The Armour Archive

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Animal, My poor squire is still fighting the idea that his fighting unit is called 'Flock of Seagulls' after the bird on his shield.... and that is just a small example of this.. Lothar Is their battle cry "Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine."? If he hasn't already he should watch "Finding Nemo"... Regarding F...

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Jehan de Pelham wrote:Okay.

I have a hat.

A picture would really help...

-J

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The confusing thing is that in the period you are interested in, a "Knight" (Ritter) could have been too poor to own a full suit, yet a rich burger, Junker or Edelmann could well have owned one. These were all of the "landowner" class, where a "Ritter" may not have land. The SCA paradigm does not qu...

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I think you can get food safe finishes at Rockler: Salad bowl and Butcher block finishes are both foodsafe. m If anyone is in So. CA and needs green oak, cedar or fir, send me a message. We have dropped some trees on a property we are building on Palomar Mountain. The county will come and take them ...

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Now, people always ask questions, but no, this isn't for me. Does anyone have any place on line with some nice information about authentic (versus the usual SCA style) bellydancing garb. I aplogize for not knowing the name for it offhand. Patterns, of course, would be a plus, but any nice informati...

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I've had good results with ZOUT removing ink stains and it does have some affect on leather dye stains. Unfortunately some of the leather dyes run badly with sweat. Its the acid. I had a brown leather belt run on silk once when wine was spilled on it. The wine came out, but the leather dye left a ye...

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I've always wanted to fill a big pipe with event 25 lbs of concrete for a demo and have one of these "30lb sword" guys try swinging it a few times..

-J

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The worst was a 3 gallon white plastic bucket that was strapped onto a fellow's back via a chest harness. Sheesh, all he had to do is spray adhesive some kind of cloth on it and it would have looked better, and would even have been somewhat correct in shape. There are large diameter tube type quive...

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We are dealing with knee jerk rules made because if one or two instances. Now we have to have someone else keep us safe from ourselves Not really. Its really for the protection of non-SCA spectators. Before the "lanyard" rule was regularly enforced (pre-1980), I saw a number of swords fly into the ...

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We though about something a little earlier. With a good tan, I could pass as the other side of my heritage. He could be a freedman trapper who traded for me. Then he could own me . Thats true. There were free blacks and there were other slaves held legally (and some just ignored), such as asians an...

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I'd likely try to find a detachment of the 54th Massachucetts USCV. I'd get the kit of a simple private, and tour ACW battle sites. Trouble is, the only way Hush and I could participate together would be if she portrayed a Southern woman of quality, and I portray her valet... Or she could portray a...

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I have some wool with a pattern on it. My personna is english, 1340. A book said simple patterns were OK, but in hind sight I have only noticed stripes, not squares. Am I blind and not noticing/remembring properly? Can I use this fabric? m The squares are 2.25" on a side. Thanks for any advice you ...

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For one Crown in Caid long ago, a requirement was made that a shield could be no larger than groin to chin and shoulder to shoulder. Since most women have shorter torsos and longer thighs for the same height men, and narrower shoulders, there was a really large disparity and quite a disadvantage if ...

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One of the things I've noticed locally when marshalling is an increase in arm shots being ignored completely. I'm talking very clearly good shots that hit when the arm is in a quite static position. This is most distressing to hear. Hopefully the Crown and marshalette are taking actions to curb thi...

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One of the things I've noticed locally when marshalling is an increase in arm shots being ignored completely. I'm talking very clearly good shots that hit when the arm is in a quite static position. I have a feeling its because no one wants to go through the shield drop dance, and because Caid has a...

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Frau- very sorry indeed to hear of your Canton's troubles. Thanks for the ideas. We don't have a fairgrounds in our area unfortunately. Our seneschal has called all the local schools at elementary, middle and high school levels. Unfortunately the key players don't either have the time/money to enro...

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Just a short update. Our Seneschal has not found a public place we can hold a canton practice. If we don't get a variance, we may have to find some kind of reenactors insurance for individuals and hold an invite only practice. Interestingly a recent ruling from the SEM was that Caid's "unarmored com...

