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Dmitriy

My top ten or twelve (only the ones I've seen myself -- haven't seen Baldar, for example). Not in any particular order. Duke Jade, West. Duke Uther, West. Duke Fabian, West Duke (King) Dirk, Caid Duke Logan, Atlantia Duke Cuan, Atlantia Duke Davin, An Tir Sir Stephen von Dresden, East Duke Lucan, Ea...

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Alcy -- in general, Russian mail used round (not wedge) rivets. The sizes ranged, they never got "huge" across the board, although some shirts may have used bigger rings than others.

-D

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Maelgwyn and Gorm -- Some folks who had that problem found that chewing gum while fighting helps them. Try it out. In my experience, the key to fighting sword foot forward is to have the foot forward, but keep the hip cocked back. My big change this year is to stop using squares and go to kites and ...

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Just don't let him step on your shield if he legs you

-Dmitriy

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Jeepers!

Ugo you are a studly stud.

-Dmitriy

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Alaric -- it gets rid of the spectacularly crappy DV stuff.
http://www.historiccombat.org/pennsicxxxii_pics.html
Doesn't look all that bad, does it?

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[img]http://zilla.lbl.gov/~dvryaboy/smiley_468.gif[/img]

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Pictures: http://www.redkaganate.org/ron_jachim/

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I saw a pair of Torvaldr's bazubands this weekend, worn by Sir Richard de Camville. Very nice, clean work, well executed. Totally worth your money if you are looking for a pair of leather bazubands.

-Dmitriy

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The reason it is easier to penetrate a helmet from the inside than from the outside is that a loaded convex structure works mostly in compression, and in the concave structure it works mostly in tension. All common mateials, including steel, have much higher limiting stress in compression than in te...

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There's an Osprey book that has a member of the Company in one of the full-color illustrations, and it shows him with a skull on his surcoat. I am not sure what the artist's sources were, but usually they are listed in the back of the book. It was either one of the Crusades Ospreys, or an Italian Ar...

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Anyone point out yet that is is easier to pierce a concave surface than a convex one?

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I can't believe you are actually going to let that piece of scrap metal be seen on the internet, Ugo! Shame on you!
I thought you were supposed to be good or something.

-Dmitriy

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The "turkic sabre" on the Alchem sabre is more or less the correct shape for you. The "steppe sabre", while such blades may have existed, looks a bit too straight to me. Email me your mailing address, I might be able to xerox some stuff for you. Use ryaboy at sbcglobal.net .

-Dmitriy

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I know him well, but everyone insists on calling him "Eddie", so I never learned his "real" sca name

He's a great fighter and an all-around fun guy.

Dmitriy

Is Sir Edmund the knight in brnze-plated lamellar? Fights with a centergrip oval type shield?

-D

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I will look forward to the fall, then.

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Dammit man,
Anything other than Thursday!!!!!!
Arrrgh

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You should be fine. Review the rules, pay particular attention to non-obvious things, esp. rules regarding melees (what is the maximum # of people that can be engaged simultaneously with one person? The West has a rule about that, I don't know about your kingdom). What happens when you fall down? Ho...

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Hey, right on Brian! Congratulations to you and your knight!

-Dmitriy

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Animal -- there are people driving around in cars from the 70s, that is true. But you don't see many model Ts anymore... see what I mean? And you will definately be hard pressed to find a car from 2030 . To answer the heater shield question -- I (now) fight with a shield that is period for me. It's ...

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Perfectly normal (and super cool!) helmets, don't know why the scared face

Generally the plates are laced in -- there is no maille underneath. Mail rings pass through holes around the perimeter of each plate

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Two episodes. At my first Estrella, we were fighting in the ravine. I was using a short (6ft) glaive, and found myself standing in front of my shield wall, harassing our opponents. The glaive was a new thing to me, and I didn't use it well, but I guess I looked scary enough that they stood back and ...

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⋅ Get yet another helmet, this one an sca-legal version of the Yaroslav helmet, from Tom Huegenin (All Saints Armoury) ⋅ Make new fighting boots, in the same style as my dress boots ⋅ Make new, cooler lamellar ⋅ make a set of bazubands ⋅ Get face-ma...

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The neck boss is a pain to make, and they don't have a full shop set up, so I think these will come with regular bosses for now. Thanks for the input, I'll let Thorfinn and Owen know.

-Dmitriy

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Logan --
It's not just An Tir, it's the whole West Coast.

An Tir, West, Caid, Atenveldt, Artemesia, possibly others.

We all take thrusts to the whole head, and have yet to experience the horrific consequences predicted so vehemently by folks who are not used to the concept.

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I tell ya.. it's a very weird feeling, hitting someone and seeing their head fly 5 feet back

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I posted this to the classifieds board, but since I provided a bunch of info on making them, figured you guys might want to take a look.

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=28171

-Dmitriy Shelomin

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Well the shields are constructed out of high-quality plywood, with grooves cut into it to simulate planks and a creative stain job to visually break up the surface of the plywood and make it look like grain from different boards (this works -- people have asked me how we keep the boards together whi...

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Cool! That looks like just what he was looking for, thanks!
Hope he will see this thread.

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My friends make really awesome SCA-legal viking round shields. They've mentioned the possibility of selling them. I am wondering how much people would be willing to pay (mind you, I have no idea how much my friends would want to charge...). Here a few photos: m m m m (the first four, all not edged a...

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Hi Guys,
Who has SCA-legal klapvisor bascinets for sale? Either in stock of a fairly short wait.

This is for a new person who wants to do things "right." Price range of about $200.

-Dmitriy

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Since a picture speaks louder than words:
http://zilla.lbl.gov/~dvryaboy/tmp/IMGP2981.jpg

-Dmitriy

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Duke Gaston -- I was just about to agree with you, and then you said in the last post: Please do not encourage people to take side or top of the head blows. Unfortunately, when you do, you also encourage spearmen to throw them, and since it's not touch kill there, they throw a little harder, then so...

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He is in the middle of moving right now.

Viking Shields (xpost)

How much would you pay for Viking Shields?

Looking for an SCA-legal bascinet

Tie your chinstraps, folks! :)