The Armour Archive

woodwose

If the SCA wants to be an educational organization as they claim, then they should set aside their own made-up sumptuary customs for things like this if it is appropriate for someone's impression... in other words - if in the SCA that thing would only be wearable by someone of a certain rank within ...

woodwose

This page has pics of the armor I'm reworking:
http://members.tripod.com/~mailmaker/ar ... fpics.html

and pics of breastplates with the area that I called a plaque sort of area (between the top of the breastplate and a small horizontal raised out lip thats somewhere around a hands-width from the top of the breastplate):

http://www.myarmoury.com/albums/display ... 12&pos=136
http://www.myarmoury.com/albums/display ... 12&pos=161

woodwose

I've been trying to think of a motto or motif to etch/engrave into the plaque sort of area at the top of my early 16th century german breastplate... from the bit of looking I've done so far they seemed to have either some kind of little floral design or something religious/devotional in nature, or n...

woodwose

a couple years ago my household (about five people for that weekend) did a weekend long event with no tents, we all just had a couple wool blankets for each of us, and cloaks or whatever - slept in the middle of our shires encampment. it was interesting, though it ended up making the shire's camp lo...

woodwose

tooled leather may work somewhat, but the edges of what you want to print should be nice and crisp - and the printing surface needs to be very flat and uniform for rolling the ink on as I described. I've only done a little bit of leather tooling and edges in my design were good and crisp, but the su...

woodwose

i've been focusing in printmaking as an art major for the last couple years so I may be able to offer some helpful tips.. as someone else suggested, you may have better luck with carving directly into the cross grain of wood planking (have it planed nice and smooth), relief printing linoleum is anot...

woodwose

for the leather people - what kind of leather do you use? I think it would need to be very soft and flexible. in my last pair of hose I made a foundation of very soft goat skin, but it seems like it would be too thin for an outer layer (though it has held up very well, is comfortable and breaths lik...

woodwose

Bringing back this thread with a bit of a change in focus... I want to be someone who is hunting somewhere in the Holy Roman Empire in the 1500 to 1520 timeframe - info on stuff from a bit later or earlier would be cool, as well as other areas of Europe, but the impression I'm thinking of is based o...

woodwose

wow, this was from page 80

hehehe he heh giggle giggle giggle

woodwose

after looking at their site, it looks to me like they are great at hiding a very rudimentary amount of shaping behind a whole lot of extremely shiny high polish. the high polish looks nice, but everything seems to be lacking in overall form. I'm a broke college student, but even if I did have money ...

woodwose

mine and my wife's are scattered through links on this page: m I want to add more historical and construction notes and stuff but don't have time and am not quite sure where to start. some details of my garb have changed since any of those pics were taken. My mother found someone that makes nice thi...

woodwose

" a pictures is worth a thousand words" and all of that. I am enjoying studying your armour. We are thinking along very similar lines but solving some problems the opposite ways. Which way do you plan to go with the throat? Gorget like the one on Ebay or hidden in bischops mantel? Have yo...

woodwose

and one more post.... Karl's photo of his harness inspired me to dig out my old harness of that sort, which I had used for rebated steel and was always afraid to use for rattan because there are little turning pins and stuff that would easily break off if hit solidly with rattan... but I don't reall...

woodwose

I think I am gonna attach the knees to the tassets, because thats what the art looks like to me. What do you think? here are a couple woodcuts (I think they are from around 1540-1550) of such harnesses with knees attached to the tassets, though they do not seem to have anything below that. m m

woodwose

Nissan Maxima wrote:Those Landsknechts sure did have a lot of problems with zombies.

one of my favorites has always been Bruegel's "Triumph of Death":

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/brue ... h.jpg.html

woodwose

not sure what to do with it? if you would be interested in selling or trading something for them I would be very interested in those to go with my german/landsknecht impression...

woodwose

my favorite question was one time when it was question and answer time at the end of our demo a 6 or 7 year old girl asked our demo-leader-guy "Do you own a lizard?" there was no mention of lizards or reptiles of any sort during the whole demo... wearing hosen with a stuffed and very protr...

