It's for hazing the noobs at feasts. It's essential that you call it by a different name each time, for continued hilarity.Konstantin the Red wrote:What does it do? Laquer leather?
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- Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:39 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: sekanjabin
- Replies: 22
- Views: 930
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:21 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Rope tensioners
- Replies: 25
- Views: 801
I've been occupied with kite building this past year, and one of the things I've come across is a "bead tensioner", used to bow the horizontal spars on some kites. It looks like this: http://www.kitebuilder.com/catalog/images/tensioner.jpg The line comes in from the left, goes up the first hole, dow...
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:57 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pre-historic tartan
- Replies: 18
- Views: 831
Actually, Clan tartans didn't appear until about 1810, long after the middle ages. There's no (reliable) evidence for them being worn in the middle ages. My understanding was that you might see a lot of similar patterns in a region because the weavers, spinners, and dyers had ready access to the sa...
- Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:49 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: SCA Heraldry & Laurel Wreaths
- Replies: 25
- Views: 841
I agree.Griffin de Stockport wrote:The issue of the Order of the Laurel wanting them for their own devices just smacks of "resume heraldry" which I really don't like.
Besides, is there not also the possibility that one might be, I dunno, cast out of the Order of [X]? What do you do for a personal device then?
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:01 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Modifying fencing masks for Cut & Thrust
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1115
Gerhard's pattern works pretty good, just make it out of stouter leather. Saddle-skirting is the way to go. http://www.armourarchive.org/patterns/leatherhelm_gerhard/ I think the good baron was prescient with this design... A guy in my household made one of these for light and heavy rapier (before ...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 7:32 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Modifying fencing masks for Cut & Thrust
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1115
I'm not sure who's this is (even though I took the photo), and it was taken in 2004, well before the C&T experiment, but this modified (Indian-made?) burgonet looks like it would do. http://www.northernelectric.ca/medieval/lyndwarcamp_2004/rap3576.jpg I'd love to have a modified Anglo/Scottish Burgo...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:41 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: How to do block printing on cloth
- Replies: 17
- Views: 812
Or of course simple old stencilling, really common across a range of substrates, walls, cloth, panels etc. Use a water proof stencil, either varnished paper or other modern alternative, use a sponge to dab the colour on. Yeah. I'd go with simple stencilling for something like what Rannulf is planni...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:28 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: my "new" gambeson/jack
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1294
How did you make the buttons? If you want to cheat you can buy two-part cover button kits in various sizes, like these - http://www.ascuteasabutton.com/covered_button_kits.html - at any respectacle fabric store. http://www.ascuteasabutton.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/DSC_0099A.jpg There's a fron...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 6:04 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: "Mini-Chartres" labyrinth on my lawn
- Replies: 12
- Views: 685
Ah. It came out today. Front page, top left, a thumbnail photo of me standing in the middle, with the caption: Crop Circles? A Middle Sackville man has turned his lawn into something of an art form. - Page 5 The big story with photo on the front page "above the fold" was of a dead right whale that h...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:02 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: SCA Conventions: Headdresses or coronets
- Replies: 10
- Views: 628
If made out of a rich fabric, it's much less likely that a reasonable person will take it for something other than a very interesting sort of hat. Something like this sort of hat? http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/31100.jpg (too big to display inline) Not exactly, of course, but that ...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:46 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Elizabethan Hanger
- Replies: 61
- Views: 1560
Adjustability - this hanger could be pulled "off the rack" and adjusted to fit a wide variety of people, even if it were only to ever hold one specific sword in it's entire service life. ... Such as for a sword that is the regalia of a Shire/Baronial Rapier Champion, and passed from person to perso...
- Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:36 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: "Mini-Chartres" labyrinth on my lawn
- Replies: 12
- Views: 685
I have seen one done with small stones but someone kept moving them, so this is probably a better idea! That was the thing. I didn't want to make any permanent paths, such as you might get with inset patio stones or bricks; nor anything like gravel over landscaping fabric (that prevents plant growt...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:00 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: "Mini-Chartres" labyrinth on my lawn
- Replies: 12
- Views: 685
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:49 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: It's born - 12 months of hard labour.
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1627
Oooooh! Aaaaah! So cool… one of the famous looking helms. We all call it the Frog Mouth… That's the name I'm familiar with. I'm always remined of that helm whenever I see one of those Proctor-Silex electric tea kettles. [img]http://newworldmarketinginfo.com/Proctor-Silex-Cordless-Electric-Kettle...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 7:21 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: How to do block printing on cloth
- Replies: 17
- Views: 812
I used to do lithography (the kind with Solnhofn limestone, leather inking rollers, hand-cranked press etc.) and I had printed one of my key images on a teeshirt with black litho ink. It came out fine, and lasted through hundreds of washings. That ink has very high viscosity and uses linseed oil as ...
- Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:51 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: "Mini-Chartres" labyrinth on my lawn
- Replies: 12
- Views: 685
"Mini-Chartres" labyrinth on my lawn
I suppose this just barely qualifies as "Interpretive Re-creation", but there goes... I have this featureless lawn. I'm too cheap/lazy/undecided to put in a lot of flower beds, terraces, shrubbery, etc. so I started considering reproducing a crop circle. Then I came across the notion of turf mazes a...
- Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: newbie trying to make forming stakes
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1163
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:33 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Need help with something odd...
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1310
I wonder if one of the metallic polymer modeling clays, by Fimo or Sculpey would do the job? This stuff is like plasticene, but a bit stiffer. You bake it in an oven and it hardens. I gather the metallic-look versions are somewhat more expensive than the regular colours, but they've been used to mak...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 8:14 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Have you forgotten some of your garb?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1034
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:59 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: patina hazard
- Replies: 5
- Views: 492
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:52 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rivet Help
- Replies: 8
- Views: 659
I needed some rust-proof rivets for my stainless steel buckler (Rapier Combat, so they don't have to deal with too much stress) and I just bought a three-foot long 1/8" diameter brass rod and cut them to length as needed. (first two are clickable thumbnail images) http://www.northernelectric.ca/medi...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:39 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Second test in spaulders...
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1161
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:18 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Bagpipe bag
- Replies: 11
- Views: 544
- Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:59 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Post-apocalyptic armor.
- Replies: 36
- Views: 2417
Anything you can grab from your cubicle:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oCsLITgWzTI
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oCsLITgWzTI
- Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:35 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Painting a great helm
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1245
That sounds like "encaustic" painting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncausticJason Grimes wrote:Oops, after a bit more research, it looks like egg tempra was first used around 600AD and it supplanted the Roman use of some kind of hot wax paint. ??
- Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:55 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Brad pits armor in Troy
- Replies: 24
- Views: 1340
Go to the store and pick up a pile of posterboard. Try cutting out the pieces one at a time. Draw cut put it on you then modify and make another one till you get it right. That's what I do, even if it's a ready-made pattern. Try it out in posterboard to see if I need to tweak anything. You can even...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:41 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: My Fourth video!
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1443
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 10:19 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: 1st try 12" buckler
- Replies: 1
- Views: 354
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:56 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Rivet Forging?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 1163
I'll see what I can do to have a rivet set made from a center punch by a friend over at the engineering shop on the lathe. I have access to lathe at my workplace, so I fabricated a half-assed rivet set out of 4 inches of 7/16" diameter bar that I found in the scrap box. No clue as to what type of s...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:11 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: First raising attempt - *more new pics*
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1719
After each pass I'd use 220 grit sandpaper, just a few quick swipes to show me the low spots. And here I thought I had invented what's essentially that same trick. :cry: I use a drafting lamp mounted to the back of the bench so I can swing it around to wherever I want it. I'll scuff the surface lig...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:51 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Burgeonet, and a quick question.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 992
Re: details
We will probably be offering the visor itself fitted monolitically to the visor bill in the future-and with more of a bib at the bottom to cover the space over the adams's apple more completely. "More of a bib" by extending the perf visor further down and behind the cheek plates, maybe flaring forw...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:43 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Burgeonet, and a quick question.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 992
Tthere is a small slot in the visor bill, and the grill has a hook that meets it. The bill is pulled down and the strap then pulls the grille in tight over the cheek plates. I'd be worried about where the perf meets the bill at either side of the slot. Does the lower edge of the ... whaddayacallit....
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:09 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Edge roll tip
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1364
I would roll the whole thing, then try to beat it flat. With 19g, you probably could work it hot with just the plumbers torch, if only bit by bit. I was trying it by heating to a bright orangey-red about 45 degrees (around the edge) at a time, in an attempt just to anneal it, sorta. By the time I t...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 3:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Edge roll tip
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1364
So, what do people do for the rolled edged on a buckler? I've been back and forth with a 13" disk of 19 ga. stainless, first getting the edge bent up about 80-90 degrees (got a nice pizza pan so far), then bashing the inner part again with a deadblow hammer on a wide flat stump to make it not-like-a...
- Sat Feb 24, 2007 2:27 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Burgeonet, and a quick question.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 992
Ooh... Lots of questions. I don't quite understand how it all fits together. When you say "the visor catches the cheek plates", do you mean just the tops above the hinges? Are those working cheek plate hinges? How does the perf face attach to the visor? If it is detachable (like the one shown in fen...