callenish gunner

merry i do hope the moths from m' purse find a good home in yer vickies chest

ok you caught me i'm always talkin' pyrate to almost everyone ....and i spend a lot o' tyme practicin' with m' cutlass and with the flintlocks

welcome aboard lad i hope that there porter be properly cellar cooled would hate to have it too bloody cold .... i'm sure ye'll fynd this pub t' yer likin' there is a grande bunch of scallywags about ...... just watch yer back and yer purse

i have always thought when in doubt you turn them over and check the way you do with puppies welcome aboard lad and now that ye ave given merry the confirmation watch yerself she is also an iowa pyrate .....and a fyne was she be

i used a shaping mallet (nylon faced) over an anvil mandril it took a few taps -not hard! and bent it a bit at a time and made it fit just fine ...not purchased from this dealer ....... i got mine (2) from dixie and i'm buying a few later this month .... they assured me that they should have some in stock within the month ...when they can guarantee immediate delivery my order will be placed :)

scabbard for what sort of blade??? and do you have access to leather or to some hardwood and tools

that in 26 years of marriages to 3 different women i was never unfaithful to any one of them ....not that i was not a bit of a rogue & cad before and after those marriages but telling a lass the truth "that my intentions are dishonourable" isn't wrong is it??? :angry:

siren i usually go down at the drop of a hat .... or skirts

glad t' see ye be settlin' in and making the acquaintance of some of the fynest scallywags to ever plunder, pillage, or loot yer next round be on me lass

welcome aboard lad make ye'self at home but do your propers and buy the house the first round ....hope ye brought plenty o' swag because we be a thirsty lot ......i'll be having a flaggon o' black rum m'self and by the way watch out for some o' these lasses they'll steal everything that is or aint nailed down ....but you didn't hear that from me

welcome aboard lad!!! you've come t' the right place!!!

looks like an excellent show lad congratulations and i'll be sure to watch it and tape it

well lass i see ye be in capable hands .....an' watch yerselves lads she will filet ye if ye step out o' line

aye silkie good te see ye found yer way t' the pub ....this lass has the voice of an angel ....she'd lure many a lad to his doom

in the GOLDEN AGE OF PYRACY it could take months for posts to reach their destination if they ever reached their intended recipients at all. so your computer must be following suit to be period correct

yeah but i'm much better looking

and i dress like a man who died 300 years ago and flirt with women 1/3 my age ......... yeah i guess that is sad but the last lass i made love to was 28 years younger than i am ....and my oldest daughter turns 30 in june

welcome aboard mistress foxmorton .....'r dare i adress ye as mimi ....welcome in and watch yer back it can be a bit trecherous around here ....there be pyrates about as the custom be the first round be on yer purse ...and i'll be havin' a flaggon o' black rum enjoy yer stay in this fyne establishment :)

one word lad PACKING PEANUTS!!!! yeah ok so it's two words so sue me!!! friggin' nice riggin' i've been lookin' at some of those models m'self ...and droolin' so far ....i'll have one someday !!!

perhaps that article might alay some of the grief the boot contingient gets around here ....city fashion and the PAINTINGS OF THE DAY were done primarily by city dwellers and they used the dress of their surroundings to incorporate into the scenes they depicted ...just like i'm sure that none of the paintings of the dandies riding into battle were really wearing all the fancy brocades and fyne embroidery even the high ranking officer of today wouldn't go into a combat situation in their fancy dress uniforms like they would wear to a formal reception .....

welcome aboard lass ....the desire to be is enough to become lass the finding of a crew to sign on with is your choice ....watch yerself .....some of these cut-throats be pretty scurilous ....but most are fyne folk and i'm sorry folk if she wishes to be pyratical ...i'm sure that her being around the consumption of large amounts of rum will happen soon enough so ray if you please a flaggon of your fynest black rum for m'self and whatever the lass choses to inbibe with!!!

