The cost of being a Ranger

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Re: The cost of being a Ranger

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Taurinor wrote:I'd also recommend holding off on getting your dream footwear until you finish growing - "period" shoes are expensive! Winingas/leg wraps can do a good job of hiding modern footwear, especially plain leather shoes or boots.
I recently got a pair of Hi-Tec Altitudes that were on sale. They are full grain leather which sort of fits in with the Ranger style so I might just wear them alone but they are still "modern" so I could consider the idea of leg wraps to hide it even more.
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I make most of what, I need which ends up being better than most of what you can buy. I'd say 300 dollars tops for my kit, not including weapons.
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I am new to Renaissance Faires but have done other reenacting. I made my own belt and will wear it with a kilt this year but I am also working on a foresters outfit that I hope to have completed this year sometime. I do blacksmithing, leather work, wood carving and some copper and basic silver work, so I can and do, make almost all of my own gear. I did buy my boots from House of Andar and really like them.
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Dark wood Wanderer wrote:I am new to Renaissance Faires but have done other reenacting. I made my own belt and will wear it with a kilt this year but I am also working on a foresters outfit that I hope to have completed this year sometime. I do blacksmithing, leather work, wood carving and some copper and basic silver work, so I can and do, make almost all of my own gear. I did buy my boots from House of Andar and really like them.
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Tahlequah (Tah-lee-kw-ah) Oklahoma is where I live. I have about 100 acres of woodlands that back up 800 acres that I can access anytime I wish. The woods sort of look like the woods where the trolls were at in the first hobby movie.
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Dark wood Wanderer wrote:Tahlequah (Tah-lee-kw-ah) Oklahoma is where I live. I have about 100 acres of woodlands that back up 800 acres that I can access anytime I wish. The woods sort of look like the woods where the trolls were at in the first hobby movie.
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That does sound grand! :)

Re-reading The Two Towers recently I was reminded of just how far south Ithilien is. I'd always felt a little itchy about doing "Middle Earth" while in the South, but the Professor's descriptions of the the woodlands Faramir's people ranged make that sound a lot more plausible.

... I wonder how many of Faramir's men wore linen (or cottons or even silks!) rather than north-man's wool?
Certainly it helps Fell and Fair's use of largely linen garb look quite natural! (And I'm sure it's a godsend in South Carolina)
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Elleth wrote:Re-reading The Two Towers recently I was reminded of just how far south Ithilien is. I'd always felt a little itchy about doing "Middle Earth" while in the South, but the Professor's descriptions of the the woodlands Faramir's people ranged make that sound a lot more plausible.
... I wonder how many of Faramir's men wore linen (or cottons or even silks!) rather than north-man's wool?
While I don't think there would be anything wrong with wearing of linen in Ithilien, I really don't think there would be anything wrong with wool either. While Gondor IS very far south (Minas Tirith is at roughly the latitude of Florence, iirc), the main difference between what is pretty obviously a Mediterranean climate and that of the American South is the presence of HUMIDITY. Because of the general lack thereof in the Mediterranean, light wool (tunics and togas alike) was very common in the classical cultures...while the regionally-adaptive cultures of the American South (i.e. indigs) tended to wear very little--or just enough to keep any sharp or stabby vegetation at bay--until the introduction of linen in the colonial period.
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Ha! Quite right, of course Udwin. Now that you mention it, I vaguely remember a mention of sheep-rustling between the early proto-Romans and other tribes in their region. Which is perhaps a funnier image in story than it was in real life. :mrgreen:

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Re: The cost of being a Ranger

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It really can be quite inexpensive as the major cost would be your weapons (sword, axe, bow, knife).
After that it is just materials as most of us prefer to make our own.

Time is a big factor. I haunt swap meets, yard sales and thrift stores for good deals.
*I found some bolts of wool-blend at a swap meet. The seller had bought them 40 years ago and was tired of storing them so I got them all for $2 per bolt. still in excellent condition and worth a hundred times that today in a store IF you can find that quality. Said bolts netted me two kilts and a couple cloaks and I STILL have enough for tunics, etc.
*Craigslist netted me a huge box of archery parts from an estate sale. Antique fletchers and boxes of heads and the like.
I tend to search, look, see something and toss it into my project-box until I am bored and think, "What can I make?"

Most of my gear is hand-made from items around the house. I made a series of small Celtic cloak-pins from some steel and brass wire I found. I made a complete sewing kit from paper-clips, some ivory scraps gifted from a artist friend and some bones left over from dinner. Same with a fishing kit.

So as for cost, a few hundred dollars for my sword and knife and parts to make my own arrows.
The rest is uncalculable as I buy things and store them for years until I turn someone else's junk into a workable kit.
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