The Armour Archive

Ranif

I just use an electric fry-pan, keeps the wax at just the right temp for easy flow & not frizzling brushes.
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Ranif

Handling those little rivets is one of the most frustrating parts of mail making. There must be a trick or two that we are missing. Mac Just noticed this post. I use el cheapo artery forceps to clamp the ring edges flat, wiggle an awl in the hole to ensure holes are lined up, then feed the rivet he...

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losthelm wrote:A few other groups use perf plate, at one point Lochac required it if there was combat archery.

Lochac still requires perf plate or a suitable mesh, OVER the grille, if there is combat archery in the mix. But then we use authoritative combat shafts.
Ranif

Ranif

what are the rules on shooting marshalls? Blue on blue? It happens. Our on-field marshals wear kit to the same safety standards as the other war participants. Try to shoot around them, if they shift to deliberately block, marshal's court for the bastards. But, our marshals stay the hell away from t...

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There is also the st George statue on hradcany square or somesuch with sleeves and legs in plate, this likely due to the amount of poisoned arrows in the eastern nations during 14th century warfare, making scale prefferable to mail as far as I've come to understand it. This is based on the misconce...

Ranif

Thank you all for the info. Next question, this will be used for sca and I was planning on adding two layers of batting to the elbow so i won't need to have additional elbow pads. What are your thoughts on this idea? My knight said it should be fine. My spaulders & elbow cops have a layer of thick ...

Ranif

My 3 lame steel spaulders are pointed to my gambeson just in from the shoulder tip & remain tightened, a buckled strap attached to a leather extension of the lames goes under the arm. The steel elbows are pointed to the gambeson & remain tightened, a buckled strap goes across the upper arm a little ...

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Well you could just weara skirt.... Chainmail skirt with voiders should help take some of the power out of those shots. I am convinced even a long tunic or waffenfroc type garment helps some. After a Lochacian combat arrow, (the nearly real sort), bounced off my cup, ripped up my boxers & left me w...

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Cat of Black Talon wrote:That was you? Dammit! I'm a sucker for feathers.

Me too, but they don't look so proud when wet. Combat archery tourney in the rain & mud. Kill shot coming in.
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Sometime ago I came to realize that in the heat of the battle I was fixing on the colorful fighters on the other side automatically. Partly instinct and partly lizard brain response I suspect. So if you want to stay alive in a battle with CA dress down. I deliberately wear a distinctive tabard & 3 ...

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Konstantin the Red wrote:Too much defense. Well, against sticks.

Exactly! I tried adding a bit more here & there, as needed. Now I'm going to reduce it here & there, as needed. Pain may be a learning tool, but, too much pain achieves nothing & for me accompanies unacceptable damage.
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Ranif

Konstantin the Red wrote:^^ And that there's almost too much.

Too much information, instruction or padding?

Ranif

Ranif

I just finished a pair/set whatever. Started with an oversized pair of jeans, cut to knee length. Unpicked all seams, used the parts as patterns to cut 2 identical sets from cotton drill, leaving a gap where the fly would be. Overlocked, (serged), all seams & joined both sets from fork up the back, ...

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Siggy
Since you cut your hair I don't think "boob plate" armour will really work for you.
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Ranif

Yes because as we all know MA has a monopoly on good information.... and tack. He may be wrong but there are better ways to go about it. Randall your indignation doesn't really work here because it wasn't like he put forward something genuinely questionable and then nicely asked why it wasn't a goo...

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MediumAevum wrote: You know so little about what you are talking about that it is impressive.

MA
I know very little, about many things. Arrogant snobbery I do know lots about. Thank you kindly for my serving this week.
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Ranif

Rhodes isn't in Germany and a modern painting is hardly of any use. Graham, your best bet is the Swiss Chronicles such as this http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/bbb/Mss-hh-I0002 and try to interpret what is being worn and then find a better visual example of it. MA Your geography is correct...

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Hospitallers1450-1500 web.jpg This watercolour is the 1450-1500 one of an "official" series depicting Hospitaller armour over the order's history. The knight wearing pauldrons & the brother sergeant wearing spaulders with besagews. I don't think there was a lot of on-horse combat at the Siege of Rh...

Ranif

I must be missing the main thread. Possibly referring to: http://www.sca.org/officers/marshal/news.html October 2013: New version of the Marshals' Handbook posted VII. WEAPONS STANDARDS A. General 16. Weapons under 48” (1.22 m) or greater than 7’ 6” (2.29 m) in length may have either a thrusting ti...

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Interesting. Those don't show classic cresting (colored rings painted around the shaft in front of the fletching), they show colored stripes and chevrons painted on the fletching itself. The red bands you do see would be silk thread for binding the fletching and adding strength to the nock, I shoul...

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What the hell is a "Plumed Combatant"? Lochac Combat Handbook "1.1.2 Plumed Combatant 1. Plumed combatants are people who participate in combat-related activities but do not engage in combat with melee weapons. They: (a) May not be targeted with melee weapons. (b) Must wear a plume in their helmets...

