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Thick soles are $5. No extra cost for extra wide.

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Ok, so for all the people there are saying they're interested, I haven't heard much yet. Just wanted to clarify that I AM now ready to take orders.

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Waiting on answers to just a few more questions--cost of thick soles on turnshoes and cost of extra wide sizing (if there is an extra cost). Otherwise, though, it would appear that everything is ready, so, here's the price list from me. Note that the price is effectively cost of shoes + shipping fro...

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Roger that! Thanks for those clarifications.

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Sure, easy enough.

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Hi Westland,

What are these two styles being called?

One piece early turnshoes . . . WE-137?

Irish Pointy Toed Slippers

Thanks!

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So, I'm now ready to begin taking orders for a second wholesale order. Problem is, I don't have a complete price list from Westland for all products currently being offered, and haven't yet received a package that contains a few test pairs of newer, more authentic Viking or Saxon style shoes as wel...

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A bit narrow for some of the people with the larger feet, otherwise yeah, spot on.

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So, I'm now ready to begin taking orders for a second wholesale order. Problem is, I don't have a complete price list from Westland for all products currently being offered, and haven't yet received a package that contains a few test pairs of newer, more authentic Viking or Saxon style shoes as well...

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Revised estimate: 2nd order going up tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon. Spent today helping get my girlfriend ready to go to field school.

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Info about that going up later today.

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Arrived at my parent's for our annual Fourth of July party, and was excited when my Ma handed me a package. I opened said package and took a gander at the nicely crafted footwear inside. I didn't try them on though. Left boot is the laced 14th c. boot Right boot is the buckle 14th c. boot anyone mi...

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I believe Westland has said there are now extra wides. I don't know how wide.

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Caligae . . . the fine details, in this case, are quite an important difference.

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If he wants to start up an order and do it that way he's welcome to, but those wholesale prices you see are not doing to get the shoes to your door unless it's bringing five+ pairs and you're doing your own wholesale order. That's shipping to one location. Ie, a box of five shoes to one place in the...

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Yeah, I'm already starting to get stuff together. Not quite ready to start taking orders yet. I'll officially announce it and open it up for orders Tuesday the 5th.

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Agnarr--I'm sorry. They do stretch quite a bit with wear, especially when wet. Try getting them soaking wet and then try to put them on, or get shoe stretchers the width of your foot and put those in. It's worth a try at least? Jestyr, Scott--A lot of people, especially men with larger feet, seem to...

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Thanks, Westland!

Yeah . . . might as well go ahead and get around to that, I guess, now that nearly all the work on this first batch is (nearly) done.

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BTW--The CrashPads shorts are still available. Everything else is sold.

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Heh, sorry, I've got popups disabled so I sometimes miss PM's at first.

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Westland, have you seen my most recent email? Can you respond, please?

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Who made that liner?

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Klappvisor means that the visor swivels on one hinge at the center. This is a primarily German thing. English bascinets of all periods generally had two hinges, one on each side. That being said . . . there are a LOT of SCA English personas with klappvisors. The is a representation of an English bas...

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Really, by 1390, a well equipped English man at arms wouldn't be wearing much at all of that list. Breastplate, fauld optional, not CoP. Full mail hauberk and chausses (most people leave those out for cost and weight, which is understandable) Fully articulated complete plate steel arm and leg harnes...

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Doesn't really read right to me.

Everything except the helmet reads earlier to me, except that you should have more mail coverage for real accuracy. And why not an aventail? The mantle is the one that's incorrect . . . a bascinet just doesn't look right without a tail.

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That's pretty much what Barge Cement is made for . . .

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Don't have any yet.

I'm not very camera friendly.

I don't even own a camera.

To give more detail, I sent her a couple pairs of old 100% worsted wool suit pants (about 10 sizes too large for me) that I picked up at Goodwill and she turned them into trews that fit me.

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Wow. I have nothing but the best to say about her. I sent her crappy starting materials and a crappy job, with a time frame somewhere between demanding and ridiculous, and she produced an amazing product for me with a turnaround that would make Wal Mart blush, at a price lower than anything else I'v...

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I just put labels on roughly 98% of the remaining orders today. Expect them to go into the mail tomorrow to arrive by the end of this week. There's a couple that I didn't have the right boxes for, but I have them now, and those should be in the mail no later than Tuesday. There are also a couple of ...

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somedudeinutah--It's probably best to interpret both of those two sources with extreme skepticism. One is from 1890, the other from 1913--there's been a lot of water under the bridge since then, and we have a lot more evidence to rely on in making such interpretations. If you want to deal with the s...

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Point of information: I have already arranged with Alric to buy the other mug, so it's sold also.

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I work in IT, I'd fix your computer for a free costrel.

Although you live far enough north in Ohio that I'm rarely to never that far up, so probably not practical.

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If it hasn't been said, you guys LOOK AWESOME! With a double side of awesome...... yup, apparently awesome sauce does come in a 55 gallon drum. With all due respect, sir, I cannot help but to believe that you are not telling the truth. This is clearly an entire tanker truck of Awesome Sauce Â©. I w...

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Possible interest. How much to ship it to 40510, and what size package does it fold down to?

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I agree 100% about the toggles on the Viking shoes. I think custom placement is simply mandatory for proper fit. They fit a few people correctly right out of the bag, but most people need to reposition the toggles to make them fit right. So, after a long week's hard use, a bit of a review: Fuck. Yes...

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