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Adric13

sweet - yes! it does help. actually looking at the period stuff and finds and all that it looks like the neck hole on the guy on the left is the way they usually were but i like the fit of the one you are wearing better so will prolly do variations on both. looking at machine embroidery in proper pa...

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Are there any rules against hob nailed boots or shoes being worn on the field in Amy kingdom as far as any one knows? Cause modern cleats look line dog squeeze. And hobnails are period and would add all the grip you could want if added to period shoes.

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Dude this is like a gift thread. Please folks post em! We are In design phase looking at where we need to go to get these on the market and more examples is morer betterer!

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He was at lilies this year. I made a run to town and picked stuff up for him. He also bought a tunic. He will be at pensic. Not sure what he does through the web. We talk archive - he quit coming here as it too additive and taking over too much life.

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Where are you? Shipping poles and such might be an issue forsome folks but you failed to list a location if one were opt to pick it up. Just an idea.

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dont know her sizes and stuff but there are several girls running around in me tunics as under dresses and i have black - cause all the cool kids wear black

might be a fix in a pinch?

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send me some model pics - you'll be famous! you can cut your head off if ya want - seriously - i need some model pics and if your willing if ya got some good ones i'll use em!

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Do you still sell the non-Rus style pants? I don't see them on your website. Kenric yep they just hanvt made the site yet. the site has got a metric crap load of fixes i need to learn how to do so i can get it fixed and working correctly and loading those has not been a priority. they are 35$ and t...

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How is the waist of the rus pants secured? They look very silimar to 17c slops. They are just a big ol draw string. the waist is like 80 inches around and you just cinch em down. there are big big guys and 120 pound dancer chicks who wear em. i call them one size fits all but at some point i'm gonn...

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any chance you will be doing mid thigh, short sleeve tunics for us in the hot part of the knowne world...love the rus pants that I got..and the the long tunic and pants...just hoping because I suck at sewing yup soon i hope too. got some samples coming back with this shipment for a shorter tunic an...

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OK big guy tunics are sposed to ship on the 16th. shuold be here about the 24 and will dyed and turned around as fast as posible. here is the story about the delay - the linen this time comes from Belgium - well more specifically the flax comes from there - which was sent to china - where all the mi...

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I wear al lam and it's padded by a single layer of linen tunic and a bit of fat. Every thing else that's been said is true. You may wanna add more padding but I just kept removing till it got where I liked. Next stop was neked. So tunic them armor. YMMV.

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I know about iron and al oxid making for a nice hot fire and if you don't some will jump in here talk about this being dangerish I'm sure. But. I had iron shavings sitting on an al road sign. The rust stains did a good job of rusting the al. Which lead to tryin to rust stain al to give an iron look....

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every one should buy they are great! I got one! 5's all the way around too.

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How come you can manage to keep posting on the Archive but you consistently fail to reply to my e-mails regarding my time-sensitive order? i have sent 4 emails trying to get info and stuff and never got a reply. i pretty much gave up. thankfully there are a ton of others doing the same thing that o...

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im leaning on them as hard as i can. orders that can be filled are going out the same day if possible so things can be there in time.

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Here is everything I know - they are mostly finished with the run - butran out of fabric. They put in an order with the mill somewhere overseas, and it's on a boat somewhere being shipped. As soon as the fabric is in my stuff will be finished and shipped. And we got a slight delay with the holiday. ...

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last i heard he has no access to Ti wire and as such has completely cleaned up his Q of custom SS stuff - while the Ti stuff waits. This is total hearsay and i have actual clue as to whats going on but that was how a buddy said he got is custom SS suit in a about a week. YMMV.

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There ISA YouTube and I have seen where a guy takes a piece of cold steel and using only hammer and anvil beats it to yellow hot in short order. Some on a real computer can prolly find it and post a link but it's very unlikley to happen with out. Some serious effort to make it so.

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Anodize it! No chips, no touch up, nice bright colours.

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i shot you your PM back but others are prolly wondering too - im in holding pattern too. i shoot them an email every couple days and a phone call once a week and "i'm next as soon as they wrap the current run for the guy in front of me" i have no idea that that means! is he a small run or ...

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capt'n jamie at by-my-hand has hilt combo stuff too.

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Steer board was a stress snap I think. They were in the middle of the lake and in a turn when it gave way. You can see the repaired area in the pic. That boxy looking bit above the water - that's the fix.

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Any pictures of our old ship, the Fyrdraca? i dont get any but i did man an oar for a float. and supervised the steer board repair cause it got broken on one of the sailing trips. and i say supervised cause i stood around and watched richard work ok i held a plank while sawing for a min but that ma...

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lilies was great right up until that last storm front on sat morning - the one that took out the big tent - took mine out too! i was originally planning on leaving on sunday morning untill the wind packed the tent for me. i was holding the front door flaps getting them closed up when the gods reache...

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Logan the Red wrote:Just got my 3 pair of Rus Pants in and am very pleased! Hope I can keep them out of my wife garb

good luck. Mine decided they make great dance pants.

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Getting the rus pants out before I left for lillies was a priority so I am getting a 2 day late start toward lillies but y'all have been waiting - so the rus only orders are/will be shipped today as roll off to KC. If we are waiting on big guy tunics then your pants and tunic will go out at the same...

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any chance you can get linen gambesons? yes and no - i am taking a more early period path and focus with my lines. there are a number of folks already doing gambys in several fabrics in the 13-16 cent time frame. so those im skipping. speciually since this is off the peg vs custom fit. i will be ma...

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That's fair. I'm volunteering at it this year so I have no excuse not to be there Anyways, my order was sent through Paypal and under the email ramius_thedark(at)yahoo(dot)com. Take your time, 40+ orders seems like a LOT. Thanks in advance! -Ramius/Elias it really gets fun when you factor in AA han...

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Check for me as well if you could, Adric. I sent an order for two Big Boy tunics, one blue and one black, with shipping (35 + 35 + 11 for shipping?). If it isn't right or you need something else, shoot me a pm. Also, you going to be able to make it to Border Raids this year? -Ramius/Elias tell me w...

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GunnarUlfson wrote:Wanting to make sure you got the paypal from emstutzman for the tunics and pants. Had your email wrong the first time. I am pretty certain you did since it is completed on my account, but never hurts to check in.

got it. came in on the 6th.

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My only complaint....is not with the helm but how it'll suck to have to put tape etc on it at large events... I have a friend with a similar helm (I believe also from Knotwulf). His fix for this was to attach (I think with cord) a small plate (about half of a typical tombstone lamellear plate) to t...

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Vlad yes, Scotty they are all coming at the same time and I got ya covered and gunar I will have to look but it's late and brain hurts so I'm going to bed bu I'll check tomorrow and shoot ya a pm when I'm not surfing on my phone.

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Rus pants are in and will be going out asap. Big guy tunics are following shortly. That is all.

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