hey check this out http://msn.nbcnews.com-im7.net/finance/ chris...
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Bill
billmcnutt
Feb 3, 2013 5:35 pm
I have a question for the collected wisdom of the group. If you were to develop an "event" tool box, what tools should go in it? Now, I know: you can't know...
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James Daily
thedonatistc...
Feb 3, 2013 5:49 pm
One of the points Chris Schwarz makes in The Anarchist's Tool Chest is that the essential list of tools was, historically, actually pretty short and has not...
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Avery Austringer
avery1415
Feb 4, 2013 6:00 am
Here's what I take if I'm going to a war to play with wood and how I hope to medievalize my kit before I die. Some of these are goals in the same way that "I...
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Anthony Spangler
frode_kettil...
Feb 4, 2013 1:55 pm
Greetings! I would ask also, what will you be making/demonstrating at the event? If it's chests or beds or furniture, the previous responders answered better ...
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sean14powell
Feb 4, 2013 3:11 pm
The replies here are very interesting because it's the opposite of where I would have taken the request. I do woodworking in my shop for enjoyment and to build...
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Chuck Phillips
chuckp1066
Feb 4, 2013 9:56 pm
I think you're headed in the right direction with this list. However, given the context of the request (Can you help make/fix this...) I would lean towards...
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lorderec
Feb 5, 2013 1:51 am
Oh I have to show you what I made to solve this problem. I fold my clothes like medieval people. But my wife well u know. So I build a cabon, a kufenschrank...
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lorderec
Feb 5, 2013 2:05 am
A GrEAT book! His blog also has some interesting things, he recently finished a Dutch tool chest for traveling and a portable bench top which you can see...
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lorderec
Feb 7, 2013 12:51 am
Some pix of the cabon are here on my blog: http://medievalgardening.blogspot.com let me know what you think. oh, and here is the St Thomas Guild, if you don't...
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conradh@...
Feb 7, 2013 7:06 am
... I've been going more and more to three-legged camp gear, just because even level ground is often lumpy enough to produce this racking problem you mention....
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karincorbin
Feb 9, 2013 6:24 am
In my travel tool kit I wanted to have the ability to take a larger piece of lumber and break it down as well as making precision cuts on smaller pieces of...
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baron_devin
Feb 11, 2013 6:56 am
http://www.rts.ch/archives/tv/culture/suisse-au-fil-du-temps/3464421-les-outils-de-bois.html Devin Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver. So which do you...
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Jerry Harder
geraldgoodwine
Feb 11, 2013 8:26 am
... I don't know where people get the idea that glue is not period. Both hide and cheese-lime glue are completely period and used for wood. Theophlis-(1100's)...
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Thylacine
aldenbutler
Feb 11, 2013 9:30 am
I would be interested in a copy of your article. While I have used hide glue , I have never heard of the cheese lime glue and I have never made any. would...
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lists lists
austlists
Feb 11, 2013 10:58 am
I am quite curious about cheese lime glue as well. Please do post a link if you can. Thank you....
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Jim Looper
jimlooper1970
Feb 11, 2013 2:09 pm
Is this legit, or a hacked email? Lucien ... http://www.rts.ch/archives/tv/culture/suisse-au-fil-du-temps/3464421-les-outils-de-bois.html Devin Silence is...
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Sean Powell
sean14powell
Feb 11, 2013 2:25 pm
Well I don't speak Swiss/German and "rue du lac" is in Montreux Switzerland near Geneva and the French border but starting about 5 minutes in you see some nice...
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Lynda Fjellman
lyndafjellman
Feb 11, 2013 6:49 pm
There is a nice Compleat Anachronist that covers all the types of medieval glues. http://sca.org/ca/issues.html Ilaria ________________________________ From:...
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karincorbin
Feb 11, 2013 11:58 pm
Cheese glue makes a good mouse trap bait. Karin...
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baron_devin
Feb 12, 2013 5:57 am
... Sorry, it was late and I wasn't thinking about that possibility. It's a French documentary about a Swiss shop that still makes wood-bodied planes and...
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Avery Austringer
avery1415
Feb 12, 2013 8:39 am
... Well, yeah, but mine is a plastic squeezy bottle of yellow aliphatic glue. It's more like what they would have used in period than JB Weld, but If I were...
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gavinkilkenny
Feb 12, 2013 10:09 pm
I would read an article on historic glues ;) Gavin...
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Copernicus Skygazer
skepticphil
Feb 12, 2013 10:12 pm
My apprentice has made cheese glue. You only have a couple of hours to use it once made at most, and the stuff is amazingly strong when made right. YIS ...
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Sir David Vavreck
baethan1630
Feb 12, 2013 10:15 pm
Me, too. I am currently in need of information on period heat-resistant glue for a project I am working on....
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karincorbin
Feb 13, 2013 9:59 am
None of the protein (animal) glues...hide, fish, gelatin, cheese, casien are heat resistant. Heat is one of the ways to get them to give up their grip so...
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Jerry Harder
geraldgoodwine
Feb 13, 2013 10:07 am
Sounds like there is a lot of interest so I'll do a quick review and pose it as an attachment in the next couple of days, mayby tonight if were lucky....
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Jerry Harder
geraldgoodwine
Feb 13, 2013 11:00 am
Here is the attached article I wrote. It is mostly documentation and my personal experience. As Lynda said there is a well written article in Compleat...
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Sir David Vavreck
baethan1630
Feb 14, 2013 5:31 am
Thank you so much, Jerry! This is just what I need for the project I am working on. ________________________________ From: Jerry Harder...
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gavinkilkenny
Feb 14, 2013 10:06 pm
Thanks for the link Devin. Fascinating stuff. Amazing to me how simple a wooden bodied plane is - yet how demanding to make it so it will work properly....
