The Armour Archive

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Getcha a drawknife stubby. Straight from the Amish to you. You can carve a sweet handle with a little practise.

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Have you spoken to anyone in a USA embassy? Maybe if you approached a corporation that has offices in UK but is an American company they might be amenable to relocating you. Hard to say really. Green cards are rough but not impossible. If terrorists can get them why cant you?

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You may be right. I know it was under 30 though.

I've also heard about how Calontir has been coming less to pennsic which is kind of a shame. They can be some nice folks.

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Cool. I'll be the one in the black leather.

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Gee trev, funny how time changes things. Were you with that group from calontir that came up to our camp a few years back? The ones it took about 18 seconds to kill? I guess you werent in that group last pennsic either. The ones it took about 18 seconds to kill. And sorry, I'm still not recalling an...

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Teach your muscles to do the right thingfrom the beginning. Muscle memory is damn hard to change. Practise doesnt make perfect. Practise makes permanent. Dont learn to unlearn.

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Dan it's beautiful. I love the two tone thing. I love the tooling, all of it.
I also love my gauntlets. Thanks again!

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Ya know dog, if you're doing it right your basket hilt is moving too fast for anyone to tell what it looks like anyway. Fuck'em.

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That had to have been it.

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After all the Tuchux clubbin' Calontir has done in the past, it was about time you got us back. Razz

hmmm. These were stories you heard from people that were at these 'clubbings'? Or they were longer than 23 years ago? These 'clubbings' just arent ringing any bells...

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I've seen this up close and it rocks. Never woulda guessed it was a first time thing.

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Yup. Several hundred of them at a time. Just ask Calontir from last year

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Dog lemme just say I feel your pain. I spent 6 weeks in a cast to my knee only to get right into a DH Walker diabetic offloading boot. This is while I'm waiting for special shoes, inserts and a spring loaded t strap ankle brace. 8 to 12 weeks. It's been 7 weeks since I fought and if they think I'm w...

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Orc armor, Under Armor, Armor-all, dont matter. Come August it's gonna be same old same old

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I hold the sword mostly with my ring finger and little finger kinda loose until the impact. Then I squeeze. It adds snap to the shot.

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Screw that. I dont die to light shots or slop and I dont expect you to either. If someone tries to call some light thing I've thrown as good I compliment them on their honor but I tell them the shot was no good. It doesnt make me a better fighter or them for that matter. Some people say 'it shouldnt...

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No one said anything about 'becoming a Tuchuk'. Sometimes we invite people to come to our events because we think they'd have a good time and enjoy themselves. We dont have SCA guests at every event but it's not that rare a thing. Usually they have a blast. Just sayin.

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Bedlam I think he'd have a blast! Vitus I hope you figure this out dog. Seriously. For all the differences between us I still think the strongest thing we have in common is a love for this stuff. Details aside. I sincerely hope you find that again. For your sake and for those that would suffer your ...

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I get full body massages with oil on a regular basis. Over the years Ratty has come to understand the way my body reacts to not only the rattan fighting but the residual paralysis I deal with from having had back surgery. She is the main reason I am able to move around and function. She's the best n...

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Wow Vitus. I really feel bad for you. When did this stop being fun for you? Can you pinpoint that?
I hope you find your joy again.

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I think that force escalates because of a number of factors. Better armor is one of them, but I think a lot of it has to do with the seperation of echelons among fighters. The big boys hit hard and hit often. If you cant or wont you arent generally a big boy. This is my observation anyway.

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Kevin you fucking rock! Based on your description me and the boys have a design on paper for a round sheild press. Thank you for sharing that knowledge. If we get this thing up and running we wont have to buy those aluminum shields and we'll be able to make them the right diameter! Dog if you're at ...

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Adam the origin of that plate is on the essay T Bob did on lamellar. I looked for it just now to quote from it but I cant find it. He documented it along with two others similar. One with 7 holes and another with 11. I used the 7 hole plate for the torso of my aluminum body armor and used the pictur...

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Adam I was directing that towards Jamie. I knew you werent interested in making the plates I had posted, it's all good. To be honest I love the plates you sell. They look great. They just dont fit the armor that I like, that's all. If I ever get a shirt of rivetted chain mail and want a lamellar har...

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I've seen some real nice plastic armor before. The Japanese stuff is fine because they laquered their stuff anyway so it coulda been made of anything and still looked good. I dont have a problem with the noble plastics lamellar either. Same thing. The only ONLY downside to that stuff is that it's ma...

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Depending on the cost there could be a Tuchux market for the 9 hole plates that I posted a picture of. Right now we're using the noble plastics for a lot of our lamellar needs and really the only objection is that they're plastic. If you could make a plate like the one I posted out of stainless and ...

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This is the 9 hole plate from T Bob's essay. It's very versatile. I wish I had about 500 of them out of stainless.

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[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/ratangei/DCP_0027.jpg[/img]

This one would be good.

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We were at a cave event in Woodward PA doing a warlord tourney when I got blasted from behind with a two handed axe. It knocked me out on my feet and chipped a vertebra in my neck. The funny thing is the guy that did it was a friend of mine. Grettir from Clovenshield, the fucker I wasnt pissed thoug...

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Hey, I dont mean to intrude into your life or anything, but get your back fixed first. Rehab it right. Get healthy before you do this. I had L4/L5 and L5/S1 removed and I didnt wait long enough before I came back and had some serious setbacks because of it. My friend here Kaylock just had surgery ri...

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oh arent you da bomb! WOOHOO! Mouth love for everyone! YAY!!!

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Sure. Step one. Get rocks. If wet, let them dry out. Step two, stack.
Voila!

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I agree! Beautiful stuff! The next time you do one you should take pics step by step and put up a tutorial a la Uilleag. I've tried to make hats like that with no where near the success of that. Well done.

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InsaneIrish I wanted to tell you what I thought of the drawings you posted. If you did them you have my admiration. They were beautiful. As an artist of many years I was very impressed with the beauty of those drawings.

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No worries Ugo. You're forgived. Tamock says you're a hell of a guy and I believe him . I'd still love to get together with you next time I'm out there. I'll make sure you have the number too.