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Johannes

Johnathon More wrote:I would be honored to stand with you again this year.

You are well met, and on my list.

Johannes

If I can make it to Pennsic, it would be my honor to fight with the English again if they will have me. My strongest wish is to finally have the English be victorious at least once. Plus being able to fight along side Eadric and Master Magnus and of course our most honorable leader Johannes is a de...

Johannes

Maybe an appeal to our shared Germanic culture?

Johannes

If I am in fit state to take up arms I would, of course, stand with the forces loyal to Edward Plantagenet lawful King of England and France against those worthy but misguided souls who cast their lot with the Valois pretender. Your strong arm would be most welcome. Think we can talk Manfred out of...

Johannes

Snaebjorn,

If you will attend Lilies this year it would be my honour to meet you on the field to complete this deed.

Johannes

I can relay a message if you like.

Johannes

I use a shovel rivet through the holes and fill any extra gap with wood or rattan wedges driven into the space (with a little white glue). I have not had much trouble with breakage, but I tend to view my swords as expendable.

Johannes

Well, I have been home for 8 hours or so from Gulf Wars and still inspired by the look on Ceddie's face after the Deed there, so thought it was time to start thinking (and talking) about the COTT for Pennsic this year. First, A bit of news: Count Rhys has officially ruled himself out as a captain fo...

Johannes

The Windrose ones are actually a conglomeration of parts from the Mandrake ones and my own. We kept the parts that worked from each. The extra lame was added to fix a problem I had with my own set of Mandrake gauntlets, that they did not close completely and the final bit of movement was being taken...

Johannes

Lucas,

If it doesn't sell here, bring it by the booth and we will put a price on it and see if we can sell it for you.

Johannes

Keigan was trying to fight through a knee injury and wasn't himself. This was a pretty deep list for its size, and 2 of the three finalists were guys I had picked. Pretty good day, all told.

Johannes

Bump because it is two days away.

Johannes

Thanks, i have emailed him as well.

Johannes

If anyone has his ear, please have him contact me.

Johannes

Axel,

I think Lothar and I might be able to come up with something, we both made it at one time or another. The version i remember was actually a liqueur, even though it tasted meadlike.

Johannes

It's not embarrassing, it is a sign of maturity!

Johannes

We went to new stainless a couple years ago, and I bought enough for a year or two. The last time I ordered (a few months ago) the price had basically tripled. I never liked using scrap because it is so hard to be sure of what you get, but it isn't even available to us anymore.

Johannes

You know, Leo, now you will have to get your picture taken with Magnus and I instead of that Murdock guy.

Johannes

Murdock,

If you know what size you need, let me know the fabric you want as we will be having an order made very soon.

Johannes

Magnus The Black wrote:You will have this @ Gulfwars?

We will.

Johannes

I just wish the stickers were smaller than a file folder. Marshals have been pretty understanding about my desire to put the sticker somewhere unobtrusive (or easy to clean), but when it is the size of a small country there isn't much to be done.

Johannes

We have finally gotten the new Vitus Book together, it is a compilation of three separate essays and comes in at 44 pages.

Price is $10 per copy, we have them available right now.

Link to The Furious Wheel

Johannes

It's exciting to see a project like this finally get finished. And the stuff we built for it looks pretty good.

We have copies for sale here: 1381: The Peel Affinity

Johannes

I'm not often as happy with a project at the end as I was with this one, maybe because it wasn't for sale or a customer. I just really wanted to build it, and do it a certain way without having to consider anything except how I wanted it to look. Anyway, it was nice to do something that might make a...

Johannes

Fulk wrote:This guy makes some nice stuff http://www.duncanmetalcraft.com/

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I second this one since we helped design some of the stakes he sells and they are hardened.

Johannes

He left here yesterday, but has a couple more stops on the way home. I know he sold about half of his in stock helmets, hope the one you want is still there!

Johannes

DietrichUhl wrote:Do bar stock suppliers make twisted bar stock?

I do like what you have to offer, I just wonder there is an easy way for you to add a twisted look to cross guard.

-Dietrich

They do, but a smith who knows what he is doing can do it better in a very small amount of time, and do it a lot cheaper.

Johannes

After the war, come by the shop and we'll see if we can work something out. The ones I am working on are medieval, but we might be able to rig something Viking together.

Johannes

We've been working on a version, but have to solve a couple issues before I talk about them too much.

Johannes

Just carefully packed it up, if you want to see it in person, come by the Windrose Booth. Better yet, come try to win it on Friday!

Johannes

Some fan you are! It's "Go Blue" to us old Michiganders...

Johannes

Added a new picture to the original post of the helmet nearly completed.

Johannes

Johannes, Sounds good. I have 3 suba hilts set out for you if you want them. Donnagal told me you wanted some? Stefhan Yup. I have been designing an s guard for machining or casting too, but just not getting all the feel I want within the limits I have set for durability. Be good to have another pe...

Johannes

Stefhan,

Come see me at the war, I'll make Domingo hang out there long enough to catch!

Johannes

These are based on tools I either own or designed for doing things in our shop. The quality of the tools themselves is awesome, all hardened faces and well shaped. He's a solid guy making a pretty great tool for the price.

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