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- Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:39 pm
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Ranger Pants
- Replies: 25
- Views: 33292
Re: Ranger Pants
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...
- Fri Sep 28, 2012 6:27 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: MRL Deal of the day
- Replies: 362
- Views: 267519
Re: MRL Deal of the day
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.
- Wed Sep 19, 2012 3:53 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movie Talk
- Topic: New Hobbit Trailer
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14799
New Hobbit Trailer
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?!?
Revealing more, playing up comedy and adventure, and with a shot of Radagast the Brown and a chinchilla sled?!?
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 7:19 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Back to the basics: What is a Ranger?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12585
Back to the basics: What is a Ranger?
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...
- Thu Aug 23, 2012 9:12 pm
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Sodhopper style boots pattern!
- Replies: 91
- Views: 89087
Re: Sodhopper style boots pattern!
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...
- Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:15 pm
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Sodhopper style boots pattern!
- Replies: 91
- Views: 89087
Re: Sodhopper style boots pattern!
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.
- Tue Aug 21, 2012 6:35 pm
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Sodhopper style boots pattern!
- Replies: 91
- Views: 89087
Re: Sodhopper style boots pattern!
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.
This also makes gluing and cutting easier.
- Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:35 pm
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Comments on Patterns/Instructions for Ranger Kits
- Replies: 68
- Views: 66264
Re: Comments on Patterns/Instructions for Ranger Kits
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...
- Tue Aug 07, 2012 8:08 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Can someone add me to the MER Facebook page?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6410
Can someone add me to the MER Facebook page?
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
-Jack
- Thu Aug 02, 2012 4:29 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movie Talk
- Topic: Verisimilitude
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16915
Re: Verisimilitude
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...
- Wed Jul 25, 2012 12:56 am
- Forum: Tolkien Movie Talk
- Topic: Verisimilitude
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16915
Re: Verisimilitude
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...
- Tue Jul 24, 2012 10:25 pm
- Forum: Hard Kit
- Topic: Check out ths backpack!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14836
Re: Check out ths backpack!
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...
- Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:03 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movie Talk
- Topic: Verisimilitude
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16915
Re: Verisimilitude
Mirimaran wrote: At what point did you walk out of TTT?
Ken
When Frodo was making moon eyes at the Witch King in Osgiliath.
- Tue Jul 24, 2012 6:10 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movie Talk
- Topic: Verisimilitude
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16915
Verisimilitude
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...
- Thu Jul 19, 2012 7:54 pm
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Cloak Material
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8992
Re: Cloak Material
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...