Monday, February 10, 2014

Footwear

Here are my brogans I wear at the event and the wool socks.
Here they are with the wool socks I wear as well.

I chose not to put the heel plates on mine because it makes walking a bigger pain.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Uniform

Here is a picture of my Civil War uniform.
This is my other shirt it is white muslin

Sack Coat

Vest I where it at cold events or when I want pockets, in the war it would have been an item personally bought from the sutlers

Pants 

Muslin Under drawers


Thursday, February 6, 2014

Greatcoat



 Here is my greatcoat for those December events when it gets cold. I either where the just the greatcoat or if it is really cold you can wear your sack coat and the greatcoat if its really cold.


Here it is.

Picture of the front you can see where the coat buttons and then where the cap buttons.

Here is a picture of the liner.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Lantern

Here is another item that I use for Civil War reenacting. Its a handy little Lantern.
Here it is has glass on three sides and a mirror on the other to direct the light.

Pull up on this rod to expose the candle so you can light it.



Here is my handy little match tin.

Here it is lit.

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Handsewen Shirt

I bought this shirt kit from Wambaugh, White and Company. Its the Federal Issue Shirt, which many soldiers described as the "Hair Shirt" which I totally understand now. Anyways here are the pictures. Not completely done with it yet but very close. Still have to do button holes and some other odds and n's. Didn't get any pictures before I started so here are pictured of the finished product. Also I didn't follow the direction completely.

Here it is.

Here is the cuff


Collar

Here is the Gusset

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Made a Knife

Last time I was at my Wife's grandparent house they broke one of there kitchen knife's so I took the blade and said I would make a knife out of it for fun here are the pictures..... should have took some before pictures but I think you will get the main idea... also wanted to mention that I built it all with stuff I had laying around.
Here is the broken  knife handle

Here is the new and old blades next to each other

This is the knife i made out of the broken blade the handle is Elk Antler

This is the knife and the sheath I made for it

Saturday, January 25, 2014

New Shooting Target

Here is a target I made.... I redid the old target and put it on this one. This is a metal target and the top is for shooting paper targets.
Here is a picture of the whole thing.

This is the bottom with my swinging switchable targets.


This is the top where you can just stable paper targets and shoot.