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- Fri Jul 25, 2014 12:12 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SLO Jousting, July 2014
- Replies: 2
- Views: 435
SLO Jousting, July 2014
Hey Guys, it's been a LONG time since I've posted anything here at AA, but since I was dragged kicking and screaming (in anticipation!) back into the jousting world, I thought I should get back up to speed on things Renaissance and Medieval. In the past two months I've taken part in two great jousti...
- Wed Sep 26, 2012 12:52 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 16th century Illuminatti time to show off your kits!!!
- Replies: 382
- Views: 62824
Re: 16th century Illuminatti time to show off your kits!!!
David;
There is always "something" that we need to tweak to make it "right"! When we get there though, the game is up, we'll need to find a new project at that point or we'll go mad.
Cheers!
Gordon
There is always "something" that we need to tweak to make it "right"! When we get there though, the game is up, we'll need to find a new project at that point or we'll go mad.
Cheers!
Gordon
- Wed Sep 26, 2012 9:47 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 16th century Illuminatti time to show off your kits!!!
- Replies: 382
- Views: 62824
Re: 16th century Illuminatti time to show off your kits!!!
Nice! Right out of Sir Philip Sydney's funeral procession. I love the peascod breastplate, and just the fact that you're doing a targeteer impression, with a proper English basket-hilted broadsword, no less. Even a sufficient padding to the back of your target.
Great job!
Cheers!
Gordon
Great job!
Cheers!
Gordon
- Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:30 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Mounted Cavalry Charge with lances
- Replies: 40
- Views: 1558
Re: Mounted Cavalry Charge with lances
For a great explanation of this, and why neither pikes nor infantry firearms did NOT wipe the knight off the field, see "Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe," by Bert Hall. Bingo. It was the Pistolier who drove the mounted knight from the field. A lance is a single-shot weapon (it was standar...
- Wed Aug 01, 2012 10:16 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Conquistador funerary effigy
- Replies: 12
- Views: 483
Re: Conquistador funerary effigy
Interesting... the helmet certainly looks to be straight out of the period illustrations of conquistadors, especially those of the Aztecs (I realize this is in Peru, but I'm thinking in terms of what other natives were "seeing" at the same time). It's almost as though it's a native "artist's renditi...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 8:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Horse Manure Tinder
- Replies: 8
- Views: 491
Re: Horse Manure Tinder
It's not like the fellow is using cow manure or something yucky like that (four stomachs do a good job of digesting stuff) ... horses don't do a lot of digesting, so it's only slightly composted hay that comes out. I can see how it would burn well. Gotta try that! (When the weather dries things up, ...
- Wed Apr 18, 2012 5:10 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: OOP modern saddle identification
- Replies: 2
- Views: 243
Re: OOP modern saddle identification
I'd put it earlier than 1900 myself. Sam Stagg rigging, separate jockeys over the stirrup leathers, the stirrup leathers having the sweat leathers riveted to them, and the very square skirting. It could be after 1900, but if so then not by much. The "Cheyenne Roll" on the back of the cantle is a bit...
- Mon Apr 09, 2012 8:23 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Horse tack
- Replies: 6
- Views: 417
Re: Horse tack
If it's in scale with everything else on the page, it's too big to be a curb chain. Lord knows what in the heck it is, though.
Gordon
Gordon
- Tue Nov 29, 2011 11:43 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: History of the Domesticated Turkey?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1166
Re: History of the Domesticated Turkey?
I recall reading that the term "Turkey" comes from the supposed resemblance of the Turkey to a "Turkish Pheasant" or some such. From that to "Turkey-cocke" and thence to simple "Turkey". The Spaniards in the New World, at least up through the end of the 16th Century, referred to them as "Mexican Chi...
- Wed Nov 02, 2011 9:23 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: School of the Renaissance Soldier - Midwest: The Long War
- Replies: 5
- Views: 527
Re: School of the Renaissance Soldier - Midwest: The Long Wa
YAY! Good luck with this, Gentlemen!
Cheers!
Gordon
Cheers!
Gordon
- Tue Sep 13, 2011 1:55 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Earliest Cast Iron Pots?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3052
Re: Earliest Cast Iron Pots?
Rittermeister Frye - That is a good point about conquistadors and copper. I seem to recall something about large quantities on copper crossbow quarrel heads too. Not the best place to look for early cast iron. Indeed, the Tlaxcalans (allied with Cortez against the Aztecs) provided the Spaniards wit...
- Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:37 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Earliest Cast Iron Pots?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3052
Re: Earliest Cast Iron Pots?
I have been trying "conquistador" sites but I have not found any that well documented. I am having more luck with American sites though since as the saying goes: "Americans think that 100 years is a long time while Europeans think that 100 miles is a long ways." I like that! Gotta remember it and s...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:53 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Earliest Cast Iron Pots?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 3052
Re: Earliest Cast Iron Pots?
Guthrie, Cast iron shot goes back a bit further than that. The Mary Rose had cast iron shot on board in 1545, and Biringuccio tells us how to do it in Pirotechnia, which was published posthumously in 1540. He thinks of them as a "new" invention from around 1495. Mac As I recall, cast iron cannon ba...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 10:05 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Triplex construction of breastplate
- Replies: 10
- Views: 626
Re: Triplex construction of breastplate
It seems as though a lot of it was a way of reusing older armours, but it's nifty in that it ended up with a nice system of different hardness levels throughout the armour. Pretty cool. I hadn't seen the test against musket shot though, that would definitely be something interesting to read. (They d...
- Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:38 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: 16th Century Breastplate help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 477
Re: 16th Century Breastplate help
Mid-to-late 16th Century German? You're pretty much looking at classic Black and White armour, the stuff of which the Schwarz Reiter were named for. Check out this thread: http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=52400&hilit=Schwarz+Reiter For Italian, check out the Osprey book on...
- Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:30 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: The last charge of Richard III
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1447
Re: The last charge of Richard III
Excellent!
Cheers!
Gordon
Cheers!
Gordon
- Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:04 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
- Replies: 38
- Views: 1483
Re: The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
The thing is that the past IS like another country, even if it's our own country's past we're talking about. Not only do languages change, but outlooks as well. I seriously doubt that any modern "Western" individual is as focused upon religion, spirituality and the here-after as our fore-fathers and...
- Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:25 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: French film set in 1500s: any good?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 505
Re: French film set in 1500s: any good?
Sad turn of events, isn't it James? And you're right, I'm surprised that they don't all shave their heads for more "face time".
Cheers,
Gordon
Cheers,
Gordon
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:39 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: French film set in 1500s: any good?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 505
Re: French film set in 1500s: any good?
Too bad that this film (among many others) seems to suffer from the fact that neither film directors nor costume directors can comprehend that at any period other than our own, people wore HATS. And in combat during this period, gentlemen wore ARMOUR, with HELMETS. Amazing stuff, that. Sad how they ...
- Mon Aug 08, 2011 9:27 pm
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: IWTB Italian Man at Arms 1570-80
- Replies: 1
- Views: 831
Re: IWTB Italian Man at Arms 1570-80
You'll probably be working for either Spain or France (well, the French Crown, at least), or perhaps the Imperialists of Austria. Both Spain and France hired Italian Heavy Horse for their campaigns against Protestant forces in the Netherlands and France, respectively, while the Austrians hired some ...
- Mon Jun 27, 2011 11:14 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Recreated Roman Fortress and FrontierTower
- Replies: 2
- Views: 411
Re: Recreated Roman Fortress and FrontierTower
Very cool. Thanks for posting that!
Cheers!
Gordon
Cheers!
Gordon
- Mon Jun 27, 2011 8:47 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I Wanna Be a Schwarze Reiter
- Replies: 139
- Views: 21943
Re: I Wanna Be a Schwarze Reiter
Ancel; Indeed, this is the one. It's an excellent resource of period illustrations. BTW, it also has some "classical illusion" illustrations, as well as some from "the old days" (i.e. a few generations prior, with nice Gothic armour and whatnot) so one mustn't jump to the conclusion that because it ...
- Fri Jun 17, 2011 9:56 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: New Website on Elizabethan Men's Clothing
- Replies: 24
- Views: 771
Re: New Website on Elizabethan Men's Clothing
This is what those long-tailed shirts are for. Tuck 'em under! Thus being in public just in your shirtsleeves was rather in poor taste. Cheers, Gordon I knew it was poor taste but I'd never thought of it that way! It's your underoos! :lol: Exactly. And this condition lasted well into the middle of ...
- Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:22 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: New Website on Elizabethan Men's Clothing
- Replies: 24
- Views: 771
Re: New Website on Elizabethan Men's Clothing
This is what those long-tailed shirts are for. Tuck 'em under! Thus being in public just in your shirtsleeves was rather in poor taste.
