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Thanks a lot guys, I will look into these options.

I am in the market so to speak for a Spanish pistol and/or musket. 1650/1750 (is that to big a timespann?)

Moost Spanish guns and pistols are Identifiable by the little ring on top of the (how do you call that in English??)

Thay don't have to be functional, rather not!! that would save me a lot of trouble with the authoroties here...

My entiere outfit would be for educational purpose the have a start from where I can explain about Colonial Guatemalan life and work back in the days.

I know to find a desent new spanish musket but i would like one a little less expencive...

So who has one on the shelf for me??

I knew this fort must have been related to piracy somehow..

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...Fort of San Felipe de Lara (El Castillo)

The fort of San Felipe de Lara is locally referred to as El Castillo or The Castillo.

The Castillo is about 1 km upstream from the bridge at Fronteras at a point where the Rio Dulce constricts just before the river ends and widens into Lake Izabal. The fort was placed there by the Spanish to prevent English pirates from raiding the villages and caravans along the shores of Lake Izabal. It is located on a rocky point that gives it a good field of fire but was only partly successful at stopping the audacious pirates. Pirates repeatedly destroyed the The Castillo and in 1686 they captured and burned it to the ground. Each time it was rebuilt by a different engineer and made stronger than before.

The version that stands today has tremendously thick walls. At one point the Spanish went so far as to string a chain across the river in an attempt to deny access to the pirates.

By the end of the 1700s there were no more pirates so the fortress was pressed into service as a prison. Today it has been nicely restored and is surrounded by a park which is perfect for picnics. A dock is provided for lanchas to unload passengers. Anchoring directly in front of the Castillo is not

permitted.

El Estor

El Estor gets its name from the days of the days of the English pirates who used to sail up the Rio Dulce to buy or steal supplies from "The Store". Not far from El Estor is the town of Panzós where one of the landmark events of the recently ended Guatemalan civil war occurred in 1978 when over one hundred men, women and children were gunned down by the Guatemalan Army. Today, El Estor is a little gem of a town because of the municipal improvements made by the Nickel Company of Canada. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, the nickel company constructed a nickel mine and refinery about a kilometer from El Estor. In exchange for permission to operate, the nickel company agreed to invest in improving the town of El Estor. El Estor is now paved with wide and clean streets, the electrical grid is new as is the telephone system. The nickel mine was unsuccessful and the plant is now closed. Today, El Estor is a clean and beautiful albeit quiet town where nothing much ever happens. Strolling the streets of El Estor is enjoyable. If you visit El Estor, be sure to visit the modern central park where there is a large fenced aquarium containing 3 or 4 full sized alligators.

The last three weeks i have been in Guatemala (again) and visited the Lago Izabal and Rio Dolce area. So I can now ad some my own pictures here...

The above building was the formerly store that is beliefed the "warehouse" that the english pirates plunderd recularly...

I think is was build somewhere around 1800 so it's not exactly GAoP... but it's stil old.

and above the castillo as it is now... unfortunatly I havend been able to enter the buidling but that would be something for the next time...

This is a vacation park at the Lago Izabal conviniently called El Paraiso, because that's simply what it is...

and then the amazing scenery, I don't know about you all, but when I reenact I would like to get a feel of the landscape in wich the history took place. For me this is it, to start with...

cheers for more pictures, see my Gallery here on Pyracy.com or on my facebook page (where it's a lot easier to upload pictures.

More on clothing is also coming soon...

Looking into Spanish firearms I found these two site's and enjoyed browsing through them...

The National Firearms museum

Spanish main antiques

Enjoy!

More cuphilt pictures from the Antigua Guatemala historical museum.

Cheers!

I just wanted to let you guys know I uploaded a load of pictures from a small museum at Antigua Guatemala.

Among them two very nice spanish muskets with worked butt stocks and some other stuff.

My excusses for the quality...

Cheers!

What about ironing???

Just discovered this on the site og Manning Imperial.

I thoughd I share it here...

Sheers!

If i look at this site, go to: uniforms/coat... you might get an idea.

To me the packet flap is clearly sewn on top of and slightly above the triangular slit.

I would say: hold the flap upside down and inside out, slightly above the slit then stichs throw flap and coat front panel.

Maybe in two rows of stiches for strength then fold the flap down. If everything is ok the flap would then cover the slit with the front of the flap foreward.... on some pictures on this site it also lookes as if the have been sewing also throw the top of the flap flattening the fold a bit...

But hey I am an beginner myself you know...

I'm shure there are more experiensed people around here...

Thanks Cap. Sterling.

Time to change the plans a bit... and to buy some real heavy canvas(?) for the skirt part...

I am using this pattern for the lokation of the padding on the chest near the shoulders.

This extra padding makes sense to me because that's the location where you ware the sword baldric and oke extra cussioning wmight gif more comfort...?

And by felt I mean real felted wool felt...

