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Glaukos the Athenian

Insane has great points. If this may help. I use an old nightstick I got as a gift as a model for my sword grips. I bought an angle grinder and a pleated sanding wheel specifically to grind sword grips. I just clean up the knots of the "blade" a little bit, but the grip gets a full police ...

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_ ... ic_coins_2

Cool!

Glaukos the Athenian

Understood but...what happens in that moment of crossing at the ankles when your opponent comes in fast? Your body is the lever arm and the point of torque in response to his force is just above your crossed ankles because of how close your feet are to each other...just something to think about. Pr...

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Aaron Being far from an expert in polearms, I agree with most that the music was distracting you not helping you. If fighting is a sort of dance, it has a rhythm of its own and you were dancing to the music played in the hall, not to rhythm of the fight. Honestly, there was Shemp-like quality to you...

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Very nice...

You have to beat that with a stick... oh wait....

Congrats on the new hat

Rowan

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Dang, I am so short with money these days or I'd grab that in a heartbeat...

Glaukos the Athenian

And after you break it, fix it with glue and pressure, but never with nails...
As George Grotz would say.

Positive thoughts your way!

Rowan

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Greetings, I currently own a great seat of greaves made for me by an armourer who is no longer in business. They are awesome and fit great, but being made of Mild steel, they rust no matter what I do to them. My current main supplier of combat armour has agreed to make a version of these in stainles...

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Wow.

Rowan

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MJ.

What chest size will the doublet fit?
Also
What other 15th century clothes? sizes?

Thanks!

Rowan
PS: Embarrasment is for ill behavior, not for hard times. Chin up.

Glaukos the Athenian

I just realized that my oldest one may not fit in last year's garb for our yearly shopping event at Stierbach.

If you have NICE garb for an 8 year old girl, please give me a yell.

Thanks!!!

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Halberds wrote:I think Goth People are strange.

Hal

So did the Romans!!!!

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

As to "caveman talk"... I have not seen them act like that all the time at all. At Atlantian events I have chatted and hung out with them without a hint of that. At pennsic, sometimes ridiculously young looking tuchux were shopping by the merchant area and recognizable only for some small ...

Glaukos the Athenian

Thanks Cian,

I read that posting again and only then I realized that the leather Sir Vitus was referring to was White color (not just natural) , which of course I would not use.

My bad.
Thanks for making me read it again.

Rowan

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Glad to hear it went well. Just take it easy Adam. I think you have gone through other surgeries so you know the drill. The pain will slowly go away and you will probably have some rehab and Phys. Therapy. Patience is as good as anything right now. Maybe you can take vitamins and a decent protein an...

Glaukos the Athenian

A Crusader's Sword: Concerning the Effigy of Jean d'Alluye,
by Helmut Nickel .
Metropolitan Museum Journal: Volume 26, 1991

Here is part of the article

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1512905

Rowan

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Paul,

Check this thread below ,

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=88246

Thx

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Ok, I admit I DO get carried away a bit sometimes, but I can't get my mind off the Crusader with the Chinese sword in the Met. So let's assume one wanted to make an SCA sword to look like that. What would you do? m The lacing of the grip is not the problem, I can get that with some practice. The tri...

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PAGING LORD O'QUINN !!!

Glaukos the Athenian

THANKS!

I'm making one this weekend. Whether I end up by using it to fight or just to carry, we'll see.

Thanks again!

Rowan of Needwood

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Pics?

Glaukos the Athenian

Otto and Hjalmr are excellent sources for HELMETS of the type you may be looking for. Great value for the money in both cases. As for the rest: You may want to consider buying some very basic stuff for your first kit, just to get you out there and start, so you can decide what works for you and what...

Glaukos the Athenian

Good points.

Thank you all.

So I guess it would be just for carry as opposed to "backup", which, while removing the "deploying" part still requires some thought as to a way to schlepp it around.

Maybe just a simple piece of leather cord might do.....

Thanks!

Glaukos the Athenian

Murdock,

What does XL mean in this case? I know some of the Archivers who are stouter than myself would laugh at calling that XL.

I am 43 chest, would it fit me or it is too big?

Also, any dark purple on the belt?

Thanks!

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

While I am getting a new shield blank, I'll start practicing some spear and two handed sword fighting. It occurred to me that it would be cool to be able to carry both in the field, with the bastard sword as a backup to the spear. somehow a dagger, while cool may not cut it unless you are RIGHT NEXT...

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Thanks guys!

I hear that some people not only oil, but also WAX armour, does this make sense?

Rowan

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hjalmr wrote:Die,die,die....

(^_^)

Hey that's my line!

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Greetings, I am considering unhooking my full plate harness from the wall, to wear for when I use spear and bastard sword, and I realized that my Sallet is stainless and much more shiny than my otherwise great Merc Taylor torso and pauldrons. Is there a good method for a NON armourer to add a measur...

Glaukos the Athenian

Cian,

I may want to talk to you about scabbards, if you are in the mood (and I have the money for hardware). Winter is a long season and I am already dreaming of bridge and woods battles......

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Ok, So I had the help of an Elf, who got me access to a copy of the article by Helmut Nickel. Well my guess was right. Apparently our knight jean D'Alluye has a CHINESE sword, in his fully Western scabbard and belt. At least Mr. Nickel concluded so. This is very, very cool. Still, we can now have ea...

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Hard to follow a Prince's comments, but I'll try. As for quitting, you don't. Maybe you can't do it any more, but guess what, I was inspired hugely by seeing a certain baron of a nearby barony in the field at Pennsic. Realistically, he probably had no business in the same field as some crown tournam...

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This document suggests that the sword "looks" like some Chinese swords... This is fascinating. I thought that the effigies of those who went on Crusade had their legs crossed. Why not Jean? it is possible that he went East, just not to the Holy Land? m (go to pages 102-104 of the PDF docum...

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Well, Marco Polo lived when? m J. H C.!!! Marco Polo lived September 15, 1254[1] â€“ January 9, 1324 at earliest but no later than June 1325 This Dude in the Cloisters is known to have traveled east! I found this in MyArmoury.... m The discussion is brief though and gets nowhere. A search here Frenc...

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I think you are all reading more into what I meant than what I said..... It is not that those of us in the co op would work on each others projects/orders (although I certainly have no problem collaborating with someone on something specific). It was that we would all pool our resources to rent a l...

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Nah, Andrew, communal efforts and communism have zip in common, and never have. The first always gives you the option to opt out. The latter shoots you and your family in the head for trying, and dumps their bodies in shallow graves they've been forced to dig themselves. (Knock, Knock? Misterrr Mit...

Celtic coins found in the Netherlands

Casting a mould of armour....

WTB: 8 y/o GIRL garb

Re: White leather blowout- belts, scabbards etc.

Special guard and pommel for SCA sword (question)

Carrying a two handed sword in the field...

Polishing already assembled armour