Quoting barondevin@c...:

> Hello. My name is Dan Hurst. I'm fifty and married, with three step

> children and one grand daughter.
>
> We all live in Springfield, Illinois, which seems to be a bit light

> on old tools in the flea markets. At least at the ones I've been
able
> to find.
>
> I'm part of the "poofy shirt" brigade (SCA), and that might be part

> of my problem findling tools. My preference is for tool that
haven't
> changed substantially in form or function since before 1600.
>
Welcome my lord! (your excellency?? given the screen name ;-)

You will find several gentles on the list, both SCA and the oldtoolers 
are "open" secret societies that welcome newcomers but sometimes have 
trouble finding the people who would enjoy
us if only they knew of our existence.

May I commend to your attention Bugbear's bowsaw at 
http://www.geocities.com/plybench/bowsaw.html  which should please your 
eyes and can be scaled to a number of sizes.

"You know you're in the SCA when" you slap a ruler on the scaled 
drawing of spoon bits in the Mastermyr book and discover they are in 
fractional US inches...

Drawknives and Dunbar type scorps are like Mastermyr except for how the 
blades are held on the tangs.

If you are thinking about improving your Pennsic campsite there are a 
number of furniture designs on the web which while usually
described with tailed apprentices can be made fairly easily by
period galoot methods, ask if you need suggestions.

Esther ska Otelia d'Alsace, from the industrious barony of Thescorre in 
the sylvan Kingdom of AEthelmearc.

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