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marcus the pale

Garnet is out the door, still have two wonderful diamond pendants. My wife actually picked up the one in the gold setting earlier and held it up to her ring, she wanted to see if it would fit in the setting lol. But it was the wrong shape for the setting, lucky for you guys.

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I don't know any details behind it but...

Sir Dmitriy Shelomin

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Thanks guys. Irish you are second in line, I haven't heard from the original interested party since yesterday afternoon, so you may get a whack at it. I hope I'm not jumping the gun though, I am eager to get these out the door.

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Sale of garnet pendant is pending.

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Thanks Oswyn, it was a pleasure doing business with you as well. Glad to hear the ring is well loved!

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The third and final piece is a high quality garnet set in two tone 14k white and yellow gold. "High quality" meaning compared to more common garnets which have a slightly more brownish color, this stone is more rose colored. This would have gone for about $150 retail, and I'll let this one...

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The second piece is also a 1/4 carat diamond, set in a classic, simple 14k yellow gold setting. This piece also sold for over $200 seven years ago, I'll let this go for $80 shipped. I may ship international, depending on cost. Again my apologies for picture quality, the camera does not do it justice.

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She just keeps finding stuff in boxes that I didn't even know we had. This time it is 3 necklaces, 2 are diamonds, and one is a garnet. I am going to post them all in this thread one at a time so bear with me. FYI none of them come with a chain, it is just the pendant by itself. First up, a 1/4 cara...

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I like Sir Corby's article on hanging a shield, simple and very effective. As for handle placement, it depends on where my hand sits on the shield after marking the center. I tend to use a skinnier shield (18"-20") which limits my placement options.

Sir Corby Says

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Sold pending payment. Thanks for the interest guys, and thanks for your words of support Irish!

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My wife wants to sell one more ring. Similar to the few that I sold last winter, just before the great AA dump, this is another piece that she just doesn't wear anymore (that and we have bills to pay, mouths to feed etc.). So, her loss is your gain. 3 Tanzanite stones set in white gold, with two sma...

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Combat archery is behind this. Multiple arrows penetrate grilles at Pennsic, so they have to make arrow heads fatter. To keep the archers from bitching, they have to do away with low-profile thrusting tips. They can't bitch (IMHO), when is the last time any CA got hit with a stick? Let alone a LPTT?

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I use a 2" wide piece of light leather wrapped around the end of the stick and the foam to keep things in place. I'm not sure how easy it is to visualize this method with my words, but it is only a single layer of leather taped on to the stick, 1" of it is on the rattan side and 1" is...

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Aluminum road signs (obtained legally) can make good coat of plates. You can also get the plastic drums from your local car wash. If you have any inkling of spending a little bit of money on these things, look on ebay for metal to cut the aforementioned C.O.P. out of, or look for a local scrap yard....

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My most sincere apologies for not being finished with my kit yet. I won't bore you with details of my life and my excuses for not getting it done. The fact of the matter is that I have let you down by not finishing it. But, it is halfway done, and I believe the top half is the harder part of the kit...

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Shouldn't this be in Off-Topic or Combat? Not everyone views all forums. Under the circumstances, I personally see no strict area it should be in and am glad it has been cross posted. O'Quinn QFT If you don't like the news on your radio, change the station. Some information needs to be posted in al...

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28 should be unpadded, add 1/2 to 3/4 padding to that and you will fit a 22-23 inch head easily.

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I just want to throw in here that I have one of these hilts, and I love it. For a while I wanted to get a plastic hilt to loose some weight, but then was pleasantly surprised after using one of these. Not too light, made my 34"-36" stick perfectly balanced, float like a butterfly, sting li...

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I used to use a band saw for cutting aluminum as a former machinist, for the thick stuff I've even used a skill saw. I imagine a table saw would work just as well, with the right blade and safety equipment. I was surprised how well it came out the first time I tried it. Looking to drop the steel kit...

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Butted is a lot heavier, I have a hauberk that is almost 30lbs that I fought in for a while. As for repairs, yeah, you will spend time repairing it as opposed to some people who have never lost a single link from welded. I do have to add though, in my experience you will do a lot of repairs on a 16g...

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Last bump before it gets the garage sale. Lets make a deal!

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That's where I got it, lowest price on ebay for this piece is about 100 plus shipping. Just hoping someone would be looking here first and might want a deal.

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16g butted, place I got it from said it was zinc coated. Short sleeve, long skirt (goes to about 1" above my knee), split to the crotch riding style. I don't recommend it for heavy SCA combat, unless you don't mind doing repairs now and again. I used it for a while and it developed a hole in ea...

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Back to the top.

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PM sent

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Continued, and this is the last of it.

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Continued.

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Time to clean house. My wife has a bunch of trim that she acquired recently, and it has been sitting around too long. None of it is period materials, its all upholstery and curtain trim. I figured I would offer up the decent looking stuff here before it sell it in a garage sale in a few weeks. Price...

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PM sent Euric.

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If parted, I would be interested in the body wrap for my wife. I can understand wanting to sell it as a set though.

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Just to check before I offer my tunic to Cian, I take it you are going to pass on it? No worries if you are, just don't want to get my lines crossed. marcus Sorry, I thought I already sent something to you (now I'm wondering who I did send that PM to ). But yeah I'm gonna pass. I don't think it wou...

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Just to check before I offer my tunic to Cian, I take it you are going to pass on it? No worries if you are, just don't want to get my lines crossed.

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Fire Stryker wrote:Here's a group that does it.

http://www.sthubertsrangers.org/

A fellow has taken feral pig with a bow, another member has taken small game with her bird of prey.

No armour.

I want to be a St Huberts Ranger when I grow up.

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If you want to spear hunt wild pig, you need dogs, and the dogs need to know what they are doing. If you take off in to the wild with nothing but a spear, chances are good that you will go home hungry. If you can't get dogs, I recommend getting a period bow, or crossbow and trying that first (take a...

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They were just barely big enough. If I was going to keep it, I would most likely open them up a little.

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FS: Diamond and Garnet necklaces

FS: Tanzanite white gold ring SOLD

WTS Butted Mail Haub.

Yard Sale (trim)