Spending time with my little squires

[Sir Patrick]

I was doing my quarterly inspection of my kit and found a little surface rust on my coif.  A had read recently that squires used to place a knight's maille in a leather bag and then toss it around to clean it (while also building upper body strength).  This is where medicine balls originated.  Anyway, I threw the coif in a bag and me and my nine year-old twins started tossing it around.  They had a blast playing the "knight game", and my coif shines like the top of the Crysler Building now!

[Sir Wolf]

hahaha. when i travel with my mail i put it in a burlap sack. its course so it helps with any rusted areas

that game does sound fun though my squire is a tad small at 4 to throw the ole hauberk around

[Sir Ulrich]

I store my maille in an airtight plastic bin, and for my coif I just leave that lying around hoping the oil on it will dry off eventually, maybe I should bake it again till it's burnt on.

[Lord Dane]

Mine just sits out on an open hanger or on my display stand at home. Keeps it off the floor, keeping my wife happy.

[Sir William]

My maille's galvanized so I've not encountered any rust of any kind, despite having been out in the rain for extended periods of time on more than one occasion.  Made me think it was stainless but a prospective buyer tells me otherwise and returned it back to me.  Still, good to know!

[Sir Brian]

I was doing my quarterly inspection of my kit and found a little surface rust on my coif.  A had read recently that squires used to place a knight's maille in a leather bag and then toss it around to clean it (while also building upper body strength).  This is where medicine balls originated.  Anyway, I threw the coif in a bag and me and my nine year-old twins started tossing it around.  They had a blast playing the "knight game", and my coif shines like the top of the Crysler Building now!

Excellent! You are getting clean armor and building lifelong memories for your squires! Well done!

[Joshua Santana]

Excellent! You are getting clean armor and building lifelong memories for your squires! Well done!

Hear! Hear! Hear!

[Sir William]

St. George and the Dragon...love that image, Sir Joshua.  Have you always had that?

[Sir Patrick]

St. George and the Dragon...love that image, Sir Joshua.  Have you always had that?

I thought something was different.  Very cool.

[Lord Dane]

St. George and the Dragon...love that image, Sir Joshua.  Have you always had that?

I thought something was different.  Very cool.

Looks like the historical depiction of St. George, maybe a slight variance but same.  Very iconic of the crusader-era. I like it!!

[Joshua Santana]

My thanks to you Sirs.

Concerning the New Coat of Arms, this is an update to my old "Lion Blade" COA.

I chose this one for two reasons, first it is to show that I am training towards Christian Knighthood.

Second, I was inspired as a child to model myself after St. George after reading a children's book on his famous legend.  I can recall how moved I was after reading the story that I felt that I should act like him and that worked very well.  It wasn't until last year that I hit on Edmmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I:  The Legend of the Knight of the Red Crosse, I was once again moved to model myself after this character.  I recently found out that the book I read when I was a child was adapted from the Faerie Queene.  I was excited and thrilled to the point where I did research on St. George himself and I consider him to be an excellent Chivalric Christian Knight.  The idea of the COA bearing St. George came to me while I was designing my Full Kit, I looked up similar COA until I found the one you all noticed.

I figured it would be awesome to bear the image of a Knightly Saint on my shield and I have plans to paint a blood red cross to a buckler.  It would look like this one here.