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- Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:29 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armour pics from Vienna
- Replies: 3
- Views: 872
Re: Armour pics from Vienna
Honest, Mom, I was looking at armour porn...
- Mon Nov 27, 2017 2:52 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Leg Harness
- Replies: 80
- Views: 6808
Re: Leg Harness
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/0d/fd/02/0dfd02da42f52f903a16ce93dd7986f1.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/564x/3d/48/17/3d48173dc32230e5eeee54bc0a30bae6.jpg Interesting that both images seem to show the mounting rider facing toward the rear of the horse, but no twist in the stirrup harness. Mount, then kick the...
- Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:06 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Greenwich Buckhurst armour
- Replies: 151
- Views: 55402
Re: Greenwich Buckhurst armour
I had some old vinyl left over from "Power Rangers", (Pink-PR) but it was too hard to "weed" (remove unwanted vinyl after cutting) so I bought some from Michel's art supply and this is working very well. I'm going to order some higher quality stuff and try that, but at the moment I have been tackli...
- Tue Aug 29, 2017 12:39 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Live steel. Without armor.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3636
Re: Live steel. Without armor.
I guess you don't survive long enough to git gud.Laurence Robert wrote:Not only is this totally idiotic, but you can see that their form is abysmal as well. Looks like this is natural selection at its finest.
- Mon Aug 21, 2017 2:31 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Started a late 15th century chair
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2394
Re: Started a late 15th century chair
Nifty! Are you going to do it all with hand tools?
- Thu Aug 10, 2017 5:37 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hardened leather SCA fighting
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3114
Re: Hardened leather SCA fighting
So as an apartment dweller I can't work metal. But . . . If the pieces are to be tooled and dyed, is it best to do this before the glue bath and oven work? But after shaping I assume? Much the easier to do the tooling and dyeing before the shaping, as you'll be working flat, on your nice tooling bo...
- Tue Jul 25, 2017 11:16 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hardened leather SCA fighting
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3114
Re: Hardened leather SCA fighting
And it is an issue in sunny Caid.Peter Baker wrote:I could see that being an issue now that you say it, and it makes sense. But I guess the advantage of feast gear over hard kit is that it's less likely to be in a trunk. I'll be sure to add that to the "care and feeding" handout if I ever start selling.
- Thu Jul 20, 2017 1:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Hardened leather SCA fighting
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3114
Re: Hardened leather SCA fighting
Wax hardening is something I settled on because for something meant to hold a liquid it makes more sense,and has the added benefit of sealing my seams, and I've gotten pretty good at it with what I'm using it for. A friend uses the acrylic hardening for leather jacks (I believe there was something ...
- Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:22 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: 2017 Show Us Your Kits!
- Replies: 19
- Views: 17410
Re: 2017 Show Us Your Kits!
*blush* I read this as, 'show us your kilts' and was super-excited. :D But that aside... some beautiful kits here! Well done, gentlemen! Just for you, from back in the day... http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/LexBaird/AlexBsmall.jpg Current fencing kit, minus the mask: http://i57.photobucket.c...
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: When did a rivet become a kind of nail?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 912
Re: When did a rivet become a kind of nail?
I've only encountered this usage in nautical settings: "Rove a line to that sheet and bind it fast".Ernst wrote: To Matthew's point, one definition of rove,6. To draw through an eye or aperture.which may have to do with drawing fiber while twisting, which would seem to make the transition.
- Tue Jun 13, 2017 10:04 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: A perspective from another sport.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 992
Re: A perspective from another sport.
If 25 people enter a tournament, 24 are going to lose. You better be able to find more motivation in the tourney experience than joy in winning, or you might as well not play. Gaining skills and improving personally, enjoying competition, reveling in camaraderie, sharing experiences, getting high on...
- Thu May 25, 2017 2:11 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Image juxstaposition of helmets on a head
- Replies: 124
- Views: 6458
Re: Image juxstaposition of helmets on a head
Well, I admit my ignorance regarding photographic equipment, but that means that we will have to wait quite some time before museums will allow somebody else to photograph their stuff with "our" parameters in mind. At this point in time, the practicality of full 3D scans of artifacts is quite as fe...
- Thu May 18, 2017 1:14 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Shield edging? (SCA) - And now size, I guess
- Replies: 6
- Views: 945
Re: Shield edging? (SCA) - And now size, I guess
My center grip is 25" in dia. round, which is probably about the norm size for the type in Caid. I based it on the scientific fact that the offcut drop of T6 I bought from the scrapbin was 25" wide. There are advantages and disadvantages attached to every shield size, playoffs between mobility, cove...
- Wed May 17, 2017 1:27 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Shield edging? (SCA) - And now size, I guess
- Replies: 6
- Views: 945
Re: Shield edging? (SCA)
What is the shield material? I had a 1/8" aluminum centergrip that I edged with two layers of split automotive heater hose; 3/8" inside of 3/4". That edging lasted over 15 years, with casual maintenance of the leather binding strips. I took care to break the sharp edges on the rim of the aluminum sh...
- Tue May 16, 2017 1:28 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Middle Kingdom Spring Crown List
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1510
Re: Middle Kingdom Spring Crown List
What do the titles of Captain and Sergeant denote in the OP of the Midrealm?