The above drawing also locates padding in the skirt part but there just the liner seams more apropriate to me...

Some interresting Spanish (Uniform) bits and parts... My link ...

Ok I will start with a soldiers coat... and I'm going to make a "Yucatan Pardos Militia coat. wich is white with yellow liner... I have a drawing of a later pattern uniform but i'm just going to transform it to a 1700 pattern... I bought an ofwhite corse linnen and a little finer yellowich faded like linnen for the liner.

I resently redrew the pattern on my computer using a vector based Program (Illustrator), thus allowing me to scale the whole thing up to 1/1... And then I printed it on 28 a4 papers, then stucc them all together "again" and cut the pattern out.

Now I have the pattern for a coat that would suit a man with a verry slim waist and heavy muscled arms...

Hm... that's not me...

So to start with I wil ad a view inches to each 4 parts...

If I look at temporate drawings I see the sleves are indeed made of a lot of fabric so I keep that as it is...

One question

The collored liner inside of the sleevs that's going to be on the outside (makes this sentens sens??? ) and will show, is this supposted to be sewn on top of and therefore be dubbled with the other fabric?...?

for the padding, I will use some offwhite felt I have laying around...

Oh and what buttons can I skip??

(now do we need to stransport this discussion to the sewing room??)

Now, what English terms are you wondering about?

Well:

Cup Hilt?

Match lock?

Dog lock?

Frock coat?

Any of us will be glad to help you out in understanding English words. To start with, try entering the words you don't understand in Google Images http://www.google.co...hp?hl=en&tab=wi You will get pictures of what you are looking for.

>>>> Cascabel

Well I do know the meaning, I only can't find the Dutch word for it...

Now, what English terms are you wondering about?

Well:

Cup Hilt?

Match lock?

Dog lock?

Frock coat?

The English and Dutch language are prety much related to each other.

I belief English effolved from a language named Old Dutch... But unfortunatly I am no expert on this...

I miss interpretate (while using Google translations) the word checkers thinking it ment one of the 4 playing card symbols...

But now I recall te bordgame indeed...

This game we call in Dutch: Dammen....

One Dam is two of these cilinders on top of each other...

Dominos = Domino

Checkers = Ruiten (the red square on his point)

So we have:

Ruiten = Checkers (red)

Harten = hearts (red)

Klaver = the 3 lobed leaf kind of thing... (black)

Schoppen = the upside down (black) heart with the little extra bit...

And then form high to low:

Aas

Koning or Heer

Koningin or Dame or Vrouw

Boer

Tien = 10

Negen = 9

Acht = 8

Zeven = 7

Zes = 6

Vijf = 5

Vier = 4

Drie = 3

Twee = 2

Hope we solved a little of the language puzzle here...

Being not English or Native English speaking, I frequently encounter the problem of not knowing a word in my own language (Dutch) while I do use the english word for years all the time, using all kinds of English based forums such as this one, my brain starts making cris cross connections between visual data and all kinds of tongues... For example the word "cup hilt" The Dutch translation google gifs, does not work if I use it as a search word again in google... Such specialised words would be hard to find in my own Printed dictionary. To make things wurse I do look for things considering Spanish speaking parts of the world. Knowing some Spanish I do get familiar with some Spanish words also what makes me wander about their English and Dutch equivalents to...

And this is only about my interrest in the 17th 18th century. If do my researche about the Iron age period on the continent (my other pasttime) I find my self buying and reading (or at least trying to) Frensh, German and Italian books to.... Oh and can anyone translate for me my Russian book I bought in Moscow... I know theres a whole lot of interresting stuff in there I would love to know more about....

I quess I have to start moving away from the computer and start speaking to Dutch people with knowledge of the subjects at hand....

eBay auctions are now going up..... The first few items are up. I will be adding items throughout the day and perhaps the weekend.

eBay Auction link

Hm... very interresting for a beginner...

Keeping a close eye (now is that the right expession?)

kass has all the articles posted on her site, including pics.

https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/articles.php?c=8&w=103&r=Y

Thanks Dutchmann i found the artikel on the "reconstructinghistory" site.

Thanks guys this kind of gifs me an idea...

I was wandering if the pictures of this thread could be made visible again....

So I and others could learn from it to??

as far as I can tell, it is visible.... The thread is just locked so no further posts can be added to it. Do you mean you want the topic unlocked so you can add questions or other info to it? Or is it that I can see the topic and you can't for whatever reason?

Let me know and I will try and fix it for you.

I can read it, but I can't see the pictures...

I am a visual learner you know...

I was wandering if the pictures of this thread could be made visible again....

So I and others could learn from it to??

I have been looking at period drawings and such trying to find any reverense for wearing a head wrap of any sort under a hat, but up to now couldn't find it. I am about to asumb that that's another Hollywood invention...

Am im right?

I think I just post this for those that are interrested...

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If i do a quick counting, the Rum/Sword ratio would be something like 62 bottles to 1 Sword...