The Armour Archive

Aidan Cambel

I have seen post after post after post of what the sca is, what it should be, yadda-yadda. To state my opinion *again* - I love the sca, I love being as authentic as I can possibly be within the limits of mundane cashflow ( i will not put my family in a bind for a hobby) BUT I saw something interest...

Aidan Cambel

Meridies currently has a great sword rule that basically states your handle of your greatsword must be less than half the entire length of the sword. This gives the ability to have a ricasso, and allows half-handing. There is great discussion as to if this is by default letting in unpadded glaives (...

Aidan Cambel

Shrek.

'nuff said.

Aidan Cambel

http://www.varmouries.com/tran_06.html

Not a pattern, but a darn good repro..

My Knight made one from these pics and it looks quite spiffy!

in Service,
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

OK< its not armour, it deals with combat, but its not authentic. Where tha hell does this topic go??!?! I am looking for a pattern for a basket hilt. I have seen several people with these baskets that are king of elongated, and not dished but rather kind of "folded". This is for our loaner arms and ...

Aidan Cambel

I have the HF one, and yes thats what it looks like to me.. however, my Knight has the whitney jr., and it looks the same too. The biggest difference... The one from HF does NOT punch 16 ga. SS, and barely punches 16 ga. Mild. For aluminum and 18 gauge, it will punch all day long. If you punch 16 ga...

Aidan Cambel

try swapping the basket hilts around. My guess ( and its only a guess) is that the difference is weight of the baskets is causing a shift in the point of balance. When you throw a shot with the 1/4" bar hilt, it "feels" as though you are throwing it with the same force as when you throw the other, b...

Aidan Cambel

Not to mention that the minimum thickness of rattan is 1 and 1/4" , meaning its diameter. at the point of contact, the rattan is is but a mere "line" . If that hits the brass cross over the eyeslot and there is nothing to back it, it will bend the brass in as far as the rattan will go ( which won't ...

Aidan Cambel

I had originall made a set of hardened leather legs. When my wife made my gamboised cuisses, I took from the knee down off of the leather legs, pointed the cop to the cuisse, and put the cuisse over the upper leg portion, then tied off to the same belt. So, under my cuisses is hardened leather. work...

Aidan Cambel

"hooter shooter"?!??!?!

:-X

Aidan Cambel

WAlMart sells flap disks for angle grinders, usually about 24 grit, which is WAYYYYYYY to rough for sanding anything ( i used them to carve wood, or to cut pieces of metal) After doing cutting through a bunch of 14 ga. mild, I got really frustrated because the sanding disk was worn out. (it really l...

Aidan Cambel

Congratulations Vitus!

Midrealm has acknowledged a very well deserving individual.

[This message has been edited by Aidan Cambel (edited 07-01-2002).]

Aidan Cambel

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Aidan Cambel

I don't see all of that. I think your bad attitude is really getting old.

Aidan Cambel

you saracens all think the same....

feh!

Aidan, the Littlest Templar

Aidan Cambel

ahhh.. my first victory in a tourney. I remember it well. It was my second tourney that I ever fought in. It was so hot, that my sweat was sweating. I was wearing a gambeson made of a moving blanket. (it looked "ok" though) I was fighting fairly well, although I didn't even notice it. Until Murdoch ...

Aidan Cambel

you completely missed what i was saying.

i would try to say again, but it would get twisted around again.

so nevermind, you can diagree with me if you want. my views are my views, like them or not.

Aidan Cambel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Jean Paul de Sens: Sigh, hate to play devil's advocate here guys, but what, just what if, you're not getting the whole story. What if the girl knew the guy, and had said bef...

Aidan Cambel

In our group, the first 4-5 fighter practices for a new person is very slow, relaxed, and overseen by our Knights'Marshal (me). I usually don't do the fighting with a new person because I like to watch and keep an eye on the safety aspect. Its usually between the new person and Murdoch, who is most ...

