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" 3/8" ID is what my readily-available mandrel will turn, and 16ga. looks like the most easily acquired wire in the area." If your going to do any fighting in it I would suggest 14g. !6g. in 3/8id. butted will not hold up well, at least for SCA combat. Maybe boffer, but I doubt it. I know every bit ...

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http://members.aol.com/AGPitts/frame.html
This might be a good place to start. Some good info here, near as I can tell

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Very nice stuff as always Adam

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Heres what I`ve always done with a kite, your milage may vary. First of all, this assumes you are using it in an SCA context. When I strap one, I like it so that when my arm is held in close and comfortably (left elbow on left hip, fist around chin level, left side forward) the bottom corner will an...

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I checked out the site, but didn`t see any reference to aventails for sale.

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Sir Rhys, I have tried three times now to write a response to some of the things you said, but not being to eloquent withthe typed word, I didn`t like the tone of them when I read them back. Are you going to be at Birka tomorrow? I would be interested in discussing this in person, and being shown fi...

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Do you have a link for us to check out? I`m definitly interested!

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Too Cool!

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Olaf, don`t sweat it. I already replaced the blown rivets. I understand the trade off issue. No biggie, and I am still quite pleased with the product, and will continue to recomend you to people. Thanks for the offer though. Thadeus, I certainly didn`t mean people were saying outright I should ditch...

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I want one of those too, to go with my corazina. And speaking of corazinas,.... http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/smile.gif Actualy I really do want one of those, but I don`t think lots of breath holes would look right or be period on one. Someone who knows more on the subject can probably answer tha...

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As long as its a legal target area, I will hit it if its open, armor or not. I will try to hit a spot I know is unarmored a little lighter, but I will hit it, and not feel bad at all. BTW, the guy in the pics is wearing football style thigh pads under his pants. Last time I fought him however, he wa...

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While I agree that the Met piece is inconclusive, wearing the piece it seems to make sense to me to do it that way. There are enough gaps and slots between plates as well as open areas, that it would be easy to slide a well placed point between them . To that end the mail underneath provides a secon...

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Jgalak, take a look at the pics above and you will see why it makes sense to wear a shirt underneath instead of gussets and the like. Plus, based on the piece in the Met. http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1zoom.asp?dep=4&full=0&mark=1&item=29%2E154%2E3 it looks to me like there is a shirt und...

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also here is a link to the one in the Met. click on the pic to zoom onto different parts.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1zoom.asp?dep=4&full=0&mark=1&item=29%2E154%2E3

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As far as the corazina goes, it does seem to be the general consensus that the fauld plates in the Met. and on mine are not documentable. I won`t say they didn`t exist that way because they might have, but we have no proof. The one in the Met is a re-creation based on the assumptions of the staff th...

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Sent you some more and an e-mail Sebatian.
Thanks Stoffel, I think Sebastian has got it, but if there is a problem, I`ll drop you some pics.
John

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Oh, and I bet if you contact Olaf about the rivets he would be happy to replace them for you. He seems like a good guy and very fair businessman from what I've heard. I`m sur he would, and he is a good guy from my experience. I`m not going to sweat the price of a handfull of rivets or the time to pu...

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Looks real nice. one thing I like that I don`t often see in SCA greathelms is the lip around the eyeslots. I like the decorative drillwork too. Unfortus=natly, I don`t really know enough to make any usefull suggestions of criticisms from a picture ( If I had it in hand or wore it in combat that woul...

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Andrew, Call me tonight if at all possible. I am home now, and should be all night

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Hogan, I just sent you several pics. I`m still new at this, so let me know if they got to you. Also, If you know how to post them on the archive, feel free. I have been trying, but I am pretty computer illiterate, so I havn`t gotten there yet. They are not the best pics, but the best I have so far. ...

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Damned Right Otto! Vallconnan, I just sent you several pics. I`m still new at this, so let me know if they got to you. Also, If you know how to post them on the archive, feel free. I have been trying, but I am pretty computer illiterate, so I havn`t gotten there yet. They are not the best pics, but ...

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I have some pics from the other day, but I am having trouble getting them on a website. I can e-mail you tho.

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Some of you may remember some months ago I got new gear from a variety of places. I fought in it all for the first time sunday and was overall quite pleased. I was wearing: Steel grieves from Westlig Stjerne/Alemain Rivet, splinted legs with 5 piece articulations from the same, articulated pauldrons...

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I gave mine its maiden voyage sunday and it worked very well. I will try to e-mail you some pics later; I still don`t know how to get pics posted directly to the board. BTW, I do wear splinted arms and legs with mine. The Lost Scott made mine, ans Sasuke made a real nice one too. You may want to tal...

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We already have tournaments where you can win or lose based on being pushed out of the lists (Iâ€™m going to one in the East next weekend). Asbjorn, I plan on being at Birka too. Hope to meet you there. Some people have given good arguments here, but I am still not convinced. If people do start to e...

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Originally posted by Asbjorn Johansen: I think we are having terminology issues here. What Sir Rhys brought up in the other thread is not full contact throws, arm locks, etc all in wresting. Grappling is probably a overly broad term to use. Nope, I got it. I just think it opens the door for braoder ...

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This came up in another thread, and I figured it deserved its own thread. I have thought a lot about grappeling being added to SCA combat, I think it could add to the overall flavor and make things more realistic and fun in a lot of ways. But, I have serious concerns. Before I chimed in here, I talk...

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That looks great! and you reckon it will pass? all the better. Thanks a lot Rev. I really appreciate it.
John

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I can`t really translate how elegant a kite shield can be, but I can give the basics of how I was taught to use one by a northern region Master. Basicaly, its used similar to a small, strapped round. fought away from the body and used with a lot of offensive blocking like punch blocking. It is essen...

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Wow, thanks Rev.! That is very much like what I had in mind, the only difference being I was thinking a white chevron, but the gold looks good too. I will probably do it in a darker green and give the dogs a more pit bull looking profile ( I plan on using the male here http://castlewood-kennels.50me...

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Cool. What I`m looking at would be in plain English, not heraldspeak, a green field, a white chevron in the middle dividing the sheild, and a gold dog rampant in each corner. How do I go about checking for points of conflict etc.?
John

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I am trying to do the same thing, but not with hounds. I raise pit bulls, and I know there were period equivalents of the breed (according to some breed historians it is the same breed today down from antiquity. There is some credence to that argument)Anyhow, I am trying to figure out how to justify...

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I definitly hate hard elbows of any kind behind my shield. "Fans" make it worse. I rarely wear a hard elbow at all behind My shield, unless I am using a small shield and need the elbow protected.
John

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every bit of butted mail I`ve seen from them is pretty crappy. The link ends are uaualy cut poorly the wire is weak, and the size if the rings is too big for the size of the wire used. (3/8id, 16g). Their coifs usualy have a very small mantle that doesn`t look right too. If you are going to use it f...

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I agree with Ian here. We are supposed to base our standard on mail. The protection offered by mail isn`t just as a physical hard barrier between steel and body, but of the blanket effect when one hits loose mail. This is inherint in the design of the material. I also feel that as we are supposed to...

Update on new armor, small problem with a Weslig Stjerne pro

Grappeling in SCA combat