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A.A. Boskaljon




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PostPosted: Sun 07 Jun, 2009 2:57 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

It was a lovely event! Greet meeting you Tod, I'm the guy who spoke about the rondel dagger with a 3 sided blade turning into 4 sides turning back to 3 sides. You might remember that Happy

Anyway, was good to see you, love your work!
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PostPosted: Sun 07 Jun, 2009 3:00 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

like i said, i couldn't be there

but my mom was, and she made me log in today and say that you guys have got great looking stuff!
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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 4:54 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Hello,

these are the things I bought last weekend:

A single edged ballock dagger from Tod's stuff.
A warhammer from Kasto.
An eating set from Kovex Ars.

It was a good battle with about 400 re-enactors on the battlefield.

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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 7:17 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

It was a pleasure meeting Tod in person, and we aquired some very nice things from him as well.

It was a lovely weekend, with a great battle on Saturday. Unfortunately due to the heavy rain the battle on Sunday was cancelled. Here are some of the photo's taken with my camera:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=25286&a...ef94f06bc9
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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 8:22 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

hey ben, if you checkout the first picture you took you can see our camp from 't zigghense demervolk
to bad i couldn't be there, would have recognised your armour quite fast=p
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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 9:45 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Must have been a fantastic event. Will remember it next year I hope.

In July there seems to be an interesting event in Germany at Veste Coburg:

http://www.zeitreise.vc/index.htm
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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 12:11 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I have just got back and had a great time, everybody very helpful and friendly and great to meet I think 5 forum members. I will definitley be going back next year. Thanks for the help Ben and friends, which really was essential as I was there on my own.

What did I get that weekend? A good and profitable time which is good combined with a bit of shopping and some good contacts. Less so was the flat tyre, the loss of my exhaust leaving the site on a speed bump, so tissue in the ears and windows open in case of fumes all the way back to Oxford and damaging the jockey wheel of my trailer on the soft ground. Anyway end of complaints. I didn't see much of the site as I was on my own, but what I could see showed that the level of reenactment was very high with excellent authenticity - reccomended.

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For those of us over on this side of the world, take some photos before you sell everything!



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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 3:41 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I have to ask, did all of the rondels sell?

I have to say, that in a way, I'm glad that nothing like that is around here...I'm afraid I would be broke and divorced entiredly to quickly. WTF?! Big Grin

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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 4:25 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I want that windlass crossbows! Wink

How hard are they?

All your booths looks great.


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PostPosted: Mon 08 Jun, 2009 4:55 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Tod-

I haven't seen many booths that organized and well engineered. I'm impressed.

I love that messer/falchion. I want it Happy

Very nice.

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PostPosted: Tue 09 Jun, 2009 12:37 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

When I saw the hard rain fall on Sunday in the afternoon I thought that Tod, being British, must have felt at home. As for those (deleted) warriors who cancel a battle because of some (deleted) rain, I wonder how they ever won the 'Guldensporenslag' (the Battle of Courtrai) if they are more concerned about their gear than their honour. I propose that next year they choose Tod as their commander in chief, I think he could play the part convincingly and he, at least, won't be afraid of a bit of rain.

I went to buy a ballock dagger and came home with one, and with a rondel dagger too. I didn't dare to ask about the messer-falchion, afraid as I was that I would have wanted to buy it. I had already bought more than I intended. I bought the ballock dagger on the right of the lowest row in the first picture. And the rondel is on the same row and also the one on the right.

I can start saving for next year.
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PostPosted: Wed 10 Jun, 2009 7:00 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

WTF?!

Because the warriors at the Battle of Courtrai had to fight for their lives and most people in reenactment have dayjobs to return to when the weekend´s over... The cancellation was all about safety, not about gear getting wet..
Besides that, spend over €7k on a harness and we'll talk again.

And honour?? War is about killing people, I can't see any honour in that. My guess is that the people in the guldensporenslag were most concerned about their very own lives and that of their masters and relatives..
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PostPosted: Wed 10 Jun, 2009 7:39 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

As a follow on to Nathan's request for pics of what you had before you sold it all, do you have some pics of what you still have? Happy
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PostPosted: Wed 10 Jun, 2009 9:05 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

My reply was 'tongue in cheek' as the English expression goes and I didn't even imagine that it could be read as you did, Ben.
I'm sorry for this misunderstanding, but if I had made myself clearer it wouldn't have been 'tongue in cheek' anymore.
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PostPosted: Wed 10 Jun, 2009 9:16 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Alrighty then. Happy

Then I was triggered too fast. I'm sorry.
It just wasn't that apparent to me, maybe a smiley would've helped setting the tone more.

I didn't care being on the battlefield in the rain this time, but then again, I had only a helmet to clean afterwards... Wink
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PostPosted: Wed 10 Jun, 2009 1:09 pm    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Quote:
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As a follow on to Nathan's request for pics of what you had before you sold it all, do you have some pics of what you still have?


Here a couple of pics of the daggers and some eating knives I took for an enquiry, but I sold out of cooks sets, eating sets most bollock daggers and few smaller bits and pieces as well as a load of English Cutler items - the show took me by surprise a bit. Anyway back to the grindstone.

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PostPosted: Fri 12 Jun, 2009 3:54 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

Ben van Koert wrote:
Alrighty then. Happy

Then I was triggered too fast. I'm sorry.
It just wasn't that apparent to me, maybe a smiley would've helped setting the tone more.

I didn't care being on the battlefield in the rain this time, but then again, I had only a helmet to clean afterwards... Wink


so Ben, you were one of those 2 guys walking around on the battlefield with only a helmet and their underwear?
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PostPosted: Fri 12 Jun, 2009 4:40 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

One of the four, yes. Happy
It was raining a bit too hard to use our first rescue plan to save our armour from the rain. We originally thought of taking one of the awnings along and to use it as an umbrella, but then it suddenly started to rain extremely hard. Then one of us conveniently remembered an image from a hausbuch currently in Leeds which shows soldiers crossing a moat or river wearing nothing but a thong, a sallet and a halberd, so we chose to go the battlefield dressed like that. We were quite giddy when we decided to do this..



Nevertheless we had a lot of fun, and I've found a good excuse to do my exercises again.. Big Grin Big Grin

This is us on saturday for comparison:
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PostPosted: Fri 12 Jun, 2009 8:32 am    Post subject:         Reply with quote

I will save that picture for my desktop and I promise I will never ever make fun of (deleted) warriors afraid of a bit of (deleted) rain.
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