Aidan Cambel

Wow. Amazing. I am not going to quote all the things I am going to reply to because it would just take to long. I am a "scarily small fighter". Most every fighter in our kingdom can look straight over my head. I am 5'5" at best, 150 pounds now ( 135 when I started fighting). I fighting in a gambeson...

Aidan Cambel

If using PVC, go for the higher PSI rating. Just getting any old sch.40 won't be too good. Get the highest PSI rating you can find ( this will mean a thicker wall) Also, pool noodle foam is more dense and carries more of the impact through, causing the vibration/impact to be recieved my the inner co...

Aidan Cambel

they'd be pretty good for armour for the lower age brackets of youth combat...

Aidan Cambel

I want to nit pick this picture for a second in hopes someone will give me some sources for documentation for-or-against this. OK, this guy is wearing maille, greaves, aillettes, and the upper arm "gutters". In addition he is wearing a flat-top helm, and a white surcoat with a red cross. The things ...

Aidan Cambel

Time for Aidan's rant on personas/armour in the SCA. But first, let me preface this with saying I firmly believe that each person is open to make their own choices, and I am fine with every persona I have encountered ( with the exception of leopard-pajama-dude ). I feel the mail absence in the SCA i...

Aidan Cambel

shhhhhhhhh.. big brother BOD is watching :-\

They've probably already submitted something to be added to corpora just because you dared to think outside the box.. shame on you!!!

Aidan Cambel

Yeah I do, thats why I didn't offer to give pointers...LOL

I was just gonna let him use it.

But as it turns out, I'm not going to be at hitlist anyway.

Aidan Cambel

Chris,

What size of center-grip kite are you looking at fighting with? I have a small centergrip kite I fight with, I will have it at HitList this weekend and Black Axe in May. I know you'll be at B.A., but if you make it to hitlist you can play with it their and see how you like it.

Aidan

Aidan Cambel

There are minimum lengths for fiberglass spears in Meridies, but that rule is being questioned and possibly done away with. Currently, 9 foot spears only can be of fiberglass. The new book is possibly going to be out near the end of may, which will then tell meridies for sure if we have gone to soci...

Aidan Cambel

http://lonestar.texas.net/~catsden/PartHbk/PART-HBK-SEC3.htm#II.%20WEAPONS%20STANDARDS This is the weapons standards for the Kingdom of Ansteorra. It was written I believe in 1999, so look for changes. But according to this, your kingdom does not have a "minimum length" for pultruded fiberglass spe...

Aidan Cambel

Still sounds to me like you are picking and choosing. Your asking that people from earlier period find suitable armour that they *would have used if they have the safety concern*, and wear that armour in a tournament scenario that wouldn't have existed for another 700 or more years. :-\

Aidan Cambel

I have fought sword and shield both ways. Fighting with a crosshilt and gauntlets is way different than fighting with a basket hilt. I tend to lose some wrist movement with the gauntlets, but I don't know if that s just me or just a fact you'll have to deal with. I was taught to loosen my grip on th...

Aidan Cambel

If plastic is really cheating when used for the sake of safety, then stop wearing your cup. migrate to a persona that had "cod pieces" and stop wearing a plastic cup. only wear period shoes ( not period-looking shoes, i mean period shoes.) don't put foam behind anything!! no aluminum either. after a...

Aidan Cambel

OK, I must come to the defense of my Kingdom now. Yes, this is horrible. BUT - it is SCA Combat legal. This was designed to get new people a chance to fight at FIGHTER PRACTICE without spending hundreds of dollars on a rig, before they even knew if they liked combat or before they knew what time fra...

Aidan Cambel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by schreiber: It's not right when a 150lb computer- hackin' stick boy who can bench press MAYBE 120 pounds goes to an event in Meridies and gets accused of hitting too hard. A...

Aidan Cambel

Chris, You are right in that you are in a household with vast amounts of knowledge in many arenas. What makes you even more lucky is that those members are more than willing to give you ( and everyone else) every bit of it, free of charge. I don't know what it takes to be an SCA Knight. But I can te...

Stirring up a can of worms...

Basket Hilts