The Armour Archive

Aidan Cambel

Thanks Morgan! The intent of the post was to offer a suggestion that someone might find useful. Alcohol is usually in abundance at events, and I do wash my gambeson and gamboised cuisses regularly, however most medieval reenactment events I go to do not have washing machines, and even if I dunked th...

Aidan Cambel

I find no good use for Vodka other than this...

Now tequila -- thats another story

Aidan Cambel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> "the armour that really does slow you down and tire you out is chainmaile. all the weight rests on your shoulders." It's my opinion that this idea of heavy maille stems from most people's experien...

Aidan Cambel

don't mind me .. this is just a (bump)

Aidan Cambel

Just wanted to post this here in case ya'll haven't heard of it. on a yahoogroup that I am a member of a thread came up about this. If you go to an event that has several days of fighting, and your gambeson/arming coat/other fabric arour starts stinking - you can spray it with vodka and hang it out ...

Aidan Cambel

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Magmaforge: Another thing, NK, is that the Templars existed in this time period, who had a red cross on a white field as their personal badge; being a group of some of the b...

Aidan Cambel

b'ham AL --> Ft. Knox - 332 miles montgomery, al --> ft. knox - 427.8 miles mobile, al --> ft. knox 593.6 miles Baton Rouge, LA ---> ft. knox - 731.6 miles (this is where our King will be traveling from) its all about the same... Many of the meridian fighters won't be in attendance because its such ...

Aidan Cambel

my 2 cents...

doesn't matter whether basket/gauntlet blocking is legal or illegal...

its just bad form.

it this was real, you wouldn't do that, or if you did- probably only once.

Aidan Cambel

... and on that note - i would like to back up and say.... I will be there, but it looks like I won't make it in time for the Burning Wheel of Fire event. My tent is kinda hard to put up in the dark, and , ummm, (insert any excuse here). But I will be fighting Saturday.... provided the wheel has bee...

Aidan Cambel

can you post pics of them Clay? For $60, I might be very interested.

Aidan

Aidan Cambel

I apologize for any confusion my post above may have caused, I was under the impression the Pas was still going on. Guess thats what i get for doing my own thinking!!!

Aidan

Aidan Cambel

well jeeze.. if you don't know I'm not gonna tell ya....

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Aidan Cambel

I will be there, as will Lord Murdoch. I am not sure of his plans, but I will be arriving sometime Friday evening - in time for the Pas. I will be the templar in the maciejowski helm. Ld. Murdoch will be in full rig at the Pas, with a t-slot barbute. Look for the two short guys - one all shiny, the ...

Aidan Cambel

If his email address is on his site in the form of a mailto hyperlink, then right-click on the link and look at "properties", it will give the email address that the milto command is pointing to.

In Service,
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

no shite, there I was...

Gulf Wars X

I died

A bunch

ok-- i have only been in a year, give me time!!!

Aidan Cambel

I don't know, but I have thought about htis too. There is a trim my wife makes that i use for everything, its narrow so i use it to hang my id badge from at work. I have my marshal's tool on another strand of it. I intend, if i am ever squired, to present a piece of that trim to my Knight> i take a ...

Aidan Cambel

i can almost understand wearing it on the outside, provided it is well covered. sometimes i would love to be able to ditch the cup without stripping all the way down.... becaue i wear it in a jock the way they are meant to. what i don't understand is it "falling out in the midst of battle". if you h...

Aidan Cambel

Greetings, I am looking for sound documentation on the pattern and construction methods for a gambeson in late 13th century. Harold, please do not reply. I am not looking for a description, I have plenty of pictures off of the internet and what-not. I am not looking for a post on how to do it, etc. ...

Aidan Cambel

IMnotsoHO If you wear a camelbak, you are leaping this hobby into what we are trying so hard to get away from. Also, if the heat has you so exasperated that you feel you NEED the camelbak to (a) cool you or (b) because you need water at your imediate disposal -- then maybe you need a different hobby...

Aidan Cambel

I don't know. I have thought about this in much detail, but being that we use somuch butted maille, I really don't know that there is a answer for this in SCA combat. One thing I thought of trying is to punch tiny holes in the leather sole, and have the last row of rings actually go thru this hole i...

Aidan Cambel

This is all speculation.. but here is my OPINION I don't know nor does anyone else. See here is the thing-- you said the peasant is lightning fast. well - change this up to something we all understand.. if you are single sword - how do you defeat a greatsword/glaive/insert other long-reaching weapon...

Aidan Cambel

A few weeks ago I wouldn't have known how to answer this question. I am still a newbie really - only been fighting for a year. I never did fight for the macho image, I guess I had enough of that in the USMC. I would love to say I fought to honor my lady - but truthfully if you knew either of us you ...

Aidan Cambel

Where can I get a Russian or Turkish Sword?

umm, how about Russia or Turkey???

sorry-- I couldn't resist... I really really did try.....

Aidan Cambel

I should be getting there between 6:30 and 7. Glad to know your coming Lex! And the good Aidan is gonna be there too??? KEWLLLLLLLLL

In Service,
Aidan

Aidan Cambel

its good for Calcium and Lime deposits too...

hence the name CLR

Calcium
Lime
Rust

Aidan Cambel

not that i am very successful - but here is what i do.. i do NOT get into the "stance" where my legs are like V I position my legs like L and twist a little at the waist to line up with my opponant. Our warlord showed me that - it feels a lot more like a natural standing stance. I back to about a 55...

Aidan Cambel

I will tell yo what I did to make mine fit right... I went and bought one of those foam martial arts helmet pad thingies. I still had to add a little close cell, but a little adjusting here and there and I got the helm and just the right level, it doesn't slide around on my head, and the bottom line...

Aidan Cambel

Actually - this looks a lot like some posts that were on the archive a while back from a guy who wanted to by some chain maille to protect his kid brother from a knife attack at school.

IIRC - he was shoo'ed away for the same reasons of legality that was mentioned above.

Aidan Cambel

dwarlock - yeah thats mine -red case, green painted handles. thanks for the advice. I am not an armourer by any stretch of the imagination, I just wanted to get a few tools to play around with it a bit. My youngest son will probably be a Duke before I ever punch 3 hundred holes!!! (btw - he is only ...

Aidan Cambel

send it to PoD for another "mass weapon test"

Aidan Cambel

knightly combat for joie de combat is an HONORable activity.

By doing that you make rhino'ing less likely, but you don't add anything back to the experience.

but thats just my opinion

Aidan Cambel

My first tourney was a "specialty" tourney. The event was called beggars rebellion and the premise was you had to fight with weapons that a begger or peasant would be able to get access to. I have a single handed hammer they let me fight with, but i couldn't use my shield - so - they gave me this hu...

Aidan Cambel

I bought that HarborFreight punch that they had for 9.99 a few weeks back. Finally arrived yesterday. Now, the page said it punched up to 16 ga. and the dies were metric. I didn't care about metric part. Well, I got the thing and the paperwork that came with it says up to 18 gauge. The dies,however,...

Aidan Cambel

a hair dryer will not get hot enough. WalMart does sell some little torches, the main use is for thawing frozen pipes and brazing. They are really cheap. Then they also sell little tiny oxy/mapp torches. they are not very expensive, but you have to buy those tiny mapp and oxygen bottles. They work r...

Aidan Cambel

patterns? wow.. i just told my lady what I wanted and she made it http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif seriously - my gambeson is a compilation of several designs and it came out pretty good i think. I was hesitant about making it too snug in the shoulders because of restriction, so what my ...

Does your cloth armour stink?

13th century gambeson documentation?

HF Punch - anyone else buy this thing?