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@Plumejason you don't say where in the world you are thus its hard for us to direct you to places where you might get fixed asset supplies. If you are in the UK or Europe, go to antique or jumble shops. Not antique dealers though. Try the wee back-street 'antique' shops just about every tourist orientated town has numerous of

That looks nice. Its colouring matches the hat rather well. Not too ostentatious

Start one and we'll all follow

An archery type joke. You'll need to check English history for this if you don't know it already Harold Godwinson, sometimes called King Harold, was getting his army into place to fight the Norman invaders led by Duke William the bastard As Harold was getting ready a giant of a karl carrying four long spears approached and said ' Lord, I claim the right to fight by your side, in your bodyguard. I fought alongside you at Stamford Bridge 3 weeks ago. There I killed at least 50 of the invaders with my trusty spears. And my father has fought in the Royal bodyguard afore me' 'Let me see what you can do' says Harold The spearman takes out an apple, gives it to an axe thrower and tells him to throw it high, far and as fast as he can. As the apple flies through the air, high and far the spearman throws one of his spears after it. The spear strikes and slices the apple exactly in two. 'Impressive' says Harold 'you have earned the right to fight on my right side, close by me' Then an axeman approaches. 'I too claim the right to fight by your side Lord, I too was at Stamford Bridge and killed many invaders. I have fought in the Royal Bodyguard for many years, as did my father and his father before him' 'Let me see what you can do' says Harold The axeman takes out an apple, throws it high into the air. As the apple flies through the air the axeman cuts his axe blade, like a flash of lightning, at the apple. The apple comes down in thin neatly cut slices 'Impressive' says Harold 'you have earned the right to fight on my left side, close by me' Then a very elderly archer approaches. He says 'I too claim the right to fight by your side Lord. I didn't manage to get to Stamford Bridge. T'was a bit too far for me arthritis. but I have fought in the Royal Bodyguard for many years, as did my father and his father before him and his father before, all the way back to King Alfred' 'Let me see what you can do' says Harold The archer takes out an apple, gives it to an axe thrower and tells him to throw it far and as fast as he can. As the apple flies through the air, fast and far the archer takes an arrow and lets fly. The arrow misses the apple and hits an ox pulling a cart. The archer gets another apple, does the same, the arrow misses and hits the ox cart driver in the arse. Just as the archer was getting out a third apple - ' Enough! Impressive' says Harold 'you have earned the right to fight with the other archers on the left wing' As the old archer walks away, happy that he impressed the King, King Harold turns to his chief Huscarl and says 'Alfric, please keep that bluddy old fool away from me! He'll have somebody's eye out!' Here we see the proof; the spearman, on the left of the picture with the white shield, the axeman getting killed on the right of the picture and King Harold with that famous arrow-in-the-eye. But who shot the arrow??

Interesting. An off-side look to what a stamp can do

Thats what we call a 'Triggers Broom'. From this comedy show, Trigger is the road sweeper with the medal,

Thats what I mean by thick

Not worth any more than £10, and that's just so you can pull it apart and use the bits as patterns for constructing a new one. Not even RE-constructing 'cos it sounds like there isn't anything TO RE-build ALL the leather would need replacing, almost all the wood needs replacing, the metal parts are missing so they need fabricating. Its not even a 'Triggers Broom' Best place for this bellows is in a non-working historical display in a museum somewhere

Nice, simple looking. He will like it You'e a kind hearted crafter to do this for him

I think its real enough but very old and very dried out

@Tequila - two questions; 1. what weight/thickness of leather would you use? 2. what width of rounded bead would you use? I want to try and match your requirements to see if miine works

Simples. If I have the time I'll make a nylon one over the weekend and see how it works

Yes, but I reckon it would need to be quite thick to with-stand either a thump from a mallet or pressure from a press

What do you mean by a 'bead' ? I think I and maybe you have two different ideas of what a 'bead' edge looks like You can make a push beveller for a swivel knife. If you cut the end right you can have a rounded top 'bead' These are simple bevellers I made out of nylon rod for my swivel knife; The materials cost me less than $10 and I have lots left to make more. They took only a short time to make I might go and make a 'beader' now !

I only, or did only, shoot traditional Long Bow. My prefered wood for arrow shafts is Port Orford Cedar or Ash. Ash is now hard to get in the UK because a disease has wiped out the ash trees. Also; I have a long draw so standard 32 inch shafts are too short for me. I used to get shafts made by a specialist who made mine 35 inch long in P.O. Cedar, made them for my bow strength and made the shafts with the traditional belly and not dead straight. I think that can only be done by hand or by specialist machines. afair I used to pay about £24 for 6 for the shafts. I added in buffalo horn in the nock and of course whipped on goose feathers. I never had to buy many during a year as they rarely broke, got damaged or lost, but knicked ? (stolen), er occasionally

Interesting, thanks, But the cost of machinery and getting good proper wood outweighs the minimal cost I pay for proper weighted shafts

Quick - get more dye, pour over the rest of the floor and clean up in the same way - you're redecorating and starting with the floor!

To me that look likes 'tide' marks caused by uneven drying out of uneven applications of wet products. After some time it may reduce but it will never go away

two points 1. stainless steel was invented in 1913. My paternal grandfather was a sheet metal fabricator and specialised in use of stainless steel in the 1920s & 30s. He made a canopy for the Biograph Theater in Chicago and whilst fitting it up he witnessed the sudden demise of a certain gangster 2. Samuel Colt perfected the assembly line for mass production of goods, in his case for fire-arms. Assembly line manufacturing was done on a small scale by clock makers in New England prior and by gun makers in London & Birmingham, England from 1790s or so. Henry Ford was a late comer There has always been and will be great differences in qualities of steel and thus tools made of. Price is no guarantee, nor is place of origin of either steel or tool

If its similar to another forum I'm on I think all three of those are dependent on how many postings you've accumulated You've got less than 1000 so you're ranked as 'Member', as you make more postings you go up in rank But, not all your numbered postings count towards your rank. All postings are recorded as a total but postings made in certain areas, eg 'Chat' or 'Buy & Sell' aren't counted towards your rank

An embroidered CLOTH jacket So?

I would skive the ends of both pieces, back about 2 inches or so, overlap, glue and use a simple running stitch in two places, both near, but not to close to the ends of the over lap

4th or 5th refresh try on 'unread', top right of the 6 I get to see, and now bottom right on the top of this thread

Samco-Strong Ltd. ceased trading in 2016 but was a dormant company since 2002 so it might be hard to get parts for it if required

Is he a relation of 'Speedy'?