The Armour Archive

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What ho, fellow sick buddy!

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Dang, thanks for the heads-up, Haroun!

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Well, this is certainly a dog-pile of lovin' on Dave.

Wonder if the OP will ever come back to the thread.

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I have to echo accdntprone. Did you contact Dave, or did you just jump online here to kvetch first?

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I noticed that, but it's a damned long paper.

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I'd love to download that article, but I'm not joining the site to do it.

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It's Mongol.

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And don't forget the Irish cream!

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All the notes -- all the text, including captions -- is the authors' stuff. The only thing the artists do is the paintings, based on detailed notes and pictures supplied by the author.

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Yes, I'm hoping he writes up a tutorial on how he did it.

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Lookin good. Oh... the back should overlap the front on the right side.

It looks great.

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Padraig O wrote: Is it just me, or are your eyes glowing red in this photo? Real "Big Trouble in Little China" action there.

It's just a "samurai hate ninjers" thing.

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Surname. Surname.

You'd do it in the Japanese order; surname first, given name last.

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Man, I used to have this.

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Looking good, man. Nice color, too. Mmm.

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As far as I'm concerned, this is as reliable as the Bashford Dean 'reconstructed' "corrizone", until a picture or two showing the object before restoration, and showing what remained of original construction details comes to light. I agree completely. That said -- I'd love to see the Met photos of ...

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Takeda Shingen at Kawanakajima: http://www3.sympatico.ca/iaido/statuetakues.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3151/2892151670_d9e6f78a7c_z.jpg http://rlv.zcache.com/takeda_shingen_and_uesugi_kenshin_kawanakajima_poster-r5e60d33a8ee5474da19939cacd7ca890_wvs_8byvr_324.jpg It's been a famous scene for ...

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*Most* samurai family surnames are locatives -- the towns where the founding member settled, etc. If there's a town name, you can probably bet that someone somewhere used it as a surname. Some of the biggest names, even (for example Ashikaga, Tokugawa, Mogami, Takeda, and Shimazu) all took their sur...

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Smilingotter wrote:That reminds me - I'm about due to watch "13th Warrior" again pretty soon.

Okay, that's some funny stuff right there. Nicely done.

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You STILL suck.

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I'd leave it alone for a day or so. If it's still tacky then... don't know what to say.

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Love that color.

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They're WONDERFUL things.

I'm still trying to decide about a lathe.

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What Maeryk said. I have a full woodshop setup (complete with dedicated mortiser), less a lathe.

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.... I.... Damn. You know, I really hadn't stopped to think about it. It's always been cited to me as tip of the sengoku, and given the nature of the thing (cheap, fungible) I am not surprised that I can't think of any surviving -- PROVABLE 16th C -- tatami dô. I'd have to spend a lot more time star...

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'Cause it's funny to do...?

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Kuji fights (fought?) in Japanese armour using a large slightly padded war fan as his "shield" (a deflecting tool, really).

Then there's THIS, which they DID do:

Yes, that's his kabuto.

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That's priceless, man.

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That's also Edo. You don't have to use *any* (well, much...) lacing. Make a solid okegawa dô. You can even suspend the kusazuri on fabric panels -- a very rare, but documentable, technique. The only place you'd need lacing would be the kusazuri, sode, and shikoro. An alternative to this would be a s...

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Indeed. There's quite a range. My particular favorite is a color I can only describe as "ripe tomato red"

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It is an assumption, yes, but it's not one formed in a vacuum. We *know* Nkante (well, not personally), and he's in the SCA. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that questions on armour are, therefore, predicated on SCA bases. :shrug:

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Bingo.

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What Alcy said.

Has nothing to do with Edo hatred. (I *like* some Edo armour.) But if you're making armour for the SCA, copying stuff from post 1600 is right out.

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Glen K wrote: God help me, it really is.

You're not the only one.

(PP -- thanks for the kind words.

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