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Carded, my wife would be in for quite a bit as well. Now that she has a spinning machine, keeping the stuff in the house has become "interesting".

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For a step by step, I posted this:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... hp?t=73868

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Regarding the "Grandson of the Wolf" part of your name: If you are a bit looser about the specific connotation, you could look into various cities and things all around England. A few of them happen to have Wolf or some variant as part of the name. My surname stands for "from Wulferto...

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One of the fastest (and most secure) methods for fastening leather to leather is to use rivets. There are several varieties. I use one eighth inch copper rivets, with little washers (called "burrs"). In Eighteen years, I have never had one break. They usually outlive the leather they are ...

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OK, then show me some European leather armor remnants. There aren't any. You can only use examples from what exists. Widespread leather armor should have more prescence. Shoes are in every midden in Europe, for example. I still claim faulty logic. Just because one culture used something one way, do...

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Eamon et al. The remains of most all period hide armor is in fact rawhide. The Roman Dura Europas lamellar thighguards, Rawhide. The Chinese lamellar armor pieces recovered by the Orel Stein Gobi Desert expeditions, Lacquered Rawhide with buckskin laces. Japanese armor lamella, (and period complain...

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Kind of reminds me of how I imagine a Curie would look, in order to still give the lines we see for tabards overtop. The problem with calling it that is that we have about a fingernail's worth of evidence of what they looked like.

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PM Sent.

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Gwen, did you get the email I sent? Would be regarding a size 6 that we ordered over the weekend.

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The problem with sword shaped rattan is that it has to be at least 1 1/4" thick in any direction that may concievably impact an opponent. Which means if you start out with 1.5" diameter sticks or thinner, there isnt too much to work with. Starting with thicker rattan has it's own unqiue pr...

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I would check out History of the Expedition to Jerusalem. Probably the closest period reference that would be available through ILL, though it is about a 100 years too early (detailing First Crusade).

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But that wouldn't be any different than getting someone to update the Links section, and remove dead or broken links. Somebody (or a group of people), somewhere, are going to be the bottleneck, if there is going to be a listing. The key is to keep it as small as possible. Look at the "I wanna b...

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Have you thought about looking into Dremel and things like that, and seeing if their collet nuts go up to that size? If so, that may be a cheap way to get what you are looking for. I can go and measure the standard one I have, but I think it is more like 1/2" than 5/8"

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Gwen, if we have access to a scanner, but not a fax, is there a way to scan a foot tracing along with a 1" square, and then email it somehow to you? My wife has tiny but wide feet, and can wear anything between a 3-8 in women's, depending.

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Since we cant really tell from the photo, what are you doing about buckles? Belt, shoes, belt tip, etc are all ways to subtly bring out the look you are going for. Another way to up the ante (albeit more expensive) is to look into alternatives other than the normal brass options people list. There a...

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I would stop by your local home improvement store and make sure they carry those belt sizes in stock. The second one looks to have very little accessable room for the belt, and a 1x5" belt just sounds tiny.

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I think part of the reason they are seen so much in an SCA context is the simple "one stop" solution to protecting what needs to be within the ruleset, and since they have become fairly commonplace, it is part of the "selective un-conscious" that is overlooked, like bargrills on ...

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It is ridiculously easy to over-saturate leather with black dye. The upside is that it is fairly easy to get a consistent color across the belt. Just take a rag of some kind and buff the daylights out of it to make sure you get up all the dye. Also, wear gloves. Leather and skin are pretty much alik...

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In short if you want to get into an argument over what is acceptable via the letter of the law even though its presents a clear danger to fellow participants that's an individuals prerogative. Its just not mine. If I met a person on the field with such a helmet I would happily walk off. I do not re...

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Note that if you remove (ie: destroy) a working treadle sewing machine to make such a grinder, I will curse the work it touches to the thirteenth generation of projects! I agree. Up here on Craigslist though, I see tons of non-working machines as well as just the tables for sale all the time. The o...

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Try looking on craigslist and such for an older sewing machine table. Viola, instant treadle for a polisher. All you would have to do is make the top wheel, get the right size belt for tension, and add a mounting bracket.

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Probably about 8-9 depending on price, since this gives her a couple to lose and still be able to do RR's.

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Torvaldr, any chance of just selling the arrows seperately? I just got my wife a bow (right around the 40-45# range), but it didnt come with any arrows. She is lefty, so unfortunately your bow was out of the running.

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Also, 16ga would work fine for someone who is still youth fighting in the SCA. IIRC, their minimums are about 18ga or so, so this would be perfectly fine. From a business perspective, think of your timing. The economy ain't so great, and lots of people just dropped serious cash for the holidays. Kin...

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Though not from Panther, I have a 14lx10wx10h' Norman Wedge, and it packs down into roughly a military parachute bag. Add the 6 poles I use (split for convenience), and it becomes relatively tiny.

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It all depends on your level of pain. Like the above posters, I am also going the High Middle Ages route, and currently wear motocross knees (will look at the brand later), Crashpads shorts, a kidney belt and generic lacrosse elbows, with a thick gambeson overtop it all. If you have the money, I hav...

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The bits of dishing I do simply involve chasing it around. IIRC, Hal uses the same trick with his doughnut. I would love a larger dish, as this one tends to be fairly small( mine has about a 2.5" opening), and you can easily "overdish" into it.

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I understand I was going to make the bottom one but after looking at it I found out it would be to heavy. And the other one in the top image was going to cost way to much for me to do and I don't have all the tools to do it. Actually, if you dropped the maille underneath the lamellar, it wouldn't w...

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For leather to metal, I just used the 3M stuff (forget if it was the household 45, or the Super 77). Has worked wonderfully, and held up for about 2-3 years now. Course, it is under maille, but except for a bit of peeling at the edges, no major issues.

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In my case, I can usually judge if it was flat by how my hand feels and is oriented when I feel the impact. I know one guy who taped his swords to be in-line with his first knuckle, because of how he threw shots, and it made it easier for him to judge. In the end, it all comes back to the honor syst...

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Why are you bothering with scale, or lamellar or other things that you know aren't historical for you? Just get one of those body bracelets from O'Quinn, and a good stiff gambeson. Rely on your virtue (*cough*) and your big mucking shield to carry you through, and then at least the pain will be from...

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Pay for your materials. This one is usually difficult to achieve since unless someone used something expensive I tell them not to worry about it. At least offer to pay the person for the materials. Whether or not they choose to charge you is up to them, but you are using things that they paid for. ...

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Sorry guys, missed the thread about where the new "rule" was clarified, and we didn't need the 1/4" under the aventail. Ignore what I said above, Aaron.

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They changed it a year or two ago to say you needed to put the "standard" 1/4" of give under an aventail. Personally, I wouldn't count heavy leather as the required padding, as it has no give. I would line it as thin as you could get away with regarding the rules. Then again, I have a...

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There was also a Swedish guy at Pennsic (and I have seen the website posted here as well) offering them in silver. Northan Dan or something of that variant...