I just thought the attachment method was novel and unique.randyshipp wrote:It doesn't seem like a huge difference to me. One is attached with vervelles, the other sewn onto the rim. I'm in the middle of doing exactly what you're describing using the hood/helm liner I got from Piotr Zacharski.
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- Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:39 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Helm lining/aventail combo, need input
- Replies: 13
- Views: 745
Re: Helm lining/aventail combo, need input
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:52 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Helm lining/aventail combo, need input
- Replies: 13
- Views: 745
Re: Helm lining/aventail combo, need input
And doesn't the Walter von Hohenklingen effigy have a quilted aventail *over* a mail coif or mantle? http://effigiesandbrasses.com/monuments/walter_von_hohenklingen/ The design looks dissimilar though. In the effigy the quilted aventail is attached to a band and attached to the outside of the helm....
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 4:35 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Helm lining/aventail combo, need input
- Replies: 13
- Views: 745
Helm lining/aventail combo, need input
I've got this wild hair up my wing wong to make a new kind of aventail as inspired by this image: http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh269/Tvayumat/418818_323779987661343_100000880334242_891040_1022358369_n.jpg If you look at the guy on the right side in the front, raising his sword to strike, he is...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:08 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Injuries from "Whoops"
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1566
Re: Injuries from "Whoops"
But then, I also fight in a close-visored helm and take leg shots as fatal, so I guess I have some funny ideas. :wink: :wink: :wink: HEATHEN!! You will be confined to a bargrill, encased in blue pickle barrel plastic and staked out in the sun tied to four madus and drown in warm Budwiser for your f...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 2:06 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: When did "clamshell" gauntlets appear
- Replies: 8
- Views: 261
Re: When did "clamshell" gauntlets appear
There is a distinction, I believe, between clamshell and mitten. When I think "clamshell" I think of the modern SCA gauntlets with a nearly spherically round profile when closed and a short flared cuff. When I think "mitten" I think something more akin to the Milanese 3-panel mitten gauntlets. That ...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:54 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Injuries from "Whoops"
- Replies: 65
- Views: 1566
Re: Injuries from "Whoops"
Some of us like it in the press. I find being locked in the shield line pushing and shoving and swinging when possible is the most exhilerating experience I've had in the SCA. Of course, I'm also 6'2" and 230 lbs at my lightest. What I do not like is people attempting to pressure folk (particularly ...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:30 pm
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Review of Talbot's Fine Accessories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 102
Re: Review of Talbot's Fine Accessories
I picked up a bag of Talbot's heavier "armor" buckles when he was doing a run of them on here. They are GREAT! They look fantastic, get lots of compliments, and despite taking hits due to my own poor buckle placement, they are all good and solid. Actually, that reminds me, I'm gonna need some more s...
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:47 am
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Thoughts On Gulf Wars This Year? MEETUP Time/Place?
- Replies: 140
- Views: 2061
Re: Thoughts On Gulf Wars This Year? MEETUP Time/Place?
I feel like AA vs everyone would have a distinct visual theme of shiny kits vs significantly less attractive kits
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:18 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Would this buckler work for SCA?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 312
Re: Would this buckler work for SCA?
If that is just a rounded metal lip you shouldn't need to do anything to it. It will probably ring decently but you can fix that if it bothers you.
Looks fine to me.
Looks fine to me.
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 11:42 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: demo sale GAUNTLETS offer?/trades? SOLD/TRADED
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2572
Re: demo sale GAUNTLETS offer?/trades?
I've got a pair of whonews wisby gauntlets and I can attest to their readiness for SCA heavy. I've taken some heavy shots right to the fingertips and gotten nothing more than a good sting and a little blood under the fingernail, this was BEFORE I padded them properly. Now that I have good padding an...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:28 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: Spear with a banner in SCA combat
- Replies: 13
- Views: 481
Re: Spear with a banner in SCA combat
The Baron here has been playing with a banner in one hand and a sword in the other, for just this purpose. Using the bannerpole as mostly a blocking surface, he can hold people off decently from a static position, and use the thrusty on the head to threaten. It's possible to do this, but no matter w...
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 2:43 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: [SCA] Consent to Points of Contest
- Replies: 79
- Views: 1374
Re: [SCA] Consent to Points of Contest
The person losing the sword/shield arm or a leg should just yield the fight. The whole fighting with one arm behind your back or from the knee is dumb. This is my personal policy. I do not like fighting one-armed, and I will not fight from my knees. This is simply because I do not believe it makes ...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:55 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Simple klappvisor with onion top?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 167
Re: Simple klappvisor with onion top?
If you must have an extant example you may be out of luck. I know of none, but maybe the archive will surface one for you.
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:31 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Simple klappvisor with onion top?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 167
Re: Simple klappvisor with onion top?
Onion top skull with a pigface Klappvisier? Sure thing; I can think of at least two extant pieces- the Coburg bascinet, and another in the Metropolitan Museum. Onion top with round nosed Klappvisier? Now you're asking. I have a feeling that the roundnose went out of fashion before the onion top cam...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:27 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Bascinet For Sale
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1184
Re: Bascinet For Sale
Dibs on dog pending breed and medical info
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:25 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Want to hire a retainer for Great North Eastern War.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1228
Re: Want to hire a retainer for Great North Eastern War.
