Cap'n Syn

hello.

new guy here, i have been wanting to do a pirate costume for awhile, finally got around to it. i am basing my look on the first mates from the POTC but being careful about buying things to make it as historically accurate as possible. a lot of the things in those movie are not accurate. so stylized accurate???

i mainly go to sci-fi conventions. and love doing historically costumes to give the trekkies a hard time. but i am member of the 501st legion a starwars costume group. even at these cons, most pirates you see are captains so that is why i am making a first mate.

got my slops and my buckle shoes.......and everything else but still waiting on a few items to finish the costume.

the only thing i have that is not period is my light dragoon flintlock. but i also have a queen anne. hope to buy a doglock later this year.

oh and i have one good eye so i have a legit reason to wear an eyepatch, made mine from an old wooden spoon and a leather tie.

Part of the 501st? who do you go as? good to see other 501st!

Let me take a moment to introduce myself, Captain Syn.

it has always been a boyhood dream to be a pyrate to sail the caribbean live on the ocean island hopping. I think what set it in motion was the ride, "Pirates of the Caribbean", I rode on that when I was about 5 and still remember the original ride. Long before the POTC movies came out and redesigned the ride, (which I have no problem with they did a good job and still kept to the original nicely I think ) I emediately when and spent my hard earned chore money I had saved and bought a sword and hat(with my parents help that is) Fast forward almost 20 years and I'm glad I have kept my dream alive! I still love pyrates and all the things surrounding them, I am themeing my kitchen in my house to look like a tavern pyrates would have frequented.

I would like to think of myself as the pyrate I always dreamed about being, having my own boat and sailing around. I don't have a boat...yet. I'm the market, as it were, I have plans of building a 49-50 ft wooden sailboat and sailing from the keys down to the caribbean and doing the feasting on waves thing. (show on the food network by Alton Brown, if you havn't seen it YOU NEED TO.) So me and a few friends are going to be "Pirates of the Caribbean" on our ship, The Drunken Wench, drink rum and sing a Pirates life for me as loud as we can! that truely is the life for me.

I hope to make friends here and I've already been gathering information as I've been lurking for a few weeks now before I commited to it, but I want to be apart of this community and I hope you will have me.

Yo Ho Ho,

Cap'n Syn.