Fun With Verdigris pt. II

After a month of time (more or less) the vinegar and copper solution isn’t a strong enough concentration of copper/verdigris to stain the wood. Luckily, I tried another experiment putting copper strips in a sealed jar with some red wine vinegar that was seperate from the copper (a shot glass within the jar). It quickly made some verdigris. I then applied multiple coats to the pipe stem. It wasn’t a...

A Claw Necklace

I finally cleaned up the claws from the black bear that I shot this fall. After 10 years of applying for a license, I finally got one. With the help of my good friend Sam, I hunted in Vilas County, WI and was able to take a 204 pound sow with my fusil de chasse, a reproduction French hunting gun from around 1730 (smoothbored flintlock). There were larger bears in the area, but most of them had turned nocturnal, and after...

Tommy Tutone, the Two-tone tuque

In a blog that I follow, fellow researcher and reenactor, Nathan Kobuck, gave the following quote from John Henry who was on Arnold’s campaign into Canada: “having a fine white blanket coat, and turning my cap or ‘bonnet rouge’ inside out, the inside being white, made me as it were, invisible in the snow.” In his blog (an excellent blog on historical market hunters and other various bits of 18th century history and...