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11:04 am
July 5, 2010
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Gustav
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Who wants to take on a new leather project?
http://img202.imageshack.us/im…..irmatt.jpg
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4:41 pm
July 5, 2010
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julie
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LOLz. OMG, dude, where did you find that? But I would be worried about those swords poking a hole in my nice fluffy mattress.
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7:20 pm
July 5, 2010
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Brittney
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The only word for that is awesome.
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8:05 pm
July 8, 2010
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Marc
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Where would we get slabs of leather that big?
(I can image where one would after a battle though… its not our fault the silly knights drove themselves on to our pikes…)
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11:08 pm
July 8, 2010
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Wulfram
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What would be a period glue to use on leather? I mean, can stiching on its own make a tight enough seem to keep the air in?
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8:13 am
July 9, 2010
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Gustav
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There are some seriously large hides out there, though we’d probably need more than one. And you could use a number of things to seal the seams; glue (animal based), pitch, beeswax. Whatever you can do to make something watertight will generally make it airtight. I think the valves on the bellows get a workout, but should hold.
Really, I love that we as modern people think we’re so much smarter than our ancestors, but obviously they were pretty crafty folks!
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