[Sca-cooks] Gulf Wars

[Stefan li Rous]

Rovena replied to me with:
>> Who is going to Gulf Wars this year?
>
> I am.
>
>> Do folks want to have a SCA-Cooks get-together this year?
>
> Would love to see one.
>
>> I have tried to host one for the past three Gulf Wars. The first one
>> was an on-the-spur- of-the-minute thing arranged at the War, but it
>> got rained out anyway.  Yeah, Gunthar I think you remember that GW.
>> :-) The first one had a fair  turnout, but most of the folks were not
>> on this list. The second one only one other SCA-Cooks person ever
>> showed up besides my wife and myself. So, I suspect it is time for
>> someone else to host it. Maybe more folks will show up.
>
> We will have our 10 x  20 which we can divide up giving a small porch
> area like we did when you used it for a class.
> We will have electricity available as well.   Our camp co-ordinator is
> setting us up closer to the road so we would be more visible than
> before.  We will be on the King Highway side (across from Security).
>  Don't know if it is big enough but it is a start.


The class tents may still have advantages in that they have more tables
and chairs available. However, they may now all be signed up for. There
are advantages to doing it in camp, as we experimented with at Pennsic
this past year when we held it in the SPCA camp. If you have electricity,
perhaps that will mean enough light to see the other folks and to eat by.
And your camp is fairly centralized as the camps go and fairly easy to
find and near the major roads. I didn't try to get a notice in the GW
newsletter last year, but that is something that the organiser might
try this year.

By the way, I will be teaching my hands-on pewter casting class again
this year. And this year it should be in the Gulf Wars booklet. I will
be teaching it twice. I think on tuesday and again on friday. In the
morning, 11 AM the first day and 10 AM the second I will talk some and
the students start carving their soapstone mold. At 2 PM, we meet again
and everyone gets to try getting a casting from their mold. This is often
an interative process. Each class will be limited to 15 students although
additional observers are welcome. Pewter was the "costume" jewelry of the
Middle Ages and it was used for many types of jewelry and ornamentation
including rings, pendants, pilgrim badges (ie: site tokens), belt ends
and decorations, ear rings, buttons etc.

For the class fee I will provide the handouts, the pewter, the soapstone
to carve the mold from and other supplies. I will have some tools, although
if you have some small carving tools (screwdrivers, dental tools, nails,
files, pins etc) you might consider bringing them.

For more info, especially if you can't make the class, check these files
in the CRAFTS section of the Florilegium:
casting-msg      (144K)  6/25/02    Casting pewter and other metals.
soapstone-msg     (21K) 12/ 3/01    Use of Soapstone in period. Modern sources.
pewter-msg        (16K)  2/ 7/01    Pewter in period. References. Sources.

Stefan
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