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Best sheaths
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:53 pm
by kaiö
I was trying to price a sheath for an SCA sword and I came to this site
http://www.strongblade.com/prod/sbpt-scabbards.html
Look at the 4th point in the description. I mean yeah they look nice but... how likely is that to happen?
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:55 pm
by Vitus von Atzinger
We can only hope. Nerds need love, too.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:23 pm
by MJBlazek
I love after reading the sales points so many of them are "Out of Stock"
I wonder what one couldn't sell to nerds with the promise of sex...
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:27 pm
by William of Stonebridge
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:51 pm
by Caitriona Douglas
Umm....wow.
I looked at some of their other stuff. Their leather armor "protects against LARP weapons." Because, you know, LARP weapons are just so deadly, and that piza box armor you've been wearing just doesn't protect you enough.
Of course, a lot of LARPers don't know better, and think that stuff looks cool. Heck, 20 years ago I would have thought the same thing. Amazing what a little education and a knowledgeable forum with lots of great pics from people who know what they're doing can do for a person.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:06 pm
by Feargus
Being a LARPer myself, I have to say.. when I wear armor, it's metal, and I've never seen anyone wearing a pizza box.
However, the larp standards on leather "armor" is so lax as to be a joke.
Seriously, fashion suede will not slow down a sword blow. Give it up.
The reality is that Larping is a game of D&D taken off the tabletop. the armor rules are very lax on materials, because there is no actual safety issue at hand.
I try and bring a little armor realism to my game, but then, half the fun for me is getting geared up and hitting people with sticks.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:12 pm
by Luca Sogliano
From the same site:
Now I know where everyone has been getting their Pennsic gear from.
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 11:59 pm
by sha-ul
Lucius Marius Scaevola wrote:From the same site:
Now I know where everyone has been getting their Pennsic gear from.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:07 am
by Caitriona Douglas
Feargus wrote:Being a LARPer myself, I have to say.. when I wear armor, it's metal, and I've never seen anyone wearing a pizza box.
The "pizza box" armor thing came from their website. Their stuff is pretty and generic "Renn Fest/LARP" stuff, but their descriptions are a little bit over the top.
I agree about LARP armor. In the LARP I used to play, I've seen suede glued to football shoulder pads, "maille" with rings 1" or larger in diameter, and leather corsets (on females, of course) count as armor. (Leather doublets worn by men didn't count as armor. Go figure.)
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 12:13 am
by Leo Medii
Caitriona Douglas wrote:Feargus wrote:Being a LARPer myself, I have to say.. when I wear armor, it's metal, and I've never seen anyone wearing a pizza box.
The "pizza box" armor thing came from their website. Their stuff is pretty and generic "Renn Fest/LARP" stuff, but their descriptions are a little bit over the top.
I agree about LARP armor. In the LARP I used to play, I've seen suede glued to football shoulder pads, "maille" with rings 1" or larger in diameter, and leather corsets (on females, of course) count as armor. (Leather doublets worn by men didn't count as armor. Go figure.)
It wasn't always so sucky. Then the nerds and chain smoking gamers came along and decided it should be like Ultima On Line but with people!
I'm glad though, all I ever wanted to do is fight and camp like a medieval person, not throw tennis balls at each other and watch idiot in a orange plastic sash flapping their arms like wings telling me they were a 50 foot long dragon.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 1:17 am
by Jehan de Pelham
"I was trying to price a sheath for an SCA sword and I came to this site..."
If you buy one of Sean's scabbards I totally guarantee that you will get laid.
Someday.
Maybe.
If you're not a choad.
But totally, the Vitus scabbard will help.
Best,
John
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:12 am
by Gun
Could we call pasties( a set of course ) a "breast plate"?
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 5:53 am
by Peikko
Gun wrote:Could we call pasties( a set of course ) a "breast plate"?
[img]http://ilovepasties.com/assets/pictures/Pasties.jpg[/img]
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:23 am
by Donal Mac Ruiseart
kaiö:
Though I don't own any of Sir Vitus's scabbards, a friend of mine does.
It's excellent.
And his are custom made and designed for SCA swords or daggers.
Don't try to find gold in a coal mine, my friend. Go to the proper source.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:32 am
by Vitus von Atzinger
I'm afraid that I must agree.
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2010 9:50 am
by Amanda M
I have a set of Sir Vitus' scabbards. I am pretty confident they're miles above whatever those mouthbreather toolboxes are selling.
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2010 7:30 pm
by herrhauptmann
At least the latex foam "Deffender" sword doesn't include the words 'blood groove.'
But seriously, is that supposed to be Defender?
I love how they claim the scabbards will get you laid. Are boffer chicks really that loose? Or just that desperate? (Don't answer that)
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:07 am
by Thaddeus
http://www.bicolline.org/
I gotta learn to speak french.
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 9:54 am
by Agnarr
Jehan de Pelham wrote:"I was trying to price a sheath for an SCA sword and I came to this site..."
If you buy one of Sean's scabbards I totally guarantee that you will get laid.
Someday.
Maybe.
If you're not a choad.
But totally, the Vitus scabbard will help.
Best,
John
Hell i will guarantee it. But you have to pick it up from Vitus in Louisville. Now go to "Old Louisville" Neighborhood. Drive around for a little bit. Seee that girl that has been sitting there for a little bit? shor skirt in winter? offer her a twenty. TADA!
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 10:39 am
by Cian of Storvik
Looks like on sale, they are $99. Without a hanger belt or buckles.
Once you do all of the add ons and modify it to work on a belt that holds
Up to sca fighting you would have been better off financially getting a custom
One from Sir Vitus anyhow. The one you custom order not ony would be ready
To use out of the box, but exactly the colors and designs you desire.
Strongblade sux.
- Cian
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:15 am
by Tomburr
Cian of Storvik wrote:Strongblade sux.
Well I, for one, am shocked.
Re: Best sheaths
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 1:11 pm
by mordreth
You Will Most Likely Get Laid if You Wear One of These
WTF are you supposed to wear them
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:04 pm
by Tomburr
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 3:31 pm
by freiman the minstrel
I have not seen a poor review of Vitus' Scabbards.
and I have asked for them.
He has universal 5's, except for one guy that gave him a "good" (four out of five) on delivery time.
Literally, everything else on every review is as high as it can be marked.
Not my judgment, just his customers.
freiman
Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:44 pm
by Vitus von Atzinger
Yeah, I have those occasional financial blowouts that clean out my "fun stuff" bank account. This can create bubbles where I can't buy leather or afford to ship stuff.
Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 10:43 pm
by kaiö
I am aware Vitus make the best scabbards, however they are priced accordingly. I'll just save up my money I think.
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:36 pm
by RoaK
I recommend you do this... Send him your sword once you've got a deal made...
kaiö wrote:I am aware Vitus make the best scabbards, however they are priced accordingly. I'll just save up my money I think.
Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:04 pm
by Angusm0628
Yeah, I'll toss in on the Vitus goodies. In just over a year I've purchased 4 dagger scabbards with belts and a sword scabbard from him. I have no complaints about his wares at all.
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:02 pm
by Munz
I do have to say those foam swords do look cool, and no basket hilts either!
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:36 pm
by herrhauptmann
Munz wrote:I do have to say those foam swords do look cool, and no basket hilts either!
They look nice, and sufficiently Tolkeinish that they'll go great in some/most boffer groups.
But looking at the link again, I wanna say that the Python references were wearing a little thin. (We apologize, the writers have been sacked. The people responsible for sacking the writers have been sacked as well. Repeat ad nauseum)
