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oh jeez. Best wishes!

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This was a collabrative sketch I did with a young artist who didn't know much of anything about armour, but wanted something believable to draw on an elven shield-maiden. Since she liked the idea of plate armour, this was what I came up with. http://home.armourarchive.org/members/dstchdo/Art/aranel_...

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Hard on the eyes, eh?

Hal, that looks AWESOME!

Tell me, could you do something like that in stainless steel? I might have an order...

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You're not. That's a load of hooey. Whatever big-headed pencle-necked statistician came up with that study couldn't have ever spent much time with a rucksack on his back, because that's rediculous. Don't get me wrong, there ARE bad boots, but that's not enough to make such a sweeping, stupid and dan...

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Mud, garbage, ugly muckety things lying around here and there. considering that the stocks were a penalty for minor offenses, stones were probably discouraged . Mud, rotting (ie: soft!) fruit, even horse crap I could put up with, but if somebody started throwing rocks, and I survived , I'd come a'lo...

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Well... no, you really want the biggest welder you can afford.

The duty cycle will be better, you'll find that your welds will be more regular, you'll typicly get better penetration, and you'll be able to tackle larger projects like fabbing bickhorns and raising stakes.

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Fascinating! I'd never taken more than a passing glance at I.33, but this is genuinely interesting. Much different from Fiore's "active defense" and worlds different from Talhoffer's constant agression. The principals at work seem to be slight direction changes, economy of movement, and control of t...

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What about a hydrolic rolling press, ala the plans for sale over at Anvilfire? Seems like a good propane forge and a rolling mill like that could make a lot of welds real quick-like. I never understood why so many people on SFI prefer powerhammers when the rolling mill works so efficiently... As to ...

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SWEET!

That's awesome. More power to you, man.

When you start carving the hilt on the Master Sword, let me know.

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Maybe it is the fact that I live out west, but at western shows around here include classes in cutting cattle and reining... Of the local and state horse shows I've been dragged off to, (several dozen by now, I think) I'd say maybe one in five of those that show Western Pleasure will show these eve...

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Err... actualy, I've welded heavy materiel (light truck springs) with a cutting torch with unwound garage-door springs as filler rods, and had *very* good results. Take two or three passes and chase the puddle, and no worries. I had some trouble with undercutting, but on a project where I was going ...

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Oh come on , Chef! We mortals out here have two practicable options: Western, or English. Full stop, end of line! Only the best instructors will dare to teach bareback -and only then to students who have ridden for quite a while and are alreadly good riders- because they're terrified of liability is...

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You mean the Tsuba ? Don't mess around with the sword unless you're certain that you know what you're doing. Not all antiques go back together so easily... Not that I *want* to plug swordforum , but over there the general and specialized forums are full of Nihon-to and cavalry sabre fanatics who can...

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Can anyone tell me if the false edge I put on is correct or not? When I ground that in, I had just finished looking at a few dozen pictures of dirks, and for some reason I though sure that rondel daggers had a similar false edge, but I haven't seen any evidence of that since. I'm not sure whether or...

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Thanks Jehan, Allen. Paul -it was originaly a scrapped piece of 30 year-old structural channel that happened to be handy when I went hunting for something to cut with my hole-saw. I strongly suspect it's mild steel. Aside from one or two frustratingly hard spots that could have come from impurities ...

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You can't tell from the pictures, but it actualy *does* have a trianglular cross-section. Since I don't like "appleseed" edges and I sharpen on the entire primary bevel, I put that shallow fuller into the blade as a sharpening expedient. So yes, it's *very* sharp. It's a little unsettling how overtl...

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I also concur. Now, let me disclaim that. I've never ridden in a medieval saddle, and I've never ridden in armour. However, since I'm an artist, I've spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure out how medieval tack worked , and it seems very similar -with only superficial differences in ap...

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Harkening back the old Weapons board -Yay! My Rondel Dagger This is the final permutation of a project that began almost two years ago, and has been worked on in fits and starts ever since. I learned a lot, making it -mostly through a Series of Unfortunate Events TM . For instance -don't try to brin...

