The Armour Archive

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YOu could check with mattmaus. He might have one hanging around for a good price AND his stuff is way better looking than AB's. Ironmonger has a good looking munitions bascinet for $125 but his turnaround is about six weeks.

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Get a jupon in your colors and a pair of Revival 14th cent low boots or some turnshoes. If you can sew or know someone who'll do it for you the jupon won't have to be expensive and the turn shoes will nail the look. You'll look great on the field. Add sabotons when you can afford them, maybe some fi...

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Presently I just use a pair of Stonekeep Pricebeater knees but I'm looking for something that works a little better. I'm not crazy about floating knees since they have an annoying tendency to slip. I may try modifying painters knees or attaching the simple cops to them.

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A good place to lurk is www.myarmoury.com

I find a couple of hilt wrapping discussions there and wound up re-hilting an old sword I had.

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Malcolm, no problems so far. You can feel the shots just fine, they just don't hurt as bad. That's one of the reasons I haven't used the football girdle with plates. The shorts take just enough off the shot to prevent severe pain and bruising. Still stings a bit and I've had a few minor bruises but ...

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I fight with 2 dukes and 5 knights and several centurions and I'm "just" a girl. Ansteorrans hit hard. I find the crash pads to be plenty of protection. If you fear they won't be adequate, pick up a football girdle and make some plastic or hardened leather plates to go over the top of the crash pads...

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Mike, you'll have lots of company.

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I wear Crash Pads Power Underwear shorts and they are awesome. NO bad bruises, takes most of the pain out of the shot and I forget I have them on (until they save me from a butt wrap).

Oswyn, could you describe the mods you made to the painters knees or post pics?

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This is also pretty specific to New Kingdom Egypt since chariot warfare was introduced to the Egyptians during the time of the Hyksos domination, possibly by Canaanites. Mary Littauer argues effectively that the chariot wasn't introduced to Egypt by an external culture but was developed locally Wha...

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What Hew said. Damn that's good work.

I've got an Atlanta Cutlery blade I'm going to make a dagger with. I hope it looks this nice when I'm done.

At least you give me something to aspire to.

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I imagine a flail would be a lot like nunchuks, a peasant tool turned weapon or the kung fu chain whip. I gave myself 5 stitches on the back of my head practicing my chain whip kata for my 2nd black test. I felt little better when my instructor gave himself 4 stitches over the eyebrow. Anyway, it's ...

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A pembridge great helm would work with it or a bascinet with a klappvisor.

I have a pemby I'm willing to part with pretty cheap. What size head do you have?

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PLastic lamellar is very light and flexible. If you make it right it can roll into a narrow bundle. For travel you could go plastic for everything, except helmet and stay pretty light. You could make a rectangular or oval buckler, like the ones certain Gallic tribes carried and fit it inside a recta...

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Scale armor may well have been reserved for the elites, but that would include chariots warriors and in the case of Egypt that makes the numbers into the thousands. Additionally, I seem to recall that some of the interpretations of the Sea Peoples (many of whom worked for the Egyptians and influenc...

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My books say there are no remains of known Egyptian helmets and that most appear to be padded headcoverings. Scale was reserved for the king and perhaps other very high ranking warriors. The large body sheild was the primary defense for the common soldier, stiffened cloth armor perhaps supplementing...

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Yet another project to try...

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Yeah, Gatecrasher really sucks. That's why he's a Centurion.

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You're overthinking this a little. If you look at the Valentine aluminum weapons and compare to Albion's training swords, the aluminum weapons don't have fullers. A fuller changes the blade profile, allowing one to lighten the blade without reducing strength. An aluminum blade is already light and t...

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Take the time to watch other fighters around you. Note their styles and any obvious holes. See if they favor specific combinations or specific targets. Note if they have a favorite range. Deny them all of it when you fight them. Do not play their game unless you are better at it. In a tournament, n...

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My #1 strategy is to hit them before they can hit me. I have no problem discussion my style, strengthes and weekness with anyone before or after a fight. the way I look at it, "the guys who know what I'm doing can see it on their own so why try to hide it and those who can't see it need to learn ho...

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so expound a little

Whatever you wish to address is fine.

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So, what about it? When you (whoever you are) fight, do you have a particular strategy you like to follow? Do you have an analysis of your opponents style, experience, whatever?

Share any and all thoughts you may have.

Thanks,

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I found this image on the scademo.com site. This is how I want to look. Tell me all he's wearing.

posting url as the image is too big

http://scademo.com/images.demo/2960_Penn33_720ni.jpg

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So spill, Alcy...

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Jehan, Would you expound a little (as much as you like) on what you would consider a climbing squire portrayal? I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my portrayal. I am ambitious and I want to present as well as possible and I like to do a lot of my own work. I have to return my bocksten an...

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Heh. My old karate school's motto was 'I fight like a girl". The guys loved it.

Edit to add: This is great stuff and much appreciated. I'm going to do a lot of work on it over the holidays.

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Tor Magnusson wrote:Stupid question, havn't been hanging out here on AA very long, but what does "Rebated" mean when refering to metal weapons?

Thanks

It means the edges and points have been dulled to minimize injury.

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So - I don't use this one, I teach it, and have been hit by it. Audax hold your sword arm out, palm up, indside of the elbow up. If you're like 90% of the women in the United States there will be a "jog" from your sholder to your elbow, then from your elbow to your wrist. If you throw the standard ...

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Oy, all this and I have to return the garment. It doesn't fit around my shoulders! What am i, a linebacker?

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Yeah, what Mac said. How does one add a fuller to a blade? I've got an old sword I'd love to add a fuller to.

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Just the hourglass style for this offer, we can mass produce them relatively easy compared to the other styles. Still takes a long time to make them which is why 6 are the limit for the week(1 set a day). If you are interested in wisby ones we may try to do a mass production of them in a few weeks ...

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Wait, you'll do finger gaunts in mild for $200?! We need to talk after the first of the year.

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Sorry to hijack but i thought its probably better to ask the question here than to start a new thread. I am looking for pictures of an effigy from around the 14c it has a knight with a globose breastplate and instead of faulds there is a scale skirt coming off the breast plate. pretty sure the firs...

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Could be 16th but the hats look like the 15th cent flemish pillbox hats. So maybe 1420? I honestly don't know, though.

Re: Egyptian scale armor

Re: Egyptian scale armor

strategy of individual combat