The Armour Archive

Aidan Cambel

While making the gauntlets from the pattern archive, I discovered something. I have a bunch of scrap sheet metal, 14 gauge. Now that seems a little heavy for gauntlets - but I am more doing this as practice than functionality at this point. The metal was free... BUT - it seems soft. I mean little ha...

Aidan Cambel

oops.. let me clarify. I knew the fingers were done over a pipe, that i am not having a problem with. Its the larger curved areas - the cuff,wrist lame, and handplate.

Thanks!
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

I didn't want to give it away or nobody would read http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif I am jumping straight into the fire.. trying to make the finger gauntlets that are patterned in the pattern section. (1) How do you form the curved parts? The don't look dished because the are still flat, ju...

Aidan Cambel

I love fighting with my kite. Its surprising to me how well it works - but then most period things do work better than we expect-- because they HAD too!

Aidan Cambel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Aaron: Bedlam, Good point. But how can you make a spear shot feel like a sword shot? When is the last time you've seen somebody take a spear shot to the body, and accept it?...

Aidan Cambel

suprisingly - yes. Our kingdom is trying to take an aggresive stance for appearance on the field. Our E.M. published "suggested appearance standards" and those are quickly on the track to being kingdom law. Its slow, but there is some very positive progress to looking better on the field in Meridies.

Aidan Cambel

I can't make it either.. I gotta get up and go to work in the morning!!! But if anyone has any way to log it, email it to me and I will put a transcript on one of my websites and link to it...

oh, and BUMP!

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Aidan

Aidan Cambel

The use of hockey gloves and the requirements for gauntlets are seperate acceptable alternatives to hand protection. The reason is that hockey gloves have thick padding that cushion the blow, where as *most* gauntlets don't, so therefore something has to disipate the blow other than the fingers/hand...

Aidan Cambel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Bran Forkbeard: Are horns even leagal in the sca? I didn't think they were. Id like to put some on a helm if they are. (not like those) FB<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Doesn'...

Aidan Cambel

Sasuke, THose are truly some awesome gaunts. Murdoch is in my Barony so I can't wait to see them now - heck I liked them before you upgraded them. Someday I hope to have enough $$ to afford a pair. Until then, I downloaded someones pattern from the pattern archive and am going to attempt it myself -...

Aidan Cambel

I fight with a kite. My bigger "war" shield is a kite - it is strapped with leather in a square pattern. I have a smaller kite-ish type shield that is center grip. My big shield requires work to use because its leather straps, so it pivots and is not rigid. Once you get the hang of it though its not...

Aidan Cambel

wow.

thank god for armour requirements. no wonder people ended up with blown out knees!!!

Aidan Cambel

I'll try to throw a few odds-n-ends out there. Torch -- always be ready to light the torch before you turn on the gases. Even a few second delay can be painfully disastrous. Torch -- after turning off the torch, remember the nozzle is still quite warm. don't set it on or near anything flammable. Wel...

Aidan Cambel

I find cutting 2 half moons into the wood so that the handle is actually part of the wood works best for me. I then put foam on either side for comfort and either tape around or sew garmet-grade leather around it. I have never had one break.

Aidan Cambel

pultruded fiberglass is used some in the petroleum industry because its construction holds well under pressures of earth. It is used like waterpipe from a tank to a pump. Its hard to come by, but if you can find a dealer in gas station equipment you mike find some. Also, the Coca-Cola Company uses i...

Aidan Cambel

Thanks, but I didn't get an argent shield.

I got my AoA, Murdoch got an argent shield.

and Thanks!

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Aidan

Aidan Cambel

I think it is a great idea. One question - is there any way to log the chats? They can be added to the board for people who was unable to make it. Might bring back the conversation in the Order board.

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Aidan

Aidan Cambel

I must apologize for my previous comments. They were taken in a completely different context than what I intended. I posted that after a long weekend and after re-reading it today I realize how it was taken the way it was.

Please accept my humble apology.

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Aidan

Aidan Cambel

My first pell was an old seabag filled with clothes that my kids had outgrown. It hung from a tree at just the right level. underneath it, I drove a big tent stake down flush with the ground. Then took rubber straps and attached to the bottom of the bag and the top of the stake. When I hit it, it mo...

