The Armour Archive

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Thank you for the input. Reality check: Does anyone have any concrete data on actual surviving shields or any "Codex" describing their manufacture? What did THEY actually make them out? I bet they were made out of wood and covered with something. Wood appears nice to soften the blow and THIN metal ...

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Cap'n Atli wrote:Land's End to John o' Groats is the traditional "one end to the other" walk in the British Isles. Sort of like doing the Appalachian Trail, but with less chance of having to listen to banjos.

I hate banjos.

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svonbaden wrote:Have you considered going with an aventail?

I've been meaning to do that for years, but poverty and slack is a deadly combination.

I fight in great helm and wear a mail coif, similar idea. However in Ansteorra I still have to wear a gorget under it, if I'm understanding the rules correctly.

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All of the mittin styles Ive seen bring a plate right over your finger tips. this seems to me like it would be the only akward thing about them Is this plate really nessesary considering most of combat weapons these days have cages or baskets around them? And one would usually wear a glove on a wea...

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armourjon wrote:your armour is beuatifull my god work of art keep it up i wish that one day i could produce armour of such fine quality

Punctuation and grammar, please.

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Hallo lovely Robyn, Check out this link: m Most of those drills are armor free, just make sure your people go like 1/4 speed until they develop control. I used to have a video from Corby de la Flamme of a dry footwork drill. I'll see if i can find it. If not you could always ask him for one. Regards...

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I like my gorget from Torvaldr. Covers everything well, and is comfortable. I'm a big guy, short but thick neck, and yet I can wear it for hours without ever really noticing it's there. I got the same condition, short, thick neck. I'm a girl but I deadlift which thickens the traps and neck. I like ...

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I hate gorget's but of course they are required for SCA combat. Anyone have opinions on where to get a gorget that does it's job and does not suck to wear?

Thanks all.

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I recently purchased a pair of Torvaldr's full clamshell gaunts and they are tres sweet. Hard, light and the construction is first rate. The transaction was easy and he overnighted them to me at his expense so I could have them to fight in a tourney this weekend. That is good service. I will buy fro...

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I really wish I had been fortunate enough to come up under the tutelage of someone like Allen, or there was someone close that I could learn from to make beautiful helms like that and bring that knowledge back here to this armory. Allen if you ever decide to move to Texas I will give you free rent ...

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A pair of Torvaldr hardened leather gaunts. Hard as a rock, light as a feather and my thumb is in no way exposed to danger. They're also works of art.

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KMinion wrote:This tutoral from M.A.I.L. is very good. Lots of pics

http://www.mailleartisans.org/articles/ ... gi?key=264

Thanks, that is a good one. Missed it in my search somehow.

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Lord_Wolf wrote:We have a knight here, who does the same thing, when you hit him with a stick...

In the test-a-clees or just in general?

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I good sharp pocketknife will trim and clean nails. The Romans used communal sponge on a stick in place of Charmin D. We always called that a Farmer Handkerchief. Most peeps had their own personal sponge on a stick, either carried by a servant (if you were of the servant having type) or in a little...

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I've always been a fan of the mosaic of bikini-clad women from the Villa Romana del Casale, near Piaza Armerina, in Sicily. Romans in bikinis, o.k. But playing frisbee, jogging with handweights, and playing with a multi-colored beachball is a little too strange. (I see to be able to attach only thu...

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football baseball hockey ...then I dicovered Dagorhir at age 18 (1981) and that all changed. This is also where my friends and I refined our basic melee skills together, which still serve us well to this day. Some of those dudes are even SCA Heavy "Notables" nowadays. Went to hockey in my 30's (mid...

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justasquire wrote:Are there any non-sca recreation or LH groups in NE US and/or eastern Canada that have fighting (rattan or live-steel)?

If so, how are they?

I'm looking for something a little more serious, and a little less "society for concenting adults"....

Thanks,

J

Look up NERO and the Adrian Empire.

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I'd last, simply because I'm willing to bite and pull hair.

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www.skaldic.com

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In every one of these 45-deg joins you have two 45-degree slanted sides. And both bottom linkrows are with the same direction of link-lie. And the single links at the triangles' apexes (apices, whichever) are also in the same link-lie. Slide the 45-degree slanted sides together so they are together...

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Biggus Dickus vs Dorkus Majorcus

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If someone out there sold buckle and strap kits with the buckles already strapped, I would not only buy like crazy, I would set up an altar to them. I HATE making straps and buckles. audax We've always done that. In two thicknesses and weights. 5/8 wide 9 ounce with either 5/8 or 3/4 buckles, or 1/...

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Halberds wrote:You guys are cold fuckers................

Yeah, I'd rather pay than wear such macabre things. I like dogs.

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ARe there any not crappy instruction sets out there? I've been working on this effing coif for months and I have a tourney Sat and I'd like this freaking thing finished and wearable by then. Barring that anyone have one instock that I could get overnighted or something? I'm really getting pissed at ...

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It's called a ventail and all you'd need to do is make a rectangle, connect it with rings to one side and attach it with a strap or thong on the other. It's a loose flap that was detached when not fighting. I hope this is cleaer.

http://www.forth-armoury.com/Commission ... 050902.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/egfrothos/arms ... gure11.jpg

I hope these photos help.

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Oh...My....God....

Thanks, Mike. Whew!

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Anghaus of Bruce wrote:Nothing like trucks and tourists to get your blood pumping and your reflexes sharp.
anghaus

Word....

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If you think of a siege the majority of threat is coming (for the beseigers) from above at an sharp angle (arrows/stones/trays of hot sand etc) It would make sense for a center grip shield to be used in that situation since you would be using it to cover yourself in a way that would be suicidal in ...

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Hello maille peeps,

I am making a coif mantle using the instruction here: http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/boo ... mail.shtml and I am not clear how to add in the 45 degree seam expansion panels. Clear illustrations or step by steps appreciated.

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If someone out there sold buckle and strap kits with the buckles already strapped, I would not only buy like crazy, I would set up an altar to them. I HATE making straps and buckles. Matt, I think you do good work and you have a good rep. I plan to get some of the soupcan knees, although I was given...

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c craig wrote:All right. Konstantin the Red you words will be taken to my heart and my search will continue.

Patrick Thaden was looking for apprentices a while back. You'd have to move to Dallas but you'd get to work with one of the best.

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Jeez: softball, soccer, rugby, full contact NFL rules football, 10+ years of kyokushin karate and another few years of Shaolin kung fu, plus I am a bicycle commuter ( that'll keep your head moving ), SCA combat. I'm a bit of a nut. Oh, yeah, I was in the army for several years, too. Heh, musta block...

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Easy in my kingdom Sir Asoph Earl Daffyd Sir Anton Centurion Ysfael Master Oxlade Sven Sixstrong Me (Sieur Jean Paul) Equis Cassius Centurion Angus Centurion Angus (that's not a typo, we have two of them, and they are both good with a glaive) If I think hard, I can come up with some alternates too....

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Alcyoneus wrote:
Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:I suspect part of the reason for the limit to to make greatsword more viable as 7.5 foot glaives and spears generally have the advantage over greatswords unless you have 7' greatswords which are silly.

Gaston

You can have those in Ansteorra.

They're still silly.

Re: light shields

Re: ?

In search of a comfortable gorget for SCA combat

Torvaldr's gaunts reviewed

Re: Non-SCA groups on NE US and eastern Canada?

45 degree maiille seam help please