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I have a friend who doesn't fight anymore, largely out of the desire to not get hurt. I have another friend who may not be fighting very long, since he has a baby on the way and no health insurance. I have a wife who spent 3 hours every night for a week before Pennsic making my new gambeson, because...

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Mine has a palm sized grappling hook gun on it. I'm still waiting on the order of bat shaped homing beacons.

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I think anything that you do will only be temporary, and will require occasional re-doing. I'd go with good ol' trusty fire, myself. Maybe start a charcoal fire and let the suckers barbeque for a while. The only problem is that for a while it would have a tendency to get black stuff all over whateve...

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I didn't read this before I posted on another thread about Pennsic, but... Hey Steve, I never got to meet you at the meeting, but I'm pretty sure I was running a boring board game that dealt with astrology at Pennsic 30 and played it with you and a girl named Tara Reid (SCA name unknown). Was that y...

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Dude, you made that sound like it's some kind of cosmic conjunction of an entire galaxy's allotment of luck points... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif There are two distinct armor types during that era. Well, I don't want to say only two, but the two everyone wants are these: German gothic ...

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<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Templar Bob/De Tyre: Schreiber: I'm leaving for Cooper's Lake [b]TONIGHT.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Me too! If you're awake at 2am, I'll look for you!

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The best modern cop-out for a ring that I've found is this: fiberglass tent poles for dome tents. Templar Bob, I've been doing the tent class the last couple years, and haven't seen you there. (I don't recall Earl Davydd being their either, though...) I'm really interested in swapping ideas, if you ...

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I have a fairly disreputable source that claims that early sallets were worn as early as 1400. The one illustrated example shows more like a bascinet that has a sweeping neck guard.

I think that documented evidence shows that it's more of a 1440- 1490 kind of helm, though.

HELMUT

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ANSI didn't exist back then, and they don't have anything on armor for today either. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif The biggest problem is going to boil down to the same thing as everything else: green pictures of dead presidents. You could get something that looks reasonable in 18 gauge ...

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So, what's it like? Review, man!

How does it cover? What's the thickness on the steel? How were the flutes made? Is it mild?

HELMUT

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It did take me a couple passes to find it again. That particular one I think should be the very first one listed.

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go to http://www.armourarchive.org/essays/howto_riveting , then come back and read the rest of this message. The one thing that I find handy, in addition to what's in the article, is using the flat face of the hammer first. Cut your rivet to length (it should be poking out about 1/8" to 3/16"). Then...

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I also want to do something like this.

I could get a total of six guys easily. Two spears, two poles, and two who are for now shields... shudder... but that could change.

I think that if you guys are going to be at Pennsic, and we could meet about it, it could go somewhere...

HELMUT

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Let's see if this works....

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It's the best one I could find. I'm holding the spear. We're pretty conspicuously on the corner of Battle & Fosse, so we'll be close to a lot of you, it seems.

HELMUT

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They're not supposed to protect your shoulders the way a spaulder would. They hang from the bottom of the helm down to your trapezius muscle at an angle, stopping short of the shoulder. I think it was primarily for showing off heraldry, and probably secondarily to protect the neck. I would definitel...

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I have a pair of Andrew Ward's own gauntlets that I recently gave up on. I'm not sure what design you have, but the one I have has a flaw. There are only two plates off the back of the hand for the fingers. One covers the first finger joints, and the other is long, curved, and is supposed to cover t...

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Nobody's said this yet: Know when to quit. When someone on the field gets you to the point where you feel like your forehead is sloping backward and your chest feels like it's going to explode and shoot ten thousand poisonous darts at him, it's time to leave. This person could be on your side. It wa...

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All this talk about raising has gotten me thinking about trying it, but there are two questions I have... one I'm going to have to answer myself by building a forge, but the other is about hammers. We all spend a great deal of time talking about making our own hammers, but I suspect that it's not as...

