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Peter the Grat's Salor outfit - specifically the hat.
Fox replied to IvanHenry's topic in Captain Twill
Nice. Very very nice. -
How can you call yourself a real Pirate re-enactor?
Fox replied to TheBlackFox's topic in Captain Twill
Would if I could old boy, but I have no idea of its location - it was a long time ago... -
How can you call yourself a real Pirate re-enactor?
Fox replied to TheBlackFox's topic in Captain Twill
Somewhere, in the very bowels of the internet, exists a photograph of me wearing bucket boots. -
Hey, I have that dog!
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Agreed. By definition, reenacting means trying to emulate something that has gone before. So, you could reenact a scene from Captain Blood or a painting by Howard Pyle (there's a group in the Netherlands who faithfully recreate the militia company of Frans Banning Cocq - so cool!), or even something generic and historical, but if you're just dressing up then it's not reenacting. That doesn't matter, there's no law that says all dressing up has to be reenactment.
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How can you call yourself a real Pirate re-enactor?
Fox replied to TheBlackFox's topic in Captain Twill
Moderator hat on. I'm sure that Black Fox is suitably grateful for the answers so far, and if anybody has anything new to add then please feel free, but I think we have satisfactorily established the following: 1. 'Real' and 'realistic' are not the same thing. 2. 'Reenacting' and 'being, in real life' are not the same thing. 3. Many pirates did not rape and/or murder. 4. There are plenty of people who reenact Nazis, slavers, inquisitors, conquistadors, kommisars, and just about any other historical 'bad guy' you can think of - except maybe cannibals, but are they really bad guys? I mean, everyone's gotta eat, right? Moderator hat off. I have not read Pyrates Way (or any other pirate magazine for that matter), but if this is indicative of the level of journalism involved I don't imagine I shall bother in the future. This opinion is entirely mine and not representative of the management of the Pub. For what it's worth, here are my answers to the questions: 1. Don't be so daft. 2. Don't be so naive. 3. What was the question again? By all means make use of this answer, but please do not include my name. -
I own a pair of Sarah Juniper shoes, hand-made to measure to fit my feet exactly, in exactly the style I wanted, using only period materials and techniques. I've only had them about 5 years or so, but I have friends who own Sarah Juniper shoes that are 25+ years old and still going strong. Worth it? Worth every penny.
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On the stock?
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Yup, that's the one I was shown by PoD's good lady wife that started this whole thing.
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Original 18th century cutlass/hanger blade with antler grip and brass fittings for sale. The antler has a split on the back side and the blade has pitting and patina commensurate with age. I bought this some years ago with plans to do a restoration, but haven't ever found the time so am reluctantly selling. I'm looking for $250 but will consider sensible offers from pub-users.
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Speaking for myself, I wouldn't lay out more than £100 for a fiddle I hadn't personally played - sound clips are so unreliable. Either way, in light of some advice from other quarters I have lowered the price.
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Right answer, wrong logic. In English law the Admiralty had complete jurisdiction over the sea, so any maritime legal issue was dealt with by Admiralty courts, whether that was piracy, wage disputes, abuse of seamen on merchant vessels or anything else that happened involving an English vessel, including privateers. Privateers only had dealings with governors because governors also held Admiralty office. If, theoretically, a colony had a governer and a vice-admiral, then privateers would have dealt with the vice-admiral, not the governor. I don't recall the EIC issuing letters of marque, but they certainly held Vice-Admiralty courts so it's possible.
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Not that strange a question. In terms of receiving orders and reporting etc, privateers reported to their owners. It was private enterprise and the only people who mattered were the investors. For legal purposes though, privateers came under the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and before the value of a prize could be realised into profit it had to go through an Admiralty court. Letters of marque also had to be issued through an agent of the Admiralty. In the colonies the governor was usually appointed the local vice-admiral, or empowered to hold vice-admiralty courts. In practice therefore, the governor of a colony had jurisdiction over privateers, though theoritically at least he did so in his guise as an Admiralty official. It could be a whole lot more complex than that, but that's the "it's-nearly-bedtime" version.
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The pirate fiddle I've been building recently is now on eBay! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=261093679884
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Then what you need is an inspirational instrument. Fortunately, there's one for sale on eBay now: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=261093679884
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Thanks all! Ah, what a lovely idea... No, my next project (believe it or not) is going to be a pirate ukelele, possibly followed by a Robert E. Lee fiddle.
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My work here is done.
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A better photo of the soundboard in daylight (and the fingerboard is fitted): I think I'll call him Roger...
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Thanks PoD, glad you like it - it was your wife who started this!
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Um, no. Accepting the limitations of late-night flash photography, it's going to be this colour: (Today was mostly spent varnishing, sanding, varnishing again, sanding more, and repeat...)
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...and a bit of time this evening on the tailpiece with a replica 2 escudo coin inset.
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Day 2 was mostly spent working on the soundboard...
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Ha! I already have the boots The skull is carved in maple, to match the neck of the violin, and will be permanently fixed by the time the whole thing is finished. I ought to add that I'm making this on speculation, but when it's finished it will be going up for sale.
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'King of the Pirates' was used as the title of a (largely fictional) biography of Henry Every in 1720, by (maybe) Daniel Defoe - and more recently as the title of a somewhat more reliable biography. I suspect that the whole 'pirate lords' thing, if it was not an invention of Johnson's, was not really intended for victims or other outsiders, so much as for the pirates themselves, and more specifically, the Lords themselves. They weren't bigging themselves up in order to impress their victims, they were doing it in order to impress their inferiors within the pirate company, and to make themselves feel like big men.
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So, a friend recently suggested I should make a 'pirate' violin. I mulled the idea over for a few weeks and yesterday started work. I'm not going to give anything away until it's done, partly because I think it'll be fun to surprise folks and partly because ideas might change on the way and I don't want my original plans being held against me. So here's day 1 progress:
