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Gaston de Vieuxchamps wrote:Just read the OPs Burpee page.

Medicine ball burpees. Holy shit.

Hold the madicine ball the whole time so you essentially do a close grip balnce pushup and lift the ball overhead while jumping.

I feel stronger just thinking about it.

G

got some you tubes?

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freiman the minstrel wrote:I need to add that I just had a conversation with a fellow named Sir Wulfric, and I feel like Morrigan is well supported locally.

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His Excellency Sir Wulfric is the current baron of Vatavia,& is a great guy. To my knowledge he is not on here yet, but is on facebook

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/ratangei/me5.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/ratangei/KoT1.jpg I had to go to rigid chest protection after this summer now that my sternum is wired together. So I went to a hidden plastic thing that I'm gonna cover in leather and decorate like crazy a...

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Neat toy!

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I was looking at these http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB2/ ... 80#1621980 and wondered if they would be close to correct

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We've got cottonwoods that grow REAL tall, some Osage Orange, mulberry, elm, hack-berry, locust,& a few other feral species. plus I know of wells that produce lots of paraffin in charcoal black, to others that can have a 12X10' tank with 200 bbls of drip in em,& all you see is a slight green...

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I am looking for something appropriate for late 16C England

in about a size 12-1/2 or 13. depending on how they are cut.

sha-ul

this looks promising

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I have used nails in the past for rivets,& you are correct they can be quite hard, I have found laying them on a firebrick & heating them up to a dull red& letting cool to normalize makes a BIG difference.

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Thomas H wrote:I heated them to orange and chucked them in water until cool. That should have made them fairly hard, they are only mild steel anyway.

you might try looking up "super quench"

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I need to work on my torches a little. My Grandpa tought me how to soak cat tails in kerosene for night fishing torches. However as a rental torch they are crap. They come back all used up. I am working on a refillable fire cauldron iron torch head, with a wooden handle. Humm.... it make good flami...

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please clarify for me, to order a particular style you need 10 of that style for the minimum order, or at least 10 total?

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wcallen wrote:Lots of different choices. Very few really great ones.

Wade

That's what I was thinking, rivets are pretty much forever; it's not like they can be unscrewed, or un-smashed. IE if it's peened, it's permanent

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Angusm0628 wrote::bump:

yup.

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If you like, you can email me the pics& I will put them on photobucket.

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Clang, when you wander over we can play with some authentic capped rivets I rudely removed from a piece a few years ago. The piece was a mess anyway, and I do still have them so I might be able to put them back on. Not much harm and I haven't done anything like it recently. I hope this doesn't soun...

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Hi there, Id love to give the patterns a try sometime, Would it be possible to get them in full size through the mail? Id pay for time and shipping of course. Thank you Pitbull I almost missed you here. I am copying a set for someone right now so I'll try and get another set of what I have together...

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AH another fine product from Hal's Emporium, now selling pitchforks, torches,& sabatons

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Tasha K wrote:Do the cabins have plug-in electricity? Also, no-one's mentioned T-Mobile that I noticed -- how's reception for that carrier on the site, if anyone else here uses them..?

Since T-mobile shares 3 of 4 frequencies with at&t wireless, you probably would be OK

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Stephan, does this shotgun cripple on one end& kill on the other? for some reason my 590 seems to do that

with the same loads, the perceived recoil is much harsher than my Winchester 120.

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I generally agree with needing a bit of a tweak on a few things,I am not opposed to reserving the privilege of posting in the classified section to members with 50 posts or more, with the ability for mods to override the post count if a good argument could be made. IE brandnewguy wants to post about...

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cool story, thanks for sharing.

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Try looking at your Kingdom fighters manual or go to the marshalls section on the SCA site. Antir has a rule that helms for heavy fighting have to be 12g. Two things to keep in mind are that if you polish the helm, your going to need to start with a heavier gauge. Remember that mass well protect yo...

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those soul-pad tents did at least have a canvas floor, I usually put a plastic tarp down as well, but I didn't know about other makers.

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Silly question here, but to the tents from panther, tent-smiths, etc have a floor? or do you have to get a separate piece of canvas for that?

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Sean, who did the welding for you?

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I remember reading here about using latex paint & water 1part paint,& 2 parts water to apply to canvas as a water proofing, would that possible help here?

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Milan H wrote:Here is Katherinas picture.

(it's a clicky link to larger pictures)

Cheers!

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Rudolph wrote:Lookin' good, I was wondering what was happening with the bottom half of the Dude. For a while there, I was thinking some sort of funky spin on a skateboard

me too

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I would like to thank everyone that has responded, it looks like this is one to pick up& browse through later. btw what all projects are presented in these books? The second book has a small section on makeing a period lock you might be interested in. But you can also read it on google books. Th...

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I just got the response asking about the material weight of the soulpad... Yes, its 285 gsm/2, that works out around 10oz. So, the soulpad is non-fire retardant 10oz Canvas? Or is it made of something "comparable' to 10oz canvas? it appears to be 100% cotton canvas, approx 10 oz, with no fire ...

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I just got the response asking about the material weight of the soulpad...

Yes, its 285 gsm/2, that works out around 10oz.

sha-ul

I sent off an email to this outfit, & believe it or not, they DO NOT treat their tents with fire retardant

the response I got was "No, that is something customers have to do for themselves."

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http://www.amazon.com/Constructing-Medi ... =8-2-spell

& the sequel,
http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Furnitur ... =8-1-spell

Has anyone here had experience with these books& this Author?
are the plans comprehensible? well laid out?
Will these help someone outfit a passably period camp?

Re: patterns

seeking book reviews:Daniel Diehl Constructing Medieval Furn