The Armour Archive

Oswyn_de_Wulferton

What is the reserve? Feel free to PM me if you are against posting it in an open forum.

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Make a mock-up of the pattern out of posterboard, and then measure 3x before cutting. Bevel the edges.

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Hey I am not in dead minimums yet until Cisco gets those 3/4 legs from me. THEN I will be in dead minimums. As long as I block or get out of the way, it doesnt hurt. Or just block with my head.

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Know your Range! (Said to a 6'5" guy with monkey arms and a 44~ish sword)

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There is a suit of armor, I think it is in the Wallace collection, that has some etching that is reminiscent of modern tribal tatoos, at least in one area on the pauldron. Wait, you mean there is period justification for a tribal ring around my bicep? (I guess I forgot to wash off the acid after et...

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Responded.

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Well, I will be there on Wednesday. I am leaving early afternoon from GA (the state, not kingdom) and should be there in time for the meeting. It will be nice to meet all of you. And if I fail, I will just tell them it is all Sir Lex's fault!

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I am looking to sell my 3/4 legs for 100. They are 14 ga. mild steel, with a 3/8" (yes its that thick) leather thigh wrap. I cant send pics right now, as they just left for Gulf Wars with all my other amour, but if you are going to be there, feel free to look me up. Pm me if you would like more deta...

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What is it made out of? Does it fit?

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That is not how cloak works in rapier. It is a parring device.It is meant to sweep a blade clear. It is not an impenatrable shield. I have kill many through their cloaks. The idea behind it was stopping through inertia, not using cloth as an actual shield. You could get through these too, if the ar...

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The people actually found out about it quite by accident (loose arrow at clothes drying on a line) if I remember right, and they were looking at the idea of a full cloak that would hang on the bow arm. Specifically, if anyone in period actually figured this out (works for both bodkin and broadheads ...

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I was wondering about that too.

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On one of the archery lists that I am on, people have talked about hanging fabric from their arms to deflect arrows. Apparently 2-3 layers of free hanging fabric will pretty much stop most arrows. from keeping power. They have discussed trying it out with combat archers as a defense against other ar...

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Looking back through the Meridian handbook, there is no actual thing defining a shield that is held in an arm with another weapon. Jeff, I think Irish hit it on the head, about the possible abuse of this form. Not enough people are trying it to actually get a defined ruling and change the rules to e...

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The bits and pieces of armour that I do, yes. But that is because I live in a frat house and my room is 9x13 and the downstairs is huge and filled mostly with tables, couches, big screens, Golden tee, ping pong, pool table, and random beer stains

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I know a guy down here in Meridies that uses one. The trick of the rules is that as long as he has two hands on his spear, it is armour. One hand on the spear (not the hand with the shield), it functions as a shield. He says it works great for blocking arrow shots that come his way, as he can just m...

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I would consider the rubber mat suggestion anyway if you spend a lot of time standing in your workshop, it will help with muscle fatigue in your legs and lower back if you ever get that and it can prolong it from happening if you don't. The other thing to remember is not to lock your knees. If you ...

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Wouldnt there also be elbows? Or is that just something most people do because of their game's rules (and like keeping their arms intact)?

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I just want all of you to know, I HATE YOU ALL! (

). Now that we have decided to meet on Wed. night, you are tempting me to leave and miss 2 days of class instead of just Friday. Oh well, I might as well accept it.

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It looks great Greg. One thing that I see that might pose a problem for fighting (at least SCA) is the buckles on the shoulders. Please tell me they sit in front of your shoulder (at least slightly). Believe me, you dont want them sitting on your collarbone as it hurts to all ****. I had a breastpla...

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This is my first effort, please be critical. Jim Ok, that thing is so bad, your should immediately send it here for me to dispose of!! No, really the first words that jumped into my mind were FRIGGIN SWEET!! I hope that I can eventually get one of those for my non-fighting kit (currently SCA). Look...

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""in period people often died on the battle field, but the SCA wants their lot to be the least hurt possible,"" Yes and we also use a piece of wood not swords or spear or axes or arrows or hammers. Which is going to cause even more of a blunt trauma to a piece of armour than an edge that can slide ...

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The biggest problem I see with the lighter gauges are the ability not only to dent, but blow through them (as mentioned before). It is not so much of a mass issue for anything other than helms. Helms: The point of having all of that weight is to prevent your head from moving and your brain not, ther...

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Hey Aaron, if you want, I can try to host it. Georgia Tech gives us all our own personal space, so I should be able to throw it up there. Shoot me an email at druidfire217@gmail.com and we will see what I can do.

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Thanks for the info on the pic. I couldnt make out if there were actually helms there or not, so I wasnt sure. Now that I look, the shields are a lot smaller and wasnt sure what the ailettes were at first.

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He will get stuff back in stock, currently they have a little one running around the house (under a year old I think) and so he hasnt had much time to try and keep stuff in stock. Send him an email through the site, he is usually pretty good about responding. If you cant get him after a while, let m...

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What is wrong with just putting the "right" pauldron on the left arm and the "left" pauldron on the right arm if you disagree?

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Forth Armoury is currently dealing with a little one, which is why he has been a bit late on emailing and keeping products in stock (heard through grapevine).

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Just trying to understand here. So it is up to TRM Atlantia to only allow gentles with registered heraldry to enter into their Crown List, and not an actual "standing" rule (just a tradition)? If this is the case, I concur about it also being their decision to allow the use of a list tree shield (if...

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On the subject of Crown lists, this is a custom of Atlantian Crown lists and is part of making yourself an acceptable entrant to their Majesties. As someone in the other thread mentioned, it is usually considered good if you have at least submitted your device to the CoH. As for why, I have a coupl...

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Does anyone know where the last picture comes from? Looks to be in the style of the Maciejowski Bible, but the people are all wearing armour and weapons from slightly before that (11th-ish century?). Thanks. Personally disagree with some of the points, at least from my intuition, but would like to r...

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Hey, if you are looking at getting either a sugarloaf or a klappvisor, I would highly recommend Forth Armoury. I have personally handled his stuff many times (kind of local to me) and for starting out, it is a great quality for your money. Most of the people in the SCA almost always have their helm ...

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Are those tassets made out of the same material? They look great, but have kind of an orange sheen that the rest of the stuff doesnt have. Then again, if they are mirror finished, maybe the guy wore an orange shirt...

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Not sure if I am going, and its been longer than 30 min, but if I am, Oh you can search far and wide, You can drink the whole town dry. You'll never find a beer so brown But you'll never find a beer so brown As the one we're drinking in our town. You can kick your fancy ales. You can drink em by the...

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There is also a add-on in one of the illuminated manuscripts (dont remember which one) which had a bear standing on two legs pushing a wheelbarrow in which was a badger playing the bagpipes. Just the monk freehanding in the margins. You think he might have licked the mercury based paint a bit?

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