If you can spare the time, please sign my Dreambook - I'd appreciate your comments!
| Name: | Pierre Thibault |
| E-mail address: | pierre.thibault@mrnf.gouv.qc.ca |
| Comments: | HI,
You have a super site. I am a reenactor in Québec city, Canada. I am a member of a reenactors group (Les compagnons de la Nouvelle-France). http://www.lescompagnons.org/ My son and I are interested by the history of the fire arms. Presently you try to build an (Arquebuse or Hand GUN) for show to the people this summer. I want to translate your essay about the handgones and Matchlock an put the result on the web site of my group with the appropriate reference to you. So, do you think that is possible?? Thanks P.S. If you want I can send to you many photo to us in action! |
| Name: | Margaux Braibant |
| E-mail address: | ya_ta_he@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi !
I really enjoyed your website ! I'm studying arms and armor in France and I'm working on craftsmen and armorers especially. I was very interested by your part on blacksmiths and I would like to know if it is possible to have sources for the pictures where we see the armorers. I leave my email adress, thank you very much ! |
| Name: | Rev. Drew Hause M.D. |
| E-mail address: | revdoc2@cox.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.picturetrail.com/photos/revdocdrew |
| Comments: | Enjoyed your site, and you might be interested in our new and non-commercial website.
Scroll down to 'Table of Contents' and click on the link to access all the documents. http://www.damascusknowledge.com-a.googlepages.com/home Rev. Drew Hause M.D. |
| Name: | Dave Banks |
| E-mail address: | tdbanks AT btinternet DOT com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.st.dysmas.faithweb.com/ |
| Comments: | I really enjoyed your matchlocks essay. I'm a medieval re-enactor and have a 15thC reproduction matchlock. I am working on a small cannon at the moment and I think the next project (after I learn how to make cartwheels) will be a handgonne of some sort so you provided a lot of usefull links. Have attached the address of some pictures of my cannon project
Dave Banks http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c146/DaveB14/PA220105.jpg http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c146/DaveB14/PA220106.jpg |
| Name: | webmaster |
| Homepage URL: | http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dispater/ |
| Comments: | if you are having trouble emailing me, replace the word "at" with "@" and remove the capitalised letters. These are precautions I had to take to stop spambots getting my real email address. Suggest you similarly disguise your email if you are leaving it in this guestbook, as I have had reports of people signing and then being deluged with casino/porn spam.
eg. pornatSPAMMASTERaol.com |
| Name: | Ted Lazcano and Lois Swales |
| Comments: | Dear Website Gonner:
We are having trouble emailing you. Can you send us contact info besides the P.O. Box in Australia. We are in Ithaca NY and would like to share some info on Gonne history - very early discovery of a salt petre mine that you may not know about. And just generally correspond with you. Many thanks, Ted Lazcano and Lois Swales (this sent by Lois, slightly more computer literate than Ted) |
| Name: | Lauren |
| E-mail address: | tapdogs1AThotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi, I found your website fascinating, especially all the info on anvils. I have a photo you might like of a gravestone in the shape of a huge anvil. I took it a few months ago at a small graveyard in the country. If you'd like a copy send me an email.
Lauren |
| Name: | Ronnie Freels |
| E-mail address: | reinbulletATaol.com |
| Comments: | I am in the process of making a forensic training manual
via CD-ROM format and would like to know if I could use some of your images and drawings with my text This training manual is being funded by a US Federal Grant and I work for a forensic not for profit organization. I found your articles to be very revealing. I would of course give you the credit in bibliography or post script note. thank you ronnie freels |
| Name: | webmaster |
| Comments: | Laurent, both pics are from:
Pfaffenbichler, "Medieval Craftsmen-Armourers", British Museum Press, 1992 |
| Name: | Laurent Michard |
| E-mail address: | lm.dariusATwanadoo.fr |
| Comments: | I came across your site looking for pictures to be included in my company’s brochure and website. I find it very interesting and extremely well documented.
