The Armour Archive

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My reign of terror is not complete. I had someone aske me to sing a song (that I've been singing for 12 years), and then said, "Could you sing it the way Bryce does?" No, Bryce is old skool here, the "good old days" stories actualy include him. It will be another ten years till I'm in the good old d...

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It wasn't hijacked, I was trying to post often and fast enough to keep you from posting your message.

It didn't work and now I will be forced to spend another hour at my computer looking at your site.

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Ahh your lack of blaxplotation movie experience betrays you. The man is used interchangeably and often confusingly to describe THE MAN as in Whitey Government, and also the The Man as an the black man, poor man, any man except Government man. It’s all about context, and never used together. &#...

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Whitey is alwyas trying to keep the man down...

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OK that now that is funny. I was going to do it myself, but they say that darkness always hides his true identity. Ohh come on, the banner thing would be cool if people didn't get their tail in their crack about it. It would be awesome to get your peerage and unfurl your new banner ect, or to look o...

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Hamish, if you need any help with dealing with these stick figures, let me know, and will gather up the Big Boys R Us crew and come on down. :p <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justus1199/290846429/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/104/290846429_2e4b2aeffe_o.jpg" width...

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Winterfell I like this one: [img]http://home.armourarchive.org/members/winter/fallcrown06/18.JPG[/img] I can't wait to see how many more banners show up next crown That is a great looking crew, and the banners add a lot to the atsmophere. I gotta get me one. Not that we need more rules... but it wo...

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"...It's too big to be a battle station, it probably a small moon or meteor..."

-Darkness

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I did one very similar already <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justus1199/136562549/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/54/136562549_c9987256e8_o.jpg" width="750" height="600" alt="Jedi Mind Tricks" /></a> But this one was worth the repeat. Great picture. <a href="http:/...

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You can make furniture out of rattan???

Once in desperate need of a new sword I took a long hard look at my Papa-san chair.

I would have done it too, but the rattan was less than an 1 1/4

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Great pictures, thank you for posting them!

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Avoid sheepskins from areas that have had outbreaks of exploding, flaming sheep and sheep crashes. I guess that rules out Austraila. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justus1199/287549959/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/102/287549959_7d0016b8f6_o.jpg" width="355" heig...

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These are a great idea, and go a long way to keeping a helmet from getting scratched and banged around in the bottom of an armor box, I'm surprised that I don't see more of them.

I lined mine with a terry cloth towel, adds cushion and is nice to the finish.

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Regular contact cement works very well for bonding leather to wood. Lanolin will have no effect on it once cured unless the sheep have been drinking naptha. Make sure the leather on the back of the wool is clean and free of oil and such before you apply the cement. Brush it on both surfaces, let it ...

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Marshal is quite right, hickory is not found in europe, but it is the best haft wood in the world, even fine european axe makers import american hickory for their handles. At least we contribute something to the good of the world.

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Interestingly I just saw a Torque, Torse, open C shaped neck ring in the roman section of the Museum of Natural History. It looked very much like the Celtic Norse examples I've seen. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of it! So did the torse makes it way to England with the Romans, or did they...

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O Noes you didn'!!!

-Darkness

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Now the question is where I'm going to store it...I'm building a game table for WHF and realized my 8' long 2x4 smacks the ceiling rather quickly when raising it up...(I'll see how tall my celing is when I get home this evening) I'm only 5'2" anyways (one short bugger...) so how long *should* it be...

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So are we making predictions this time?

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Who is still hoping to cash in on his ice cream.

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It is a french copy of William de Tyre's Histories of Outremer Produced in the early-mid 1200's I've got more here: m I'm always looking for more manuscript illuminations, it seems the same ones get used in every book on midieval warfare, but there are many that are rarely seen. Like the bull that c...

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There are other pictures of what could be Norman style helms with sides, both on "Foreigners" and on the home troops. I’m not wholly convinced that they are more than an artist’s fancy, but I’m starting to accept the idea that such helms did exist. The hardest part about that pictu...

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I would imagine that it would simply slide off the back of your head. Constantly. It's not that back swept, It might put more weight on your brow than a standard norman, but the low back would keep it from tilting. I do wish there were more and better pictures of it though. It is not impossible tha...

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It could very well be.

It is possible that it is a hood of sorts, but since he is wearing armor...

Nice find.

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True, though we practice in the biggest park in Fuquay and all we get are jerks driving by and yelling obscenities out the window. Every now and then someone will come up and we will give the best “welcome to what we do” speech we can but I don’t know if they have ever got a single...

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Sorry I meant to include the source: Roman de toute chevalerie of Thomas of Kent c. 1250 Trinity College Cambridge, MS 0.9.34, f.24r It's in my handy 'English Knight 1200-1300' Osprey book. pg 29 I know that disqualifies is immediately in some folks minds. My favorite part is the dude looking down t...

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Wait stop the presses! <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/justus1199/278498223/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/86/278498223_81b93ce7b6_o.jpg" width="726" height="349" alt="coif" /></a> An untied coif, with patented gravity defying strings! My work here is done. -Justus

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Maybe, but there sure is a lot of blue in the Mac bible, my point being that it seems that artist pretty much had one way of doing something and stuck with it, the swords all look like they came from the same factory for example. Something I have noticed is that is often looks like some coifs don't ...

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More topical, I can't tell the number of times I've seen 19th century military outfits in movies with half of the collars and jackets unbutoned to the chest. This certianly gives the hero that "swashbuckling charm" But almost all "formal" paintings of the soliders shows them fully buttoned, high col...

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Karen you rock! I had found and then lost that picture of a frame saw with straight arms, and here you have most charmingly posted it. (for a different reason of course

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I'm looking forward to hearing your report, it would also be great if you could post some pics of the baton and what fighting does to it. Are you going to tape it? I guess by the nature of the material you wouldn't need to (it's not going to splinter) but running some strapping tape down the edges m...

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Here is what that post would like like if you could see me. OK, OK, I do wish I had read the thread that spoke of this at length before I posted my comment, however I do not feel that my advice was inappropriate, especially as I tried to qualify any absolutes. For most of the picture and periods tha...

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Not at all, I need to know when I am wrong, and I've made the middle ages my field of study so I at least need to know what they wore or didn't wear, and roughly when. I've learned a lot about head gear from these threads, and my post was meant to have a bit of humor in it, I gues I should go back t...

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See Tim, I TOLD YOU SO!!!! It's some powerful mojo that keeps this myth alive in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. I guess maybe you guys missed the thread Ken was referring to, so if you are interested in what the historical record says, you might want to have a look at OK, OK, I do wi...

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byram, 264 this morning.

Congrats man, you have lost a lot of weight since I met you, if you're not careful you will drop out of the "Heavy cruiser" class of Atlantian Knightsand end up in the "Patrol Boat" class with Sirs Andrew and Finn.

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I guess I should have mentioned that I don't actually beleive in the accuracy of any metric chart for human variables. I finished basic at 210, (20lbs over where I was "supposed" to be) and I was really really thin, 20 pounds less and I would start to look like Christian Bale in 'The Machinist" I kn...