Mostly because I just like it better.
I do think hide is a bit easier to keep treated against water (hair-on hide even moreso) - but either will work.
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- Wed Mar 22, 2023 1:30 pm
- Forum: Crafts & Skills
- Topic: The making of a Dunedain Snapsack
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17425
- Tue Mar 21, 2023 3:12 pm
- Forum: Hard Kit
- Topic: What's in your (Need) Wallet?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10449
Re: What's in your (Need) Wallet?
How did you get good tasting pemmican?! Mine taste like old candles.
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Prancing Pony
- Topic: Happy Birthday to Pete and Thalion of Bree!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 7068
Re: Happy Birthday to Pete and Thalion of Bree!
Happy birthday!!
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:23 am
- Forum: Soft Kit
- Topic: Short Bocksten cloak
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4699
Re: Short Bocksten cloak
What a great fabric!
... and you absolutely have the look down.
... and you absolutely have the look down.
- Wed Mar 15, 2023 10:03 am
- Forum: Crafts & Skills
- Topic: Middle Earth brewing
- Replies: 19
- Views: 11830
Re: Middle Earth brewing
Hunh - that looks like really interesting stuff!
How interesting that they used finished bread for it*. Do you happen to know if the bread was usually stale/old, and if that made a difference?
How interesting that they used finished bread for it*. Do you happen to know if the bread was usually stale/old, and if that made a difference?
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:19 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Stormbringer knife
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11421
Re: Stormbringer knife
Hunh. Gwaebind does roll off the tongue easier, though I can't right off find something speaking to that particular case. I can check in my books if you don't get a solid answer for your Discord people, but I imagine anyone on a discord dedicated to Sindarin is going to be the better judge. :mrgreen...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 6:11 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Stormbringer knife
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11421
Re: Stormbringer knife
I did find a special character (set of characters, really) for "ae" in the Gondorian mode, p17 of this document: https://ia804508.us.archive.org/35/items/tengwar-textbook/Tengwar%20Textbook.pdf It's also shown on the site Cimrandir linked if you select "Sindarin Tengwar (General use)&...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:58 am
- Forum: Middle-earth Reenactment Society
- Topic: "Unpacked" Video Series
- Replies: 60
- Views: 112718
Re: "Unpacked" Video Series
I know I've said this before elsewhere, but to second Greg - things are going to slide around a bit anyway. And more, your shoulder will get tired if there's any real weight there (this is why I'm not a fan at all of the "lash extra things to the quiver" approach). The nice thing about an ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 11:31 am
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Stormbringer knife
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11421
Re: Stormbringer knife
I love it! I'll double check today, but at first glance that looks good. You can a tengwar transciption here - https://www.tecendil.com/ (two notes on this - one, be aware the extra lines on the initial characters in the "Telcontar" font are an aesthetic doubling like you might see in an o...
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:52 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Stormbringer knife
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11421
Re: Stormbringer knife
Latin, it looks like.
You can look up individual words here: https://www.elfdict.com/
... but Sinadarin mutation is tricky. That's a good start though.
Also.. maybe wrap the handle in a sword-hilt wrap to hide the rivets?
You can look up individual words here: https://www.elfdict.com/
... but Sinadarin mutation is tricky. That's a good start though.
Also.. maybe wrap the handle in a sword-hilt wrap to hide the rivets?
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:49 pm
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Stormbringer knife
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11421
Re: Stormbringer knife
Oh!
Minor thing, but if you're having it newly made, do you think your smith could enclose the tang with no external rivets? I think it would look much more period that way, if it's possible.
Minor thing, but if you're having it newly made, do you think your smith could enclose the tang with no external rivets? I think it would look much more period that way, if it's possible.
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 11:05 am
- Forum: Weapons & Armour
- Topic: Stormbringer knife
- Replies: 32
- Views: 11421
Re: Stormbringer knife
Okay, I tried pulling out the tengwar and I can't make any sense of it at all. Here's the sounds the characters signify, going by the workbook at tecendil: https://www.tecendil.com/tengwar-handbook/ (admittedly I was a bit hurried before work, I might have missed something. And "-" means t...
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:26 pm
- Forum: Hard Kit
- Topic: Finally finished - Quiver of Eriador!
- Replies: 33
- Views: 52149
Re: Finally finished - Quiver of Eriador!
per request, dimensions: quiver main body piece is:27.5" tall, 14 1/8" wide at top, 9 1/2" at bottom. About 6" from the top of the quiver to widest point. spine piece is 27.5" long, 5" wide at widest part of arc, the spine itself tapers from 2.5" to 1.75" (for...
- Sun Mar 05, 2023 8:24 pm
- Forum: Hard Kit
- Topic: Matuls wool "medieval bushcraft" tarp
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8041
Re: Matuls wool "medieval bushcraft" tarp
Dragged both onto the bathroom scale today:
wool ~7.8 lbs, 114"x118" => 12.02 oz/yd
oilskin: ~6.1 lbs, 96"x94" => 14.02 oz/yd
Wool packs down bulkier, but carried they feel pretty comparable.
wool ~7.8 lbs, 114"x118" => 12.02 oz/yd
oilskin: ~6.1 lbs, 96"x94" => 14.02 oz/yd
Wool packs down bulkier, but carried they feel pretty comparable.
- Sat Mar 04, 2023 2:43 pm
- Forum: Crafts & Skills
- Topic: The making of a Dunedain Snapsack
- Replies: 30
- Views: 17425
Re: The making of a Dunedain Snapsack
Thanks all! :mrgreen: does the spine run up the inside as well, like over top of the linen liner? You can run the spine stitches through the lining, but I don't. Partly because I just like the cleaner look, but also because when the linen finally gives out - and it will eventually - it will almost c...