This is a brilliant idea. Stealing. I had a friend who had never been to an SCA event so I brought him to a pas I was in, to act as my herald. He stumbled during the heralding (He REALLY wanted to do it, just got tripped up on my apparently difficult to pronounce name), and felt bad for it afterward...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 10:14 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Simple klappvisor with onion top?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 167
Re: Simple klappvisor with onion top?
I'm also a bit confused. It seems like you want an oniontop with a visor other than a houndskull. Bascinets can be fitted with any one of a range of visor styles. Klappvisor does not refer to a visor shape, but rather to the method of closure. A klappvisor has a single mounting point on the forehead...
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 9:31 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New shields progress w/ pics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 987
Re: New shields progress w/ pics
Bumping with update pics
Comments and questions welcome.
Comments and questions welcome.
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:33 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New shields progress w/ pics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 987
Re: New shields progress w/ pics
Updated w/ pics
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 5:09 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weapon chains and the SCA
- Replies: 38
- Views: 673
Re: Weapon chains and the SCA
To hell with it... I'm making mine rock frigging solid, and if anyone bitches, I will tell them to find me the rule saying lanyards can't be attached to the breastplate. Then kindly remind them they are free with their honor protected to forfeit the fight because they are uncomfortable facing non s...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:27 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Gothic Finger Gauntlets $110 shipped
- Replies: 8
- Views: 612
Re: Gothic Finger Gauntlets $110 shipped
About a hundred years too late for me, but thanks 
I was just wondering because I wanted to post these around, but I guess I don't need to now.
I was just wondering because I wanted to post these around, but I guess I don't need to now.
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:26 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: who sells a "real" sword
- Replies: 38
- Views: 767
Re: who sells a "real" sword
Valiant Armoury
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:20 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: Gothic Finger Gauntlets $110 shipped
- Replies: 8
- Views: 612
Re: Gothic Finger Gauntlets $110 shipped
Stainless? Gauge of steel?
Even if these are just decorative that is a pretty sweet price...
Even if these are just decorative that is a pretty sweet price...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 10:18 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: looking for a helm for a new fighter
- Replies: 15
- Views: 446
Re: looking for a helm for a new fighter
^This^MalkomeKarre wrote:Emorokianarms.com is a good place to look.
His $100 basic helm is solid as a rock and he generally keeps them in stock for quick turnaround.
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:56 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weapon chains and the SCA
- Replies: 38
- Views: 673
Re: Weapon chains and the SCA
Nor is there any way to accurately direct sardonicism in an open forum. I don't even know who you were mocking.Destichado wrote:That was sarcasm.
Actually it was sardonic, but there's no good meme for sardonicism.
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:37 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New shields progress w/ pics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 987
Re: New shields progress w/ pics
Hi Sigismund, With 13mm thick shields simply rounding the edges is enough. Why go through all the trouble with the rope? Rawhide is put on so thaat it helps to strengthen the shield. Cheers, Jan So I've been told. Truth be told I cannot imagine that rounding the edges is significantly easier than w...
- Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:13 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New shields progress w/ pics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 987
Re: New shields progress w/ pics
How did you do the edge? Pictures please? I didn't take any while I was doing it, but I just took some of my war heater since I haven't canvassed it yet. All I did was take a dremel with a small barrel sander and lay in a VERY slight groove to the middle of the edge of the wood. On corners and edge...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:51 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: New shields progress w/ pics
- Replies: 15
- Views: 987
New shields progress w/ pics
Started working on a pair of new shields over the weekend. I am trying some new ideas (for me) so I figured I'd start taking pics and posting them for those who may be interested. Needed a new smaller shield and a war shield, went with heater shape for both. Did not get any pics of cutting or edging...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:57 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weapon chains and the SCA
- Replies: 38
- Views: 673
Re: Weapon chains and the SCA
Destichado wrote:You're awesome.
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 8:46 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Finger buckler pattern
- Replies: 4
- Views: 186
Re: Finger buckler pattern
I have a rather nice set from merctailor and even they seem to be pretty much just a dished disk (with some embellishments), some padding on the inside, and a buckled strap.
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:48 pm
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weapon chains and the SCA
- Replies: 38
- Views: 673
Re: Weapon chains and the SCA
I am just in the process of fitting chains from my COP to my sword and dagger..I was under the impression the reason for having the chains attached to weapons was to stop you losing them in battle if dropped..What do you want break away chains for??? defeating the object I think... :D That was exac...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:34 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weapon chains and the SCA
- Replies: 38
- Views: 673
Re: Weapon chains and the SCA
My main concern going into this was that the chain would almost immediately tangle around my limb or the limb of my opponent, but it sounds like that really just doesn't happen.
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:35 am
- Forum: Classifieds / Want Ads
- Topic: what should i charge for this ?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 752
Re: what should i charge for this ?
What do you make the blanks out of?
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:44 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weapon chains and the SCA
- Replies: 38
- Views: 673
Re: Weapon chains and the SCA
I plan on doing this on my next set of body armor. It will have nice chain in between, with break away connections on either end to prevent someone from getting truly tangled, but strong enough not to fail if I throw my weapon accidentally. They will likely be removable as well, getting put on for ...
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:38 am
- Forum: Armour - Design and Construction
- Topic: Weapon chains and the SCA
- Replies: 38
- Views: 673
Re: Weapon chains and the SCA
I was talking about this with a friend today and he suggested a chest plate with an embossed frontal view of an elephant, with the chains extending from his tusks. I think this just went to the top of my projects list.