Deadeye

Thanks Rummy, that site should be commin in handy.

:angry:

bought a nice boarding axe from G. Gedney Godwin ( a Valley Forge sutler) that looks very similar to the pic GOF posted higher up in this thread. It's also fairly close to a circa 1713 Spanish boarding axe, so all things considered I'd say it passes for accurate.

I like it, Josh. and I would call it Accurate since it looks almost identical to this one. I like the ones that people call the "american Boarding Axe that has these teeth on the underside, though i am ignorant as to their purpose.

I also Found this link with what looks like some actual Historical pieces...

Boarding Axes

Sorry all. IF you click on the link i just posted, look under the Miscellaneous section for the axes

Good Looking weapons, Diego.

I also found this site, claim 3 different types (American, French, and British) that were made for Master and Commander.

Sword and Stone

Where did he appropriate it, Rummy? I'm always in the Market for a good noggin splicer....

By the by, has anyone heard of dogfish rum?

I have heard of it, Diego, but never has it passed me lips. Is it worth the while?

I have also heard references (I will see if I can find some) to axes/tomahawks with a sledge hammer opposite the blade rather than a spike. This seems logical to me as certain shipboard duties would probably require somthing of this nature.

And it looks to me that Ms Bonny is carrying some dirivitive of a Norse Bearded Axe.

All the same, that shouldn't stop us from doing what we can to instill at least a modicum of "reality" into the show. After all, the best fiction is truth. 

Again, Agreed 100%. When i was giving demos on how armor or blades were produced in the 16th and 17th century, i gave my lecture as an armorer from the time period, not as Me. I find that the reality of pirates, or any historical figures is most often far more interesting than the myths surrounding them.

I beleive the public will too if it is presented in the right way. A story is much more interesting from a "real Pirate" than someone who sounds like Ben Stien.

Would a period tomahawk or hatchet also be appropriate? I have seen different ones at different sites.

....there are other great weapons besides cutlasses.

Agreed. I think sometimes we get hung up on Cutlasses for Pirates because they have become synonnomous (did I spell that right?), but many other weapons were used, such as smallswords, backswords, boarding axes..the list goes on...

And for those mateys that havn't a small fortune to spend, just to be piratical in nature,,,,,

Good strong Cheap Cutlass

I actually own that same sword. it was a gift from a friend who didnt know any better. The Blade is Aluminum, not steel, and the guard and handle are cast pot metal which makes it so topheavy that it is hard to carry in a belt as it is constantly trying to capsize!

I know I may be just a pup, but I sees it as this...

The Public at large seems to derive most of it's "Knowledge" of historical subjects from movies (I.E. Pirates wore bucket Boots, eye patches and said ARRRRH all the time, and a 6'6" Scottish Hero looked like a 5'7" Aussie..) and the people who tell these stories are entertainers...

It is my beleif that re-enacting SHOULD involve some manner of entertainment and a bit of charicter acting since that seems to be the best way to educate the people, get them interested in it all, and most importantly help them to remember it.

It just seems a lot more interesting to me to hear someone speak and act as if they were from that time period and was a real persona that was individual, than someone wearing the clothes who gave schpiel in modern speak....

Thats Great, Adam. I am currently about to start (With the invaluable help of Greg) my first pair of hand-sewn slops, but am also very interested in buying another pair to have on hand.

Keep us posted and cant wait to see the pictures

*shaking head*

That picture is JUST WRONG on too many levels to list here...

I have that picture 

Aye Rumba, does he buzz ye to sleep?

(gonna get slapped fer that one, be sure)

Does anyone have any rescources for learning tradtional Macrame or Chinese knotting? I was to make a baldric for my blade and i want it nice and broad and flat. Thought it might make a good bit of flare for my kit.

Thanks in advance to all

What do ya Call a Pirate with a sheep and a goat?

Bisexual!

thank you, I'm here all week, be sure to tip your waitress....

Sorry, I thought this thread said, "Captain's Goat." Got to get me eyes checked by the ship's surgeon.

Nice togs their mate... I likes the color.

But a goat would have been nice too.

I believe thats a WHOLE other topic, perhaps in another forum, far far away

Nothin 1st Rate size or anything, maybe just 4-6" er so....

I'm not sure my pure, innocent eyes should be taking all this in...

never mind the stuff i wrote in pick up lines)

(I'm not responsible for the guy in the middle.)

I hope not, he looks like an sherbet factory exploded on him!

Just the one is all I need. Me Wife wants to put on up in our "Nautical Room" as an homage to me knickname. And i have some line to put through it

My Lady, dost thou possess a looking glass in thine bodice? For I may surely see myself within it’s folds

"But this color would look TERRIBLE on you..."

Or

"Funny, I always figured you an Autumn"

The things i KNOW about women could be written on a matchbook...

But one of them is this...

In Marraige or any serious relationship:

men can be Right, or they can be Happy.

I Married Miss Right. unfortunatly her first name is Always.

Cap'n Mac, Sir...

If the availability come round, do ye think, sir ye could fabricate a true deadeye fer me?