The Armour Archive

Garick

I intend to bequeath my collection to a museum. A condition will be that they can only have it if they will display it. Anything they won't display won't be donated. It's currently displayed in my home and all items are available for handling, though some require cotton gloves and special handling i...

Garick

My mistake. Now that I can get home and look at my catalogs, it was actually two pieces from Hermann Historica's auction of the Guttmann collection that I purchased, not the Klingbeil. Auction 56, vice 65. The online version of the catalog is not as nicely laid out as above, but still worth checking...

Garick

I bought a couple items from this collection (and bid unsuccessfully on several more). One was miss-identified (16th C. Buff coat reinforcement IDed as an early 14th c breastplate), but I got it dirt cheap as the museums were leary. The other is a sweet 15th C. Bastard sword.

Garick

Yasamin and I will be there, probably arriving Sunday morning. This is my favorite event as well. Most looking forward to seeing old friends and doing silly-cool random arts and sciences. JeffJ and CharlotteJ (not usually found in this sub-forum, afaik) will be coming out on Weds. We talked them in ...

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Doug, your links are broken. Please to fix, as I really want to see.

Garick

I have difficulty with dropping on-side head shots. When my opponent is considerably taller than I (or I am knee fighting) and he throws a standard snap at a spot well above my head that drops in as it comes, I have a hard time picking up the block. This is particularly a problem if my shield strap ...

Garick

There are a couple of ways to throw this shot, both in the footwork (step or not) and in the sword geometry (fore-blade or back-blade). Here's mine. Miles' is slightly different, in that he usually uses the fore-blade, and tends to throw it at greater range than I do, but they are similar. Step one:...

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Very solid names. Submit them with good evidence of the first names use in period and the town's existence in period, and you're good to go.

Garick von Köpke, who has lost his 16th century atlas that shows the town of Köpke.

Garick

Anyone more versed on it want to take a stab at the walking stick? It looks 18th century to me, maybe even 19th.

Garick

I love that shot so much. The biggest regret from my nerve damage is that I can no longer do the footwork correctly for this shot. Very glad I got a chance to fight Miles at Estrella a couple of years back, literally one day before my drop-foot hit. Dueling spins were teh fun.

Garick

On that topic, if whoever outbid me on the gauntlet knuckle is from here... beware my wrath!

Garick

Here's a pretty good fight between me and Baron Lothar. We both use a lot of Talhofer in our greatsword styles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bddj4VCOncY

Garick

My info is very old, but I still have a "pretty good sword" (it's not great, but longer than most bastard swords) that I made in An Tir that has a "thrusting tip" for pommel strikes. I only use it to the face and unarmored collar bones and xiphoid processes (and theoretically inside of elbows and ar...

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I really recommend that you post a link to pics, rather than have "pics on request." I know that random viewing of others' orders when I wasn't in the market is what got me excited about switching to silk. Everyone likes shinies.

Garick

Don't count Atli out. New knight, and all that...

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Just want to mention to anyone on the fence that Isabella is a great choice for your banner needs. I've ordered two banners from her and have been very happy with not only the artwork, but the communication and the design process. She does great work and I highly recommend her.

Garick

I could cast them, but I really don't want to. I though Windrose had them, but I guess not.

So, looking for plain 3/4 or 1-inch brass belt stiffeners. The type that look like lieutenant bars. Anyone know of a source?

Garick

He is a very popular rubbing! I was at a NYE party a couple years ago, and was looking in a book with him in it(I think...) with my girl friend. She asked me what the meaning of the lion was, and I told her (I was a bit drunk at the time) "He liked lions." Reminds me of my German squire. I had him ...

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I have one of the Flieg collapsable off-ground firepits, and I'm pretty happy with it. There are plans here: http://boyscouts95.com/BoyScouts/Docs95.nsf/D3711FA507EFB35C862579440017031A/$FILE/fire%20pit%20plans.pdf This blacksmith is apparently looking at making them commercially, though I don't kno...

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Shaping seems off, eyes seem too far apart and openings too big, and no breath-holes. I don't think there's much chance this is real.

Garick

Yup, that's me. Man I look young...

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For the record, that weapon is the most brutal I've ever encountered. I would definitely not say that it was used without issue. It separated my shoulder once when the shot skipped off my helm and landed between my collar bone and shoulder joint. I'm pretty loathe to ban a weapon, but I did ask him...

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Um... in the West Kingdom we have had people put a chunk of rattan placed at a 90' angle to the rest of the weapon and use that for years. My Step-dad Sir Conner McAuliffe FitzJames has used a 7.5 ft pole hammer done thusly for 30 years without issue. For the record, that weapon is the most brutal ...

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Garick

Congratulations to TRHs. Any chance we could find out more about others who honorably strove? Who were the other finalists? Semi-finalists? Any realy cool bouts that we should hear about?

Garick

acameronjackson wrote:Interested in 3" strip 90-100 feet long, please pm me with your Paypal information to send funds. Thank you.

Sure hope that's a typo... It would take one fat cow to make that possible.

Garick

it doesn't do honor by your consort or demonstrate a modicum of respect for your opponent to be anything but clean when you fight.

QFT.

Garick

I am aware of the translation. However the etymology does not support that conclusion. Also, we have no evidence of such practice, without going back to the Bayeux Tapestry. Why does the etymology not support the conclusion? Simply because Bat is usually given as coming from Celtic? Hurl sounds not...

Garick

I have no idea what "TR Therapy" is, but when we had questions about perscription meds that could also be considered performance enhancing, we would talk to the crown.

Garick

Of course, idiots still do it. Currently, taking additional testosterone is "the thing." Actual quote: "Well, there is no anti-doping rule." There is on the West Coast, at least in Crown. The West Kingdom Invocation of the lists states "upon pain of expulsion from these Lists, let none here present...

Garick

Lord Ionness Aurelius Serpentius (John the Breeder on the Archive, I believe) is a strong darkhorse, in my opinion. I got a chance to fight him at Pennsic and was very impressed. He is a true student of fighting and has impressive hand-speed. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see him in the final fo...

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The verb "werfen" in German means "to throw." "Wurf" is the verbal noun. A "Beil" is an axe (it is where the weapon "Bill" comes from in English). Thus "Wurfbeil" means "throwing axe." The verb "hurl," of course, means "throw," and "bat" is a thing to strike with, so a hurlbat in English would be a ...

Garick

Works just fine. Only trouble I've had with brass rivets is on spring steal articulation, the spring steel will eventually cut through the rivet as the articulation plates move. That takes a LOT of use though, and they are easy to replace.

Garick

Windrose sellls little bags of them, though they don't seem to be on his website. Alternately, you can just cut them out of brass yourself. 22 gauge (.8mm) cuts easily with utility scissors, and you can easily file them into flower shapes.

Garick

You are not imagining things, though the ones that spring to mind for me were on the splints, rather than between them. A lot of period rivets have decorative washers, usually of brass, in florate shapes. Some of these are flat, and some are formed, usually with light repouse. (sp?)

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