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try the green gold from south america (mahogany) not only is it period correct but also does great in the humidity and has a nice grain pattern when polished, why even use laether, just use this wood, it is all over roatan and belize areas in the caribbean, plus pirates traded and raided ships for the green gold. alot of pirates turned to log cutting in south america (belize) when pirating dried up. england paid big bucks for this wood including the colonies.

i will still go dressed to the movie and will be thinking of you hurricane.

the actor doesn't need to look exactly like the act being played but i should resemble the figure being played , we know through historical documents and ledgers that blackbeard was 6' plus and should atleast tower over jonny depp as i would be more convincing on the big screen. since jonny depp is short and they have a blackbeard the same size in frame as jack sparrow, its all fun but really disney should look at some reality when making films.

i fully agree with that, atleast make blackbeard look good since he was an actual character who exsisted all the other characters are fantasy, blackbeard should be tall and not on a crate -disney should look more on fact than fantasy when adding characters who exsisted in the real world it would make more sense plus would give a little reality to the part being played, it would be nice to see more original facts than fantasy. i agree with an actor who has experience like dustin hoffman but if ya do the research you can find it. i understand disney and do enjoy the fantasy, it would be nice to see more reality behind the movie and give people a sense what piracy was like in the real world that we enjoy re'enacting, would you want to see a pirate faires all fantasy or more reality. ask your buddies what they think, movies should have both fantasy and reality, blackbeard should look the part by addind a fantasy look it down grades the historical attributes.

untreated wool works well but if you read she has an outfit already and wants to make it looked roughed up,treated wool doesnt work well with dye , i dont think you've dyed much material to say otherwise. wearing you outfit regularly will be the best way of making it look used. I don't know why you say that wool doesn't dye that well. It takes a great number of colors in a veritable rainbow of shades. One needs to understand dye chemistry to a certain extent, but a basic dye bath of dyestuff, mordant and water + heat, can yield some results even for a beginner. Walnut hulls (the nuts are not necessary) should work for just about anyone, possibly too well. Just look around at a rendezvous, there's an entire population of guys wearing walnut dyed clothing! If you just want it to look messy and used, put on a pair of rubber gloves, pick up some black walnuts (this works well when they're still green and juicy), bruise them and rub them where you want the color. I don't recommend dyeing a finished garment made of wool. You're likely to end up with something a bit smaller than you'd like. This page shows some samples of dyed wool (granted, it's Navajo, but some of the dyes are also used in European textiles from the period) http://weavinginbeau...sandclassbegins And in this video, a woman takes you through a sample book. She gets to walnut dyed yarn around 1:15 or so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dJuus0BlQ the video is called: Nancy Today: Natural dye 92) sample book of... (in case the link doesn't work). Wearing your clothing as much as possible seems to be the best way to age things realistically. I have known people who hang their clothing out on the clothesline for weeks to let the weather get to it, but you'll need to hang it so it looks like it would when wearing it, not so you get the wear marks & sun bleaching half way down your breeches where they were folded over the line. Volunteer to muck stalls and do yard work in your period clothes. That'll do the trick, trust me! Nothing like horse sneezes to mess up a god jacket

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really, disney should try to atleast play an actor who is atleast 6'6" to replicate blackbeard, what a disney joke they have as a blackbeard. another fantasy flick when is disney gonna get things right, just wait i am sure the ride at disney will change again.

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you may want to try walnut hulls, if you boil the hulls with the nut still entact it will give off a variety of tanish to grayish color , but wool doesn't dye that well, unless you use a commercial type of dye. why would you want to make your outfits ratty, it took time to do that and after you go to a variety of encampments it will become stained and such, remember everything started out new, most pirates wanted items that looked new and smelled fresh(they wanted to emulate officers of rank anyways). remember the caribbean is very humid ,clothing didnt last long anyways, you can drag clothing items behind your car with ropes -within 20 miles your outfit will look tattered.

seems like mel fisher has a few fans here, makes me laugh seeing most of these post here have no research in what people say in many of their thoughts they post. i just see things very different than most and yer sarcasm helps poeple to commit pyracy , just remember that someone always gets burned in the end, have some empathy for others who got burned from the start. i have no remorse for fisher as he is a pirate too. its what we are and do, its a cutthroat business.

by usa standards not bt spanish rights as most ship wrecks are, its no different if someone steals an item from you or you "find" with the rights of political backing, it really isnt mel fishers its that he has money and basically bought his way with rights, if ya ask the spanish about it they say its theirs now who is the pirate here. it really doesnt matter who steals what its just comes down to two wrongs dont make it right, if ya ask the thieves who took a gold bar they will probably say well we found the bar like mel fisher found the atocha, its always different when things are in your backyard, it all comes down to ethics. really the treasure was actually stolen from the south americans labor the spanish inflicted on them which basically they stole. in which mel fisher took from them and the thieves took from mel fisher, so really the treasure is just all stolen loot! i see it as welcome to pyracy boys.

must be more pirates doin what they do best stealin for a livin, didnt mel fisher steal it too! oppurtunity crime in both cases.

[te name=Matusalem' timestamp='1219170089' post='322448] Finally recieved mine, just like Hurricane's...smooth side out. The fit is a little tight. I am fairly skinny but I have very wide Fred Flintstone feet. Good quality drum-dyed full grain leather, though I can see the edges of the pieces are rolled instead of raw. Leather lin'd, also. The soles are all leather. it appears that they must have been soaked in water at some point, for whatever purpose, because the patina from the copper nails has oozed onto the soles. Whatever the case it, looks damn cool! the dot in the middle of the heel is wood. I do not believe that these are true straight-lasted because the last itself appears to be curved slightly right or left. where did ya get the shoes from

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