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Wyrm, Probably THE most important visual factor in making a costume look authentic is fabric choice. One can put all the correct pieces together with all the correct cuts and accessories, and if they are of non-period fabrics, the outfit will look just as much a "modern costume" any other. What do y...

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Richard Blackmoore wrote:magic cat's asses

Would these be male cats or female cats?

-J

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In the archives of the yahoo egroup GermanRenCostume, Katherine Barich translated a number of woodcut descriptions which included colors. She found a few with more than 2 or 3 colors. In the original color representations, I rarely have seen more then 3 colors + white in a costume and they tend to b...

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There are two styles of square crowns that I"ve seen in landsknect hats. Remember the osprey books are artists interpretations. To make one crown pattern, one starts with a square. (I don't have it with me, but I think about 11" will do.. The bottom of the crown the square has an oval cut for the he...

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I like my way. If people feel like doing it my way makes me a dick, well, that TOTALLY defeats the purpose of doing it, so I'll stop. I hope they don't, though. In some regions, if you don't do it your way, they will think poorly of you, because it is the local culture. Even if by giving up your ad...

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Hi, I am still not sure why in the given situation of being required by "peer pressure" to match the loss of an arm or leg in SCA combat with a loss of your own arm or leg, you would do so? Can someone please tell me why anyone not trying to gain an advantage would take these shots on purpose? Alar...

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Per the Society Website: Insurance Most site owners require some sort of evidence that the SCA Inc. has liability insurance. The insurance is there to protect the SCA against NON SCA people IF the SCA is to be found liable in the event of an "incident" members of the SCA are NOT covered under insur...

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Now, to address the other aspect of this post. Having regularly scheduled meetings/practices at private homes. I think most new people would rather their introduction to the SCA be in a public place. It's plenty intimidating to try to get to a meeting - especially if you're like me - knowing no one...

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Thanks for all the advice. The first thing our Canton Seneschal is doing is calling up every place in our area that he can think of that may support a practice. He's done this before for our bimonthly practices, but he's going to go through the list again as well as all the additional places the Sen...

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I forgot to ask, did the Kingdom Seneschal give a justification for this policy? She said that she was having problems all over the kingdom where people were complaining that there was too much "control" over events that were at private homes. She said there were several sexual harrassment issues t...

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our other alternative would be to publish it as an "unofficial" practice still. I'd still do private waivers as we'd no longer be covered under the liability insurance. -J From what I know of the SCA Insurance policy, you weren't covered before. As far as I know the policy does not cover damage to ...

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Is there any reason for this besides insurance? Isn't there a waiver form that the owner of the property can sign as well as the attendees for legal protection? Tracy Waivers do not protect you all that much. Without the backup of a big insurance company who have their own lawyers to fight nuisance...

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D. Sebastian wrote:Insurance.

Exactly.

Homeowner... which is why a number of private practices are invitation only. So you don't get a wild newbie doing random dangerous things.. which is not really all that uncommon...

-J

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Of course we could make it a private practice, but then the Canton would have no activities happening and essentially would die as an entity. A number of people have put a lot of effort into getting it back on its feet after some bad juju a few years ago, so this is depressing. Practice is the newco...

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Sir Mord wrote:Aethelmearc.

Sorry, to miss some:

Yes or no?

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So far

East - no
Ealdermere - no
West?
Atenveldt?
An Tir?
Atlantia?
Trimaris?
Meridies?
Ansteora?
Artemesia?
Middle?
Calontir?
Drachenwald?
Outlands?

Caid - YES

Who did I miss?

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Just need an authorized Marshal and waivers, right? Thats what it has always been in the past. The Kingdom Seneschal just published in our Kingdom newsletter that no official business meetings, newcomers meetings or fighting practices can be held at private homes. This was not announced as kingdom ...

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Does any of your kingdoms have a rule that local group fighting practices cannot be held at private homes?

What about other local group meetings?

Juliana

Re: The Hat

Re: Historical Bellydancing Garb

Re: Ugly CA Quivers at Pennsic

Re: Can I use this fabric?

Re: Colors for puff and slash.

Question: Official Fighting Practices in your Kingdom