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I like the leather tube idea suggested by Jehan.

Lyonel uses black electrical tape to wrap his swords, with an under layer of strapping tape. I think they look better than silver duct tape swords and they definitely hit with authority.

Please, BoD, let us make prettier weapons....

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Very nice. The armor looks great, too.

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Sa-weet, dude! Thanks for the inspiration, I was going to have a go at some hardened leather gaunts and these are just the thing to get me started.

Thanks again,

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Christophe de Frisselle wrote:Not sure if they existed but they do work. When I made new arms and legs some years ago, I made bazubands for my arms and though "hey, this should work on my legs". Both are of leather and are the simplest legs I've made.

Any pics or construction details? P-p-p-please?

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Welcome to the Archive. Ok, everyone who knows where Catalonia is, raise your hand... I think that anything appropriate to France would be appropriate to Catalonia in that time. That leaves a lot which is pretty documentable. Great helms are at that point pretty much the rule still, though their ap...

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As far as water hardened leather being that much closer to disintegration, many of Dan Houchins pieces are still on the field after several years of hard SCA use. He doesn't use any magic tricks, just water soaking, work hardening and heat treating (now with rabbit hide glue so he can use thinner le...

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Yes, Sieg, that is exactly the one I'm looking for. No, I'm not doing for the SCA, I'm not a big fan of the SCA, from all the complaints I've heard about their lack of historical accuracy. Now I need to get me some plans for one of those, I'm off to the archive to see if I can find one. Mebbe you s...

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Except for the part where there were no Iraqis then, because Iraq means "land of the Iranians" in Arabic. The Arab invasion was still a couple hundred years in the future so these lads were probably Indo-Persian culturally.

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I vote for an armor wiki...

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Greetings Sir Fynn,

The effigies I found were Ritter Philip von Ingelheim, Ritter Ludwig von Hutten and another ritter who's name is now escaping me (I'm at work and forgot the book at home). So anyway, there's a couple of effigies to support wearing a fighting houpeland.

Regards,

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Matt, I gotta say I'm glad you're doing what you are doing. I like your Bronze Age stuff, too.

Thanks,

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thanx for that all of you. i know i should be in mail, but it doesn't really offer much protection for sca combat ya know? i went with something that i thought was cool looking, and was there to buy really. what would be a way to do 12th century armor that would be sca functional? Oh, that is the 6...

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Sir Fynn,

My reference with the houpeland effigy is playing hard to find. I'll keep searching and post as soon as i find it.

My apologies.

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Yeah, what Adam said. Use a c-belt or pourpoint to hold up the legs (which are totally anachronistic for a Welshman from the late 12th cent, unless they're gamboised cuisses). You should be head to toe mail for that era, but that's for another discussion, I suppose. It is possible that the gorget ri...

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I think this is a great idea and I know that Lyonel, Sir Corwin, Duke Heogaarden, Sir Gaston and some others here in Bryn Gwlad are very interested in getting some more focused and structured training going on. Talk to them at PIP about your idea sometime. I'm all for it.

Regards,

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That is pretty sweet, man. I really appreciate the effort you went to, to replicate the Mammen inlay.

I am going to have a go at making a lugged spear using leather to create the outline of the spearhead. We'll see how it goes but I'm really enjoying everbody elses work.

Thanks guys.

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check out Ironmonger Armory.

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Would something like this work?

http://www.armor.com/pole147.html

Regards,

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What do you all think the best way to add a spike or something similar to the back of the ax would be?

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Very, very nice work. That is one pretty armet.

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Matt, that looks damned good, man. I really like it and I am quite inspired by it.

Is the CoP made from one of your kits? If so, be looking for an order the beginning of September.

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Try a centergrip heater. Can you point me to some art sources for those? What range of dates? Any examples in Engalnd or Wales? Hey Maelgwyn, Take a look here for a bit of documentation: m D. Sebatian and Justus both posted some pics in that thread which offer documentation of the presence of cente...

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Sir Fynn, I know of several effigies that depict knights in houpelands. It seems they were mostly a German fashion but I imagine anyone who felt like it could have worn them. I've got the names of the effigies at home so I'll post them tomorrow if you are interested. You do look very spiff in it. Re...

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I wanted to ask how does the dolabra fight?

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Animal Weretiger wrote:It strikes me as funny that a group that is formed principally of misfits and outsiders will further segregate themselves by choosing sub groups to shun.

As it was, is and always shall be.

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That is way cool and inspirational, Christophe. Thanks for sharing the construction with us.

Regards,

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Also if you check out the House of the Wolf website, Uilleag has posted a couple of tutorials that I have found very useful.

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Greetings Atthan,

Check out this thread: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=59133

I'm not crazy about sheilds but I think center grip heater is pretty cool.

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I love it when people make an effort to make their weapons look like something other than a stick with duct tape on it.

Well done, sir.

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NIce work, Gregory.

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Thanks, all. Sometimes I have a hard time visualizing what I'm supposed to do with this stuff.

This should help.

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Could anyone explain the process for me? Pictures and/or a step by step would be awesome.

Thanks,

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Not bad for a starter piece. I offer these observations: I do water hardened leather pretty frequently (yes, I'll post pics as soon as i take some). the way to prevent scorching is to set a timer for about twenty minutes max and check the progress frequently. You don't have to dry them out completel...

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I really have to work on building up my upper body muscles in general - just for the sake of keeping my shield where it's suppoed to be! Thanks for the insight - I am hoping to attend Crown and I will try and look you and Sir Mrks up. I got to meet him in person at Ursulmas but he was pretty busy w...

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Audax Just fyi a full arming coat can also be a pourpoint not just the 2 layered sleeveless linen garment. Also there is no direct evidence how it was done in the 14th century but in the 15th century doublets were used to hold up the legs and the 2 layer sleeveless pourpoint was used to hold up hos...

attaching aventail with cotter pin vervelles?