The Armour Archive

David Blackmane

Wish I'd have known about that place when I was in Germany in the mud 90s. I did go to the museum in Nurnberg though. They had a very nice collection of arms and armour.

David Blackmane

You should definitely video record those fights. As must as I enjoyed heavy, both participating and watching, I've yet really to see any vids of SCA rapier.

David Blackmane

I thought Andy Ward got out of the game around 15+ yeas ago due to health issues.

David Blackmane

That pretty cool. My younger daughter likes it too. Do you have any other designs? We are looking to decorate out new house, built in 1887, and vintage looking stuff like this would set it off a bit.

David Blackmane

My first fight was a lesson in rules. I was fighting a guy I ended working with and really laying into him with a hammer. I was going for his head and then switching low and going for the leg. I'd connect low under his shield and he'd back off then re-engage. After three of these combos, asked what ...

David Blackmane

My backing is a piece of railroad track about 14" long.

David Blackmane

I've seen that piece before, but not from those angles. I have also seen the back and it's "stapled".

David Blackmane

Garbage, pure unadulterated garbage. I'll be happy to destroy it personally, when I die in 40+ years. :D Seriously, that armour is ridiculously awesome. I'm doing good when I can find time to wind 1/4" mail rings and manage to rivet them without splitting them. I thought Arminius' helm was the pinna...

David Blackmane

I'm quite sure no one gives Nissan any flack when he shows up in that red Japanese kit of his. One look at that mempo of his and you know he is there to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and he's all out of bubblegum.

David Blackmane

I have a piston and bushing that I use. It wont work with galvanized wire, so you have to strip the zinc, but the way I do it leaves the rings a pearl black after flattening, so win-win. With 17g wire, I only need maybe 2 strokes to flatten using a 2.5 lbs shop hammer.

David Blackmane

I found it helpful to stop thinking much. Any thinking I was doing was trying to find openings in my opponents defense and reacting to his offense.

As has been said, the best way to become less timid in a fight is fight more. The more you get hit, the less it will bother you.

David Blackmane

I've found with lower back specifically and the rest of the back over all, that back exercises are essential. A lot of people beef up that core and then forget the back, which will cause pain.

David Blackmane

Damn, I didn't know he had passed.

Rest well, brother.

David Blackmane

Forgot I moved the pic into a different folder on Photobucket after I posted it....

David Blackmane

Not quite medieval, but it's a war suit....

David Blackmane

You guys do realize that we here at the AA are responsible for Birka lamellar being so prevalent in the SCA, right? I was part of the very first order of Birka plates and if I recall correctly, we had around 30 people on that order with several hundred plates per order. I myself had 600 and I know t...

David Blackmane

Dude, that's a LOT of plates for a Birka top. Mine is no more that 150. I'm guessing you're going for skirts and shoulder guards.

David Blackmane

Spun tops? They still make those?

David Blackmane

Wow....even rough that bucket looks sweet. Sallet's are my favorite late period helmets.

David Blackmane

Snagged this image of an unfinished plate from your Classifieds post. http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=55399 Now as a guy who wants accuracy, there is no reason to put a grill where a plate should be, but .... damn. This is pure art using all the right motifs for a 13th c...

David Blackmane

There are illos of Caroligians, circa 800 AD, in scale.

David Blackmane

Hehe....as long as science was involved.

David Blackmane

How thick is that steel? All those grills look pretty beefy.

David Blackmane

The one with the smiling lady in the lamellar is pretty sick.

David Blackmane

Maciejowski buckets aren't any worse than a Pembroke helm, which used to be pretty popular, or any other flat top helmet.

David Blackmane

Maciejowski barrel helms are fairly simple to make as well, and hey look cool.

David Blackmane

That looks an awful lot like a modern crosspeen that Sitka warrior is holding.

David Blackmane

I think the dimple in your die might be too wide. I have a set of piercing tongs and haven't had any rings that have a dimple that big and I feel that the dimple on my die is too big.

David Blackmane

I'm next to savannah, Georgia. It's a 19 hour drive just to SE Kansas, where I'm from.

David Blackmane

The black and green on that kit looks pretty sweet, Caius.

David Blackmane

I went to the one they had in Topeka in like '05-06 timeframe. Was pretty fun, even after suffering what turned out to be an internal injury.

David Blackmane

Make sure you knock the flashing off the bottom of the nail head.

David Blackmane

As far as jigsaws go, the trick is to go slow, cut in small managable sections, lubrication and keep fresh blades handy. I used a jigsaw to cut out 12g sections for a Maciejowski helmet, from a water heater tank. It wasn't too bad as long as I didnt try to go too fast. I used a candle as lube. When ...

David Blackmane

Pietro, I'm on FB and I have you guys on my feed or whatever it's called. I actually have the in-laws in town and will be otherwise engaged till about the middle of the week. Thanks for the invite tho.

David Blackmane

Fight at least once. I haven't fought like like 6 or 7 years. I think I'm doing better than that. Not much better though. Yeah, I'm just south of Forth Castle in Savannah, but have never been able to make it up there to say "Hey" in the four years I've been at Ft Stewart" Granted, I was in Iraq for...

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