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I've met people who take aspirin before fighting to thin their blood. It supposed to make it easier on their cardio. I never tried it, because I figure it might double the size of bruises too. I take aspirin as a standard cardio prophylactic. When cut, I bleed like a stuck pig, but when well thumpe...

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I cannot find any illustrations or information on the armor/look of a Hospitaller in the 14th century. This thread is devoted to the 13th as are all the websites I can find. I do not want to buy/wear maille armor and I like the protection and look of plate armor, so I thought a 1350-1360 would be a...

Ranif

White cross on red is the right choice here. She is specifically interested in the red Maltese Cross at the link below, on a white tabard. She doesn't want to look like a Templar persona, which is what I think red cross on white tabard generally implies. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common...

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Baron Alcyoneus wrote: Then you need more than just one cap.

Or, a head of hair, instead of a dust bunnied scalp.

I've got plenty more linen in my fabric stash, so a thicker cap looks to be the go.
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Ranif

Alright, I've been hunting for a way to stop sweat getting into my eyes, yes I know it'll happen but I want to prevent it for as long as I can...I've got arming caps but they don't seem to be slowing it.. Any ideas? figured I'd try my fellow fighters with more experience on the matter than me. My a...

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Konstantin the Red wrote:So how'd it bake up, Ranif?

One of our house is making a full leather set of armour for his good lady. So, I decided to raid my leather stash to make some more archer demi gaunts & modified bell gaunts & will bake the lot at the same time.
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Ranif

Since I could not think of any way to easily strip the zinc off, I concentrated on other things....And now I am glad I waited! White vinegar. Why white? I had a couple of gallons. Diluted hydrochloric acid (muriatic acid/spirits of salt/s) also works, bit more violent. Whatever, use lots, do it out...

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Konstantin the Red wrote:Wetted leather hardens when the leather, or the water in it, reaches 167F. Give 'em a hot-coffee temp like 175F, and at least twenty to thirty minutes. You can final-adjust a shape at about the 15-min mark if necessary.

Thanks Konstantin. I'll crank up the kiln.
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Ranif

In a hurry & too impatient to archive search. Several sets of leather demi gaunts are formed & ready for hardening. I usually use hot beeswax. I've decided to crank up the small electric kiln instead. Briefly, very briefly, what would be the most suitable temp & time if I wet the shapes & stuck them...

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As for the cost of a pair of wheels; spoked wheels look simple, until you start to make them. Then it gets messy. :oops: Yep! Spokes, felloes, hubs & fitted rims. No thanks! I wanted something simple, lightweight, very collapsible, & CHEAP. Pots to & fro event markets, armour & weapons to & fro war...

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Nice Raniff! How did you make the wheels? Scrap pine planking, biscuited & glued, cut circular with jig-saw. Bosses cut out with jig-saw, 4 per wheel, 1 dowelled & glued each side of wheel, 1 each side running free as oversized washers. 2 timber strips dowelled & glued to outside of wheel as stiffe...

Ranif

A simple cart for hauling stuff? Lets see some pictures! Made from scrap timber, just glued & dowelled. No visible steel parts, just wooden. Held together with cotton rope thonging. Flatpacks to fit in back of wagon. Replaced wood axle with steel pipe after borrowers overloaded & broke wooden axle....

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Kilian_the_warlike wrote:Burpees, lunges and squat-presses bro. Trust me.

My knee spurs are just going to love you.

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Slank wrote:Ranif, speak to Theuderic about his chicken nugget diet Chicken Nuggets when combined with selected exercises should help upgrade those scrawny shanks

He's resident in my area now, I'll ask about diet. That said, it'll probably be mostly liquid.

Ranif

Re: melting beeswax in my oven?

Re: Dusting off the cobwebs

Re: Mandrake Tips on Fiberglass Spears Illegal in Aethelmear

Re: My lessons on the SCA battlefield.

Re: scalemail time period

Re: arming coat points

Re: arming coat points

Re: Fauld vs. Tassets

Re: Combat archery techniques and advice?

Re: Combat archery techniques and advice?

Re: Padded Cuisse Pattern

Re: Padded Cuisse Pattern

Re: Padded Cuisse Pattern

Re: "Boob plate" not terrible? Trying to find an archiver's

Re: Pauldrons. Cavalry, Infantry ... everybody?

Re: Pauldrons. Cavalry, Infantry ... everybody?

Re: Pauldrons. Cavalry, Infantry ... everybody?

Re: Pauldrons. Cavalry, Infantry ... everybody?

Re: Madu blow up?

Re: Cresting Arrows

Re: "Big Rattan" rule in Meridies

Re: Stimulants in Fighting Competition

Re: IWTB a Hospitaller 1230-1250

Re: Hospitaller, and Yet 14th century Mafia?

Re: Sweat liner for helmet

Re: Sweat liner for helmet

Re: Hardening leather

Re: Butted "high tensile" steel haubergeon..Got one.

Re: Hardening leather

Hardening leather

Re: Has anyone here made a cart?

Re: Has anyone here made a cart?

Re: Has anyone here made a cart?

Re: Recreating the unarmored thigh/ archer's knee look SCA

Re: Recreating the unarmored thigh/ archer's knee look SCA