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It's amazing. Thanks for all the extra effort on it. I can't decide wether to show her the pictures on here or just suprise her with it when it arrives.

It's not quite a PoD original but I commissioned this piece for Mr Mission from a friend of mine. An exact replica of an early Italian fleam for bloodletting, great design, all wrought iron, length 16 cm

the blade is thirteen and a half inches and its nineteen and a quater inches over all.

Found a blade lying around in the workship this morning and as I was inspired after my visit to the Royal Armouries in Leeds I made this little Hunting Hanger or Cuttoe.

Yep i am just looking at the pictures as cant speak French either. Makes the proceedures and tools look worse though as you mind runs away imagining what they were used for.

I am finding a few good books on surgery of the period so I'll post them in this thread as a reference to the people involved in reenacting it. Heres the first. A French book of the surgeons tools and techniques from 1675 called L'Arcenal de Chirurgie (the surgeons arsenal): http://books.google....epage&q&f=false If you are squeamish you may want to stop reading it before you get to the surgery pages. Made me whince and cross my legs a few times. Scary stuff This one has some good pictures of bandages and dressing a leg amputation. Traite des operations de chirurgie 1721: http://books.google....epage&q&f=false This one has reference pictures to the different types of emplasters and tools. Cours d'operations de chirurgie demontrées au Jardin royal 1708: http://books.google....epage&q&f=false Heres a 2 volume set from 1727 showing details of surgical tools. Nouveau traité des instrumens de chirurgie les plus utiles: http://books.google....epage&q&f=false http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

that be very cool

I'll take the short coat off your hands. Message me with payment details (I'm happy to trade to if theres anything I make that you like)

I think he said in his post that the buckles werent ready for 5 weeks so he wont have had them to ship out yet i imagine

Fitted mine today and they look great. A lot better than the ones that were on there

No problem :)

they are very cool

I'd nominate Mr Foxe for his constant stream of useful information and helping steer the course of the period correct pirate. (thats if the orders open to overseas members?)

Cheers mates..much alcohol was consumed although I had to substitute Rum for a few tankards of White Russians

Very cool spoon.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/onlinelists/GB1070%20ADMIRALTY%20LIBRARY.pdf

Excellent. Put me down for a Spanish and French one if you havent already

very cool. I look forward to owning some

Cheers mate just found it. I was on the completely wrong website ha ha

Mines coming along quite well but i just need a skinner to complete the knife set. I'll post some pictures soon

Indeed. I wish we had a translation of those. Most of the images I find, in museums and recreated at historic sites, stem from royal emblems. For example, the above use of three Fluer-de-lis. This is of course French and the same three emblems appear on French coins of the same period. I've found some excellent examples of such symbols use both on coins and containers of the era, so I plan to make some block stamps of a few of these for the purpose of marking barrels and bales. I'll post pdf examples of these for anyone wishing to use them for camp props. thats very cool. i'd had the same idea but am waiting until i get a milling machine as i'm rubbish at hand carving

Theres some interesting Logos on the Bails next to Blackbeard in this 1736 engraving.

I'm always interested in books so let me know and I am sure we can work out some accord again

Actually, Barbossa's pistol was a little different, the buttcap was shaped like a skull for opn thing, and It had a lot of elegant silver fixtures on black wood Its the one he gives up in singapore at the beginning of the 3rd film. It can be seen in this you tube clip: