a question of supply and demand

[nana]

Ooh! I like that even better! You should make a test run of one of those for me.

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Apr 17, 2012 8:32:31 GMT -5 Lash said:

gourds sound fun i havent thought of that what i did think of was the 3 inch bamboo canteens i dont know what you call them but they are one section of a 11 inch piece of bamboo with a hole cut in the top and stoppered.

I believe that, most properly, the bamboo canteens are what should be called suito, and gourd canteens should be called hyoutan. I may be wrong, however.

In my experience, gourd canteens are a little fragile for field use. I have broken two of them already. Bamboo canteens may be more resilient, especially if you're planning to wear it into battle.

[Saionji Shonagon]

Apr 17, 2012 9:56:25 GMT -5 @ishiyama said:

I believe that, most properly, the bamboo canteens are what should be called suito, and gourd canteens should be called hyoutan.

I couldn't remember the second one for the life of me! Thanks.

[Rokurou]

The one thing about the bamboo canteens, they will dry out and will crack. I have two that I now use for decoration only, because they both cracked the full length of them. Like many things, they are concidered throw away items, so just be aware of the possibilty of crackage.

Date Rokurou Yoshimitsu

[Sō Haruko]

Date-dono, do you think using them regularly would prevent them cracking? I ask because there are similar problems with wine casks. I use wine casks in my yard as planters, and if they dry out too much, the wood shrinks and the staves separate.

This sounds like it might be the same kind of thing. If you kept the canteen in use on a regular basis, perhaps it would not split? I don't know, though, never having had one myself ...

[Momotaro Masato]

Appropriate asian garb is one of the hardest things to find on Merchant's Row...

[Lash]

Date-dono. i was thinking of coating them in epoxy resin and keep them suffiently damp but you do run into the problem of how wet and what are the repercussions of that. something to work on.
i tried looking up suito and it keeps giving me the gourd canteen and saying that the " canteen" is suito and that the actual gourd is called hyoutan . im confused lol.
i found the bamboo ones but they are just called bamboo canteen.
as too the fragillity of the gourds i will be experimenting again with epoxy resin . i was thinking of cutting one in half cleaning it sealing it with resin that putting it back together as the resin is drying and coating the exterior with also.
that will toughen it up but how much remains to be seen.
peach-bro i was thinking about tackling that one but man thats a can of worms i could make various kosode and hakama but fit would be a problem

[nana]

You could go with certain sizes of kosode- Small, Medium, Large. I agree that hakama would be a bit harder. You could always do custom orders only on hakama.

[Sō Haruko]

From my (admittedly limited but not nonexistent) experience doing conventions, it probably wouldn't hurt to have a couple of sample hakama with a large sign that says "I take commissions", if you want to sell them. That way people can see what they look like and know what they'd be buying.

Kosode you could possibly do in inch-increments. 14" wide, 15" wide, 16" wide, etc. I think the question there would be figuring out the length to make them.

[Date Saburou Yukiie]

I have a suito that I waxed the inside, and keep the outside oiled and it seems to work well for me... BTW Rokurou has made many a fine suito in the past.

[Rokurou]

So Haruko-hime and Lash-dono,
I think it is definetly a moisture issue since I did not use them till the next Pennsic. But, I have bamboo in the garage that was not split when I bought it, but has over a period of a few months. I would think with regular use they would be fine. But remember, they were probably throw away items anyway.

Lash-dono,
Epoxy may be the way to go. Anything to seal in whatever moisture the bamboo has can only help. But since bamboo is relatively inexpensive, I will just make a new one when mine splits.

[Lash]

maybe i should put a disclamer on all of them that it is bamboo and sooner or later it will split lol!

[mitsuhide]

Fugu village once upon a time did things of this nature not any more sadly. A "general store" for larger events would be kind of a nice change as the same vendors get stale.

[erink]

Yeah, nobody is selling waraji, that would be a win. Especially if they are cheap (around $15?) and especially if you can find some cord that looks decent and won't shred our feet if we wear them barefoot.

There is a glut of cheap parasol at most wars. There is no need for warm clothing at Pennsic, but fans should be workable!

Maybe some decent looking costume-quality tanto would be useful, not many people carry those and we probably should. Oh, also these little fruit knives with the brown plastic case that looks like wood, those are super useful and hard to find - like this one: www.amazon.com/Japanese-Stainless-Steel-Paring-Scabbard/dp/B000ME9IRU/

[solveig]

Noble Cousin!

Greetings from Solveig!

Apr 28, 2012 16:32:30 GMT -5 erink said:

There is no need for warm clothing at Pennsic, but fans should be workable!

You obviously missed some of the Pennsics that I have been at.