WTB: SCA legal Kabuto

Glaukos the Athenian · Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:00 am

Well time to get in SERIOUS trouble with the Missus...

Does anyone have a reasonably priced SCA legal kabuto you would be willing to part with? Used or new is irrelevant if it is in good condition and fits my 23 and a bit head. Kabuto style not especially important as long as it is reasonably historical and not crazy fantasy.

Structural integrity more important that surface appearance. I can work on the latter but not really on the former, I am no armorer.

I know Sir Andreas carries a great looking stainless one, but it is beyond my reach at this point.

Thanks!

Rowan of Needwood

Johann Lederer · Post by **Johann Lederer** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:01 am

I think the Murdoch bug bit you....!
:lol:

Glaukos the Athenian · Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:30 am

I know, I know,

I started well before the SCA in kendo, but then I realized, after facing D. Sebastian in my first large Melee at Crusades, that I was about to die, so I thought let's make it a glorious death... That may demad a Japanese kit as well (my third? OMG I am becoming an "archiver"!)

And I hear Raito is organizing a Japanese battle at Pennsic... so there goes caution followed closely by any remainder of reason...

and then I keep hearing this music....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm6Cwofh ... re=related

and thinking about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4-YmH8c21U

Rowan of Needwood

dheisey wrote:I think the Murdoch bug bit you....!

Ld Ragnar MacHardy · Post by **Ld Ragnar MacHardy** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 10:31 am

LOL, I got a Kubuto gonna be built for me as the one person I knew that made them is not making them currently. Still gonna be like 650 and it will not be stainless, it will be blued as stainless is not actually period for the Japanese.

Ragnar

Saburou · Post by **Saburou** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:30 pm

Truehearth made mine for under $300:

Unpainted:
[img]http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b367/Ajakutty/Kabuto4.jpg[/img]

In action:

Glaukos the Athenian · Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:45 pm

I am not an expert but are those Fukigaeshi SCA legal?

Also, I thought Carlo went to the Canadian Army....

Rowan of Needwood

Saburou · Post by **Saburou** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 8:23 pm

The fukigaeshi are legal, but as you can see from the bottom pic, after 8-10 hours of fighting they somehow have a way of getting beaten down to the sides.

I didn't hear about Carlo; sorry to miss him from the armouring world.

mordreth · Post by **mordreth** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:53 pm

I stopped doing them years ago for a number of reasons.
Is there a demand at this point?

God I hate drilling and deburring that many holes.

Agnarr · Post by **Agnarr** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:29 pm

Saburou,

How the hell you see out of that thing? :?:

Murdock · Post by **Murdock** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:55 pm

So Carlo is still making those?

looks like i'll have to get one

hope he has time before Pennsic

Effingham · Post by **Effingham** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:57 pm

mordreth wrote:I stopped doing them years ago for a number of reasons.
Is there a demand at this point?

God I hate drilling and deburring that many holes.

That's why you get a Roper-Whitney punch.

Effingham

Tatsuo Okami · Post by **Tatsuo Okami** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:44 pm

I have a SS Hein Zunari Boshi.... A 3 plate kuboto. It will have a removable grill And the start of the shikoro angle.
It can be painted or powder coated,
W/out shikoro 500 w/ Alum shikoro 600

Glaukos the Athenian · Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:48 pm

I don't think so.

His website says he is "gone to soldier"

Rowan

Murdock wrote:So Carlo is still making those?

looks like i'll have to get one

hope he has time before Pennsic

Saburou · Post by **Saburou** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:02 pm

Agnarr wrote:Saburou,

How the hell you see out of that thing?

It's actually not as bad as it looks. My face is right close up to the grill, so the visor cuts off just above most tall folks' heads. (The bottom is well out of my field of vision.) Not being able to watch the tips of upraised polearms has forced me to look at shoulders and hips, which say more about what my opponent is about to do anyway.

Good luck to Carlo.

mordreth · Post by **mordreth** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:39 pm

Effingham wrote:
mordreth wrote:I stopped doing them years ago for a number of reasons.
Is there a demand at this point?

God I hate drilling and deburring that many holes.

That's why you get a Roper-Whitney punch.

Effingham

With the new one that might be worth while

WTB: SCA legal Kabuto

WTB: SCA legal Kabuto

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