Do you have information regarding copyright details of the pictures entitled "The German minstrel Hartman von Starkenberg" and "Armourers at work in a mediaeval forge" ? Many thanks in advance. |
| Name: | peter |
| E-mail address: | peter.greenATsoftwarespectrum.com |
| Comments: | I used to catch the same shitty forest coach lines bus as you, I was into the goth thing too, as well as punk, scooters etc etc. Hows this, I also thought Vicki at Oscars was hot, & then one day when i was in the shop she gave me a letter , inside was 2 tickets to the opening nite of sanctuary & a note saying she wanted to go with me!! We thus started seeing each other & me being a 16 year old I thought I was pretty cool. Good to see your still into this type of stuff, good site, see ya. |
| Name: | K South |
| Comments: | I am a high school history teacher and I just came across your website on the development of artillery in Europe. It is very well done and I love the accurate historical pictures. |
| Name: | webmaster |
| Homepage URL: | http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dispater |
| Comments: | The picture is in Webber's book, don't have it on me but I am fairly sure there were no further credits. |
| Name: | a graham |
| Comments: | A very impressive collection of blacksmithing illustrations, especially the early woodcuts. What was the source for the Flemish woodcut, dating from the 1500s? I'm interested in reproducing this image for an exhibition which I'm curating and would be very grateful if you can let me have details of the original publication. |
| Name: | James Hamilton |
| E-mail address: | james7799ATNOSPAM.yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Interesting site. I linked through the Taig lathe group on Yahoo! It's interesting to find such eclectic pickings on the history of the lathe from the Taig group site. Nice work. |
| Name: | webmaster |
| Homepage URL: | http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dispater/blacksmithgallery.htm |
| Comments: | the page has been moved to a new server and several updates made. All broken/mislabeled links and malfunctioning pop-up windows have been fixed. New content will be added soon. Click on the link above for a taste. |
| Name: | Feronia |
| E-mail address: | revelations22vs17ATyahoo.com.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://liquid2k.com/feronia/ |
| Comments: | It's looking good sweetie. Have you put up a redirection notice at the old address? |
| Name: | webmaster |
| E-mail address: | richgothATyahoo.SPAM.com |
| Comments: | thankyou to the reader who sent me the US $1!
now what about the rest of you coughing up eh? Its been two years and 6000 visitors and I still cant afford a matchlock from Historic Enterprises! *grump* Or a bed regrind for my lathe. I guess I should have started an Adult website instead.... On another note, please spam proof your return addresses in the dreambook because they may be harvested by unscrupulous people Stay tuned for a site upgrade sometime this year-there will be more handgonne info and more Iberian gunmaking |
| Name: | Lamia |
| E-mail address: | lamiaATminiature-horses.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.miniature-horses.org |
| Comments: | You have a very nice site. Good job! |
| Name: | Steve Bookout |
| E-mail address: | toadhallATpcpartner.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.midiowa.com/toadhallrifleshop |
| Comments: | This is a cool site. I can relate to this very well and I like it. I am an 18-19th century gunsmith and can and do make lock, stock and barrel by hand and without electricity. Subsequentiallyt, I find the text about the Perfect Gun most informative. I live in Newton,Iowa and found your site from an admirer of my site who inquired about how I make barrels who lives in Portugal. Your site deserves a few more readings. Please feel free to visit my shop's site. Many thanks, brother. Bookie |
| Name: | Pedro Marcos |
| E-mail address: | nop26522ATmail.telepac.pt |
| Comments: | Great site!!!
Thanks for showing us the "Espingarda Perfeyta". I´ve just orderd one, since I intend to build a replica of a portuguese XVIII rifle. And I see that you still have a lot of things to do here: so what are you waiting for?? Nice layout. I´m gonna copy it!! Pedro Marcos (Portugal) |
| Name: | Acarpous |
| E-mail address: | webmistressATgreenfairy.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.greenfairy.com |
| Comments: | I got here from IAM, nice! |
| Name: | Fred (Graywolf) Miller |
| E-mail address: | f.miller19ATverizon.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.handgonnes.com |
| Comments: | Please contact me at f.miller19ATverizon.net. The link for Irish Musket Locke Co. 2 ( www.handgonnes.com ) is now operated by Handgonnes Design. We left IMLCo. with our designs to improve and better present the Gonnes. If you could make the small change in the link and contact us, I'd like to link your excellent Site to us.
Thank You Graywolf |
| Name: | Fred Ford |
| Comments: | Thank you for the information, and the ability to see the efforts, and difficulties in manufacturing pieces of art in a time long ago |
| Name: | Robin G Hewitt |
| E-mail address: | robinhATcombro.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.matchlock.net |
| Comments: | Thanks for having one of the few InterNet references to
snapping matchlocks. Neat site. |
| Name: | lau |
| E-mail address: | joyfull_eAThotmail.com |
| Comments: | found u on bme , loved your mods.
