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I was thinking somewhat along the same lines of Noe. What about doing it something like WIJA (or what ever it is) where there are diffrent armor requirements and activities for diffrent categories. Light Jousting vs. Heavy Jousting have diffrent armor requirements, how about a category where the arm...

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I can't see the link, but I was thinking of adding some bubos to your face. You know Bubonic Plague (the kind that was spread by touching) the thing that went airborne and became Pneumonic Plague. It does the same thing to your lungs that it does to your skin. Kind of like the diffrence between cuta...

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I must be very lucky. When she is mad at me she will pee on my dirty cotton laundry ( t-shirts, jeans, etc.). Yes, she will climb in to the dirty laundry hamper to so that. Once I was working on garb and found one morning that my t-tunic had been peed on. I was impressed that she almost completly so...

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I decided that I needed to get a horse and then make a saddle for it. This is as far as I have gotten. I haven't made a saddle yet, but I made a webpage.

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/seyc/Saddles Maybe it has to do with being a college student with no money.

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This is the only refrence I have seen for the symbol of the Order of the Dragon.

http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page466.html

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I am using a borrowed (he is in Iraq making sure people get to the elections in Kirkuk.) lorica segmentata? It is Roman with 3" metal strips that lace togeather like shoe laces in front and in back and strips of metal that go over the shoulders. The interesting thing is that it fits me (42DD) bette...

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I am using a borrowed (he is in Iraq making sure people get to the elections in Kirkuk.) lorica segmentata? It is Roman with 3" metal strips that lace togeather like shoe laces in front and in back and strips of metal that go over the shoulders. The interesting thing is that it fits me (42DD) better...

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Animal Weretiger wrote:
Primvs Pavlvs wrote:I bid 3.00 for Animal

Sugar you couldnt afford me

Animal is one of those "high maintence" types.

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Just a random thought. What would y'all use for a costume for Cohen the Barbarian?

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I remember the first time I saw SCA fighting. There was a guy that was so big he literally waddled out onto the field. (Or should I rephrase that and say that he was so big he waddled when not wearing armor.) I actually wondered how badly he was going to get beaten (I can't say "bruised and beaten" ...

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What is the size on the http://www.rocket-jim.co.uk/costumes/costume/kilty.JPG?

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I was told that it came in the mail yesterday. Darn the fact that I am visiting family and haven't gotten to see it yet.

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The formula is the distance you draw the string from resting to cocked in inches times the poundage at that distance. ft/lbs is a torque measurement. It is length divided my pounds. This measurement is length multiplied by pounds. I don't know where the 0.5 comes from. For example if you have a bow ...

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Last weekend I was dog sitting and one of the dogs was in heat and decided to beat up the other dogs. The female dog that she beat up spent two nights in the Vet Hospital with drainage tubes, IVs, etc. I think the only reason that they released her so early is because the owner is a Pre-Vet student ...

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Whine - The third picture is out of focus. You can't see a good reflection of the photographer on the helm.

I am going to get off this page and go look at something else before the drool shorts out my keyboard.

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Edited the wavy part. Brain fart on my part. I have not seen muntiple bends in historical heraldry other than what I would describe as stripes. Like the Diminutives of Partitions on this page http://www.rarebooks.nd.edu/digital/her ... tions.html

Thanks for the information.

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It is not the skin that is thick. The muscles in the back are what makes up stand up straight. Also, two of the slashes were across the shoulder muscles. I think the only reason that you don't see shoulder blade is that the slashes are not that deep in that area. There is also the sub-cutanious (und...

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I would say straight razor. I would also say that the person that did it was right handed.

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UPDATE: When we voted on the heraldery for our group, there was a tie between a narrower bend and a wider bend sinister, so it was decided that we would draw up a narrow and a wide, bend and bend sinister. How do I describe these? It won't let me attach the fourth one. So, here is my guess on how to...

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Edit - Since everybody is PMing, how about we say what we are interested in, so that people know if something is already claimed?

Half gauntlets and basket hilt.

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This is how I understand it. It started out with the men wearing a saffron shirt, a belt, and a square cloak attached at the shoulder. Later on, the cloak started getting put inside the belt. Then the cloak started getting bigger and was used as a tent, sleeping bag, and a cloak. It was then pleated...

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I just noticed where you are. I know a guy down in Clarkston that makes bows. You might want to talk to him and discuss stuff. Do you want his contact info?

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How does one become an editor of a journal?

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An Tir

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Let's see...

Seattle Knights
Empire of Chivalry and Steel
Realms of Avalon
Empire of Adria

Anybody know of others? I think there is another one that is exclusivly rapier.

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I am in the market for a gorget, but I am worried about the fit. I will PM you.

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Thanks for your support. Just to clarify: Did you strike legal target areas? I went to my knees, got under her sheild, did a wrap shot, and I think I hit her in the leg. She said later that I legged her. Of the people behind her; a horizontal shot to the back of the thigh, landing halfway between hi...

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How ethical is it to go down to your knees to fight someone? The senerio was that we were attacking a castle, a bunch of people were standing at the gate, and we were attacking. I was coming in from the side where the wall was directly to my left. I was fighting lefty and the person on that side of ...

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I made the assumption because it was an appallingly non mediaeval 'Charge' (somehow the word doesn't fit it) in the nature of the kind of kludge so often seen in SCA heraldry. I would have thought that any group not crippled by the SNAFU that is the sca heraldic system would have the sense to stick...

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This is NOT the SCA. The name has passed and there is not going to be a laurel wreath on it's hearldry. Why would there be any reason to put a wreath on it? It destroys the pattern of the hearldry in my opinion. Why would y'all assume that 1) I was in the SCA and 2) that I didn't know of the Barony ...

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Well, the local group is called Three Rivers. This is because three rivers come togeather in this area and then become one river. I was trying to say that the side arms should go from the upper corners to the center. I could have sworn that years ago I read that the peace symbol what a type of cross...

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Okay, I made up this hearldry, now I need to know how to describe it. Argent, a cross (like the peace symbol except without the circle and the arms going up instead of down) wavy, azure. How do I describe that cross? I drew it out really quickly on Paint and I know that the two side arms should atta...

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I have never worked with hardened leather. Are you attaching it to a back plate? My first thought was to criss-cross the back. The strap from the right shoulder attaches under the left arm, etc. But I have never made armor other than gambesons and a knee. What I visualize is taking a piece of leathe...

Kilt evolution or what the Scots and Irish wore

Ethics/fighting on knees

Yet another post asking for heraldry help.