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Josh W

Aaron wrote:
Ken Mondschein wrote:

I am on the left.

Not shown: Full greaves.

Indeed!

Josh W

I might attend, if I can get my greaves fixed up by then...

Josh W

http://www.plessisarmouries.co.uk/breast/index.html

Josh W

Now y'all are making me want this book...

Josh W

I would dearly love to have those greaves, since the measurements indicate that they'd fit me perfectly, but try as I might over the last couple of weeks, I just have just not been able to raise enough funds to come up with any more than half their price so far...

Josh W

This was my first suit. It was heavy and poorly fitted. The photo was taken by Dwarlock back in...1999, I think...?

More pics of it here:

http://www.stormpages.com/dwarlock/joaquin.html

Josh W

I couldn't bring myself to fight (SCA or otherwise) without substantial back protection.

Josh W

I'm afraid I don't have a date or source for it, Felicity. I wish I did. Maybe Brent knows; it was he who first showed me this picture...

Josh W

I'd like to think that I could indeed help you, but I'm not so sure that I could do so unless you were present. We could try, I guess. It might help if I knew what your arming doublet looked like and exactly how it fit you, and which model of voiders you have. Can you post some pics of the items? Ev...

Josh W

Josh W

Many of the photos of my harness in use in an SCA context that I've posted here over the years include my voiders.

Josh W

Got a link for that? I've never heard of such a fragment. The early fragments I'm aware of (there are only a tiny handful that date to prior to 250 AD) are reasonably easy to identify, since they are similar to later versions of the text from the same culture. Whoops. Terribly sorry; I had meant to...

Josh W

I don't suppose anyone has pics of the rear of the armour...?

Josh W

Thanks guys; you all rock.

Especially James.

Josh W

Either the Mantova book or the one that Chad Arnow was selling on the Classifieds board.

Josh W

Josh W - A wikipedia reference is probably the worst choice. References from wikipedia are not acceptable now all the way down to Middle School. They are editable by anyone who can sign on. I am sure you could have found much better sources to quote that support your view. Fair enough. We'll start ...

Josh W

I'm sure I met plenty of you, but don't know it not knowing what faces go with what names. ...Hey, you're from Leavenworth too. I remember meeting you. I noticed that you had greaves, vambraces, and a gorget on under your cloak, and asked if they were your work as you passed by me. We then had a sh...

Josh W

Where is it displayed? Where/when was it made? Does anyone have any more pictures of it?

Josh W

Yes, the sagas were written hundreds of years after the period. Well, according to the available evidence, so was the new testament. -Derian. Well, not all of it. Tens of years after the events they narrate, certainly, some books even more than a single hundred, but not multiple hundreds in most ca...

Josh W

I had a great time. I got to watch SCA light weapons combat and cut-and-thrust for the first time. It looks like fun, especially with the cut-and-thrust rules. Meeting Blackstone was a treat. I was chatting with my friend Carl when this enormously tall, lanky fellow in a red coat stalks up and borro...

Josh W

There used to be a guy here on the Armour Archive who went by the handle "MacGowan Metals." He used to sell some pretty decent gauntlets for something like $80. I fight in a pair. They look like this: [img]http://www.mediumaevum.com/josh/jgaunt1.jpg[/img] Shoot him a PM or an e-mail and se...

Josh W

I don't care to be labeled a "thug" either.

The 14th century has co-opted the term "mafia," it the 16th century guys took "illuminati."

Surely we can come up with something classier than "thug."

Josh W

I'll be there. The site is only a few minutes from my house.

Josh W

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3539/3456868063_7a2c2c5169_o.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/3816515214_ef0cd4553b_o.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2641/3793234283_edd6c78d66_o.jpg I don't think I have any photos of me in my soft kit. My soft kit needs work anyway...

Josh W

Cliff Rogers wrote:3. Are barding plates generally thicker, thinner, or about the same as men's armor.Cliff

If it helps you any, Cliff, Charles Ffoulkes relates in The Armourer and His Craft that the larger plates in horse armour are around 1/16th inch in thickness.

Josh W

How much of what we know as "Traditional Indigenous Scandinavian Religious Practice" can we really be certain of? I had always understood that most (if not all) of what little we know of Norse religious belief and practice was transmitted to us by Christian monks (the Prose Edda and such),...

Josh W

I'd love to own this book.

I don't feel that the price Chad is asking is at all unfair, but I still can't scrape that kind of money together just now, however much I think the book is worth that price.

Josh W

Josh, DUDE!! Erm.. I mean...m'lord. That suit LOOKS mean!. Very very nice indeed. More importantly, to me at any rate, it looks functional. I reside just north of Kansas City and am presently employed in Leavenworth. Would you perchance be available for a coffee at Harbor Lights one afternoon? Chec...

Josh W

Our Syr Angus Oneail is fond of saying of the CoP "You have to wonder about a piece of armour who's only surviving example were found in a mass grave..." But he's wrong. There exist plenty more archaeological finds of coats of plates than Wisby. We've got the KuÃŸnach coats of plates, and...

Josh W

Aaron wrote:You're in Kansas City?

Where?

-Aaron

Not Kansas City proper, but I now live in Leavenworth, Kansas, which is a very short drive from KC.

Josh W

Hey, I just recently moved to the Kansas City area, and I own and fight in this harness, which is the one discussed in the thread linked to above:

I will be happy to assist you if you contact me.

Josh W

I agree with you; few things in SCA combat are more boring than a sword and shield bout. Once upon a time, the local practices in Manhattan, Kansas saw shields other than bucklers only rarely. Now, it seems like sword and shield is all anyone plays. I confess to disappointment upon noting that sword...

Josh W

I dunno. We decided that we specifically wanted to play at half-swording.

Josh W

Foolish me for wanting a harness where I can actually adjust my boots, or pick up something I drop without doing funny splits. (Unlike real knights, I don't have a squire to do that kind of stuff for me.) It sounds like I'll have to upgrade to a later era. I wear a c.1470 Italian plate harness, and...

Josh W

It was a blast!

Thanks for hosting this, Duncan. I hope we can do it again sometime soon.

More info on this suit?