woodwose

I have a 130 pound bow from New World Arbalest. the method I use is to take a couple small C clamps and an extra string. put one C clamp through the eye at each end of the string, then clamp each of those clamps to the ends of the bow. pull back the string that is in the clamps and let it catch on t...

woodwose

well, bare thighs is something different enough to not be "nothing". that sounds painful though.. is that something he does often? I still think a similar look could be recreated with leather... though it might really only be similar in a small photo. I can't quite get over the bare thighs...

woodwose

this image was posted by DukeAlaric (George S.) on page five of the "pics that would inspire new guys" thread in the combat & weapons forum: http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s27/skywlker85/awesome.jpg I don't know exactly what is going on with his upper legs, but I think a similar lo...

woodwose

danfrombham wrote:yeah I was thinking it will probably end up on some piece of garb.

That is a way cool bag dwezzle are those cross bow bolts? The hairs on

the fur are

yes, they are crossbow bolts. what were you saying about the hairs on the fur?

woodwose

Dweezle: I have never said at any point of time in this discussion that if I was fighting for "real" like the people we are "portraying" would have been, that I would fight SCA rules ("and belly up"), nor I doubt anybody in the SCA who fights would fight "SCA Rule...

woodwose

Halvgrim, I didn't say that which you quote me as saying. Sigifrith Hauknefr, I have seen many SCA fighters. I was one of them for a few years before getting more into WMA and historical fencing stuff, but WMA/historical fencing that was going on in my area kind of died off, so I've been wanting to ...

woodwose

I bet you that one someone was grappling someone and there sword arm was free, there were probably plenty of wraps thrown... Also pre-being totally encased in armour, when the back of the head was only covered in chain, the back of the head was a great target...... what was covering the face when t...

woodwose

I made this bag out of an old otter skin that was found in my grandmothers attic... wish we knew what happened to the other skins - this was one out of five or six of them. http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/leather/quiverb.jpg http://mailmaker.tripod.com/new/leather/otterbagsept.JPG

woodwose

this is something my wife and I photo-hacked together as part of a project I was working on for a class a couple semesters ago... it was supposed to be a prototype for a photo recreation of Pieter Breugel the Elder's "rabbit hunt", but the angle/perspective is off... anyways, its a photo w...

woodwose

I thought it said "fighting stick", which could also have been interesting... but I've been wanting to get back into some armor for that... but sick... I've felt a lot better after fighting sick sometimes... like when you have the flu and sort of sweat it out under a massive pile of blanke...

woodwose

not fighting, but...

[img]http://mailmaker.tripod.com/garb/dwzsalem.jpg[/img]

woodwose

we'll be there someplace... most likely wandering around the merchant area. I may be fencing, may watch heavy in search of inspiration to get back into that...

woodwose

wow, looks just about right for some SCA personas.

woodwose

hewing one out of a single piece of wood seems like an awful lot of waste in materials and time when steaming and laminating layers together seems like a period appropriate way of doing the shallower ones. I kind of wonder about the deeper gutters shown in some of Maximilian's publications.. a coupl...

woodwose

Oooohh! I want to be an assassin/spy~! Like a ninja: if you see the ninja - he's a lousy ninja. Right? one of the funniest things I've ever seen at an SCA event... I think it was at market day at birka a couple years ago - one of those lousy sorts of ninjas falling asleep in his chair before court

woodwose

First time I saw a 45" blade I told the guy he needed a trusting tip on it. Still useing a 36" blade. I lived throught the arms race and was unaffected by it. for the last few years I've mostly been using a 28" schlager with a katzbalger sort of hilt on it... I love it for one on one...

woodwose

thanks all... I decided to go with one of Darkwood's 45" bated rapier blades - partly because I know the marshals won't look at it too strangely, and because I want to have it hilted up and ready to use by mid April and spring crept up on me way to fast. his service was great, I emailed him las...

woodwose

I want to play with an estoc in for SCA rapier... I'm wondering what makers of SCA rapier blades make the longest list legal blades that are usable with schlaguer sort of blades... for the last couple years I've been playing with a super short schlager hilted as a katzbalger, but I think its time fo...

etching/engraving on 16th century armor

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longest blade for SCA rapier?