William Brand

Excellent find! Thank you for the link. It's nice to have more and more options for careening camp kit as well as my office at home. I can't wait to make one.

We need a pattern of that. Not a bad likeness... A seller in the UK... http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/dining-tables/farmhouse-pine-farmhouse-oval-gateleg-pine-dining-table-915-073w.asp

I've been looking at a lot of desks and I come across two types all of the time. The 'slant front' or 'slope front' desk which hinges at the top and the 'drop front' or 'drop leaf' desk which hinges at the bottom. I have found a lot more 'drop front' desks, and I can easily see why, as a slant front desk (hinged at the top) would be murder on fingers every time the lid came down. This would be especially true in rough seas. Here is a drop front (drop leaf) desk of 1710. And one of 1709.

I just came across this. 1640's Bible Box (Nautical Desk) belonging to Royal Governor Alexander Spotswood of Virginia. Carving on desk top. Reveals the letters H S & E (unclear when this was added and what the significance). The bible/nautical box itself was manufactured in England c.1640's. The stand was added afterwards in America (by American craftsmen) in the early 1700's. Desk hinge with hand hewn nails (rose head nails), notice the circular ink jar stain (ring) The mirror is a 20th century addition.

This is a South Seas annuities advance of 1730.

Purely whimsical and funny design. Love the name of the studio...Cod Steaks. Two ships spliced together. Brilliant.

I think you should run them together. It's too much good information in three separate places, so join them.

You're right. When you're right, you're right.

YAY! I will see that you are both added. When you say 'Careening Camp' do you mean Mercury or Wreckers?

I agree. A foundation of the basic clothing. Occasional finery 'ashore'.

Some telescopes of the period were made specifically from lacquered vellum, but as stated above you'll find them made from various papers, wood and leather.

Aye, but themes from this thread are oft repeated. This thread answers so many questions that are asked again and again, but where Twill is concerned, we tend to agree that the basic sailor is the least arguable in any debate over interpretation. If you have basic sailor kit then you're accurate for historical Interpretation and acceptable for all other interpretations. Also, there were more sailors than captains, so the basic seaman discussion answers the 'Too Many Captains' issue which has come up again and again. The basic sailor interpretation also becomes the answer to such questions as 'Where do I start?', 'What kit should I focus on?', 'What did they wear?', 'How did they live?', 'How were they paid?', and so many other questions like footwear, head gear, shirts, weapons, etc. Focus on exotic additions and interpretation can sometimes paint over the basic little things like sewing palms, fids, sailor's knives, monmouth caps, and every other simple thing a working man would keep aboard ship.

It's been my understanding from past discussions that period spyglasses were often made of lacquered materials and not brass or copper. Without seeing how it's made up close, that's all I have to offer. Wish I knew what to tell you to look for.

I've been curious about it, but haven't tried it yet. If you like card games, I would also recommend Loot! Love this game.

That is one unique, well executed replica. I love seeing the 'not oft mentioned', but truly period items being made into replicas.

I've seen the maps in person. They're beautifully rendered and you cannot beat a one of a kind, handmade map.

Happy Birthday, lass!

I love the image that shows the provisioning. Wood, water and meat.

Seconded. I've been researching so many words of late that I thought I'd look up prosthetic. prosthesis (ˈprɒsθɪsɪs, prɒsˈθiːsɪs)— n , pl -ses 1. surgery a. the replacement of a missing bodily part with an artificial substitute b. an artificial part such as a limb, eye, or tooth 2. linguistics another word for prothesis [C16: via Late Latin from Greek: an addition, from prostithenai to add, from pros- towards + tithenai to place] 1545–55; < Late Latin < Greek prósthesis a putting to, addition, equivalent to prós to + thésis a placing; see thesis

Approach as in Approachable wanton or to know carnally. Bachelor's Wife, Whore Bachelor's Baby, Bastard child (1672) And, not a swear word at all, but too interesting not to mention. Aqua-bob, an icicle (1704) Interesting enough, the word 'ain't' is attributed to Cockneys of London before 1701.

Both rude or playful... SLUT. c.1400, "a dirty, slovenly, or untidy woman," probably cognate with dialectal Ger. Schlutt "slovenly woman," dialectal Swed. slata "idle woman, slut," and Du. slodder "slut," but the ultimate origin is doubtful. Chaucer uses sluttish (late 14c.) in reference to the appearance of an untidy man. Also "a kitchen maid, a drudge" (mid-15c.; hard pieces in a bread loaf from imperfect kneading were called slut's pennies, 18c.). Meaning "woman of loose character, bold hussy" is attested from mid-15c.; playful use of the word, without implication of loose morals, is attested from 1660s. Our little girl Susan is a most admirable slut, and pleases us mightily. [Pepys, diary, Feb. 21, 1664] BULLY. c.1737, a supposed or pretend Husband to a Whore; also a huffing Fellow, a pretended Bravo, but a Coward at the Bottom.

That's awesome. You may have answered this before, but did you make the peg-leg yourself? What's it fashioned out of?

So do most of us. Patrick flies in from Northern California. I'm out of Northern Utah. Mark flies in from Arizona. John from Canada. Most of us are from nowhere near Florida.

10 Lords aleaping.

Sailors knives come in many varieties. You'll often see rigging knives with blunted tips, but you'll see every kind of sailor's knife imaginable elsewhere on a ship. Sharp points, blunt points and folding knives are all common enough. A ship might appoint a regulation about what goes aloft, but there's no reason that you can't have a certain knife as a pirate re-enactor. Some sailors like a sheep's foot. Some like a folder. I have several. One of them is an all purpose utility knife for all my day to day work. It's a shorter, fixed blade. It has file work on it, but nothing that could get hung up in use. I've cut paper, cloth, line, twine, and not a little food with it. I've also used it extensively for working the bark and knobs off a good walking stick at many events. My kard is a back up knife for fighting, so I don't carry it about much.