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Cedric

It has been my experience that no matter how much land is available, it is sometimes difficult to get enough it in one chunk for a large household to all camp together. Especially if most of them are slackers that can't get their paperwork in order and pre-reg. I'm sure there will be more then enoug...

Cedric

I'm gonna be there for the whole thing. I dont think there's gonna be any room in our camp though, sorry. (large household, trying to pre-reg to get land but the rules are kinda difficult and I'm pretty sure we'll be swamped with our own people who didnt/couldnt bother to get their paperwork in on t...

Cedric

"If you fight until you are tired and stop, you will never improve your endurance. Fight until you are tired, then fight more.. when you cant fight any more, THEN stop."

Cedric

The one time I went to Gulf Wars someone managed to talk me into running over one of the boarding ramps and jumping the (~5' tall?) wall into the castle (not sure if they even allow this anymore...). I was using a borrowed glaive at the time because I couldnt fit my sword or shield into my luggage.....

Cedric

I currently use both a camail and a lightly padded leather gorget.

Used to just fight in the camail, but decided taking chances with my neck wasnt the best idea in the world.

Cedric

My center boss is two layers of 1/4" thick cross laminated oak boards. I have been fighting with it for almost two years now, one edge is starting to show some wear. I will probably get another season out of it... The plywood shield I made before that (out of 1/2" oak plywood) lasted maybe 4 months....

Cedric

But... what did those porpoises ever do to you?

Dont let PETA hear of this!

Cedric

I can think of nothing worse then being legged in a war and unable to even crawl around to try to find some way of getting back into the fight.

Might as well just make legged = death. I think I would "accidentally" fall on my sword whenever legged if this rule were in place.

Cedric

If it wasnt for SCA fighting I would get almost no exercise at all (other then walking a couple miles or more a night at work).

I would rather die fighting then sitting at my computer table.

Cedric

ARMOURER ERIC wrote:Ugo's leaving .

Ugo's movin to An Tir

Cedric

Im close to Portland, but try to avoid it like the plague.

Dont know nothin bout Longview either....

Cedric

Any pictures?

So we can verify the hotness of course...

Cedric

Amalric Unomen wrote:She must really be hot.

LOL

(Freiman, I have found that maybe 10% of the people who say they "Want to fight" really do. Dont beat yourself up over it, spend your time helping the ones who actually show they mean it... unless they are "hot" hahah)

Cedric

Halberds wrote:Bingo.... give that man a cigar...
2 points awarded for the "Six Million Dollar Man" reference...

No, really???

Cedric

The first helmet is total junk. One of our new guys bought one of these without talking to me first and not only was it not big enough to go on his head but even if it would have fit the metal was so thin I doubt it would have lasted longer then maybe a year or so. Make shortcuts everywhere else (if...

Cedric

Yeah, Im thinking heavy leather would be enough.

Cedric

Wow was I wrong...

Got clubbed in the stomach on Friday and still hurting bad from it.

Think Im gonna have to rig up some additional hidden body armor to wear under the mail. Big pain.

Cedric

My parents were firm believers in Hot Wheel Track Justice as well. My brother and I used to secretly throw the tracks away whenever we would get them for presents. Now parents would probably be charged with child abuse for using them, but I learned a lot of important lessons on the wrong end of a Ho...

Cedric

Last year I was at a war and was talking to a relatively new fighter. He was telling me how much practice he had been getting and how much he really wanted to fight me the next day... During the fighting on the next day I saw him coming for me from across the field, so I stepped in front of the line...

Cedric

Thorbjorn wrote:*uses thread necromancy*

Ok, Hal, when's the next run so I know how long I have to get the cash together?

Yeah, me too...

Cedric

Its a one piece (11g) plate, not a bar grill.

(but I dont doubt for a second that somewhere there is a marshall waiting to get all anal about it - anal marshalls seem to breed like flies

)

Cedric

Obviously its "of structurally superior design and workmanship".

Sweet helmet, altho personally I would make the bars black and the helmet shiny.

How much do you sell these kits for again?

Cedric

I used to use a half gauntlet, but got tired of the marshalls bugging me.

I plan on just adding a full thumb to it at some point (to make it easier to deal with getting armed), but for now the gauntlet works.

Cedric

I wear a fairly lightweight gambeson under mine. I have added some pockets over my kidney/lower ribs with some leather inside. My camail is fairly long, it hangs to the points of my shoulders, so my shoulders have two layers of mail and a gambeson protecting them. Havent had cause to regret it yet (...

Cedric

I use a full leather gauntlet.

Cedric

long befor the Armour Works fiasco there were still folks who had issues with them in reagrds to construction and time etc etc I ordered my helmet some time before the "fiasco" really took off. About a month after I gave them my money they started offering an "Express" service where you could pay m...

Cedric

Do some research befor sending off your hard earned cash. Research will only get you so far... When I ordered my helmet from Armourworks everyone on here was saying wonderful things about them. I read numerous good reviews both here and at Arador and after looking at the pictures on the website dec...

Cedric

I thought they were stupid for years. They didnt really work with what I had been using for hand protection (full leather gauntlets inside a half-basket hilt) and I chose to deal with lanyards instead. Early this year I switched to half-guantlet/baskethilt instead.. and shortly after that I put a tr...

Cedric

Personally, I'm intimidated by anyone using a glaive who appears to know WTF they are doing with it. At An Tir's recent Sport of Kings event there was such a guy fighting in the torchlight tourney (Diego, squire to Sir Aveloc). From the comments of people ahead of me in line, I was not alone in not ...

Cedric

Yeah, what HE said!

Cedric

Stacy Elliott wrote:
I still like my One of a kind.... from Richard.

I am glad he did not make another one yet.

Giles

Very very cool.

If it ever needs a good home (or wants to visit Oregon) let me know... Im sure I can find a spot for it somewhere around here.

Cedric

Deleted cause I went back and discovered I was repeating myself in the same thread.

Doh!

Cedric

For most intimidating I would have to say that our current king, Duke Uther, has to win the prize for me. I fought him at a practice once a long time ago and wasnt really intimidated (although he did school me pretty bad), but after watching him fight in Crown I have to say I would never want that m...

Cedric

hi there the baldar hilts are awesome for most people but they are heavier than needed for a smaller fighter. The baldar hilts are the lightest basket hilt I have ever found. I really doubt it weighs a lb... (Sir Mrks of course has access to Titanium and may be able to make something lighter - but ...

Cedric

I have always wanted one of those.

Cant afford the divorce...