[Mid] Expensive Authenticity

>I guess what I think of when I think "expensive authenticity" is a fully
>outfitted period encampment at Pennsic, complete with period pavilion,
>period furnishings, etc. THAT isn't something necessarily come by on a few
>bucks. Not unless you know how to build those things yourself and can find
>the materials cheaply or near free and already have the tools available to
>make them yourself. Then you could probably do something like that for as
>little as maybe a few hundred bucks, if even that.

You could probably pull something like that off for under a thousand if you
bought a nice, but modest sized period pavilion (not some 18x27 foot
monster) and made all the furniture yourself using hand tools. (I'm kinda
budgeting for low end tools here, but the real difference between a cheap
chisel and an expensive one is how often you have to sharpen it and how long
the handle lasts.)

If you didn't try to do it all at once - made a chair one year, a bed the
next, a panel chest the year after that - you probably would never really
notice the cost (well, until you bought that pavilion). Also, you'd have a
pretty good handle on basic carpentry, a number of A&S entries and a
functional set of tools. Things well worth having.

The other option - find someone else with the skills and tools and see if
you do something they'd be interested in trading for.

Avery

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