nice site. very original. ims welcome: lauturtle |
| Name: | Leon D. Wild |
| E-mail address: | LWildATxeper.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.xeper.org/nan_madol/index.html |
| Comments: | Very interesting site, some good Fuller & Norton
atmospherics, which complement the technical crafts & armoury aspects. I'll keep checking on these pages. If I could have one request it would be some details of your working with platinum, the pieces you had at the markets were really nicely done. Best Regards & Xeper. Leon D. Wild. |
| Name: | webmaster |
| Homepage URL: | http://members.sia.net.au/dispater |
| Comments: | new photos added in the lathe section 8/1/2001 courtesy of
the delightful Artemisia. |
| Name: | michael w guth |
| E-mail address: | mthrguthATerols.com |
| Comments: | Readers might be interested in joining either the US PIKE
and SHOT FEDERATION or England's PIKE and SHOT SOCIETY. Both publish small fanzines, England's is a bit better for general history, the US journal for wargaming activities in the period. The Pike and Shot Society helps maintain a vanity library, Pallas Armata Press which reprints scare military history works including a large section from the 16th century. Critical works include Hufrey Barwicks Force and Effect of Manuall Weapons (1594), Polemon's All the Battles which have Been Fought in Our Age from the 1580's (the only English source for some of the military works of Giovio); de la Noue's Militarie and Political Discourses (only English translation from the 1590's), Monluc's Commentaries, Animadiversions of Warre by Ward and many others. A half dozen IRC's gets you the catalog from Gareth Simon, 98 Priory Road, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9, 2BP. The US PIKE and SHOT FEDERATION primarily supports the miniature wargaming community in the US refighting battles of the period with historically painted 25mm and 15mm lead soldiers. They have a web site. The Pike and shot society can be reached via Iain Stanford, membership secretary, 95 Tolbut Ct., Lennox Close, Romford RM1 2DZ, UK. They recently published an excellent monograph Medieval English Archery Tactics and their Influence on Renaissance Warfare. Best wishes, Michael guth |
| Name: | james |
| E-mail address: | rejis87AThotmail.com |
| Comments: | cool read. lines for places to go and people to meet.... |
| Name: | (marymary) |
| E-mail address: | marymaryATar.com.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.photodiscourse.com.au |
| Comments: | My, my....to my knight in devilry armour, good to see you
polishing your pistol ;-) Ciao Bell(a)* |
| Name: | klaus |
| E-mail address: | tito@cybertime.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.museumofhistory.org |
| Comments: | I AM THE CURATOR OF THE 20TH CENTURY HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY MUSEUM. WE HAVE A FULL MACHINE SHOP WITH LATHES AND OTHER MACHINES DATING FROM THE TURN OF THE CENTURY.(SEE THUMBNAILS ON OUR WEB PAGE) ALL MACHINES ARE DRIVEN BY THE ORIGINAL OVERHEAD JACK SHAFT DRIVE. PLEASE LINK OUR MUSEUM WITH YOUR WEBSITE.
KLAUS |
| Name: | lilly |
| E-mail address: | mirildipAThotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.darker.net/~spackles |
| Comments: | A beautiful site!
Well chosen fonts, good quality design and graphics, alluring chapter headings... i look forward to the unfinished chapters. lilly. |
| Name: | Duskmaiden |
| Comments: | Hello, very interesting site. My you are passionate about some things :-) But I couldn't open all the articles listed :-( when will they all be ready? or is it just my machine?
D |
| Name: | Jungle Jayne |
| E-mail address: | jayneATthebeachpad.com |
| Comments: | I long to touch and lick you all over, my little goth. |
| Name: | Jess |
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| Comments: | Well what can i say?Lovely:)
It's a really good page:) xoxoxo |
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| Comments: | may your dreams be full of diamond shaped stars, clouds of
mandarins & a sky of chocolate ice cream . |
| Name: | laura |
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| Homepage URL: | http://www.manicallyhappy.com |
| Comments: | Did I fail to find the Paddles?
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| Name: | Calum |
| E-mail address: | slade_oneATbigpond.com |
| Comments: | Well i surfed in via a site for Nikes and addidas tracksuit
pants and suddenly i was faced with all this stuff. i think if you really want to attract people to this site your going to neeed a few more pictures of the spice girls. Maybe even some fashion tips and cooking segments for over anxious teens. My mum liked the site though she said you were really careful with the spell checking and text perutations but my mums a geek so she dosent count. anyway im looking forwad to your inclusion for the link to the back street boys. all the best calum age 8 |
| Name: | alasadair |
| Comments: | Yes, you are deifinitley a (dark) star!
Muy guapa! |
| Name: | webmaster |
| E-mail address: | richgothATmy-deja.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://members.sia.net.au/dispater |
| Comments: | Please leave comments and suggested (content) corrections to my webpage here.
If you have basic queries, please consult your local library If you have advanced topics to discuss, please email me. Please note, that by entering this website, you have entered a legal agreement to pay me $us100 procesing fee for every unsolicited email advertisment you mail me. For service difficulties, please email the webmistress, Artemisia. Enjoy! |
| Name: | Lhizz |
| E-mail address: | octopus |
| Comments: | Just testing... |