man_of_tanith wrote:Could i trouble you for a photo of the tumpline please?

Sure thing. How's this work for ya? Width is 2 and 3/8ths inches; 26 inches long.

In these sort of ventures, Rangersam, remember: You can have it NOW. You can have it CHEAP. or you can have it 'RIGHT'. But Choose Carefully, you only get two of the three! If you want it Now and Cheap, it will be terrible quality (eventually costing you more $ in the long run to replace). If you wa...

Disclaimer: Please excuse the overly-long, rambling, and probably disconnected nature of what follows. This is collected from over a year’s worth of random notions and thought-experiments. :? When I first began this project, I approached it using the analogy of “ this would be for Tolkien, what ...

Not to get too OT, but regarding the complexity of high numenorean culture, music, &c... There are a few things to take into account here: ... Taking these together, I tend not to think of Numenor as necessarily what people would call pre-medieval. It is a culture that doesn't fit into any pre-...

Along a similar colonial vein, check out Harmon's Snowshoe-men.

What is your ground cloth / rain cape? Is it something that you made up, or got from somewhere? It kinda looks like a modified U.S. GI shelter half. Close. It's a Soviet-era 'plash-palatka' . It's a ridiculously simple design--just a 6-foot canvas square, leather grommets, wooden toggles, and a cou...

The most important piece of gear any woodsman should carry is the one which lies right between his ears! A practical knowledge of natural resources will allow you to make do with less gear (=a lighter ) load): i.e. medicinal plants (insect repellants, anti-itches, skin salves, pain relievers, saponi...

That's some great gear you have there! Is your haversack based off of the New Invented Haversack? Thanks! And yes, it most certainly is (thanks, Sketchbook '76!). It's still without straps along the bottom edges (most likely meant to hold a blanket in between), as I don't want to use buckles and ha...

Being some months in constructing, assembling and tweaking various items, here I can finally show off my gear! http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e252/AHollis13/Medieval/rangerkitPICT3563_zps3d7775fc.jpg Clockwise(ish) from top left: Clothes (extra linen shirt, two wool breechclouts, pair wool leg-wr...

Well-met, friends! I found this refuge some months ago and have been lurking in the shadows all winter, but no more! This first day of Summer (by the Old calendar) brings me out of the shadows. I hail from the hills of Kantuckee, from a farm on the banks of the great river Ohio, eighteen leagues bel...