The Armour Archive

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The guige is nothing more than a strap on your sheild used to sling it over your shoulder.

I wonder why I keep getting pissed on when I punch a sheild with my sheild?

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Why not use a guige strap since that's what they're for? I commend your desire to fight as your persona would have. Thing is in a war you won't be lone wolfing it without any support. Generally there is a sheild wall with spearmen behind. You'll find yourself in one of those roles so you'll be part ...

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Maeryk, dude, you make less and less sense as this debate goes on.

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crap i missed that comma. good call! the honor though would be mine. tostand in front of you, to test you, to challenge you, to strike you, to be struck, to be tested, to be challenged by you, to have a chance to be your better. hells yes. to be shot by you sight unseen with no chance to defend mys...

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I agree with 99% of what Logan just said there. lol not a bad point made. don't really have anything new to add to this 11 page long "discussion" just wanted to say I agree with Logan on that post. actually I do have one thing I'd like to add. although all who play in the SCA are supposed...

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Logan only eats evil babies. I feel better now.

Damn, but it would be an honor to fight you.

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They're Noble Platics auk plates. www.plasticlamellar.com

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D. Sebastian wrote:Anyway we could get a poll?

- CA is fine as is.
- CA needs a few minor tweeks.
- CA needs major overhaul.
- CA is unfiixable.

Just to get perspective?

I say major overhaul. I'm betting Rhys will say it's unfixable.

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OK we are on the same page obviously i didn't say what i was trying to say very well. Addressing your second statement Audax I am authorised both heavy and what was light and now also heavy archer, i very rarely fight light as i much prefer the enjoyment of heavy combat. I can see where you guys ar...

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It's the Anvil of Virtue. By putting body and honor on the line, one is able to find the innate nobility in oneself. By fighting those better and at the same level one is forced to rise to the occasion. Just as fire and hammer cleanse impurities and create beauty, so does fighting bring out the best...

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Rhys, You're arguments grow weaker when you attack with name calling and such, as you did to me a post earlier and here. I'll agree to disagree, but I'm not going to stoop to questioning your education, just your "authority" on where you get these view points on people who pick up the bow...

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That's because you haven't really read what we've been saying. Try again, squire. Well if i understand what you are saying Sir Rhys, you don't like CA's because they are not period and no lord would pick up a bow in period, correct? All well and good but that is not the game that we play good Sir w...

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Sa-weet! Good looking, well made, very happy customer. Easy transaction. If you've ever thought about buying one of his pouches, you won't be disappointed.

Well done, Michael. Thank you.

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If you were to offer metal scale shirts and kits, I would definitely be interested. Weight would be a consideration for me, since the laether shirts are so light.

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You may be right. I thought I saw a chest guard called a plastron somewhere but it's quite possible I was confused.

It's hard getting old.

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Give me some better arguement than that...pretty please.... Ok. Try these then. Some here are operating on a very specific, PERSONAL ideal of what "Chivalry" means. In some cases, a very romanticized victorian notion, not at all in line with what "Chivalry" meant across the pano...

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Because some people will cry. Because no matter what, some people want to be low brow and peasanty, so they can be jerks, even when everyone in the game is assumed to be of the lesser nobility. Because there are some who have to contrary just for the sake of being contrary. And because some people w...

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Oh yeah. I should have also mentioned that I'm working yet another kit. I tried chainmaille as in this pic m but it didn't work out since I have to have rigid chest protection which means adding a breastplate under the chain- not very efficient. So now I'm after something more like this one- m Migh...

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I'm making one out of plywood but I may invest in an aluminum jobby since the guys around here hit like tons o' bricks and break sheilds all the time.

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God bless you sir, and happy cutting!

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Symon Fitz Gilbert wrote:[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/NJShooter/111.jpg[/img]

FOOT combat in HORSE COMBAT helmets??

These guys must be SCAdians or sumtin! Their doing it all wrong!!

Chicks dig it!

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I'm sorry you didn't get to go to Candlemas, Maelgwyn. YOur sheilds look great and I know you've done a lot of work on them. Ronnin, to summarize Murdock's advice in Latin, festina lente. Make haste slowly. It's not like SCa fighters aren't known for having several different sheilds. Get one togethe...

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Soupcan knees are pretty quick to pound out. It's what Ty's wearning now. Uther did a lot of the work on them in an evening. We could scale the pattern to fit you. A greave which covers the knee is certainly possible. We could modify the greave pattern I've been playing with lately to add a knee. B...

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Rav, I keep trying the PRINTSCREEN button and nothing happens. Nothing opens. I don't know what I'm doing wrong but I admit my computer fu is not so strong.

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Rev George posted a link here http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=69197

It's about halfway down I think but it's on the first page.

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YOu know you can just sand, prime and paint the bubbled one. You don't have to get all fancy like Maelgwyn. YOu can use a simple edging like trim lock, put some canvas or burlap over it, saturate with glue and then paint. It's nice to go to the extra effort but it's not necessary for practice purpos...

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There was no evidence of Troy til it was found. That actually is not true. There was evidence of it just not physical evidence of it. If there is written evidence of viking leather armour in say the Sagas then that actually is evidence. It may not be the best evidence that can be had for something ...

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Very nicely done Roibeard. Very, very nice.

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DukeAlaric (George S.) wrote:http://fieldhockey.net/orshin.html

These work great are low profile and fit under wraps, boots or anything.

I use set under my period boots in conjunction with gamboissed cuisses and "soupcan" knees.

Alaric

Those are pretty cool, your Grace. Thanks for the link.

audax

There was no evidence of Troy til it was found. It was completely dismissed by mainstream researchers as legend and nothing more at the time. I'm not saying the Vikings had leather armor, just that it can't be said they didn't with complete certainty. New stuff is always coming to light that changes...

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brookswift wrote:if you hit cntrl+print scrn, you can copy the content of your monitor to the clip board and paste it into a graphics program.

Tried that. Something about the Blazons2000 program. Can't save it, print it, nada.

Thanks, though.

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I'm still waiting for a definitive argument against the Vikings having leather armor. "We haven't found any" isn't very compelling to me. We didn't find Troy until we did. Before that, it didn't exist. Neither did Mycenae. Until Schliemann dug it up. Using the Iliad as a guide. Leather was...

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Gee, I guess all those stories of soldiers stripping armor off of dead foes are pure fantasy. Just for fun, cite a viking age source that backs this up (I can think of ONE off the top of my head and not only is is very late, its context is questionable) And I've never read a book in my life, spent ...

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Hey Barnet, looking forward to seeing you at practice. I made a pair of hardened leather shynbalds which I like but my knee cops keep slipping and it drives me nuts. So I was thinking that a one piece knee/greave combo would circumvent the issue. If I had the armoring chops I might give a Roman styl...

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What options do I have for this besides a shovel knee greave or maybe the Rally Race Face leg armor mentioned by Saint-Sever on a few occasions? I prefer such an arrangement for my low profile leg and knee armor. I need knees and want greaves, though they are not really period for my persona. Gettin...

review of Michael de Buslingthorpe pouch

One piece knee/shin armor