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Bob H

Try a search for the following:

Sir Francis Drake
Sir John Hawkins
Thomas Cavendish
Sir Walter Raleigh

Jacque de Sores
Jean Alphonse de Saintonge
Francois le Clerc
Guillaume le Testu

All are within the SCA timeframe, at least for some significant part of their career.

Bob H

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by azommin: Vlad Tepes. Thats funny. Don't think it'll give one a whole lot of good armour suggestions other than garlic http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/wink.gif <HR></BLO...

Bob H

You might try a Google search for "Vlad Tepes", there will be tons of info to sort through (some good, some not so).

Bob H

I use plain lard in my oil lamps when I can keep them near the fire so the grease remains liquid, bear or vegetable oil when it's too cold for the lard to flow down the wick. As to safety, I don't think our ancestors were as concerned with idiot-proofing their environment. You bump the lamp, you cat...

Bob H

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Konstantin the Red: Covered cloth buttons on shanks, and lots of them with very small distance between each button, or the thing will gap under the load the armor will put on t...

Bob H

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by freiman the minstrel: Do you have a ritual that you associate with fighting? Is there something that you do that helps you to get "in the groove"? thanks f<HR></...

Bob H

Doggonnit, now I'm going to wake up tonight at every noise. I've got two hides soaking in bucking water, and another in clear rinse, and they're all outside under the carport.

tinkle,clack...WHAT'S THAT!!! GET AWAY DOGS!!!

Bob H

It's also listed in at least two sources as one of the layers in a padded jack.

Bob H

Sorry, I'm still looking for proof, too. Slow match seems to be used in the age of blackpowder (again, no specific sources), which is usually made by soaking some soft fabric cord in a saltpetre solution, or in a gunpowder/water slurry. I have a book on the early to mid 18thC Canadiens that lists sl...

Bob H

Pre-1700?

Otzi the Iceman clothes!

Bob H

Charred cloth is just what it sounds like it is. A common method is to get an airtight metal container (a clean empty paint can works good, as long as there is NO paint in it), punch a small hole in the lid and make a wooden plug to fit the hole (a golf tee works fine). Fill can very loosely with pi...

Bob H

Also, try here:

http://www.therifleshoppe.com/matchlocks.htm

They have possibly the most extensive line of muzzleloader parts available. They can be a bit slow, but they have an otherwise sterling reputation.

Bob H

Try Track of the Wolf, good folks, and they're very knowledgeable so you can call and get good info before you buy.

http://www.trackofthewolf.com/

Bob H

Maybe this will be of some small help:

http://www.qualitycaps.co.uk/

Bob H

I've reposted it at a lower minimum bid, no reserve:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2200704003

Bob H

I know this is offtopic here, but a lot of the folks who might want this don't read any of the other boards.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2200704003

Bob H

I relisted my Coventry sallet on eBay at a lower price:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2200704003

Bob H

I haven't seen a 15thC hobnail, but Najecki carries them for 18thC shoes:

http://www.najecki.com/repro/Shoes.html

Bob H

Snopes is an entertaining site since many of us take great delight in raising the cry of "Bullshit!". However, if they were held to the documentation standards required of an undergraduate history student, their collection would be small, indeed. In every case that I've examined, their documentation...

Bob H

Look in "Arms and Armour of the Crusading Era" by David Nicolle, the European volume (there's also a Middle Eastern book). There are several in there including one drawing of a European wearing a pair. While his book is line drawings, he gives the source for the original work.

Bob H

I'd add building a proper cooking fire and preparing food over it to the flint and steel part. Add how to bank a fire for the night. I like the sharpening idea, you could extend it to axes as well. Cleaning and mending clothes. Caring for leather items and steel armour using medieval methods and sub...

Bob H

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Brodir: ... having William's foragers happen upon an Icelandic Althing may be a bit too surreal, hmm? http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/biggrin.gif ~Wil<HR></BLOCK...

Bob H

Honestly, get someone else to do it. A local taxidermist might be glad to get the work if you catch him in the off season. I've had a lot of friends try the quick no-work methods, and none of them had much success.

Most likely the hair is going to slip or shed on a deer no matter who does it.

Bob H

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by Winterfell: Why are you parting with it? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Shift in focus on my part, I'm going to work on more of a "hired hand" impression - cook, tentstretcher...

Bob H

Yes, Jeff, that's mine. And Gaston's. And Thorgrim's.

Bob H

Thanks, Owen.

Better pics here:

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/ebay/sallet/

Bob H

Here's a couple of better pictures, they're pretty big, though.

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/ebay/sallet/

Bob H

Thanks Halfgrim, filed for future use.

Bob H

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2197475620

Bob H

Sorry for the crosspost, but I figured there might be more interested folks here.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2197469549

Bob H

NOTE 11/02/03: Relisted at lower minimum at http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2200704003 ************************************** It's sweet. I'm changing my focus to a supporting role instead of combatant, and don't need this. No rust, no dents or even scratches. I can't find the pic...

Bob H

His survey is here: http://www.armourarchive.org/ubb/Forum4/HTML/002894.html Commenting there would only make tabulation more difficult, but I'm nearly certain most of us have reasons for our choices. I'll start. 1st choice - L'anse aux Meadows, or other Viking age outpost. I like material culture (...

Bob H

Where: Johnson City TN
Age: 51
Gender: male
1st choice: L'anse aux Meadows, or similar Viking era settlement.
2nd choice: A "Nessmuk" group, late 19th to very early 20thC outdoorsman.

Bob H

I also do 18thC living history, and I've never seen such tables in any of the resources I've found. That doesn't mean, of course, that they didn't exist. After hearing the last explanation you were given, I'd suspect they are a "reenactorism", i.e. folks copying each others' kits instead of primary ...

Bob H

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Originally posted by PraireFox: Close but with the ones I have the legs are loose fitting and there is a two buttons to close the bib. One on each side. The inside has two lenghts of cloth you o...

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