[Regia-NA] FW: Sheilds

[nathan]

It's entirely up to you m8.

If you are using the shield for combat and worried about shields going
crunch I would suggest fabric front and back something really thin on the
back and something nice and heavy on the front.

Bear in mind that regia combat isn't as 'hard' as SCA combat, I have played
with guys in the UK who have been SCA trained (back in my LARP days) and
they hit very hard by my standards.  But they rely on the fact that the gear
you wear will stop the shot, in regia we don't (because we don't have the
rigid protection to rely on (it's not authentic)).

The billet method of construction is proper blacksmithing, I would suggest
you get hold of a copy of _Early Anglo-Saxon Shields_(T Dickinson H Harke),
if you can't (it's oop try your local main library) then let me know I will
scan the bits in when I am at mums over chrimby.

Don't bother going there for a combat shield though, they would quite
probably be too pointy to be safe for use.

Which of the osprey books are you going by, I'm curious about this design
now.

Hugz
N.

And by the way I resemble any suggestion by the lord high vampire, that I
have _natural charm_ the cheek of the suggestion had the energy I would be
deeply offended, I will instead resort to a apathetically fuelled dim view.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: list-regia-na-admin@lig.net [mailto:list-regia-na-admin@lig.net]On
> Behalf Of Seathrun MagAoinghouis
> Sent: 17 December 2002 22:57
> To: list-regia-na@lig.net
> Subject: RE: Re: [Regia-NA] FW: Sheilds
>
>
> I do have some red linen that could be used instead for the
> cover. I like the idea of material between the wood layers. I
> have had a few wood shields blow apart from sca fighting. I dont
> like splinters in the face. I figure since the boss is behind the
> padding with the stapping like in osprey's books that there is no
> way to put a hand into the boss since I am not bothering to cut a
> hole in the shield. The only reason I can see for the hold over
> of the boss when they changed away from center grips is the added
> protection directly over the hand. I can put arrows though one of
> my 1/2 inch "fish" with out difficulty. They do get deflected
> when they hit a boss. I like the angling info for the boss edging
> that will make it much easier. Do you have any info on how to do
> the billut kind?.
>
> thanks
>
> Seathrun
>
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