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I just don't wear any. It's much cooler without. Besides, I spend most of my time going for the lower class look. I doubt that the lower classes would have wasted fabric on underwear. I also doubt that clean underwear would be a high priority on a campaign. I also wear a lot of hose, and jeez, it wo...

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Um... I wouldn't use leather. If it's going underneath maille, and visibility isn't that big an issue, then I'd use canvas. It's cheap, it's washable, and it's durable.

HELMUT

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Good, cause the one I have isn't mine, and there's one on ebay that I'm angling to have the wife buy for my birthday present!

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I don't get it... the shear posted originally is just a nibbler, isn't it? You don't want a nibbler. Ditto on what Sasha said. I also have a unishear (that's a common name for the shear he listed) and will swear by them. A b-2 or b-3 would be nicer, of course, since then I wouldn't have to wear the ...

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Thanks for the advice, as well as the offer. The problem I have with getting it pre- checked is that I'm seriously down to the wire. I'm not even doing this properly: I'm throwing together some metal parts to augment the armor that I have, since I'm a lot less athletic than I have been in previous w...

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I have what could be termed a "chicken neck". It's gotten me bounced out of more inspection lines than I'd care to admit. Part of the problem I've had in the past is that my helm (the first piece of steel armor I ever made) barely came 1" below my chin. Now I have a brandy new Windrose Italian Salle...

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N17 here... I'm looking forward to meeting a lot of you... some of you in a good way...

HELMUT

Ps, Vlad, email me and let me know which camp you're with... I didn't see Black Diamond on the list for N17

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Couple ideas here: Individual scales would make good scrapers, spoons, combs, arrowheads, or any other small nick nack that is made of metal. They can be more easily melted down than a billet and cast into an idol of the pagan god of your choosing. If someone wearing scale is suddenly in the water, ...

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The only Japanese maille that I've really gotten a good look at was frickin' tiny. It was a combination of round and rectangular rings, and the round rings could not have been bigger than 3/16" I.D. Forgive the lack of terminology: I haven't learned parts of Japanese harness yet. But the example I s...

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um... you generally don't. Greathelms are usually 3 to 5 pieces that are formed with basic curves. There are two exceptions I can think of. First, some later greathelms would have a formed cap to them so that they didn't have a flat "landing platform" on the top. Second would be the "sugarloaf" helm...

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My suggestion, and what I'm planning on doing eventually, would be this: Make 5 or so of each size. Offer them for sale, and be prepared to bang out more of the mediums and larges than anything. Modern businesses believe that inventory is death. It's a lot more convenient and cost efficient to have ...

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Hmmm... I brought up the exact same subject a year ago and got yelled at for not having a true appreciation for good armor.

It wouldn't work. The setup cost is too high for immediate return. I don't think any investors would go for something that would take 10 years to see a return.

HELMUT

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I don't know about you guys, but at a glance that site is pretty confusing. I realize that steel yards probably don't get the best web designers to put their sites up, but when I got to the part where sheet steel has a "weight per pounds" column, I had to bail. http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink....

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I weigh 165 lbs only because I've been sitting at a desk and not exercising for almost two years now. I'm not a big guy. I could still, under the 90 degree rule, take a 7 1/2 foot unpadded polearm, hold it at the end, raise it directly over my head, and get a swing with a radius of about 9 feet. The...

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I'm with sarnac on this one. Prices never go down, they only go up. The only case in which prices should go down is if a situation exists where the market won't bear the prices. If I started making the exact same bosses and sold them for $5 less, you'd have to do the same. Since I don't, and I would...

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Damn, you're right, it was Clannad... cdmontfort, I actually did notice how tall the ebay helm is, and I can tell you why. SCA standards call for the bottom of a helm to descend one inch below the bottom of the chin. As a result, a lot of helms that are supposed to only come so far down the head end...

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You will most certainly not die in the heat using poly/ cotton, as long as it's mostly cotton. I have been wearing 80/20% for a couple years now, every Pennsic in fact, and during some pretty f-ed up scorching battles. There are a couple things that help out, like the fact that we left the armpits o...

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