What's everyone working on?
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Those arrows are amazing
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You are most welcome
Gimli: It's true you don't see many Dwarf-women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for Dwarf-men.
Aragorn: It's the beards.
Aragorn: It's the beards.
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Re: What's everyone working on?
Made a nicer belt pouch recently (~a month ago maybe) with it's own toggle from the scrap of the project, really happy with how it ended up.
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Very nice work
Gimli: It's true you don't see many Dwarf-women. And in fact, they are so alike in voice and appearance, that they are often mistaken for Dwarf-men.
Aragorn: It's the beards.
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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:
I think it's very Hobbity in its own way.
Most of my forest time this year has been rangering of a more practical sort - tracking down all the reservoirs of Oriental Bittersweet in our woods and hacking it up before it can kill the trees. The stuff is nasty! It grows super-fast, snakes up tree trunks, then crowds out the canopy while slowly strangling the trunk. It's a terrible terrible vine that will turn pleasant forest into a Mirkwood in no time, horrific!!
There was time for a more pleasant task - scattering wildflower seeds! It's been very nice to see blue cornflower in our fields this summer - the lore-minded might recognize it from a certain sigil.
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:
I think it's very Hobbity in its own way.
Most of my forest time this year has been rangering of a more practical sort - tracking down all the reservoirs of Oriental Bittersweet in our woods and hacking it up before it can kill the trees. The stuff is nasty! It grows super-fast, snakes up tree trunks, then crowds out the canopy while slowly strangling the trunk. It's a terrible terrible vine that will turn pleasant forest into a Mirkwood in no time, horrific!!
There was time for a more pleasant task - scattering wildflower seeds! It's been very nice to see blue cornflower in our fields this summer - the lore-minded might recognize it from a certain sigil.
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Re: What's everyone working on?
That's a nice bag. My I ask what your canteen is made from?Elleth wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 1:00 pm 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:
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I think it's very Hobbity in its own way.
Most of my forest time this year has been rangering of a more practical sort - tracking down all the reservoirs of Oriental Bittersweet in our woods and hacking it up before it can kill the trees. The stuff is nasty! It grows super-fast, snakes up tree trunks, then crowds out the canopy while slowly strangling the trunk. It's a terrible terrible vine that will turn pleasant forest into a Mirkwood in no time, horrific!!
There was time for a more pleasant task - scattering wildflower seeds! It's been very nice to see blue cornflower in our fields this summer - the lore-minded might recognize it from a certain sigil.
merf-cornflower.jpg
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Wilhelm, it looks like an ACW tin canteen... I hadn't noticed it prior to your asking though, so its not screamingly obvious as non-Middle Earth.
Elleth, I think its the ticking that gives it a Hobbity vibe. I could imagine Samwise or the Gaffer wearing a ticking workshirt while puttering around a garden. Is the canvas waxed?
Elleth, I think its the ticking that gives it a Hobbity vibe. I could imagine Samwise or the Gaffer wearing a ticking workshirt while puttering around a garden. Is the canvas waxed?
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Re: What's everyone working on?
Thats what I assumed. Great way to disguise it.ForgeCorvus wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 4:53 pm Wilhelm, it looks like an ACW tin canteen... I hadn't noticed it prior to your asking though, so its not screamingly obvious as non-Middle Earth.
Elleth, I think its the ticking that gives it a Hobbity vibe. I could imagine Samwise or the Gaffer wearing a ticking workshirt while puttering around a garden. Is the canvas waxed?
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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 everything.
For those newer and younger folks who didn't learn about this kind of canteen as a kid - the idea of the wool cover is that you wet the wool, and as it dries the evaporating water helps keep the water in the canteen cool. It's not a thermos by any means, but it does help. (This was still common knowledge for '80s kids, but I think outside of traditionalists like this crowd that's a thing that's been largely been forgotten in this age of camelbacks and nalgene.)
Also, this pattern has a pleasant shape - it's nice and flat and just doesn't stick out and get in the way like - say - a nalgene bottle or a modern government-pattern canteen does. That said, it isn't really stable standing on it's side like that... if it's full, you really want to hang it up if you can - especially this older pattern with a cork instead of a screw top.
While I suppose this pattern could have been made in period - and certainly could have been made of tin-lined copper instead of tinned sheet iron - it still doesn't feel really Middle-earth appropriate to me, even for hobbits. (They used leather flasks as I recall... though I might be more inclined to use a leather-covered glass bottle were I to ever do a proper hobbity outing.)
edit - oh, and yes the pack outer shell is waxed. It's not canvas though, just plain shirt-weight linen that I had on hand - which is why I lined it with a nice heavy linen ticking. Effectively, the lining handles the weight of the contents, and the outer linen is just a water-resistant "skin." I don't think I'd trust it for serious use, but for a lightweight daypack it's just fine. And I'm sure back in the day they also sometimes just made do with what was on hand.
For those newer and younger folks who didn't learn about this kind of canteen as a kid - the idea of the wool cover is that you wet the wool, and as it dries the evaporating water helps keep the water in the canteen cool. It's not a thermos by any means, but it does help. (This was still common knowledge for '80s kids, but I think outside of traditionalists like this crowd that's a thing that's been largely been forgotten in this age of camelbacks and nalgene.)
Also, this pattern has a pleasant shape - it's nice and flat and just doesn't stick out and get in the way like - say - a nalgene bottle or a modern government-pattern canteen does. That said, it isn't really stable standing on it's side like that... if it's full, you really want to hang it up if you can - especially this older pattern with a cork instead of a screw top.
While I suppose this pattern could have been made in period - and certainly could have been made of tin-lined copper instead of tinned sheet iron - it still doesn't feel really Middle-earth appropriate to me, even for hobbits. (They used leather flasks as I recall... though I might be more inclined to use a leather-covered glass bottle were I to ever do a proper hobbity outing.)
edit - oh, and yes the pack outer shell is waxed. It's not canvas though, just plain shirt-weight linen that I had on hand - which is why I lined it with a nice heavy linen ticking. Effectively, the lining handles the weight of the contents, and the outer linen is just a water-resistant "skin." I don't think I'd trust it for serious use, but for a lightweight daypack it's just fine. And I'm sure back in the day they also sometimes just made do with what was on hand.
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I have a couple of British Army Chagal waterbags, they use evaporative cooling too but because they're canvas they don't need to be wetted down....... I don't think I could get away with using them thoughElleth wrote: ↑Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:50 pm 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 everything.
For those newer and younger folks who didn't learn about this kind of canteen as a kid - the idea of the wool cover is that you wet the wool, and as it dries the evaporating water helps keep the water in the canteen cool. It's not a thermos by any means, but it does help. (This was still common knowledge for '80s kids, but I think outside of traditionalists like this crowd that's a thing that's been largely been forgotten in this age of camelbacks and nalgene.)
Very Hobbitty then, the Shire is not a big place and you'd never be very far from an inn..... Or a relative's houseedit - oh, and yes the pack outer shell is waxed. It's not canvas though, just plain shirt-weight linen that I had on hand - which is why I lined it with a nice heavy linen ticking. Effectively, the lining handles the weight of the contents, and the outer linen is just a water-resistant "skin." I don't think I'd trust it for serious use, but for a lightweight daypack it's just fine. And I'm sure back in the day they also sometimes just made do with what was on hand.
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Independent Fellsward, Jobber, Tinker and Traveller in Trifles
Re: What's everyone working on?
It is starting to cool down here so I will be reopening the arrow factory mid October. I have quite a few to make. I figured out how to do it.
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