I need to make me some Ranger pants. A pair of authentic pants/trousers is quickly rising on my to-do list as I expect to finish some linen braes I have been working on for leggings practice within a week. And my moccasin project will be going haltingly for a bit as I will need to stop soon and tak...

Peter Remling wrote:Need to outfit some Orcs, this might work:

http://www.museumreplicas.com/p-1829-si ... sword.aspx

Hmm, that could be made into a rather interesting Seax without to much trouble.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... fNZRlbkLO8

Revealing more, playing up comedy and adventure, and with a shot of Radagast the Brown and a chinchilla sled?!?

Ok, so what is a Ranger? What makes a Ranger? And why do you want to be one? I sometimes find that it is good to go back to the basics and reexamine my core attitudes. Anyway this evening I began to think of this forum, it's purpose and what it is to be a Ranger. And then I began to wonder if I real...

I've been using a linen thread suggested by Caedmon and have found it to be quite durable... not as strong as a certain synthetic thread I once used, but it's still tough. Plus I've been sucked into the world of authenticity, and I can't escape. What if I waxed my linen thread before use? I have so...

kaelln wrote: ...the stitch I commonly use, which is the saddle stitch.

Kaelin, does this work for you on garment leather? I've only used the saddle stitch on vegetable tanned leather because I had thought that the soft garment style leather wouldn't work well with the saddle stitch.

No, you don't want to use a reinforced running stitch for shoes. It is best to use a lapped stitch, which looks like this:

This also makes gluing and cutting easier.

I've gotten everything completely finished but the collar now, which I have been working on and expect to be done with tonight. Then the last little bit will be reinforcing the bottom of my notch with a blanket stitch, apparently. So if you could please explain how to do that whenever is convenient...

I wasn't aware that there was a Facebook page until the site went down. could one of the admins add me to it so that I can let people know that we're back in business?

-Jack

Caedmon, are you prepared to walk out of THREE Hobbit films? :) http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2012/07/24/59777-la-times-third-hobbit-movie-may-be-coming-from-peter-jackson/ Hoping to see the War of Orcs and Dwarves, and the Battle of Azanulbizar in full! Ken Nah, I've been preparing to take the H...

If you literally walked out of TT, then I am very impressed... I really did, and what's more impressive is that my date that night still consented to marry me a few months later. But she still teases me about it. (the walking out, not the marrying) There are very few stories that I take that seriou...

Was just looking for some new shoes and came upon this confederate reproduction pack... Nice. http://missouribootandshoe.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/sbksback2.jpg http://missouribootandshoe.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/sbksclosed.jpg http://missouribootands...

Mirimaran wrote: At what point did you walk out of TTT?

Ken

When Frodo was making moon eyes at the Witch King in Osgiliath.

It all comes down to that. Does it feel real? This is why I am a hard-core reenactor.* This is why I loved PJ's FOTR, and walked out of Two Towers. When I first read LOTR, I was sucked into a world that I believed in. Was it fantastic? Yes, but I believed. The Hobbit was slightly less believable, it...

Ok, cucullus, by that I take it that you mean an unlined medium length circle cloak with a hood? Why have you chosen the cucullus? Are you wanting to do dual service with a Roman or Romano-British/early Saxon reenactment group? Are you adverse to natural fibers whose weave that was not common in the...