Aidan Cambel

And I was one of those three that asked about the sword. dang, I didn't know that was you though! I was the marshall for the barony that you relieved at the spear ring so I could authorize my 8 and 11 yr olds sons! BTW - thanks alot for doing that for me! For the elbows and knees - the full maille k...

Aidan Cambel

Do you *have* to be authentic? no - but you should want to be. and you wouldn't have gone into battle with two hammers. Your not wanting to be a crusader, your wanting to be a mixture of several timelines and eras that don't go together. [b] everyone PLEASE realize that this is a differnet Aidan - n...

Aidan Cambel

I admit to not knowing much about the beginnings of all of the races, but I thought the Kinders were "made" not "hatched"

Aidan

Aidan Cambel

As a fellow flat-top helm wearer, I suggest 14 ga. on top. The reason is for less maintenance. You will find that a flat top is a magnet for straight down head shots. People love to hit you flat on top of the head. And since it *is* flat, it will not glance, but rather take the full brunt of the blo...

Aidan Cambel

If your in Meridies, those steel mixing bowls don't last long at all.

'cuz our marshal is saying nah to them from what I hear.

Which IMHO is good, because all of the ones I have seen were at least 3 thick and horribly crunched up.

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Aidan

Aidan Cambel

Very true Bob. But my persona is different in that I am scottish and came to the order on a fixed term to escape poverty and starvation. My year is 1288 and Cambels have only had land on record for about 20 years at this point, and my lineage is too far to feel comfortable claiming the cambel arms a...

Aidan Cambel

lol bob. I understand... but my problem was that to complete my kit, i need to wear a surcoat. I have no arms of my own, since I am but a poor templar <wink> So, I can't wear my templar surcoat - which i have in the past but it really has never sat very well with me. Or i wear the baronial surcoat. ...

Aidan Cambel

Lisa, yes I have a few stumps - but that is another story all in itself that I wasn't going to go in to-- but since you asked http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif The house that we rent had a large oak tree fall during tornado season last year - right before we moved in. The landlord had the tr...

Aidan Cambel

my apologies, my terminology was wrong. It is not the arms, just the surcoat of our baronial fighting unit. Our arms are (and I am not even going to atempt to quote them heraldicly) red with a white center,laurel wreath, the corner has a black rectangle wit hthree white stars, and a black axe in the...

Aidan Cambel

In a Pas', the combatants fight for their lady. Would it be conceivable for a combatant who did not have a lady to fight for his village or for his baron and/or baronness? The reason I am asking is that there is a Pas' class Friday night at Meridies Fighter's Collegium that Ld. Murdoch and myself ha...

Aidan Cambel

I use a jig on all my stuff (I don't make much armour stuff but I do a few other things with metal too) and most everything I cut is 14 ga or thicker. Don't push the saw, its gonna take a while to cut, relax and enjoy it. Use oil - I keep a can of wd-40 in my hand and I use it frequently. It does 2 ...

Aidan Cambel

That is my helm, but I am not the creator. That would be Duncan and one other person from the archive whose name escapes me. It is a very nice helm and since it is my first helm, it has received ALOT of abuse, and held up very well.

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Aidan Cambel

Aidan Cambel

granted I am not in any way interested in plastic armour, but I can see were some people would want it. Especially with youth combat coming up so big lately - kids' have weak bones and they need something lighter than plate. ANd since I have 4 boys - I am interested in this conversation. I have made...

Aidan Cambel

holy crap! I understand it now!

Aidan Cambel

Greetings. Below is my essay, which I agreed to do if I won the Fall Contest. Its not very good, Literature was not one of my strong points. I have no idea what kinds of things to talk about in my essays, so please give me constructive criticism so that my next quarter essay will be better. Oh, and ...

Aidan Cambel

Meridies had its Coronation this past Saturday. The King (now Count Seth of Newcastle) and the Prince who is now HRM Radu' are both Non-Knights.

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Aidan

(beg) hardening steel?

(beg) How do I.....

Vitus - or others - I have a Pas' question

Archive Contest Essay - My First Quarter of Armouring