Helmet needs repair

Disaster has stuck!!! (or at least it seems so)

Apparently at the 25th year anniversary of Stormvale while fighting I bent my basinets visor hinge again. It had been prone to bending and lately I have had to reshape it several times. I think the metal fatigue has caused a permanent weak spot. Now it bends very easily and will not be long till it breaks.

To get a replacement from the original armorer will take up to 6 months and would require me sending my helmet to help facilitate the repair. I have taken the piece to a local tool and die shop and will get a quote from them to make a new one or perhaps two.

In the mean time I will need to carefully repair the hinge and hope it makes it through practice until a new one can be made. I guess I could always fix up my original helmet since my Norse helm is on loan at the moment. It would have to be sanded and made legal for face thrusts. My list of stuff just gets longer and longer.

Events to attend!!

Looking forward at the next couple months, I thought I would put together a tentative list of events to attend.

Perhaps I can get household members and Shire friends to attend some of these events with me. Let me know if you are interested in sharing a ride!!!

Tentative Events for the next couple months:
Nov. 10th Fall Harvest Festival
Nov. 17th Toys for Tots
Dec. 1st Christmas Tourney
Jan 5th 12th Night or 12th Fight
Jan 12th Grand Tourney
Feb 9th Val Day

These are my preferences for events to attend. Let me know if you’re interested in going or let me know which events you would rather attend.

Stormvale's 25th Anniversary Party!!!!

Saturday Oct. 20th we had a Revel to celebrate 25 years of the Shire of Stormvale. It was fun to see everyone and spend the day with them. It was nice to catch up on how everyone has been doing.

Femke the regional Signat was kind enough to run a scribal class that was well attended and I hope we get more local scribes as a result of her class. Balian and Eron have both been active in the past as Scribes but I am not sure if either one of them is still doing calligraphy or illumination.

It was nice to see Edward von Schonberg who also put in an appearance. I hope he catches the SCA bug again. He was always well liked and many of his household members are still active in one fashion or another locally.

It was fun to fight heavy again with Torashi, Ervon and Satto. While I bowed out of the Shire Champion tourney I believe that Torashi was the overall winner and will retain the position for another year.

Lady Terryl was a most gracious host and her garage/workshop worked out perfectly as the feast hall. We had a chance to sit around the fire and tell tales of old after the feast. Thank You Terryl !!!!!!

It could not have been a more perfect day to cap off 25 years of activity in Stormvale.

25th Anniversary Party

In preparing for our 25th Anniversary party I was going over my kit and realized that the pole arm I have been using had seen its last battle. I put together a halberd while I was cooking a soup Friday night. The halberd turned out well and I like the looks of it but it didn’t perform as well as I would like in combat. While using it Saturday I discovered it’s a little too heavy and I am frankly out of practice with pole weapons. I will use it a couple more times in practice before I remake it with a lighter pole of rattan to make sure its not just my lack of practice.

Professional Heraldry!!!

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Well that’s the end of my commercial plug for Baron Edwards site. I was very happy with the results!!!

Looks like a new Helmet!!

Ervon brought his helmet over the other night and we removed the existing Aventail. He bought a new one at war and wanted to replace the one on his helmet. After looking over his helmet it was decided to drill a new set of holes and to place the new Aventail higher on his Bascinet. I offered to help so he market off the locations for the holes and left me with his helmet. On Tuesday night I drilled the new holes but while looking at the helmet I thought it would be a nice gesture to polish it up a bit. I took it into work to use the high speed air drills. It took a couple hours but I was able to put a nice shine on his helm. It should be a nice surprise when he picks it up!!! Now I need to take my legs and gauntlets in and make them look nicer.

Getting Back to Work!!

Well things are getting back to normal around Skalla’s Steading. I have been able to get back to some of my projects. I have finished the Banner Stand promised to Eron!!! I will have to review my list for the next project.