Cheers,
Gordon
Cheers,
Gordon
- Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:59 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Renaissance-era doublet and boots?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 671
Re: Renaissance-era doublet and boots?
Those don't show up in period illustrations until the late-17th/early=18th Century, I'm afraid.AlvarGuerrero wrote:Curious about a late period riding boot as well, though I am looking at some Metis Botas de alas from New Spain as well.
Cheers,
Gordon
- Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:29 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: New Website on Elizabethan Men's Clothing
- Replies: 24
- Views: 771
Re: New Website on Elizabethan Men's Clothing
Good Man! Thanks for putting that together!
Cheers!
Gordon
Cheers!
Gordon
- Sat Jun 11, 2011 10:18 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Irish in North America before Spanish
- Replies: 22
- Views: 949
Re: Irish in North America before Spanish
Check out "America B.C." by Barry Fell. Some interesting interpretations of the various artifacts strewn about North America, and possible translations of "plow scratches" on stones into Ogam ("Linear 3" as I recall).
Cheers,
Gordon
Cheers,
Gordon
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:20 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Early Modern Soldier's Devotionals
- Replies: 17
- Views: 692
Re: Early Modern Soldier's Devotionals
There are several sources which note that the forces of the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion would regularly sing verses 24 and 25 of the 118th Psalm prior to battle. They most certainly did just prior to the Battle of Coutras in 1587, according to the writings of Agrippa D'Aubigné, who ...
- Wed Jun 01, 2011 9:25 am
- Forum: Armour - I want to be a...
- Topic: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2504
Re: I WTB a "Roundhead" (Parlimentarian ECW)
I would imagine too that the specifics of lacing viz-a-vis hook and eye closures would depend upon time and place. Late ECW/post-war (from whence most of the extant buff coats originate, I would presume) would, I believe, be more likely to have the hook and eye closure than one from, say, 1620 or so...
- Fri May 27, 2011 12:34 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Das Standebuch (1568): "Midias invented this craft"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 312
Re: Das Standebuch (1568): "Midias invented this craft"
I have always assumed that Jost Amman meant they mythological King Midas, the one of whom everything he touched turned to gold, including food, daughters, etc. Why on earth he would be credited with the invention of maille has always been beyond me, but then the Europeans of that era were wont to ma...
- Fri May 27, 2011 12:28 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Book on the 1609 Champlain Expedition
- Replies: 1
- Views: 211
Re: Book on the 1609 Champlain Expedition
Wow, looks pretty cool. Already found an error though, at least in the kit of the fellow on the front cover. The French weren't in to "tricker locks" (matchlocks with trigger mechanisms and a trigger guard), but rather stuck with the sear-bar style until full adoption of flintlocks in 1703. So we'll...
- Wed May 11, 2011 11:27 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pattern Question on a Jack of Plates
- Replies: 16
- Views: 800
Re: Pattern Question on a Jack of Plates
Thanks for the link Andrew, there's a lot of new stuff on the website that I hadn't seen yet.
Cheers!
Gordon
Cheers!
Gordon
- Mon May 09, 2011 5:36 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 16th century Illuminatti time to show off your kits!!!
- Replies: 382
- Views: 62824
Re: 16th century Illuminatti time to show off your kits!!!
Good Job! Great looking armour! One so very seldom sees nice segmented cuisses/tassets, so it's wonderful to see them there! I need to go back and put a skirting on the doublet to help keep it from riding up and exposing my hips and back to the bottom of my breastplate, which is where I get most of ...
- Sun May 08, 2011 1:22 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Gjermundbu occulars on a 16th century close helm
- Replies: 7
- Views: 586
Re: Gjermundbu occulars on a 16th century close helm
Really? How is a falling buffe functionally different than a more standard wrapper? A close helmet already has a "wrapper" as part of its construction of the lower visor, so an added one would be rather superfluous, I would think. I realize that the "sparrow's beak" armets needed one, due among oth...
- Sat May 07, 2011 10:40 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Gjermundbu occulars on a 16th century close helm
- Replies: 7
- Views: 586
Re: Gjermundbu occulars on a 16th century close helm
That makes no sense to have a falling buffe on a close helmet. And unless there is a cranial cap reinforce to go over the skull with all of the open cuts in it, he helmet itself would be quite useless. I wonder how much of this is an assemblage, and what was done to it later on by the Romanov court ...