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Not used? No. Shoud be ignored and dismissed and is less legitimate because it wasn't common? YES. Now, I think unmatched weapons are the way to go, too, and there's an excelent case to be made for abandoning florentine in heavy fighting, but that wasn't what this thread was for. This thread was fo...

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I'm noticing what seems to be a distinct inclination to dismiss the practice matched weapons entirely -irregardles of whether or not it was actualy used. We have numerous examples of "cased" rapiers. Many of them are very beautiful, true, but it is also true that ugly or hard-used weapons aren't lik...

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Just a *little* bit more detailed than encarta, thank you!

I'll start looking for a few of those titles.

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I'm trying to puzzle out High German history, and I'm running into voids. My goal is to figure out political relations (where the power was geographicly, who had it, how it changed hands) from, uh... "way back" until the 16th century or so. That's a mighty broad spectrum, I know. To anyone else who ...

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Sure, but Spartans didn't wear pants or long sleeves.

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Whoa... I want in. How do you do your scoring? Fight till x# of hits? X-minutes of constant agression? 'till submission? What counts as a hit? With more period gear and solid groundfighting techniques, someone from a boxing, kickboxing or military background would OWN in this sport. Promote, promote...

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Odd, we don't seem to have much problem with horse tack...
Maybe it's all about movement and maitntenance...

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In early period armour, that's true. We can't go around smiting legs with blunt steel (which does MORE than it's share of damage on soft targets!) when our playmates are in a reasonably correct greek or roman harness. Of all the armour in the ancient world, only a few kinds of roman gladiators, legi...

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Size. My brother has both -he lets me use them, every once in a while, when he's there to look over my shoulder. I can't blame him -he has them polised like mirrors and strops them after every project. A drawknife can have blades anywhere from three inches across to maybe 18 or so, with typicaly dow...

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Russ, I've experienced the same thing with home-made axes, tomahawks and franchescas. After breaking nearly two dozen handles over the years, and from experience with more modern felling axes, I'm convinced that how the blade enters the target has more effect on handle life than any other variable. ...

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mmm... better to run a search on that, I'm thinking. There are a number of wonderfully satisfied customers. There are what seems like a small legion of very vocal, very dis satisfied "customers" who have been/are beeing stiffed. You mannaged to hit a very raw nerve here. If you can get your hands on...

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Yup, they and the sword version -pathas? are illegal in the SCA. If I remember the stories correctly, they were used in the West early on, and boxer-types were scoring knockouts with them. I made a rather large, wide-bladed one for myself (I'll need to redo the heat-treatment, since it warped in the...

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It looks to me that that Crowned falchion-weilder is manipulating the weapon of the guy with the horizontal sword and punching him in the helmet at the same time. If this is the case, note the position of his mitten. It's very possible to rotate your hand enough to strike with the false edge of the ...

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I've been tasked with a certain project by my superiors in the local History honorary, and I need to find a number of pictures of Babylonian or Persian art (What is the difference, really? ) Google gets me very little, and the library is being uncooperative unless I already know where to look. I was...

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Do you cut yours from rough-cut lumber, or do you have a commercial source for Ash handles that you cut down to fit? I've had good luck with sledgehammer handles for the small stuff, and Tamper (Mole-Hill Stomper! ) handles for the big ones. Both are hicory, IIRC. I've also had very good experiences...

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I pay my dues. True, I don't have time to fight or socialize, but I get my copies of the Pale and TI -I'm as legit as anyone else. Which would *you* rather see -a respectable bronzed attempt at the Dendra harness, or another naked warrior in a bargrill spuntop "bascinet"? ~Des (inactive half-baked 1...

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Oh, do come off it. The SCA is the only major orginization (ie: not local, or even regional) that has the size and number of events to allow for a signifigant number of personas of multiple periods. The SCA has no enforcable *restrictions* on periods or personas. If it is, as it claims to be, a "liv...

New Rondel Dagger

Sources for German History?

WAY out of period: Babylonian Art