<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dex:<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Note that I said Von Halstern-style. I will leave it to individual taste, influence, and rattan availability for folks to choose the nature and form of the weaponry they choose to make and use (though naturally I will be glad to offer my humble advice and whatever small expertise I might have gleaned from the few decades of experience of living in far too many Kingdoms).</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The use of lead in any and all Von Halstern weaponry (including the Falchions and Bardiches) was a vicious and spurious rumor. We only *hit* like lead. They were not *made* of lead.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Max Von Halstern</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>However, if you can find some depleted uranium, now we're talking!</div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 21, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Dexter Guptill wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">So, Max - are you gonna be casting lead muffins?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Max Nelson <<a href="mailto:maxntropy@att.net">maxntropy@att.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div style="">For those in the greater Ponte Alto, Stierbach, and Roxbury Mills area who might be interested (and assuming Sir Eldrid's open house will be open as usual this Monday), I'll be glad to teach all those who are interested how to make rattan swords in the Von Halstern style this Monday at Viscount Sir Eldrid's Open House which is held 6pm to 9pm in Sterling, VA (information available at <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><a href="http://viscounteldrid.com/SCA/monday.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 153); text-decoration: none;">http://viscounteldrid.com/SCA/monday.htm</span></a></span>). <br> </div><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Dex<br><a href="http://members.cox.net/dguptill">http://members.cox.net/dguptill</a><br><br>"Rule 37: There is no overkill. There is only 'Open Fire', and 'I need to reload'. " <a href="http://www.schlockmercenary.com">http://www.schlockmercenary.com</a> _______________________________________________<br>Moo mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Moo@stierbach.org">Moo@stierbach.org</a><br>http://stierbach.org/mailman/listinfo/moo<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>