oh what a reminder of why older pirates should never date 22 year old coeds ....string quartet concert ......went to dinner.....before she finished her second captain & coke she wasn't feelin' well and before i could get her home we had to stop to let her make her offerings to the rum gods.... and i'm home before 10 pm ......

called the young lady's home tonight about an assignment for one of our classes ......got her father on the phone even he's 19 years younger than i am ....he could be one of my children he's sure i'm a pervert stalkin' his baby .....now i have gone out with a few lasses who are 25 to 30 years younger than myself and many older than myself but never thought of myself as stalkin' any o' them ....even some o' the lasses i have met from the pub most are a lot younger than i am ...but i'm very ol' school where seduction is more mental than physical ...

there have been a lot of very good points here ....yes i see a lot of "pirates" who carry mass produced chinese junk blades ....but i see them as dangerous to those who think they are combat ready blades ...for so many of the faire folks they want to give an "image" not a reenactment of the period ... and that's fine as well since most faires peace-tie blades and forbid actual period firearms .... so $50 swords and $35 replica guns are fyne for so many of the folks here and i can't blame them for that!!! for them it's a fun past time....but if they want to do reenactment then god is in the details ...such as no grommets on bodices or plastic buttons on waistcoats or synthetics or modern chemical dyes ....if we were all 100% authentic our kits would have to be heavily insured since our weapons would only be antiques and every stitch would be done by hand and washed by hand ....we would not be bathing daily or even weekly .....we would have scurvy or tuberculosis and realy bad dental health, vitamin deficiencies.... infections that would kills us from gunshot woulds or cutlass gashes or pike wounds ....faces poked from desease or tattooed from powder burns ....eyes missing or limbs gone ... rampant venereal deseases, dysentary, food poisioning, parasites of all sorts .....should i go on??? we live in an age where we can look back and try to recapture an era or spirit of when there were individuals who risked everything just to survive ....being caught as a pirate meant almost certain death ....and yes hollywood has done no service to history ...and to a large part neither has history done much for the truth ....what we have to research is sketchy at best from period drawings or engravings ....ignoring the places that these folks came from and local customs and local fashions it is assumed that every pirate had standard pirate issue clothing by some ...i personally think a lot was whatever they obtained from the booty they got from their prey ....some were wealthy and some were poor and everything in between ...there were some who had been sailors and some who had been farmers ....many who had turned to piracy because they were wanted men for other offenses..... some truned to it for greed and some out of nessessity .... there wasn't one set rule of dress or weapons it was a hodge-podge of what was available... from evey possible area and traded within the pirate community ....if one crew had powder and one had clothing don't you think there would have been some barter going on .....so there might be silks from the orient and wools from the heberdises wine from portugal and jewelry from the middle east... if it was transported by sea during the time it could have and probably would have been pirated and sold or traded so historical or fantasy we all have our niches in the world of PYRACY today!!!! so rate things as to what they are and if it isn't your cup of tea just say as a reenactor "i" wouldn't choose an item for whatever reason but let those who choose otherwise do so ....or when do we start to police those members of the public who attend our events ....sorry there are times when i like the use of a modern sanitary facility even if i'm dressed in full authentic period kit

AMEN!!! patrick it gets old to hear both sides firing salvo after salvo as to what is the only way to do pirate kit .....there are lots of folks who like to come out and dress as they imagine the way pirates dressed and since there is only artistic evidence of what the pirates of the day wore or carried there is plenty of room for interpretation and besides a broad period of tyme and fashion trends to contend with ....if there is a definative source that will put the wisdom of solomen to this argueing then let it come forth...otherwise cleave this babe in two and let each have their half ....let the faire pirates have their way and let the devote historicals have theirs ....and QUIT BITCHIN' the use of the words historic or interpretive might preceed the posting of items of kit so that it clear from the outset what it is and stop the damned grousing as to who's the better pirate i give patrick's idea 4 skulls