The Armour Archive

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Ah.

I'm working on a flagpole design that would be adjustable for height. I was going to make its top height 1 foot taller than the allowed height, to try and get away with it, but could bring it into compliance if confronted.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Doesn't Pennsic have a restriction on how high you can erect something? I recall it being on the order of 20 feet.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I'm a little confused. I've seen some registered devices that seem to violate this rule. For instance: Per pale argent and sable, a boar's head erased gules. (Half of the boar's head is color on color, right?) What am I missing? The operative term is "half." A charge on a "complex&qu...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Is it telling you that they fought in inferior or old-fashioned armour, as evidence of poverty? While the members of the religious military orders eschewed ornamentation, their armour tended to be of the best quality because they knew it would make them more effective militarily and as such, was not...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Or they might, as you are, be the original grantee and so it might indeed allude to your own name. Surnames were not as standardized then as now.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Sable three pallets argent, and on a chief gules a lion passant argent. You've got a problem with the chief gules on the sable shield, though. A chief is a charge, not a field division; so it's colour on colour. If you swap the tinctures of the lion and the chief it would work: Sable three pallets ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Effingham wrote:Oh, damn, did I say that out loud?

Hung by the tongue yet again, Eff . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Effingham wrote:

Another name for a cross of that description is a Calvary Cross.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Hark the herald Baldwin screams Donâ€™t put blues on top of greens Or and argent, thatâ€™s all right Metals and tinctures do not fight Not a field of highland plaid Keep it simple, please, my lads Azure, vert, purpure and gules Must follow all my heraldâ€™s rules Hark the herald Baldwin screams, &q...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

These are some images that were linked in another thread. The focus on that thread was heraldry, but you can zoom in and see the helmets of just that description worn by a lot of the soldiers, especially horsemen and billmen:

Army on the March:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... eerzug.jpg

Army Encamped:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File: ... rlager.jpg

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Email sent.

BTW, Cian told me he's never done anything of that description.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I'm afraid I've been using the term incorrectly.

What I'm looking for is side rings. I called them a pas d'ane because someone referred to them that way years ago and I never really questioned it.

Thank you all for the references.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Thanks.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Once upon a time I had a set of GS quillons that included a pair of semicircular rings that partly filled the space between the quillon arms. Problem was, they were not sufficiently robust and the welds kept breaking. After a lot of rewelding, I finally cut the rings off. Does anyone make GS quillon...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

AndreasMorgan wrote:A friend of mine uses a neat email signature that I really like "A beast I am lest a beast I become."

"If we weren't all crazy, we would go insane."

Donal Mac Ruiseart

In the 18th century that third implement, below the axe, was called a fascine knife. Does that name go back to our period?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Glastonbury chairs are wonderful but they're hard to make and they're bulky. I have made a couple of four-board chairs - they're heavy, though, and not all that comfortable. We still use some directors' chairs but they're rather too modern for some applications, still, they're less glaringly modern ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

might be older than that. Militia officers in the Revolutionary period didn't have ready access to "made" swords, so they had the local smith make one up out of some available materials . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Donal Mac Ruiseart, Unto the Noble and Gallant Lady Eichling, Lord Alexander, Lord Thorin, Lord Uilliam, and Lord Reymund; Greetings: It was with some regret that I read your announcement, for indeed, the distance 'twixt myself and the site of your deed is too great for me to travel. Therefore I can...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Bastior wrote:BA makes a good point with the helmschau but I'd hope the viking with a heater and the Landsknecht with a kite shield and anyone with visible sporting logos would also be on the bench.

and the 14th C European with a katana . . .

Donal Mac Ruiseart

freiman the minstrel wrote:My pie in the sky fantasy?

Do away with the Award System.

Please expand on that.

How far would you take the doing away with?

And what would you replace it with, if anything?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

armoradict wrote:here's one I haven't seen mentioned: I would change the rule from "your shield must be controlled by your hand, if it is not, then it is assumed to not be there at all" . . .

What would you change it TO?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Sean of the Chipendales wrote:I would get rid of . . . one handed gaydiche.

One handed WHAT?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I was contemplating shortening it, and also dividing the hem so that instead of solid, it would be a series of round-ended strips 6-8 inches long.

Bringing it up and over, and shaping it to fit, might serve both to shorten it and make it cover the top.

Thank you for the feedback.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Ah, so YOU were that mysterious hooded figure! Yes, I was at the "Novice of the Heart." Fought the second tourney, didn't get there early enough to marshal the first. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Generally then: only a plain orle (ie ...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

So the fabric would go over the top of the helm like a hood? Since I have neither a great helm nor any intent of acquiring one, I need to figure out how (or if) I can wear the torse and/or mantling appropriately. I'd hate to tell my Lady Wife that all her efforts were for nought, but if it is, so be...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

(If Chris isn't a herald, he should be.)

Donal Mac Ruiseart

So, it's out of character on a bascinet?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Is this too long?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

losthelm wrote:what type of glove are you useing?

They're clamshell type, with only a half-bell, and the thumb pieces are attached to the back with a single pivoting rivet.

losthelm wrote:Also do you have any padding in the gauntlets?

Yes but not much; there's not much room for padding.

Donal Mac Ruiseart

[D]ished rounds are horrible war shields. Use a Roman scutum; it's much better overall.(massively bias) Sure, a scutum is an excellent war shield if that's your view of the game. But some very successful warfighters used dished rounds. And many like them for tourney fighting too. I think it would t...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

I currently fight two-handed weapons in a pair of Phoenix Armoury gauntlets. I find that in them, I'm subject to small bruises. They protect me from serious hurt but I keep getting tagged, bruises on the fingers and the back of the hands. Also, the thumbs are not enclosed. I need a pair that will ke...

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Wadja get, one of those 3-roller tools?

Donal Mac Ruiseart

Also in Shakespeare, such as Viola in Twelveth Night , where she disguised herself as Sebastian, her brother. There are several instances in Shakespeare of a woman disguising herself as a man - and since female roles in the Bard's own time were played by boys, I guess it would fit. There must've be...

It wasn't originally Baldwin . . .

ERROR! Got my merds wixed up!

WTB Greatsword Quillons w/Side Rings* (SCA)

Question about a Mantling

WTB Gauntlets for GS/PA (SCA)