The Armour Archive

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Is it your intention to hand-deliver it to Their Majesties, or have it delivered by a messenger? If you have a household herald . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

For those who make these, slip on arm rests make these types of chairs MUCH more comfortable. The ply is a little thin for any prolonged sitting or leaning. This. I made arm rests for mine out of three sections of 1x2, two vertical (to "clamp onto" the chair sides) and one horizontal (the...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

This is better than the ones I made, in that it requires no pegs.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

It crossed my mind once to wear a symbolic piece of armour continuously until relieved of the vow. What I had in mind was to ask my son (who makes creditable maille in small amounts) to make a wrist band that I could wear thus (with the singular provision that I could take it off to bathe) without a...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I've often been intrigued at how St. Sebastian and St. Edmund are patron saints of archers, St. Barbara of artillerists, St. Laurence of cooks, etc. They were not practitioners or beneficiaries of the art or craft they patronize, they were victims of them. How saintly that is, to bless those who tor...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

My problem is that with astigmatism, the alignment of the lens is important. I'd need some kind of frame that would stay aligned . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Most excellent, most excellent indeed.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Konstantin the Red wrote:
Len Parker wrote: Did anyone else look at that and think John Travolta in "Grease?"

Not I.

To me it was, "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's . . . "

Donal Mac Ruiseart

FRATRI USQUE AD MORTEM

Brothers unto death

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Merci, Konstantin!

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Verum volatum = True Flight

Donal Mac Ruiseart

As for Rezzo von Bächlingen - Do you think the goofy grin on the lion on his crest was contrived to be distracting, even annoying, to Sir Rezzo's adversaries?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

One chain for the sword, one for the dagger, one for the shield, and the one over the shoulder is for the great helm. That arrangement allowed the great helm to be "slung" on the wearer's back, say, when going to or from the battlefield. Seems that the chains on sword and dagger would be u...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

They were playing Duck-Duck-Goose.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

So the swell of the buttock is impractical? That's always been a problem area, below the Roman skirt and above the cuisses . . . .

And I agree that they should incoporate a cup pocket

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Rey wrote:I was going to say: Just like you would a horse without armor, From Behind, but I don't think that's what you meant.

Get your mind out of the gutter . . .

. . . . and into the sewer stable, where it belongs!

Donal Mac Ruiseart

The heralds . . . love simplicity. Indeed we do. Simple designs are easier to emblazon (draw) and to blazon (describe.) Speaking of which, the blazon of the OP's current design is: Per pale gules and azure, a griffin segreant argent between three escallops Or. Per pale = divided vertically gules = ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

The OP intends this for use outside the SCA, so the SHADE of red he uses is up to him. He also pointed out that the way it shows up on screen makes it look more orange than he intends. If he changed the red to "pure" red, I would endorse it for submittal in the SCA, barring conflict. So, M...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Your elements are good, though I would advise you a bit on the details. You said you found a heraldry primer, but you seem to have overlooked the Rule of Tincture. In brief, heraldry uses five colours and two metals. Yellow and white are considered gold and silver (i.e., metals), even if they're not...

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You're correct in not wanting to use your "family coat of arms." For one thing, in the Anglo-Scottish heraldic tradition, there is no such thing. A coat of arms is held by one person and one person only. Unless you're the eldest son of the eldest son of . . . and so forth, the coat of arms...

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Saritor wrote:Nissan . . . is casting the lot for his close, personal friend, Herr Daimler von Benz, pictured above.

Will he be bearing the favour of his daughter Mercedes?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Rana wrote:I will need to practice how to gracefully lift the skirt

Blaine de Navarre wrote:Must....not.....speak......

Honi soit qui mal y pense!

Donal Mac Ruiseart

D. Sebastian wrote: ". . . whack it with a shovel and it gets hard . . . "?

Good thing I set my coffee cup down before I read that.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Squires don't wear chains in Atlantia, either.

I used to think that only GOLD chains were reserved, but was set aright by some people explaining the distinctive colours (including one of oxidised black) worn by some knights.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I've said this many times, and I think in this context it bears repeating: You can be too tired, too stiff, too brittle, too sore, too battered, too sick, too frail, and/or too (any number of qualities) to take up or continue fighting, but you cannot be, in and of itself, too old. I've known some wh...

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Ivan, that picture in your OP is almost NSFW.

This thread made me go and look up what a Rhomphaia is.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

The train was in Japan too. Nothing as dramatic as torpedoing a bridge or hitting it wth the deck gun. The boat had been prowling among the islands and noticed that a train passed the same spot about the same time each day. So at night, they sent a team of sailors ashore in an inflatable to attach a...

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Niall Mor wrote:There have always been men low on testosterone who couldn't grow the full beard.

Hmph, if you want to waste yours growing a beard, go right ahead.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I suppose I should put it in OT, but there was an American sub in WWII that blew up a train . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Have they identified the plants?

I suspect that it's an alchemist's notebook. I suspect that those nude women are symbolic of some sort of chemical process.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Hey, anyone remember the good old days of toilet-paper-roll maces? Sher do. Another mace design that worked rather well was to take two plumber's helper (plunger) heads, drill the holes out enough so they'd stretch around the haft, then put them on the haft, one facing up and one facing down so the...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Denewulf wrote:Fender does (or at least did) have a guitar model in their line called the Squier. Used to own one.

It's very much around, my son has one. It's their second-echelon line.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Look up James de Biblesworth. He's on the Archive, and probably knows more about pouches than anyone I know. and he's a helluva nice guy to boot!

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Literal translations don't always work well . . . The tan-colored jacket has two front, two rear and two side panels, all closing with buttons and button holes, but left center. Along outstanding cover stitched armholes, consisting of ten equally large pieces of fabric, about 7 cm (shoulder) to abou...

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