doto major diffrences of opiniun the jc group has lost two fighters
and more may follow
i am one of the fighters
and will be looking for a group to join any info on other groups in my area please let me know

all thought this is not an sca event i would hope that we have some sca members show up i for one has learned a lot from the folks who spar with us on wenesday nights and look forward to trying my arms against other who are skilled in combat and diffrent types of weapons we need input from every shi...

if you use a heat stripping gun and have it blow under the metal breast plate you can get the plastic to form over it
here is a sample of one that i made it is not complete yet
http://68.174.241.230:8080/kor/2005-01-20-DSCF0003

that is my youngest son the mail was made by my oldest son it has a pocket because the hoodie sweat shrits have them he is crossing the old with the new jst a question, why the pocket? and is that u, or ur son? otherwise, looks gr8, keep on at it, there are heaps of sites with tons of info on how to...

tyhanks great info will post the hoodie when done http://homepage.ntlworld.com/trevor.barker/farisles/guilds/armour/mail.htm Section 4 holds everything you need for both a coif and a shirt, including sleeves. The simplest kind of sleeve to make with what you have so far is the Extended-Row/Open-Hang...

this is gonna be a hoodie if i can find info on how to make the sleeves and couff the main part is 4 in 1 the pocket is done in 6 in 1 [img]http://68.174.241.230:8080/eric/2005-04-16-dscf0001.jpg[/img] [img]http://68.174.241.230:8080/eric/2005-04-16-dscf0002.jpg[/img] [img]http://68.174.241.230:8080...

Some more background information would help us here. "Miyamato Mushashi, the great samurai warrior (1584-1645), was defeated only once and that at the hands of Muso Gonosuke. Gonosuke had earlier been defeated by Musashi who told the young warrior to go off and master his long stick techniques befo...

anyone have any comments on using the double headed spear/staff
on this page
i have been told that the "sca" is made up of nobleman and they dont use staffs

http://www.wahlumdenver.com/types_of_ancient_chinese_weapons.htm

anybody have links to pattrens for making clothing and footware?

my son did this over the summer using copper washers the washers were purchased for a local surplus store at $2.00 a pound he earned the money by painting the fence around a grave yard nice part is while working on it he dropped the rap music and started to play some medevile tunes [img]http://68.17...

William de Grey wrote:

rev.jc wrote:http:yewter.com/fhm.kor

Got error page not found and root access blocked. I would love to see the helms.

William

small problem in the link here is the right one
http://yewter.com/kor

i had a 1971 cade that the bumbers were made from crome plated steel with aluminum mounts in a 10 year time frame the aluminum broke apart if sheets of a very soft powder type substance (oh for the lack of spell check) I know that over time copper and steel can make a corrosion id placed together in...

When the boffer fighting gets old, and you wanna try something different, we'll tell you how to make some real armour. being this is a new group of young childern funds are not what we have, so we work with the plastic do to the price we get it at as for going heavy looking forward to it to bad its...

for the most part i would say its youth fighting (boffer)
how ever i have tried hitting dished pieces with hammers and it takes an extremly hard hit to break the plastic....
wish i could figure out how to add pictures to the post
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what is your take on using abs plastic to make amour for boffer fighting
i have some 1/4 inch thick plastic that has some spongenest in the center
gets plable at about 220 degrees and looks like hard leather

Here's a picture - [img]http://members.aol.com/fmerg/dcp004.jpg[/img]

I Need some pre-dished knees and elbow cops, I understand that they go for about $10 a pair for mild 16Ga do any of you sell them? It is for my youth group, call me
at 845-331-3801 or mail me here, but I need a postal address, I am interested in all pre dished parts ie helm tops, knees elbows