Demo Day

demo at the Glebe Community Centre. only 24 kids this year. Last year it was nearly twice as many!

Very attentive kids.

I like dressing up the councillors.

I don't think he looks too bad does he?

School Demo, Vincent Massey

We are doing a lot of school demos this month. Guess it is nice weather, and the kids are bored, so we liven things up a bit.
Here I am demonstrating physics.
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What could be better than talking for my living?

Below you can just read some of the virtues of chivalry and the names of parts of the armours.

This was Vincent Massey school. They were the ones who got me started in doing these medieval school gigs last year, and their glowing reviews have got me into at least a dozen schools since then.

I still cannot believe those teachers handle these kids day in and day out! Oh my!

Suny Demo 08

Weekend Demo at the State University of New York. Not really spectacular, no swords n stuff, (homeland security is funny about furriners with weapons...grin!) but lots of armour and chain mail. I brought a nice anvil, and a few hammers and didn't do nearly enough work, instead I put all kinds of people into armour, chain, and had a lot of interested SUNY students swinging a hammer. It is in support of SUNY's medieval club, their "May Day" celebration. Nice club....and heavily supported in Potsdam by the local SCA group, providing a good "town-gown" continuity. Really good people there, need more support...more people to go down and help them with the armour and such. Certainly they need no assistance with the fighting...those fellas were awesome fighters! I put the "fighting" posts up on my armouring blog http://southtowerarmouringguild.blogspot.com

April Past...2005

About 3 years ago this April, the local TV station wanted to get a story on us, and we found a nice location down by the Ottawa River. Some nice ruined buildings on Victoria Island. So we obliged, putting on some little fighting demonstrations, and showing off our armour. The result was pretty good. Characters in the above pic...Arthur the empty armour, Bill in Chain Mail, Jean V. in his Samurai Suit, Shayne in his chain mail, and Leanne with the sword and rather lighter chain mail.

Here Shayne is showing Leanne the moves that keep him alive.

The Camera is being held by Leanne's assistant Wayne, and he is talking to me. I love the long horse tail coming off my helm.

A nice collection of fighters, all mugging for the camera.

And that was April of 2005. Lots of water under the bridge since then. Both Shayne and Bill are slimmer, and the Samurai Armour is chipped and "used", but all in all, the same bunch of great guys haveing a great time.

Shop Demo

Shop Demo. This is an armour I made from pieces which were just lying around, usually because they were cut too small. During a slow time last December, I gathered them all up, and made an armour out of them. Doesn't look too bad. The lass is a good friend's daughter, who was doing a "unit" on medieval, and came by for a shop tour.



Its like the armour was made for her!

Here I am demonstrating how to take lumbs and bumps out of metal with the English Wheel. Nice toy, that wheel!

And here is where I put the lumps and bumps into the metal in the first place. Just a simple matter of pounding the steel down depressions in the wood. Well, seems to work. Click on the images to enlarge.