redhand

Cap'n William

That's the kind of living history & reenacting that our club is

interested and has been doing for the last few years,

overall we've been doing living history & reenacting for close

to 20 years.

We pratice progressive or campaign style living history of

Revolutionary war units, as well as early maritime sailors,

longhunters, and even some old west gunfighter stuff.

We're interested in starting up a pirate group dedicated

to period firelock shooting, engaging in sword fighting,

both stage and fencing, as well as portraying what real pirates

and even pirate hunters looked and acted like during the 1690

to 1730 period. We're even interested in doing a little "hollywood"

pirates stuff merely for laughs. We've dubbed our sloop the "Harlot"

and are working at putting together our kits, we're also looking for

a few interested men or women to join us here in oregon.

Cheers!

Redhand

Yeah powells is a great place,

I could stay there all day. Haven't been there

in a while now, need to go and spend some loot!

so many books, so little cash:D

LOL!

redhand

Capt. Flint

Is the "Pirates-Terror on the high seas" book you're talking

about the one illustrated by angus McBride & authored by

angus Konstam? That's a great book, with lots of great illustrations

by McBride. I managed to pick it up at a local used book store

in brand new condition for $15 bucks, and got another for a mere $5

by a guy maned Sherry, titled Rebels & Rascals or something like that,

it's about the golden age of piracy. looks pretty extensive, had a interesting chapter devoted entirely to Black Beard, it covers the

late 1680-90s until about the 1740s. Looking forward to getting into it.

The Pirate book is great though, if only to look at!

Check out www.powellsbooks.com they're a really great used

& new book store in Portland, they have 3 store, but the main one

is an entire city block! and about three stories!

Cheers & good reading

Redhand

Three & Four Musketeer movies are great for fight scenes,

try Riddley Scott's "The Duelists" starring Harvey Kietel

and Kieth Carradine GREAT fight scenes!!

The movie is about two of Napolean's Hussar officers

who have a fued over a period of about 15 years.

Great movie, costumes & cinematography!!

It's not available on either video or dvd right now,

but look at your local video stores and ebay or 1/2 dot com

it's worth getting a copy of it.

Cheers!

Redhand

Charity-

There are a few patterns available out there

besides the simplicity. Smoke & Fire has some

as well as a few others I can't remember of the top

of my head. My friend Bill A. has a business called

"Middling Sort" You may contact hime through

his site and he could recommend a few I'm sure

His site is: www.middlingsort.com

The Hogarth books are EXCELLENT examples of early

1700's clothing, lots of great ideas

Tell him his friend Jeff sent you.

-Redhand

Hey All-

Have any of you bought one of Loyalist armes cutlass'

and used it for stage fighting? I'm interested in their

Dutch cutlass and was wondering how well they held

up to stage use. They offer their cutlass' for around

$80 to $125 scabbards included.

Thanks

Redhand