ACK--- Just saw this today

Nicolai von Magdeburg · Fri Apr 06, 2001 2:19 pm

THIS IS A GREAT SPUNTOP HELM!

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=575328463

<sighs> each to their own I guess.

Robert Clark Carruth · Fri Apr 06, 2001 2:24 pm

Yeah, but he's got some nice Johan Blau gaunts up for auction.

Robert

Kevin the Hound · Post by **Kevin the Hound** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 2:56 pm

...seasoned rattan junkie.

Seasoned rattan junkie? Hello, my name is Kevin and I'm a rattan junkie. I first started "doing" rattan at the age of 17 (20 years ago). At first it was just casual, ya know, on weekends with a few friends. Then I started using rattan when I was by myself (the poor pell..) and even first thing in the morning. Finally, all I could think of was using rattan......

Kevin the Hound

Jaeger · Post by **Jaeger** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 3:06 pm

[everyone together] HI, KEVIN!

Hi, my name is Chris, and this is my first time to one of these meetings, so I'm a little nervous. I started doing rattan a few months ago. I don't think I even started doing it for the rattan--all my friends were doing it, and I felt like I had to in order to fit in. Before I new it, I was hooked. My wife started complaining about me not being around, I'd move or cancel social obligations so I could get my fix. Pretty soon once a week was not enough--I had to do it more often to get the same kick. Like Kevin, sometimes by myself. I wish I had some rattan right now... [sob]

[passing silly stick]

albatros · Post by **albatros** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 3:13 pm

Hi kevin and Chris

My name is John and I also starated using rattan a few months ago, I am horribly addicted although my steel addiction is stronger, where the hell is the coffee?

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Conrad the Mad

Mad Matt · Post by **Mad Matt** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 3:22 pm

Seasoned stick jock is more like it.

Did anyone see what the bidding is at? $250

Someone with a lot of extra money should go around buying up all the horrible helms and hide them in a closet so that they never make it to the field.

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The budding mid 14th century German Transitional guy.
Mad Matt's Armory

Hammered Wombat · Post by **Hammered Wombat** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 4:19 pm

- Wombat Dons Flame Retardant Outerwear before entering the inferno (while carrying an open container of JP4) -

It's not that bad. At least an attempt has been made to make it look like a period helm. If the individual wearing it was a hard-core P.P./Stick Jock/Win-at-all-costs type, they wouldn't have bothered with the maille drape and the spiffy cast brass nasal. We've all seen much worse. Sigh...much, much worse.

- Wombat drinks the JP4, pronouncing it "saucy but ignorant, with a piquancy suggestive of lapel grease", and leaves the inferno to launder his outerwear -

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Steve Belden
The Hammered Wombat
armourer@hammeredwombat.com

taltosh · Post by **taltosh** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 4:36 pm

Hello all, my name is, huh, Chris and although I haven't tried Rattan yet I'm severely addicted to boffers and everyone knows that's the gateway to rattan. I'm affraid to get hooked, I mean all my friends tell me the boffers are safe and you can just stop anytime you want but I keep thinking of boffers night and day, I try and hide the fact that I use boffers from my boss and my family. I think I need help, there's a gang north of here that are heavily into rattan and I keep thinking that, you know, if I try it just this once it shouldn't affect me.

Thanks for letting me join

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YMMV

Yeoman Chris
Artisan, Clerk, Man At Arms
Editor of the KnightHaven newsletter

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 4:38 pm

Albatros:
I know you can smoke rattan (just fight polearm-on-polearm); how do you smoke steel?!

- Kyle (who smoked rattan, but never inhaled

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Otto von Teich · Post by **Otto von Teich** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 4:40 pm

I tried rattan about 14 years ago, but I never inhaled. A couple of months ago a guy handed me a stick, I only use it casualy,a couple of times a week.
I could quit any time I wanted....Really I could......Otto

Otto von Teich · Post by **Otto von Teich** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 4:41 pm

DANG! Ya beat me to it Kyle LOL....Otto

Garridan · Post by **Garridan** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 5:06 pm

If that wasn't going for such a high price, I'd bid on it. I'd yank off the aventail and the pretty brass bits, put them on a real helm, and give the helm to my shire as a loaner.

albatros · Post by **albatros** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 5:06 pm

Well I dont really smoke the steel. I grind it then snort it.

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Conrad the Mad

Galileo · Post by **Galileo** » Fri Apr 06, 2001 5:24 pm

I guess we'd better hide this thread from Gundo...

Micah_Rose · Post by **Micah_Rose** » Sat Apr 07, 2001 12:22 pm

You know, for $250 I had ArmorerEric make me an awesome Crusader's great helm. Why would someone spend that much for a spuntop? Jeez. There oughta be a law....

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Micah Rose, who fell off the rattan-wagon a long time ago....

[This message has been edited by Micah_Rose (edited 04-07-2001).]

ARMOURERERIC · Post by **ARMOURERERIC** » Sun Apr 08, 2001 5:28 am

Micah,

I'm so glad you like the helm, when you gonna get me some pics

?

Eric

Constancius · Post by **Constancius** » Sun Apr 08, 2001 8:37 am

HI, my name is Constancius. I am so hooked on rattan that i have even changed my name to fit in with my addiction. I first started 3 years ago to see what it was like and now i just can't stop. I even had a fix before posting this admission of addiction................ Ah hell......who are we kidding....we love it.

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Constancius of Lincolnshire
Live and die with honor.