- Tue Apr 25, 2017 5:55 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3422
Re: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
This thread went a different direction that I originally intended, but I thank everyone for their input. If what you are looking for is solo drills, then you can probably get the most bang for your drill time by working on your footwork. Take that list of shots from your post above, and set up just...
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Goll's Thesis topic #3: Controversial or Suspicious Items
- Replies: 226
- Views: 9779
Re: Goll's Thesis topic #3: Controversial or Suspicious Item
Does "controversial or suspicious" include "ludicrous or laughable"? If so, I would like to submit this howler that I just came across while looking for something entirely different. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/39/16/a1/3916a180655cb60ae00265c1ee1e8b64.jpg https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.n...
- Thu Apr 20, 2017 10:58 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3422
Re: How do you train when locals don't go to practice?
CTrumbore--The situation you describe pretty much sums it up for both Bay area baronies. I am trying to a light a fire under the locals, but I only have so much sway. Ultimately, I can only control my own choices not theirs. True, but this is where you can use the fealty structure of the Society to...
- Wed Apr 12, 2017 10:42 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Armour Party!
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5019
Re: Armour Party!
This one is two layers of 1/4" luon plywood, laminated with Titebond wood glue and bent in a press. Face is covered with cheap painter's drop cloth canvas from the big box store. The edges are covered with split heater hose and the canvas rolled over. The canvas was applied with 50/50 watered down g...
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:50 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: What's the appropriate 'war board' for 14th century england?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2879
Re: What's the appropriate 'war board' for 14th century engl
A mucking long sharpened stick. See "Schiltron"
- Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:13 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: IMCF - HMB Armor for sale. Safely with ETSY
- Replies: 38
- Views: 5846
Re: IMCF - HMB Armor for sale. Safely with ETSY
Might be better to post this to the "Classifieds" sub-board.
- Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:48 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Dusting off the cobwebs
- Replies: 2658
- Views: 698519
Re: Dusting off the cobwebs
The hooks are a bit of a puzzle for me. It's not clear just how much space to leave under them for the leather. If you make them with very little space, they sit down nicely into the leather, and don't protrude much against the shoes. The down side of that is that it's difficult to get the leather ...
- Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:53 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Basket Hilts on mass weapons
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4049
Re: Basket Hilts on mass weapons
There were some people using the Kong dog toys as heads for a flanged mace.
- Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:23 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
- Replies: 23
- Views: 3942
Re: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
Well, you could always look to what the people of the period thought a courtier should know...
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/ ... urtier.pdf
https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/ ... urtier.pdf
- Wed Mar 15, 2017 2:19 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Fabric cover on a shield - advice needed
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2047
Re: Fabric cover on a shield - advice needed
3M 77 is not a water soluble adhesive. Next time, try soaking the cloth in alcohol, or if you don't care about damage to the cloth, paint thinner.
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 11:12 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: All that practice, real world application...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2066
Re: All that practice, real world application...
Is this like the joust, where you get more points if your weapon shatters?
- Wed Feb 22, 2017 10:57 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Dusting off the cobwebs
- Replies: 2658
- Views: 698519
Re: Dusting off the cobwebs
If I may make a suggestion... find an editor and turn this thread into a book.Mac wrote:It's not at all clear what I will do afterwards....
- Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:16 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Repairing cut leather facing
- Replies: 9
- Views: 764
Re: Repairing cut leather facing
That, or look into blind suture stitches.
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 6:38 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Old playing card project
- Replies: 7
- Views: 943
Re: Old playing card project
Nice stuff. What face does the two banners card represent? (I'm assuming the others are Two, King and Eight)
- Thu Feb 02, 2017 6:17 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Amazing SCA Video
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1325
Re: Amazing SCA Video
Heh. I'm actually in that. Shot at Great Western War this year.
- Mon Jan 16, 2017 3:13 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Would KP Knee pads count as SCA legal hidden knee protection
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1177
Re: Would KP Knee pads count as SCA legal hidden knee protec
Or when 350# of fat guy in armor lands on you.
- Fri Jan 06, 2017 3:31 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Things We See (and Things We Overlook) in the SCA
- Replies: 55
- Views: 6489
Re: Things We See (and Things We Overlook) in the SCA
I find it easiest to think of the SCA as a sort of club for people with historical interests to hang out, more than a reenactment group. It is not intended to be an immersion experience, but rather a place to try stuff out. What I'm there for is not what the guy in the next spot is there for. That d...
- Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:52 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: So Many things wrong
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2514
Re: So Many things wrong
Those gauntlets are totally inappropriate for touch-typing.
- Thu Dec 22, 2016 11:07 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Dusting off the cobwebs
- Replies: 2658
- Views: 698519
Re: Dusting off the cobwebs
I think it's a bigger tease showing him this gorgeous armor he doesn't have yet... the anticipation must be exquisitely painful.
- Thu Dec 22, 2016 10:12 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Dusting off the cobwebs
- Replies: 2658
- Views: 698519
Re: Dusting off the cobwebs
14 lbs per stone.Mac wrote:I can ask him his weight, but he'll tell me in "stones" and I'll have to find the conversion.wcallen wrote: Mac - when you are done, it would be fun to know the overall weight of the harness along with the approximate size of the wearer.
Wade
Mac