Thank you

Here is another trick that might work well while on horseback or in a planned ambush type situation.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNK-6Hn0uiw

Thanks! Whoops.. knew I would forget something! Pretty close guess... Its 7" x 5" x c. 2"

Here are the pics I have been promising to put up in the leather/horn topic. I'm not quite sure how to post pics directly, so I shall just put up a link... http://whatsarmour.googlepages.com/beltpouch The manner in which i finished the leather and horn has already been described in the leather topic...

For the pouch project I previously mentioned (haven't had a chance to finish it since my last post :x ) I used 6-7 oz vegetable tanned leather purchased from Tandy (I like to buy when they have shoulders for $20... call your local shop to get on the mailing list for the sales flyer) dyed with Fiebin...

Heheheh I think I know where you are going with that one.. I wondered that no one brought it up yet in the shooting tab discussion... I'm hypothesizing that you are making something like this except modified to have a shooting tab? http://www.columbia.com/images/productImages/SU9212_969.jpg Speaking...

My person favorite material for making "spark nests" (as I call them) is shredded hemp. I have a ton of 3" by 1/8" dia. pieces of 3-ply hemp in my fire kit, and when I want to make a fire i will unravel a piece and shred one or two of the plies. It usually catches almost immediat...

I originally thought the same... a large iron bound wooden mallet.. but i think the other interpretation is more plausible. Given the fact that they are a mining tool, and knowing what they can do to turf (probably not the intended use 8) ) I can imagine dwarves using them and the damage they could ...

I purchased the above book, and was sadly disappointed in it. The movie photos were great, but the actual information was sub-par in that it was not true to Tolkien in many cases or to actual truths about weapons and armour. In other words, I wouldn't suggest using it as a "historical" enc...