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Time Periods => 1600-1800 => Topic started by: Karl Helweg on July 28, 2016, 09:27:40 PM
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Jas. Townsend has an excellent cooking series on YouTube and is now offering online classes to help folks get started reenacting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmiv0kFUMG4
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Since we have some free weekends with no events this seems like a good time to learn some new reenacting skills. One of my weaknesses has been flint&steel fire starting so:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRR8fQbVYTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=80&v=5f9CjH7plps&feature=emb_logo
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One way of starting a fire with a flintlock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3u8Ht4w_d4
Personally I cheat and put a little priming powder in which will start fine tinder directly without charclothe.
https://www.townsends.us/products/tobacco-with-burning-lens-bb229-p-367 Burning Lens
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Apparently the "cocked hat" or what we now call a tricorne was first noted in the Spanish/Dutch wars about 1667. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricorne
This is one simple method for making your own tricorne hat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiUDdtSxio4
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This booklet has more information and a slightly different lacing pattern.
Of course you will want to then make a cockade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp2N_Qv6RBg
A helpful, rambling video about cocked hats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqn0ElSG0Q
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Since I have at least one fire-lock that needs the frizzen face treated this seems like a good subject. (BTW it is an Indian made blunderbuss that does not spark well - again.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYtcxpdOi7M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKKhIOx707M
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School of the Ranger in Maryland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-UtwVoRKs
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This is a good video showing an 18th century rifleman's kit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXtfnR_OlD8
This a good frontier clothing video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXP2SEmdijU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QbiBE9q9E
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These classes are getting a little 18th century so here is a little on the Society for Creative Anachronisms (SCA.org) covering up to 1600 AD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046bs9DY7QY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdOfVzmhGq4
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