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- Fri Jun 03, 2022 5:58 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Can anyone help me find this manuscript?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12970
Re: Can anyone help me find this manuscript?
I think it may be the Emperor Maximilian in "Freydal." I have a book with an illustration from that on the cover.
- Fri Oct 23, 2020 3:47 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Conquistador's clothing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 954
Re: Conquistador's clothing
Cool. The top one looks like a sailor's pullover. Dan Rosen (I forget his Archive name) has posted similar things he has made on the Elizabethan Costuming FB group. Thanks for the pictures. Images of sailors' clothing are always valuable.
- Wed Sep 26, 2018 5:05 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Anti Concussion Helmet Liners
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1313
Re: Anti Concussion Helmet Liners
The military helmet pads which attach to the inside of the helmet with Velcro are often recommended to SCA heavy fighters.
- Tue Mar 27, 2018 11:21 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Darkwood fencing dagger for sale
- Replies: 3
- Views: 749
Re: Darkwood fencing dagger for sale
What's the length on that dagger? One of our local rapier fighters is looking to buy a short dagger (blade about 12 inches).
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 2:48 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: North Carolina SCA Heavy Fighter Practices?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2245
Re: North Carolina SCA Heavy Fighter Practices?
Yes, check the FB groups. That's usually where the most current information is.
- Sun Dec 31, 2017 9:25 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: North Carolina SCA Heavy Fighter Practices?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2245
Re: North Carolina SCA Heavy Fighter Practices?
I asked on the Kingdom of Atlantia Facebook group. I was told there's a practice in Greensboro. I don't know if that information will be helpful to you.
- Thu Oct 05, 2017 8:32 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New Nova: Secrets of the Shining Knight
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7052
Re: New Nova: Secrets of the Shining Knight
My husband and I watched the episode last night. It was entertaining to see familiar names (Dr. Toby Capwell, Jeff Wasson) as people on TV and to see footage of processes that people often mention on here. I wasn't able to catch all the credits, so I suspect I missed some other familiar names in the...
- Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:00 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Anyone know Bokalo's status?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 909
Anyone know Bokalo's status?
I was disappointed that Bokalo's Armoury did not make it to Pennsic, as I hoped to purchase some things. Apparently, he planned to be there, as there was a booth, but it never opened. I would still like to order some things from him online, but if he had a personal or business emergency, I don't wan...
- Fri May 05, 2017 9:52 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: AgeofCraft brigadine mittens review
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1015
Re: AgeofCraft brigadine mittens review
Thanks for the review. I've seen and tried on a friend's pair. How do you determine the size? I didn't see a size guide on the Age of Craft site. Do the mittens come in only one size? I have tiny female hands, so "standard" size doesn't help me.
- Wed May 03, 2017 10:17 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Who sells gauntlets and demigauntlets at Pennsic?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 611
Who sells gauntlets and demigauntlets at Pennsic?
Hi. I'm hoping to pick up hand protection for C&T at the coming Pennsic. Which merchants there sell gauntlets or demigauntlets? I know Bokalo does. Thank you.
- Mon Apr 17, 2017 9:56 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: ISO Kydex Chest Protector
- Replies: 2
- Views: 653
Re: ISO Kydex Chest Protector
Bokalo's Armoury, perhaps? I recall seeing something of that description on his website a few years ago. I don't know if he still makes them, but you could e-mail him through the site.
- Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:02 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Mid atlantic fabric warehouses
- Replies: 1
- Views: 763
Re: Mid atlantic fabric warehouses
I hope these suggestions help: G Street Fabrics, Rockville, MD (near DC). Wool, silk, linen. This is my local store for higher-end fabrics. They sell some fabrics online, but not many. Needle and Thread, Fairfield, PA (outside Gettysburg). Also excellent, though I haven't been there in several years...
- Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:11 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
- Replies: 23
- Views: 4378
Re: Skills All Good Elizabethan Gentlemen Should Know
I have the impression that nobles who were less well off still did not do their own menial work. They had servants, but they might have fewer servants, each with a wider range of duties, compared to the really wealthy. You're correct that a gentleman should know generally how tasks should be done. I...
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 12:20 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Review "The King's Servants" and "The Queen's Servants"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 840
Re: Review "The King's Servants" and "The Queen's Servants"
Since I have the Tudor Tailor books, I would say that they would not match your interests. There are other books such as the Textiles and Clothing from London finds (I'm mangling the title) and Woven into the Earth that analyze surviving textile pieces and clothing from earlier centuries to determin...
- Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:11 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Review "The King's Servants" and "The Queen's Servants"
- Replies: 5
- Views: 840
Re: Review "The King's Servants" and "The Queen's Servants"
It seems to be pretty easy to send feedback to the authors through their website tudortailor.com or Facebook page. Ninya Mikhaila also belongs to the Elizabethan Costuming Facebook group. It might be worth asking them why they made some of the choices they did in regard to what you felt were flaws.
- Wed Jan 04, 2017 9:23 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Concussions and CTE
- Replies: 239
- Views: 282488
Re: Concussions and CTE
Do you think Gawin's conclusions apply better to a spear thrust to the head than a "normal" cut with a stick? I suspect a spear thrust to the front or side of the head may be the blow most likely to move the head and therefore the most dangerous. I was wondering about the possibility of reducing hea...
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 10:06 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Winter Quarters, 2016
- Replies: 6
- Views: 976
Re: Winter Quarters, 2016
Gerhard, if you check the link at Go Viking in Cap'n Atli's signature line, that should take you to the site of the Longship Co. with all the information.
- Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:45 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Concussions and CTE
- Replies: 239
- Views: 282488
Re: Concussions and CTE
Thank you, Rameymj. It's also worth noting that Lord Gawin Kappler's series on concussions was intended at least in part as an argument against ramping up calibration in Cut and Thrust. It's possible that his arguments hold better for steel than for rattan. I fear there's still an implication that a...
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 11:25 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Thinking about doing beginner helms.
- Replies: 42
- Views: 3619
Re: Thinking about doing beginner helms.
Very few armorers seem to offer the simple, open-face "archer" sallets. They're appropriate for mid-15th to early 16th century, which includes Wars of the Roses and landsknechts.
- Wed Aug 31, 2016 1:29 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: ISO heavy riveted mail drape
- Replies: 6
- Views: 915
Re: ISO heavy riveted mail drape
As it happened, on the advice of some local marshals who recommended against using the helm in armored combat, I donated the basinet to a local combat archery marshal for loaner gear. A mail drape helps, but it can't compensate for lack of thickness of a helm.
- Wed Aug 31, 2016 1:29 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: ISO heavy riveted mail drape
- Replies: 6
- Views: 915
Re: ISO heavy riveted mail drape
As it happened, on the advice of some local marshals who recommended against using the helm in armored combat, I donated the basinet to a local combat archery marshal for loaner gear. A mail drape helps, but it can't compensate for lack of thickness of a helm.
- Mon Jul 25, 2016 9:39 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Looking for brigandine and/or leather gorget
- Replies: 3
- Views: 735
Re: Looking for brigandine and/or leather gorget
Hello from another Atlantian rapier fighter/aspiring Cut and Thrust fighter. I'd recommend WinterTree Crafts for sizing and quality, though they're not the cheapest (nor the most expensive). They have both brigandine gorgets and plain stainless steel backed with leather, in a range of sizes.
- Wed Jul 06, 2016 1:45 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: "Buff" coats made of wool felt?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3278
Re: "Buff" coats made of wool felt?
Last night I talked with a woman who had been at the conference. I don't think there was any indication that these wool-felt coats were used in the Virginia colony. I gather the gist of the presentation was that at least one museum curator in England had noticed that insect damage to a surviving coa...
- Tue Jul 05, 2016 10:27 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Wanted: used armor to get back into heavy fighting.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1661
Re: Wanted: used armor to get back into heavy fighting.
