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Glaukos the Athenian

http://www.kultofathena.com/images/thumbs/t_AB0077.jpg Churburg Gauntlets - AB0077 These gauntlets are reproduced from the #13 Churburg harness and, in addition to being completely functional, they are highly detailed and embellished in brass. Crafted in 16 ga. plate, they are fitted with a sewn-in...

Glaukos the Athenian

Leo, Awesome stuff, but I am concerned about lance-hand safety. Your opponent's appears to be not very fully armored, and the flare of the grip of the lance does not look broad enough to cover it in case of an accidental foul strike to the hand. Have you considered adding a vanplate? Otherwise, in a...

Glaukos the Athenian

Maeryk wrote:
Glaukos the Athenian wrote:Like clear plastic printing paper?

Printable transparencies. Staples (or wherever you work) probably has boxes of them.

This is gonna be a nightmare it is Gothic text...

Thanks!!!

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

Like clear plastic printing paper?

Glaukos the Athenian

I have a Microsoft Word file of text that I need made into a stencil I can pencil over and then paint. Can anyone make this into a plastic stencil inexpensively so I can trace and paint?

Thanks!

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

The EVA stuff from windrose or polyolefin foam camp pads work well. I think the walmart version is about 7-10$ How did you pad/strap your gaunts last time around and what problems did you have; a common option seams to be street hocky gloves like the mylec ones Icefalcon sells. Hmmm I used the blue...

Glaukos the Athenian

If I may, I think the issue is one of attitude and custom, not of the narrow weapon one is wielding at the moment. If archers routinely slung back their bows and arbalests (since they cannot drop them) behind their backs and took a dagger, sword or buckler, and fought off the heavies, the matter wou...

Glaukos the Athenian

So I am trying to get a new kit together that requires gauntlets. I may be running out of time and money for an inexpensive set, but I also own a pair of very decent Torvalrd's leather gauntlets m that I have used only once and that time yet my padding job was not that great and I was not happy. I m...

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Second, yielding seems to be a bigger issue for you than me. I am used to knights/whoever yielding to me. Spearmen are notorious for it once I "get under their guns." It's a game so I don't get worked up about it. I'm much more likely to get pissed about a veteran pole axing me in the ANK...

Glaukos the Athenian

What I find interesting in that image is the number of spears that are actually vertical, i.e. out of the fight in such close quarters. The actual fighting appears to be taking place at sword and polearm range. This is -of course- not a photograph but a rendition, an artist's impression and opinion,...

Glaukos the Athenian

How do you manage :

1) Balance and reach (i.e. manage the spear to keep balance with one hand and still use the reach of the spear)
2) get the shield out of the way without exposing yourself to plain spearmen on the other side?

I did Ok with it last year but I can always do better!

Thanks.

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

The Corinthian has nice lines, though it could use a finer polish. It looks like a great value.

Glaukos the Athenian

How is this helping increase stick speed? Power and speed from from the hips...if you use good technique. The clean and jerk creates explosive power from a dead stand still. I can see how this excercise would increase shot speed. Hmm. I quite familiar with it. It never crossed my mind to try that. ...

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I am confused.

Thank you Isabella for the link.

That is what I learned as "clean" in other words, using your legs to create a "pulse" of force to lift the bar to your shoulders with leg strength and not arm strength.

How is this helping increase stick speed?

Glaukos the Athenian

Vitus von Atzinger wrote:The Power Clean doubled my sword speed in six weeks.

How do you do a "power" clean. I used to lift Olympic style, but I am not sure I understand the power part...

Glaukos the Athenian

The leather tab on the bottom, or some for of it, is something many armorers would do well to copy.

Glaukos the Athenian

That is a great deal on a competent Japanese style sword. No it would not merit passing it down to generations of descendants, but in a dark stormy night inside a Japanese Inn, it could save your life just as efficiently (and a lot more cheaply) if you were jumped at while eating your rice... http:/...

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How long do these spears appear to be? about 9 feet?
I know it is on the late side from the Valois tapestries... still

http://moondragon.info/mediawiki/images ... loseup.PNG

and these from the 100 year war>

http://www.lessing-photo.com/p3/030802/03080213.jpg
about 10 feet?

Glaukos the Athenian

This is WAY above my head technically.

more pics

Just google " klismos " for images...

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Glaukos the Athenian

While the thread sort of got out of hand -which I regret- I did think we were getting to some type of mature discussion. Can anyone else opine about whether an SCA battle in a War such as Pennsic should be considered a battle or a tournament melee, grand or otherwise? I want to add a WAY pre period ...

Glaukos the Athenian

Help me gentles to try to bring our discussion to a more profitable path. Let me ask this instead, and just this : are larger melees at wars considered to be oversized tournaments or battlefields? Why? What basis do we have to interpret them to be one or the other? Let us just look into this first, ...

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Looking good Cedric! m One source. And I am not to credit. It was Sir Graedwyn's idea. Mine are cotton, not polyester (so they are warm in the winter and cool in the summer) but they sell them made out of polyester as well, so you should make sure you get the natural fabric ones before you buy If yo...

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I guess I should have known better though I hoped for more. Frankly, I am surprised that people who have clearly committed themselves to act in a knightly and chivalrous fashion in the field cannot keep the same standard in a simple forum conversation. We can disagree without rudeness or becoming a...

Glaukos the Athenian

I guess I should have known better though I hoped for more. Frankly, I am surprised that people who have clearly committed themselves to act in a knightly and chivalrous fashion in the field cannot keep the same standard in a simple forum conversation. We can disagree without rudeness or becoming an...

Glaukos the Athenian

PM sent on legs

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If the legs are Aluminum I am interested....

Glaukos the Athenian

Greek chairs....? That can be taken apart for camp?

Glaukos the Athenian

So Your Excellency, if I understand you correctly, a Bridge Battle for you would be a type of Chivalric Tournament and not a "war action"? Is there ANY type of melee that would qualify as a "war action" and not a large tournament? Just to play Devil's Advocate, what would have ha...

Glaukos the Athenian

Let me start by stating that I am not trying to troll, so if I missed some all important thread in the past that deals with my question, my apologies in advance. I was shooting target archery a few days ago, and also listening to the ending of "The White Company" in audiobook, when I start...

Glaukos the Athenian

So for the 14th century, if you are fighting on foot, 5-6 foot spear is better than 9 foot?

Glaukos the Athenian

Thank you all.

I got adventurous and just printed the image and then taped it to the primed shield and traced it with a sharpie.... It got through just enough to trace the silhouette. We'll see how my artistic skills compare to those that made 14th century English Brasses....

Glaukos the Athenian

I have a file that I need made into a plastic CUT stencil to paint with.

Does anyone have the machine that cuts stencils from computer files?

It resolves into 2 8 1/2 x 11 pages.

Thanks!

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

Carlo is good people and a gifted armorer. I own several pieces by him.

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Glaukos the Athenian

m Also Sir Eustace, who was in the midst of his people, said to them: “Gentlemen, let us fight courageously, and the day will be ours: we then shall be masters of all Champagne, which was formerly an earldom. Perhaps I may in time do such essential services to the king of England, whom I hold as the...

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