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Soon as you stop assuming anyone criticizing you is criticizing "Their betters". It goes both ways dude. Your words here paint a pretty clear picture of who you are, how you think, and what responsibility you take for your actions. If you consider reading what you say, and making judgements based on...

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sorry about that, let me try to clarify. so I joined the sca some time ago. I loved the competition of our sport combat. I thought it was awesome and I thought it was something that provided everything in a true combat sport that I wanted. I quit boxing after 12 years because it is a crooked pile o...

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Pine is fine, as long as you choose the right type, and use only clear wood.

The biggest trick to those is having your tolerances tight, so the cant rack. Racking causes sheer stress, and that is when they fail.

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When I was set up, and making what I call the "K" chairs (the german style, it's basically a sideways X chair with a longer one side, and no other side, so it has a back, but no arms), I had sold my "prototype" piece to someone for 125$, and had four of my own. Someone's eyes bugged out and went "OO...

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I'd price em (in hardwood) STARTING at 130 for the top one, and at LEAST 200 for the bottom. ANd at that price it will barely cover your labor and materials. Belemrys.. if you can find someone selling the bottom ones at 150, let me know so I can buy em and resell em for the 300 they are likely worth.

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I'm laughing, but not at the product, just how many different ways "Fleur de lis" can be spelled in one listing.

Nice kit, Hal. Seriously.

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also, look up "lantern shield".

There's some weird small pavises out there as well.. mostly German, IIRC.

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1530s you start to get into the really big assed German swords.. and the Claymores like that thing is modeled after.. there are several in museums. (including one scottish 7 foot monster). But yeah, if you are wanting to practice "real" fighting techniques.. you need to do it with real sword equival...

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yeah, I remember Starfire stuff at Pennsic being displayed jammed through a car door on the ground.

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Lol. Speaking of crowbars...

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Yeah, and i handled a zweihander that was a bit over 3 lbs and about the same length. Real swords are not heavy clubs. (Exceptions being swords of ceremony and state). It will work for screwing around.

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Also.. its a 7 lb sword. Crowbar.

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No. But KoA is.. uhh.. you get what you pay for.

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potential for what? It looks pretty, and moves like a crowbar.

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RandallMoffett wrote:Burning iron sure is interesting. I mostly cheat and use a modern drill but I'd love to get a real spoon bit

They aren't that hard to make.

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MediumAevum wrote:Just as a note for future reference this really belongs in Interpretive forum. I opened this looking for a very different conversation.

Yeah.. for this forum the answers are "auger or spoon bit".

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Forstners drill clean holes. Holesaws also drill clean holes. Spades will give you an UGLY exit wound, usually.

Auger bits work the nuts, but not with an electric drive.

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Awwwwww, but I wanna goooooo...... So go. Just don't piss and whine and cry about it when someone you judge to be below your social station actually hits you with a properly calibrated blow.. (last I checked, there's no loophole in the rules of the list that says you can rhino shots if you don't li...

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Just ban whiny bitches from pennsic. Problem solved.

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Jigs. These are all about repeatability. And you have to handfit the first two seat slats.. then you can set up a jig on a saw to do the rest.

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http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/homepages/oakley/folding_chair.html That one.. with some finagling, you can convert it fairly easily. Legs are 31, shoulder to shoulder, holes at 9.25 and 20.75. Seat slats are roughly 14.75, holes at 3/4 and 8. Someone good with sketchup can easily make that into a pa...

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Ive made them out of maple. 3/4 thick by 1.5 wide. If you are careful about fitting where the slats rest on the legs, theyll hold up your car.

I took oxleys pattern for a k chair, and turned into an x.

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It was never MEANT to be a historical movie. It was Eaters of the Dead by Crichton.. n an afterword in the novel Crichton gives a few comments on its origin. A good friend of Crichton's was giving a lecture on the "Bores of Literature". Included in his lecture was an argument on Beowulf and why it w...

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edit.. found it without slogging throughte garage.. these:

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I'll try to remember tomorrow.. my Grandfather had em labeled in his Hutty when we emptied it out.. they are in the bottom of my tool chest.

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I have a couple of wrenches.. either for a model A or T.. they look like small pipe wrenches with some kind of tang on the bottom that is clearly a purposeful tool..

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Yup And I've both seen fighters swap helmets and heard them brag about getting 'spares' inspected 'just in case they get caught'. By the time I could get a marshal's attention, they beam out. What difference would "spares" make? Still has your medallion number on it. "Oh, I loaned my helmet to that...

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Yup And I've both seen fighters swap helmets and heard them brag about getting 'spares' inspected 'just in case they get caught'. By the time I could get a marshal's attention, they beam out. What difference would "spares" make? Still has your medallion number on it. "Oh, I loaned my helmet to that...

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medallion numbers. Don't we put them on stickers now?

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sharpen.. awesome throwing star.

(I think there's still an old bike sprocket stuck in the sliding door of the barn where I grew up.. )

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Camp of the Three Bears builds a beehive oven, every year, from mud out of the local crick right up the road, (they bring their own bricks, and a metal frame for the bricks to lay against).

it can be done on site.

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http://www.pennstateind.com/store/WXANT ... odpage=1WX

http://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/p/1/- ... erm=antler

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the C-130s that fly over aren't doing target practice, they are flying missing man formation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_man_formation

Unless a Puff goes over, Herkies aren't combat planes.

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I tried to turn a longer one last year but I max out at like 24" ANything over that, and Rattan starts to go "wibble wibble wibble" on the lathe. That same bendy property you rely on for safety makes it a real bear to turn. A spindle-steady helps, but rattan is so wibbly that you can then get a nif...

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Ive got a few ideas..

Woodworkers supply is selling micah panels now.

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