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Glaukos the Athenian

And, actually, valid 'magic'. If the Top Dog(tm) is using, it is likely to be for the reason that it is effective. If another fighter mimics it, he may not fully understand why it can be more effective, but he knows it is, he knows he isn't reinventing the wheel. If I got into a Ferrari, I won't be...

Glaukos the Athenian

Hamish Nisbet wrote:I might be interested in a set of the arms, could you take a pic of the inside, and let me know about the sizing?

Same here for the second set.

Thanks!

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

I take it then Raulin, that we can expect you at the Battle of Hastings at Pennsic, being that you will have such a splendid Norman helmet....?

Glaukos the Athenian

You do me great honor Sir Omarad!

As for the remaining 9 stated by yourself and Sir Angus, I will try to find a fair way to register and record the names in advance.

I beg anyone interested to await for the announcement I will put forth,

Respectfully,

Glaukos the Athenian

Glaukos the Athenian

Thank you Milords.

I will be making sure NOT to interfere with anything, especially WOH.

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

Will you be there on Sunday between Landgrab and War Week, aka Freek Weekend?

Would you be willing to Marshal for about an hour, perhaps 2, as well as take names of participants ?

If so, please PM me.

Much obliged in advance,

Glaukos the Athenian

Glaukos the Athenian

Murdock wrote:When is late period?

If there is no lower limit...

and we divide all of human history in half...

then the late half is approximately anything after the founding of Greece

Thank you very much...

Glaukos the Athenian

When using hide glue as a base for the gesso, a paintbrush dipped in hot water smooths things out very easily if done directly after application. Scraping and burnishing are not the same thing. Scraping removes a sliver of material. Burnishing, which is used for pottery and metal, among others, pla...

Glaukos the Athenian

Do people like what they see? I appreciate your comments. Lazarith My personal opinion, and I am not in the market. They look nice and well priced. Maybe additional side and front pics and more detail would elicit more comments. I personally like the "visor" or eyebrow ridge that you did ...

Glaukos the Athenian

After you sand the gesso, take a utility knife blade and scrape the surface of the shield. Hold the blade at an angle and scrape it across the surface, making sure that you don't CUT, but scrape. This will give you a painting surface that is as smooth as glass. Interesting. The same technique was u...

Glaukos the Athenian

On the early side, documentation of ROMAN wall tents m Trajan's column http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4258040244_75b1199b9e_z.jpg square, round and ridge (wall?) tents, medieval m Roman pup tents. Almost identical to the ones I used in basic training http://www.comitatus.net/images/comitatusten...

Glaukos the Athenian

It would be interesting to find out the general life expectancy of an Avar warrior. Interesting that he even made it to that stage, I wonder how old he was.

Notice that CURRENT life expectancy in Angola is 38, in South Africa 49...
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/
http://www.sarahwoodbury.com/?p=453

Just a thought on the matter.

Glaukos the Athenian

There are several threads about them in the Classifieds forum.

Hope this helps.

Glaukos the Athenian

Glaukos the Athenian

Always a day late and a Drachma short...

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

do it with boffer weapons. The marshallate has no concern with adults and boffer weapons. Perhaps I should consider Pillows Sir Omarad? ... most noble Wormtongue, what office of less honour would you accept? ... . Following your original advise I have written to Sir Angus and I await his opinion an...

Glaukos the Athenian

Thank you milords.... I may do that, though I have to rethink it, because you have to admit that all the planning and notification take away a lot of the fun aspect, which is the impromptu, spontaneous spirit of such a bout... though I completely understand the constrains and the issues involving th...

Glaukos the Athenian

Er.... I know this sounds very silly, but I know there is a bridge at Pennsic, a foot bridge in the bog, by the corner of Causeway and Myfan in the upper Es. I thought about standing by the bridge in fighting gear and doing a "none shall pass". Even for just just a little while I am not su...

Glaukos the Athenian

D. Sebastian wrote:If I had boobs, I'd let Adam squeeze em.

Very, very few men can say that and remain unscathed... Sir Diomedes is one of those....

But Adam does indeed rock.... dude....

Glaukos the Athenian

Is it allowed?

I have in mind a small deed of arms at a particular place and I was wondering what the rules are.

Thanks,

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

Thomas Powers wrote:Thank you very much!

Thomas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saqqara_Bird

Glaukos the Athenian

liviatasia wrote:
D. Sebastian wrote:Ave ROME!

That's why.

What he said!!!!

Meh....Latecomers.....

Besides, Romans already had artillery....

Glaukos the Athenian

Maybe adding something like this, but thicker and well riveted so it can handle fighting...

Glaukos the Athenian

Can one vacuum form thin metal like it is done with plastic?

Do you need an expensive mold or just a model of what you are forming?

Thanks!

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

Do we know how Italo-Norman's daughter was doing? he mentioned she was sick.

Hal, keep rocking!

Glaukos the Athenian

Glaukos the Athenian

I have walked my way since the beginning of time, sometimes I give, sometimes I take...

http://www.squidoo.com/merlin-magician

Glaukos the Athenian

Meinhard wrote:PB's been talking to me about my order recently. I have to say I've been impressed with his evident fervor for getting me exactly what I want.

He does that, doesn't he?

Glaukos the Athenian

Livia, I have been using horse leg wraps, by suggestion of Sir Graedwyn. They are excellent and long enough that careful wrapping should cover even this type of armour, if the profile is low enough. You can search them under "standing wraps" and -shockingly- they are sold in sets of four. ...

Glaukos the Athenian

http://www.anacondasports.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&categoryId=51911&productId=166084&sportId=49311&storeId=10201 Try these. They are much better than regular shin guards, wrap around and have a "greave like" shape. They are the ones I ha...

Glaukos the Athenian

Thank you for educating me.

Glaukos the Athenian

Do the knees in these cover enough of the sides of the knee to make them SCA legal alone?

I recall seeing a set recently and thought about making them look period or hiding them...

Does anyone wear them?

How do you hide them?

Thanks!

Glaukos

Glaukos the Athenian

Even the rich shared them, and the implication is not "gay" but rather honorific, as strange as it may sound to our modern ears... This man was so trusted by Henry that he shared his bed... Duke of Exeter. Nay, but the man that was his bedfellow , Whom he hath dull'd and cloy'd with gracio...

Glaukos the Athenian

I love this kaka. Fur Sich m This site contains the musical fragments found on cuneiform tablets in Ugarit, stemming from about the mid-second millennium BC. They contained text (in Hurrian language) and musical scores of several "songs to the gods", all composed in the same tuning or mod...

Glaukos the Athenian

Don't get me started.... Perhaps some day over a drink at Pennsic I can tell you about my adventures in the world of academia and "Biblical" archaeology... The funny part is that the most momentous finds often got little promotion whereas some stupid find that matched some idea of Biblical...

Glaukos the Athenian

I use winningas and I also wear soccor shin guards with built in ankle supports under them. I find that the combination of knee pads with pointed cop, shin guards and then the leg wraps, that my cops don't slip down, my opponent can clearly identify my knees and I am covered for the occasionaly low...

Glaukos the Athenian

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