflers (mittens), and mail chausses (leggings). The real version o...

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What works best for concealed armour depends a lot on what the visble parts of the armour are, and your pain tolerance. For example, the hidden body armour under mail and an aketon will be different than what you'd need if only wearing a tunic over it. Also, if you had, as I do, a knee length hauber...

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Out of curiosity, I was under the impression that the "white belt" thing was an SCA thing. I've never seen a historical finding and basis for it in years of study While it was almost certainly is adopted by others from the SCA I think like in many things the SCA does it probably does have...

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The visible parts of my kit are a mail hauberk and helmet, with all the other protective bits concealed, so what I need most are more and better linen arming clothes to keep the ugly stuff covered. The paint-job on my shield has definitely seen better days. So, mostly stuff that takes more time than...

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Just an endorsement for both Windrose and Hjalmr. I have a Windrose helmet and I love it. I could tell a story about what Johannes means by "almost" always on time, but I'll just say I'm completely satisfied and would recommend to anyone. I haven't handled any of Hjalmr's work in person, b...

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Spring tempered should hold up better than other butted. 20 years ago, that was pretty much the standard for SCA mail (we used to cut our rings from screen-door springs).

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I always figured the crossed legs were just to show that the subject was relaxing in the afterlife

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This looks like a great deal...if I were looking for a 3rd hauberk myself

For those of you thinking about a hauberk, you should be snapping this one up.

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Windrose and Icefalcon both have high quality aluminum shield blanks at reasonable prices.

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There is a prohibition on grabbing a shield with your hand. I don't see why it went in I'm purely speculating here, but based on my experience with SCA rule-making, I'm thinking ONE guy, ONE time, grabbed a shield with a lacrosse glove or other such substandard gauntlet and got his widdle fingews b...

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Isn't Sir Attila living in Outlands these days? Get with him if you have a chance.

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Some people make an A frame. We call that one "A-frame" out this way Some hold the sword behind their back and their shield pushed out in front at an angle. That sounds a lot like "Oldcastle," named after Duke Gyrth Oldcastle. His fighting manual is available online. Some hold t...

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In my experience most people can only handle so much "mixing it up" before they want to step out and reset. My own inside tactic is basically to stay alive and keep my wits about me until my opponent steps back, almost always giving me an opening as s/he does.

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For those that have hinged cheek plates, how do you find them? Are they any better than a chin strap? Iâ€™m thinking here of how they stand up to thrusts. Iâ€™m assuming its all in the padding? Hinged cheek plates have to be fitted just right. I've seen helmets that work just fine with 1/2" of...

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This will be anathema to some of the SCA purists, but I'd love to have a tourney divided by skill levels, with divisions for knights, grant-level fighting awards, AoA-level, and no fighting awards. As much as I learn from fighting people above and below my own level, I have the most fun mixing it up...

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1) Don't ever hit a tree full or even half force. It's bad for the tree, bad for your weapon, and bad for your body. Build a real pell. 2) Even with a real pell and real rattan weapon, you shouldn't be hitting full force to start with. Some recommend never hitting the pell full force, but even those...

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Northern CA or Southern?

Would you take PayPal?

Blaine de Navarre

In your mundane life you are more nearly "knightly" than most of us here. But a gentleman should not expect his lord to furnish him with arms, as would a common soldier, but support them out of his own estate. It is clear, therefore, that what you really need is your own tank. Not sure whe...

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Kind of OT but this drill might work, ping pong with a stick rather than a paddle. Click on the BruceLee playing pingpong image. m Loren Christensen has a drill he calls "karate ball". Go in a handball/raquetball/squash court, and use the red "playground" balls in the smallest s...

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I've often thought a nice zischagge would be cool for SCA fencing.

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Crimthann of Fid-Nemed wrote:Will aluminum chainmail stand up to SCA combat?

No.

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The unadjusted GDP of Zimbabwe.

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To deviate from the topic a bit, I'd say a combination of the 1-2, 1-2, 1-3 pell work, frozen man, and Duke Paul's rhythmic slow work would make a pretty good damn near complete training regime.

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Dante della Luna wrote:16 fl.oz. curl

That only works as maintenance if you're already a Duke

Re: Names for certain sword/shield styles?