Lord Simon, what helms are you getting rid of, and what sizes are they?
- Thu Jun 30, 2016 10:09 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: "Buff" coats made of wool felt?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3278
"Buff" coats made of wool felt?
The Elizabethan Costuming Facebook group mentioned a presentation at a recent costuming conference at Jamestown that discussed a few late-16th- or early-17th-century "buff" jerkins that may actually have been thick felted wool, not leather. The conference presenters experimentally reconstructed such...
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 10:07 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Definition of "archer" knees/elbows?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1821
Definition of "archer" knees/elbows?
In terms of SCA armor, what differentiates "archer's" elbows and knees from standard multipiece elbows and knees? For example, Bokalo's site shows both "archer" and standard kinds. The "archer" joints seem to have a pointed lame.
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:44 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Brigandine shoulder reinforcement?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 926
Brigandine shoulder reinforcement?
How were the shoulder seams of a coat of plates, brigandine, or jack of plates reinforced in order to hold the weight of the plates?
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:31 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Darkwood Armoury to the White Courtesy Phone, Please...Darkw
- Replies: 6
- Views: 939
Re: Darkwood Armoury to the White Courtesy Phone, Please...D
Have you contacted them through the website or the FB page?
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 10:30 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: LF: 16th century armorer for SCA (US based)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1504
Re: LF: 16th century armorer for SCA (US based)
Mercenary Tailor specializes in 16th century, I think. Clang Armoury has done late-period helms. Wade Allen, do you have any recommendations?
- Fri Jun 03, 2016 9:03 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Full mail coif under helm?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1463
Re: Full mail coif under helm?
Thanks. Actually, I'd prefer to rely on the helm for all of the weight. I prefer later-period styles, which don't have aventails. (I do early 1500s.) For example, I was looking at the sallet on Ironmonger's site. That's 12 gauge mild top and 14 gauge mild sides, but I think I'd want the sides to be ...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 1:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Full mail coif under helm?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1463
Re: Full mail coif under helm?
Thanks for the replies, especially to Sir Johann, my fellow Atlantian (and fellow rapier fighter). The pretty bascinet in question weighs only 6.5 pounds without mail. It will likely end up being sold to someone in a lighter-hitting kingdom where 14 gauge mild is considered safe. The bascinet doesn'...
- Tue May 31, 2016 3:13 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Full mail coif under helm?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1463
Re: Full mail coif under helm?
I'm in Atlantia. I was told by very senior marshals that 14 gauge mild, while perfectly legal, would be a bad idea, especially for a small person. We're a very-high-calibration kingdom. I had earlier considered an aventail, but that wouldn't put enough mass and weight between a stick and my head (th...
- Tue May 31, 2016 2:08 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Full mail coif under helm?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1463
Full mail coif under helm?
Would wearing a full mail coif, of riveted mild steel, under a helm help to avoid concussion? I ask because I'm a tiny rapier fighter who's interested in exploring spear eventually. I have a small head, so I need extra weight and mass to compensate. It seems to me that adding a mail coif beneath a h...
- Tue May 17, 2016 1:21 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Removing a fixed bargrill?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 619
Re: Removing a fixed bargrill?
Selling a 14-gauge, 6.5-pound mild steel helm around here is problematic. That's probably why the price on this one was very low (bought it at an SCA yardsale at an event for $125). I'd rather try to get the helm on the field than have it gather dust. I wouldn't be doing the armoring work myself; I'...
- Tue May 17, 2016 1:16 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Could a basinet be converted to an archer's sallet?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 948
Re: Could a basinet be converted to an archer's sallet?
Thanks for the suggestion, but I already have two Cut and Thrust helms, one from Windrose and one from Icefalcon. My dilemma is that I bought a secondhand armored helm (for possible exploration of spear/polearm) locally at an SCA yardsale at an event without knowing the weight and true gauge, and it...