Living Manuscript

Are you in Milwaukee WI over this weekend? Maybe you'd like to be! Come see me and my wares (new & used arms + armor) at Argren Faire Saturday the 12th!

I will also be peddling off postcards featuring photos from some of my greatest sparring events. Not only will I inscribed a custom message in one for you (or a loved one, or an enemy 😈), but you can find out more about upcoming events!

Finally (this one will be for free) come get the first issue of my newsletter, printed so you can actually own something! It includes a codification of the sparring rules we have been using, and a small section of my burgeoning "translation" of Götz von Berlichingen's autobiographical work. Its only a physical copy at the moment, but it will have links to my website soon enough. Come see!!

I did a LARP :)

Played a redwing blackbird themed character, as they're all over the place at the moment and the territorial defense suited the story well. Ultimately, she was defeated while defending a ritual taking place. Classic villain stuff hey?

Used some old armor here: black coat of plates, bascinet, amd great helm all made about 8 years ago! Though they still fit :) Featuring a little helm crest i made at 2am.

A work in progress

Started a long time ago, I made a prototype fencing helmet for a fencing friend. You'll find more of it in previous posts, but it is now hurtling uncontrollably into just being a burgonet with a perf visor.

Many more tweaks to come, but just to show you something that is on my workbench :)

The power of friendship!!

Taken at a recent armored spar day with some friends, featuring a healthy range of time periods :)

The plume in question, featuring my friend and patron the Cone Knight.

Feuding with another sallet-wearer tomorrow, so I threw a quick n dirty plumb holder onto mine! Wish me luck, I will speak more on it (and show the plumb in question) later on!

How it has been hanging!

I am back into some kind of swing of things; I have finally been active in my summer armoring season! These days, I work at a college where I have summers off -a blessing and a curse! Acursed because three months of the year I must fend for myself in some unorthodox ways. But this is a wonderful opportunity to practice my chosen art by fulfilling commissions, building stock for markets in the fall, and performing demonstrations and lectures locally at other schools and libraries.

If you've noticed my dearth of posts, I will summarize the cause as simply "life". It all gets to us eventually. Hardly just because of lamentable and uncontrollable happenings, but because I have had the pleasure of indulging in many fine and fulfilling relationships and experiences. I am happy to live in such moments :)

Anyway, here's a selection of what medieval-related things I've been up to! Skirmishes, tournaments reenactment, cursed swords, learning how to make horsebow fencing masks, mini painting, and perhaps even a return to an old friend, amongother things. Thank you for reading and following me, I'll be around :)