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Glaukos the Athenian

Beautiful stuff.. Why have I never heard of you before? lol Allan is perhaps one of the most knowledgeable and professional purveyors of armour out there. He gets top reviews from anyone lucky enough to come across his armour and get some from him. Llyod, here in the AA is also a big fan of Allan. ...

Glaukos the Athenian

I have an awesome Rondel Dagger made by Heimrich Armeor in Canada to my specs. It is a bit early for my persona and I'd like to trade it for a Cinquedea. The Rondel is custom in that it was made semi sharp and seriously pointed -with the possibility of further sharpening- as opposed to the common fu...

Glaukos the Athenian

Tally, While I don't use sheepskin, I use the 3M spray glue for that type of job and it works very, very well. http://www.kitkraft.biz/files/images/adhesives/3m77spray.jpg That being said, sheepskin will not be necessarily hotter than the "blue foam of death" because it surely breathes bet...

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Now that I see that karate pads again, their FLAT cloth hand pad looks just dandy to wear under gauntlets....

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

For whatever it is worth, I use a combination of cotton covered elbow pads, and cotton covered forearm pads. These are the type most usually associated with Martial Arts practice. They are versatile in that they are two pieces and that allows for better adjustment, and they can be washed, even at an...

Glaukos the Athenian

Does this range of sizes cover more or less both infantry, cavalry and tournament shields? Also, the examples given by Sir Vitus seem mostly Germanic. Were shields in Burgundy smaller than shields in Italy? Or those in Spain different in size than those in Poland? Inquisitive minds want to know. Tha...

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Pics are not showing at work and flickr is blocked.....

May need to ask Damon to make them in Al for me later on.....

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Someone just pick this steal steel quickly before I spend money I dont have on it...

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Do you work in stainless steel at all?

If so I think I see where my next year budget is going....

The milanese stuff is impressive.

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

It is just after the ending of the Woods Battle. I swear it was great fighting but the jog back and forth to res point was more tiresome than the actual fighting. Sir Guy sets me up again in a Triad with my sister woman at arms Sian, and his Squire Eleazar as a spearman. We are doing pretty well ind...

Glaukos the Athenian

Wulf has a point- if you charge a line and get killed, sometimes walking forward is the quickest way to get out of the way... Indeed, The VAST majority of the times when I got killed I was at least two lines into the enemy formation unless I got nailed by a spear (I DO like charging and I am not ha...

Glaukos the Athenian

I have one of the Waldryk "Salletia" version of the sallet, with a permanenlt attached grille "bevor". m I am yet to use it in combat as I got it too late to practice before Pennsic, but once properly adjusted it gives good peripheral vision, and the grille bevor at least lets yo...

Glaukos the Athenian

It belonged to the Medieval ancestor of The Phantom!

The Ghost Who Walks!

Glaukos the Athenian

Thanks, I may use one of those or a disk, which should work also style-wise.

Thank you!

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

QFT.

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Johannes wrote:Got a picture?

Yes please see both pommel and guard

http://www.earmi.it/armi/glossario/imma ... quedea.jpg
http://www.deltin.net/6151.htm

unless you have something that can make a rattan grip look like this without weakening it....

http://www.lutel.cz/obrazky/10043.jpg

This is obviously for a cinquedea....

Thanks!

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

I have a little project in the works, and I may need a medium sized spherical pommel for a rattan dagger.

Can anyone suggest a source?

Thanks!

Rowan of Needwood

Glaukos the Athenian

Also Gentles, if I may add, What each individual fighter does on the field falls upon himself, or if I may paraphrase Henry V, Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own So lumping any group together is a disservice to the speaker and the listener. Saying "The Tuchu...

Glaukos the Athenian

Animal, I still owe you a package of the finest eastern/asian tea I can find (and I have my sources.) I know you guys keep hot tea in your encampment but this being my first Pennsic it was too late by the time I learned that Tuchux hill was by the "Eye of Sauron" (for the uninitiated, that...

Glaukos the Athenian

"Kill me now you bastards!!" and "Thank you for the fun!" Vignette 4 We are facing the Middle Kingdom. I don't know exactly who they are but the colors are unmistakable, so are the skill and ferocity, and the good humor. Someone on our side calls a charge. God I love a good charg...

Glaukos the Athenian

Sean, Maybe I was not precise, I was never "angry" I just got carried away. have to add that we were both on the ground laying down as this happened, not me standing and him on the ground. And we were in a sort of race to get up. I did apologize to the man, who was gracious and honorable e...

Glaukos the Athenian

The Bridge battle (sounds of the clamour of fighting, rattan hitting shields, shouts, etc) I am the only fighter officially representing of the Shire of Roxbury Mill, and I am attached to the mostly newish but excellent Ponte Alto (Those guys are awesome. They are not scary, that is why our opponent...

Glaukos the Athenian

Vignette numero deux: A small act of kindness... I think it was Wed. of war week, but I am not sure. It was on the battlefield. The fighting for the day was over, I slung my shield over my sholder (trust me, guige straps are truly awesome and I am surprised not to see many, many more on the field), ...

Glaukos the Athenian

raito wrote: It's his idealized version of what ought to be.

Hai!

You mean Bushido not they way it was but the way it should have been?

Hmmm. Sounds like the SCA though...

doesn't it?

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

Pennsic Vignette #1 For some insane reason I cannot fathom, one of the days of fighting I was already exhausted from armoring up, before I even started, so I made the fateful decision to take the bus from the area of the lake to the battlefield, hoping to save some stamina for the actual fighting. I...

Glaukos the Athenian

But Max, It is true. I am advancing technically, but not nearly at the speed I'd like to. Maybe I am not at the bottom, but I am surely not a top fighter by any stretch. I will be with some more teaching and practice, but I am not there yet. My strong points are complete lack of fear in SCA environm...

Glaukos the Athenian

About Sir Vitus: I thought I first he was a prick full of himself, besides being an awesome fighter. By reading some of the stuff he has written I realize Sir Vitus is one of the most beautifully insane people I have ever heard of. He should be preserved like a national park, so that future generati...

Glaukos the Athenian

Your Excelency,

Your kind words are only a spur to work harder so I can reach the point where I really deserve them.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

Rowan of Needwood

Glaukos the Athenian

I have to agree -thou gingerly- with His Grace, considering this was only my first Pennsic. I am too old to have the "bright eyed kid" approach, and too jaded not to notice that there were many money issues. But as I was on the battle field, my brothers from Ponte Alto had to remind me to ...

Glaukos the Athenian

For me it was a pouch full of little Power Bar Gel packs. The difference between hitting a wall and keeping on going. m Cliff also has a great product call SHOT BLOK m Little packs of sugar-cube sized hard gel (about as hard as a jelly bean's inside) full of easily usable carbs and electrolytes, but...

Glaukos the Athenian

How about shiny gold color

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Glaukos the Athenian

Yes he is

Rowan

Glaukos the Athenian

May God bless you keep you and preserve you.

I have been trying to explain the unexplainable, describe the undescribable and generally bring an understanding to those close to me that were not there...
Words did not suffice.

Thanks,

Rowan of Needwood

WTT: Rondel dagger for Cinquedea...

Waterproof

Source for spherical pommel for rattan?

Pennsic Vignettes number 4 and 5

Pennsic vignette number 3: Die, Die, Die!!!!