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- Sat Dec 02, 2023 8:42 pm
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Grommets leathercraft snapsack
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9405
Re: Grommets leathercraft snapsack
Cool! I like the direction you guys went with that, it looks awesome!
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 5:38 pm
- Forum: WoodCraft
- Topic: Anyone cook a goose over their fire?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16130
Re: Anyone cook a goose over their fire?
Thanks all! It went well enough - I roasted it first with skewers over the flames, then let it slow cook in a dutch oven with some onions and butter. The bird really was too old at slaughter though, and while decent enough wasn't the magic the birds of the previous year had been. Well, lesson learne...
- Fri Nov 10, 2023 3:01 pm
- Forum: Crafts & Skills
- Topic: Pemmican - Food for thought
- Replies: 4
- Views: 12523
Re: Pemmican - Food for thought
I've tried it with less than great success - the taste was something like tallow candles. Maybe I got the ratios wrong, but I really wasn't a fan. I suppose it's rather quick and easy to prepare compared to other preservation methods, and unlike jerky lets you keep the fat - so as a way to quickly m...
- Fri Nov 03, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Minyacálë - Numenorean Eket (Process Thread)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 23849
Re: Minyacálë - Numenorean Eket (Process Thread)
Those are EXTRAORDINARY!!! What beautiful work! In the first image I love the adaptation of the Numenorian flower-wheel in the second, and especially the use of the same motif in the "arc" of the hilt in the third. (It's faint in the picture, but that's the very best place for the motif I ...
- Sun Oct 22, 2023 11:27 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: gambeson / jacks and water?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14868
Re: gambeson / jacks and water?
That does look awesome!
Out of curiosity, how many layers/what material? Do all linen ones wear differently from linen and wool, I wonder?
Out of curiosity, how many layers/what material? Do all linen ones wear differently from linen and wool, I wonder?
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 12:48 pm
- Forum: Middle-earth Reenactment Society
- Topic: "Unpacked" Video Series
- Replies: 60
- Views: 113268
Re: "Unpacked" Video Series
That is just so cool. Well done Udwin!!
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:37 pm
- Forum: WoodCraft
- Topic: Anyone cook a goose over their fire?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16130
Anyone cook a goose over their fire?
It might be time for some variety this year. :mrgreen: .We've got a couple extra geese in the freezer, and I'm cooking out on a campfire for some folks in a couple nights. I'm thinking of pulling out a goose, letting it thaw, then either roasting on a spit, sticking it in a dutch oven, or setting it...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:15 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: gambeson / jacks and water?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14868
gambeson / jacks and water?
I just finished a walnut dye session, and it got me wondering - padded linen/wool armor has a lot of layers... and that much cloth can soak up a just ridiculously heavy amount of water. So for those of you who wear things these as part of your kit... does weather present a problem for you? Do you wa...
- Tue Oct 03, 2023 1:04 pm
- Forum: The Prancing Pony
- Topic: Happy birthday Barandir!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 18137
Re: Happy birthday Barandir!
Happy Birthday!!
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:54 pm
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: Dúnadan Ranger Illustrated Kit By Layers
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19813
Re: Dúnadan Ranger Illustrated Kit By Layers
First - as to your critics. Llove him or hate him, Old Teddy was right about this - It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face ...
- Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:33 pm
- Forum: Hard Kit
- Topic: Point of Curiosity, re: Snapsacks/Knapsacks
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6899
Re: Point of Curiosity, re: Snapsacks/Knapsacks
... interesting! Whereabouts in the midlands, may I ask?
Some while ago Albion's Seed went into great detail about the regional origin of the New Englanders of the late 18th c. -
Any chance your word came from that "to New England" region?
Some while ago Albion's Seed went into great detail about the regional origin of the New Englanders of the late 18th c. -
Any chance your word came from that "to New England" region?
- Sun Sep 17, 2023 11:01 am
- Forum: MER Websites Talk
- Topic: Just Fixed the wiki
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20057
Re: Just Fixed the wiki
thank you!
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:50 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's everyone working on?
- Replies: 207
- Views: 489140
Re: What's everyone working on?
ForgeCorvus, good eye! You're right, it's a reproduction canteen for the American Civil War era - it came covered in that wool, and was carried that way in period as well. This one's a cheat though - it has a stainless steel body, since real tinware can rust so easily. I'm not MERS-picky about every...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's everyone working on?
- Replies: 207
- Views: 489140
Re: What's everyone working on?
I've gotten hardly anything done at all this year - there have been far too many commitments for much fun. :( I did manage to wrap up that Mark Baker inspired "knapsack from a converted haversack body" though, and got out into the forest with that and some other old-timey toys: merf-18thc-...
- Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:06 am
- Forum: Getting Started
- Topic: Greetings!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 13291
Re: Greetings!
Well met!
... do you have a particular location or culture of interest yet?
... do you have a particular location or culture of interest yet?