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Might try the book Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East by Hattox, can be found online for next to nothing.

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anyone ever tried hardi board?

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Before Europeans imported tea from China they drank sage 'tea'. Apparently the Chinese liked the sage tea well enough that you could get far more black tea in trade then the amount of sage.

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Sean Powell wrote:For hobby use I prefer MAPP gas and spent extra for the electric ignition.

Do you have the newer TS8000 if not it is worth considering and definitely getting if your older one goes out.

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Please go and look at period ones or good reproductions before you try and come up with something.

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yea I would just put the hammers down to the anvil so it can be done as a pin. a sew on would be a pain and this is from someone who has far fewer clothing then most.

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Any chance you'd let people make their own copies of it from other peoples? Or would you be willing to designate someone on this side of the pond to make copies cause importing them all might be a pain.

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Signo, ask for the specifications on the steels they carry. Hopefully they have a consistent supplier and you might be surprised by what you get. The local place I have been talking to doesn't sell anything and just call it mild steel. They carry 1008, A36, and A653 which all seem to have reasonably...

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A long time ago this was an idea of the order of the archive which well never much went anywhere however it did have one idea that was reasonaly good. Having a way to recognize other archivers at event. Now the original idea was belt favors with the AA badge on them. But lets face it belt favors are...

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See, there's a friend of mine in Waco which is apparently between austin and dallas and she said she'd go to events if she knew people in the area. Unfortunately the groups between Austin and DFW are a mess due to unhealthy groups and poor decision making at the kingdom level. Both shires in Bell c...

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Ahh ok, now we have a purpose. You are trying to harden 'mild cold drawn' steel with super-quench rather then case-hardening or similar. That's a cool idea... but why buy unlabeled mild steel for this experiment? It's just as easy to get 1018 or 1020 specificly by asking for it. If you do and get g...

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Page 6-35: Average Mechanical Properties of some cold-drawn steel 1010 Yield 55.0ksi, Tensile 67ksi, 25% Elongation 1015 Yield 60.3ksi, Tensile 71ksi, 22% Elongation 1020 Yield 63.7ksi, Tensile 75ksi, 20% Elongation 1025 Yield 68.0ksi, Tensile 80ksi, 18.5% Elongation 1030 Yield 73.9ksi, Tensile 87k...

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Are yall sure yall aren't talking about both A36 and A366 together. Everything I have found puts the carbon content of A36 steels in the .2x% range but hot rolled vs 1018 which apparently is cold rolled making it harder off the bat. With A366 being somewhat synonymous with 1008 although it would ape...

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Several guys locally have had success with birch plywood. When I went digging through sources that mentioned what kind of wood was used in 15th century shields almost every one that identified the wood were poplar.

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I know what the different steels are, I am trying to figure out what people are actually buying for those that know.

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Does anyone know the specific type of steel they get one they are buying mild steel?
1008? 1018? A-366? A36?

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Do yall have access to any higher carbon steels, even if you aren't able to heat treat it that can be done here. It depends on what you need to be made of higher carbon steel For example, now we have several helmets with nasal elements made of 4 mm string steel. Over here we typically use 4130 or 1...

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Has anyone tried any of the GDFB helms in the SCA?

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Barriers in 15th century tournaments are the fence around the list.

Fighting across the barrier in a tournament setting doesn't enter into use until I believe the 1490s

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Bob, once does not equal frequently and I'm pretty sure it was only once. But I can check my e-mails if you like. Secondly what you just wrote doesn't actually contradict anything I said. Thirdly the only reason I would under estimate your knowledge is because you don't generally use sources well an...

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Bob, you should look into going back to school to finish your degree with the time you have right now. Because writing posts that go way off from the original question are often not worth the time. What I said was "Assuming that the WA images are more or less actual depictions of the burgundian...

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In the Master WA prints, we see several scenes of an army encamped, and the tents show either shelter equipment, or act as stabling for horses, not as shelter for men. Bob you really need to make like binders of evidence or something so you can double check these things more easily. The three tents...

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Am I correct in assuming that as a tepee it has an opening in the center at the top? how big is that or how wide are the panels at the top?

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What are the dimensions of the canvas?

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Sir Gaston is working in spring stainless along with several people in Austin. Maelgwyn is the furthest north here in Georgetown. Spring steels are way easier to make armour in then what people usually do in mild or regular stainless as you use much thinner metal and it is easier to work cold and ve...

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I would only go with a spring stainless helm if you consider yourself an experienced fighter. It hasn't been in use long enough to be completely sure about how exactly it will react. Might get cracking or one local guy who has a shield boss out of it just got dented quick but he may have ground it t...

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Do yall have access to any higher carbon steels, even if you aren't able to heat treat it that can be done here.

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Do yall have access to any higher carbon steels, even if you aren't able to heat treat it that can be done here.

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As it stands it lacks accuracy for most of the reasons pointed out. The best thing to do right now is look at heraldry. Your best bet is to start here and look at the 13th century English rolls. If it was done then it will be done in the next century. Then you can look at how you want to change your...

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the tierce kinda stands out to me but going away for the long weekend so will have to investigate next week.

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It would be much more like citations. Start with google because if I posted citations I would choose only those that supported my opinion and there is quite a bit of debate over how to measure such things. If you look at things like depression they are heavily 1st world problems. You will find that ...

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>I would be a much more content person if I was born 550 years ago then I am today. Please elaborate. Firstly almost every study done indicates that people in traditional and 3rd world societies tend to be happier then those of us living in the first world. Secondly it is a society that I can under...

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Conrad Hartmann

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Vitus, you need to write a history book. Like _The History of Period_ by Vitus. It would be hilarious. The traditional Roman Catholic Church of today is not the medieval church. Current traditional catholicism like much of traditionalism today is mostly a creation of the 19th century. There was a ma...

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Why a clergyman or monk from Ireland could move around Europe and European religious houses. I'm going to guess that most laymen in 14th century Ireland didn't speak German or French. Maybe some English depending on who they actually were. French is actually more likely, since the Anglo-Normans wou...

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