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- From: SAUNDRSG@qucdn.queensu.ca (Graydon)
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- Subject: William's mention of authentic equipment
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- Date: 2 Jan 93 05:32:00 GMT
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- This got me thinking; what exactly would I need to have *really*
- authentic archery equipment?
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- A furnace to refine iron ore in by a period technique.
- Some iron ore of the appropriate type.
- The smithing skills to make that iron into:
- a froe, an ax, some splitting wedges, a saw (I hope!), some plane
- blades, a wood rasp, a drawknife, and a selection of files - one
- large flat file, a small flat file, and a small round file. Oh -
- and a knife and a largish chisel and maybe a small ax.
-
- A yew tree (preferably one big enough to cut a whole stave from),
- or an ash or a wych elm.
-
- A section of tree, free from knots, at least a foot in diameter
- and 30 inches long. (30 cm by 75 cm)
-
- The wooden planes and jigs to split that section of tree (from a
- good arrow wood species) into shakes, plane them flat, dry them,
- split them into stele blanks and make them into finished steles.
- The first one of these planes I get to make with just the drawknife.
- Ick. I also need a chunk of boxwood or beech to make the planes from.
-
- A period variety of flax seed, whatever tools I'd need to grow
- it and convert it into linen thread in a period fashion.
-
- A period-fashion beehive, for wax. A pine tree and a period
- rosin receipe, and a period pine tar extraction technique.
- An oil press to make linseed oil (which goes into the gunk that
- holds the points on) from some of the flax seeds.
-
- A couple dozen period geese (easiest to use wild geese, I think)
- for feathers for the fletching. Period silk thread and some glue.
-
- Horn from a period veriety of cattle, for arrow nocks and bow nocks.
-
- A hide tanned in a period way from a period variety of cow for
- a bracer, shooting glove, and finger tabs, all to (doubtfully existing)
- period patterns.
-
- I'm going to have trouble doing all that. :]
-
- I salute the intention, William, but 'authentic' isn't a boolean
- state. (I don't want to *know* what a Near Eastern persona would
- have to do!)
-
- Graydon
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