The Armour Archive

Blaine de Navarre

I have seen leather cross guards in use, so it can definitely be done. I'm thinking you'd want to make them of multiple layers of the really heavy leather, sort of the way Vitus makes his axe heads.

Blaine de Navarre

I may be interested in the vambraces, but I'm not sure about my finances, so don't hold them for me. If they're still available when I figure out the money, I'll take 'em.

Blaine de Navarre

Would you be willing to separate the armour parts?

Blaine de Navarre

As much psychological as physical training: I like to have a sword in my hand every day (actually 2, a real sword and an SCA sword) - even if it's just throwing a quick combo on the pell on my way out the door, I want that sword in my hand every day. I use a real sword for slow work on the pell, par...

Blaine de Navarre

liviatasia wrote:I really need to build up stamina so I've been trying to do some reading up on just how to go about that.

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

Blaine de Navarre

You are engaged from the time the Marshal calls "lay on." If your opponent offers you the gift of his back, it would be ungracious of you not to accept it.

Blaine de Navarre

If I were going to make the perfect pell, I would get a circle of 3/4" plywood and an old tire, with the plywood sized to fit inside the tire. I would then bolt the pell to the plywood using the post base pictured, put it in the tire, and pour concrete in the tire (notice how the tire holds the...

Blaine de Navarre

Pro: Very simple and easy to replace.

Con: Tend to come unscrewed pretty easily, so need more of that simple replacing. Definitely use Loctite.

Personally, I use Chicago screws for most of my straps, since those are what need replacing the most, but I use rivets for splints.

Blaine de Navarre

Heh, heh. A long time bit of wisdom in my family (many successful entrepreneurs and some not so successful) is that you'll never have a nastier boss or more lazy, worthless employees than when working for yourself...

Blaine de Navarre

Estrella 1992. I was part of a kick-ass household, so we had every kind of fun fighting together in the battles, and I was also about at the peak of my personal fighting ability, so I had a blast on the pick-up field. I particularly remember a great set of fights with this tall skinny kid who was Pr...

Blaine de Navarre

If I'd been the marshal of the day, you'd have been done fighting for that event and a recommendation sent to the KEM to pull your card.

Blaine de Navarre

Shoulder-to-shoulder and chin-to-crotch.

Blaine de Navarre

We used to edge plywood shields thus: 1. Give the edge a bit of bullnose or chamfer. 2. Apply liberal amount of wood glue. 3. Apply one layer of heavyish webbing just a little wider than the edge. 4. Apply more wood glue; you want the webbing soaked through. 5. Apply another layer of thinner & w...

Blaine de Navarre

Am I the only one remembering the "armour" provided by the corporate sponsor in Knightriders?

Blaine de Navarre

I find the most important thing in a comfortable cup is the sides being soft instead of hard all the way around; my preferred model is the Bike Proflex 2, pictured below. I have not found a jock by itself or shorts with a pocket very effective at keeping it in place, I prefer a jock with compression...

Blaine de Navarre

Y'know, none of the blatantly modern bits bother me anywhere near as much as the farb with the bare shoulders and table cloth wrapped around her.

Blaine de Navarre

Baron Alejandro wrote:Virtue.

Thanks for the tip, now I know where to hit you when you're not taking anything else

Blaine de Navarre

I think you're missing a zero or two there, Jonathan.

Blaine de Navarre

Also a bit out of the SCA period, but I wonder if there is record of how the orginal boucaniers slept, given that we certainly know how they cooked their food...

Blaine de Navarre

Gawd I wish I were 22 again...

Blaine de Navarre

Hmmm, we don't get so many little mousies around here, it's mostly big ole rats. I've found keeping terriers to be the best rat solution, and you get a best friend out of the deal.

Blaine de Navarre

I am curious whether there is substantial evidence for seamen bringing hammocks ashore. It certainly makes sense that, if camping ashore, stringing up a hammock might be more comfortable than sleeping on the ground, but I wonder whether we even know how much it was actually done.

(BTW - Nice rig)

Blaine de Navarre

If I showed up at a tourney and realized I had forgotten pants to cover my mutt-buggly leg armour, even though it is a pair of splinted leather cuisses and steel knees that most people would consider acceptible, if notably past their prime, I would withdraw from the lists and go volunteer my service...

Blaine de Navarre

I had to look up stesso tempo. I know what a Boom-Yow is though. Funny, Stesso Tempo I got, but what's a Boom-yow? Google gives me black eyed peas, and I assume that's wrong... You will not learn of the secret Way of Boom-Yow amidst the babbling of the multitudes, but must seek it within your own a...

Blaine de Navarre

I am working on an illegal experiment right now. Going to talk to the KEM (AnTir) about it in July, and then run it to SEM. Basically taking siloflex, cutting it in half, and edging a sword face with it. People around here wrap sticks in rawhide, many to good effect. Unless you are a tall evil left...

Blaine de Navarre

"There is also circumstantial evidence, but no direct evidence, to suggest Basque fishermen were likely landing on the northern coasts. Specifically, they were known to have super secret cod grounds, and they came back with the fish already salted and dried, which requires landing somewhere. &...

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I've also found that with some people a little on the thickish side, if I start the fight by demonstrating how hard I can hit, I have less trouble getting them to take later shots, even though they're not nearly as hard.

Blaine de Navarre

Unless it's an obvious attempt to draw a shot, I usually throw at whatever looks like the best available opening, even if best doesn't happen to be very good. My goal is to make my opponent move, thereby giving me another (hopefully better) opening.

Blaine de Navarre

3. If it isn't addressed in the rule it's the Crown's call.

Blaine de Navarre

Bob Charron and Brian Price both started out in the SCA, though they haven't really been active members since shifting their focus. Hugh Knight is not the most well-known author, but has published some on Lulu, and is also not really active in the SCA anymore. Steve Hicks is probably the one still m...

Blaine de Navarre

My pell sword is " Durattan ". It is definitely heavier than my typical fighting sword, but I have it balanced about the same. I also have a sword rotation - new swords are for tourneys, when the tape gets to ratty that's my cue to bring a new sword to tourneys, the old tourney sword becom...

Blaine de Navarre

Talk to Gareth.

Blaine de Navarre

No, you could not wear a leather helmet; everything else would be doable.

Blaine de Navarre

Not fast enough these days - a sure sign I need to get my ass out more.

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