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- Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:35 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: kovex ars falcions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11915
Re: kovex ars falcions
As far as Kovex swords being suitable for reenactment, I would just say this... Given that weapons safety checks include just two tests - one for pointy tips, the other for burrs, it would seem to be a safety risk to allow swords onto the field that burr up after a single blow from another sword. I ...
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:57 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: kovex ars falcions
- Replies: 48
- Views: 11915
Re: kovex ars falcions
I bought a Kovex sword once, and sold it on quite quickly as it was very heavy and not too well balanced. Kovex's other stuff, such as helmets, seem to be made out of very thin metal and the cap seems to be merely spot-welded to the rim at a few places around the edge. I believe they're not great qu...
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:58 am
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Do re-enactors REALLY look the part ?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 10936
Re: Do re-enactors REALLY look the part ?
I think our biggest inaccuracies are our haircuts anyway.
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:22 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Pictoral evidence of women fighting in C14th
- Replies: 105
- Views: 28712
Re: Pictoral evidence of women fighting in C14th
This one looks C15 rather than C14 and I know nothing of the context but here we go http://hiddentradition.abrahadabra.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/383px-medieval_women_as_warriors.jpg Hmm, that's a siege situation though and I think we're all agreed that in a siege, you'd end up fighting whether...
- Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:06 pm
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Pictoral evidence of women fighting in C14th
- Replies: 105
- Views: 28712
Re: Pictoral evidence of women fighting in C14th
RLD - I was thinking swords and stuff rather than jelly or baby oil, but thanks for playing :D te:The search function, he is your friend, no? In this case, only if you want a hundred pages of viscious argument! :D exakerly! I was looking for helpful fact, not vitriol. Lady J Vitriol? On Livinghisto...
- Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:25 am
- Forum: General History
- Topic: Pictoral evidence of women fighting in C14th
- Replies: 105
- Views: 28712
Re: Pictoral evidence of women fighting in C14th
The search function, he is your friend, no?
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:19 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: "Brigandine" question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2402
Re: "Brigandine" question
Flat plates which don't overlap....sounds suspicious. You wouldn't generally want any kind of gap between your plates - an incoming blade will potentially skim across the plate until it finds the gap and would then plunge through it into the wearer's flesh, which kinda defeats the point of armour an...
- Thu Jun 24, 2010 12:14 pm
- Forum: Food and Drink
- Topic: Inspiration needed!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3054
Re: Inspiration needed!
Messrs Butler, Ward, Iommi and Osbourne: "Hole in the Sky" from the album "Sabotage" by Black Sabbath. I presume.Strickland wrote:The food of love became the greed of our time, now we're living on the profits of crime
Top stuff.
- Thu Jun 17, 2010 1:16 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Hussite Pavise
- Replies: 27
- Views: 9749
Re: Hussite Pavise
narvek wrote:Congratz man! Good news. If they do arrive on wendsday, I'll gladly take them for a pub crawl:)
Crawl? One pub in Tabor is plenty! The beer is dangerously good and way to cheap!

- Mon May 10, 2010 4:23 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: rusty mail
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2777
Re: rusty mail
Bung it into a bag of sand and stick the bag into a tumble dryer for a couple of hours (with the heat turned right down or off if that's possible)
It'll make a noise like an army of mad robots being beaten to death by bike chain - wielding yobs, but hey, it should grind your maille clean
It'll make a noise like an army of mad robots being beaten to death by bike chain - wielding yobs, but hey, it should grind your maille clean

- Mon May 10, 2010 3:46 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4346
Re: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
Pleasure.Alexander of Beeford wrote:Righto, ThanksJim wrote:IMHO they should be right up into the armpit, don't let 'em sag! They're not arm-specific, no.
- Mon May 10, 2010 2:48 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4346
Re: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
You may well have a very good point there :oops: They're only sewn on lightly. When they finally give out I'll put them on the right way around. Ta! :thumbup: Don't worry, easy mistake to make if you've not used voiders before! :thumbup: :crazy: Are voiders arm-specific? (left/right) How baggy shou...
- Mon May 10, 2010 2:11 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Cosmeston Manorial Court
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1855
Re: Cosmeston Manorial Court
Awesome set of pics as always, have nabbed a few with me in, ta very much!
- Mon May 10, 2010 2:08 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4346
Re: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
Don't worry, easy mistake to make if you've not used voiders before!Alexander of Beeford wrote:You may well have a very good point there
They're only sewn on lightly. When they finally give out I'll put them on the right way around. Ta!


- Mon May 10, 2010 1:44 pm
- Forum: Costumes
- Topic: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4346
Re: Review: arming doublet from The Padded Armour Company
I think you've put the voiders on the wrong way around, the long section goes down the arm, the shorter section drops from the armpit across the ribs.
- Thu Nov 05, 2009 10:17 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: How do you attach your gussets (voiders)
- Replies: 23
- Views: 5276
Re: How do you attach your gussets (voiders)
My voiders are pointed onto my arming doublet in several places: in the armpit, at the top of the shoulder, and at the front and back at the top and bottom of the square piece on the body. Then I ran a leather thong all the way down the top of the arm, effectively sewing the two halves together and ...
- Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:29 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Crossbows - some questions
- Replies: 44
- Views: 10723
Just out of interest: where could one lay hands on a crossbow with a much lower draw weight, say 30 to 45 lbs or so for shooting blunts at people with? I know there used to be a guy who made them out of fiberglass, all wrapped in leather for a more eye-pleasing look. Been looking for something like...
- Wed Sep 16, 2009 3:58 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: God's Company in Tabor 2009
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2839
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:26 pm
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: bizarre weapons and armor
- Replies: 76
- Views: 27043
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:40 am
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Battle Of Bosworth 2009 Photographs
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7986
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:55 am
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Bosworth Burlesque
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3198
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:50 am
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Battle Of Bosworth 2009 Photographs
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7986
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:50 am
- Forum: 2000BC-55BC
- Topic: I can't believe it still butter
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9811
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:53 am
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Battle Of Bosworth 2009 Photographs
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7986
- Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:02 am
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Bosworth Burlesque
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3198
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 2:04 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Battle Of Bosworth 2009 Photographs
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7986
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:43 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Battle Of Bosworth 2009 Photographs
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7986
The day I need fashion advice from you or Heeney will be the day I start supporting Rangers and attending Kirk. At least you didn't see me with a burger and a ice lolly fatboy! It was a milk chocolate Magnum actually, and I enjoyed every inauthentic minute of it as I stood right next to a 20th cent...
- Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:10 pm
- Forum: Pictures
- Topic: Battle Of Bosworth 2009 Photographs
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7986
- Tue Aug 04, 2009 11:22 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: bizarre weapons and armor
- Replies: 76
- Views: 27043
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 11:56 am
- Forum: 1100-1500
- Topic: Pondering the idea of Period Tents once more
- Replies: 30
- Views: 10402
I have an 8 year old Past Tents large Burgundian and it has never leaked. I get the impression the older tents are the ones to go for, as some have said their build quality went a bit downhill recently. My tent cost me £450 second hand a couple of seasons ago, complete with awning and groundsheets. ...