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Sir John of Felsenbau

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A good day to thee fellow knights.
« on: 2011-05-09, 21:28:21 »
I just wanted to introduce myself. I live in the Philadelphia area and have always had an interest in knights. When my wife was alive, we used to go in period clothes every year. Last year I started again...with my sister in law and her daughter and her daughter's husband. I hope I can make some friends here and maybe see you at the pa ren faire, or even get together in Philly. By the way, my past hobby was making movies and I did make one about knights...it lasts about 1 + hours (video format) I tyhink I have a lot to offer the organization and am glad to be part of it. I need to have 2 members to sponsor me so that I can be recognized as a knight here. I already have loads of medieval things in  my collectioin, including a full set of armor. Well, that's all for now. Take care,

Sir John of Felsenbau
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #1 on: 2011-05-09, 22:24:22 »
Welcome, Sir John!  I hope you enjoy your time here as much as I have.
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #2 on: 2011-05-10, 00:17:40 »
Welcome Sir John! I hope we do get a chance to meet in person and raise a flagon or two. My home fair is Maryland but we sometimes take a pilgrimage up to PARF on occasion, we'll have to try and coordinate a visit with you and other forum members.  :)
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #3 on: 2011-05-10, 02:55:54 »
Greetings, and welcome to the forum!

BTW, I just moved this over to the meet-and-greet area.
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #4 on: 2011-05-10, 12:48:08 »
Well met Sir John,

As a relative newcomer myself, I can attest to the open, thoughtful and knowledgeable qualities of this membership.  Whether your interests lie with Renaissance Fairs, WMA, SCA, Chivalric Interests or all of the above you've found a good forum!
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #5 on: 2011-05-10, 18:02:09 »
Greeting and welcome Sir John!


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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #6 on: 2011-05-10, 19:18:37 »
Welcome Sir John.

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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #7 on: 2011-05-10, 20:14:46 »
welcome!
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #8 on: 2011-05-10, 20:47:51 »
Welcome Sir John...t'would be grand if we could all meet in one place.  I hail from Maryland as well.
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #9 on: 2011-05-10, 22:56:11 »
Well met, Sir John. Would love to see some pictures of the collection, and hope to see you in the future.
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #10 on: 2011-05-11, 09:20:25 »
Welcome Sir. John.
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #11 on: 2011-05-11, 22:06:58 »
Living where you do have you ever been to Pennsic?
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #12 on: 2011-05-14, 14:10:50 »
I don't know where Pennsic is. Are all the members scattered in the area? I agree it would be nice to have a get together. I have a timeline of my real and equivalent knightly adventures...don't know if that can be posted, it's long. I sent a copy of a knights certificate to Ed. I told him I'm also working on a surcoat, shield, helm and pendant for Sir William Marshal. I've made a LOT of shield and surcoats over the past few  years and my helms, which I have embelished myself, are about 30 in number. Each shield and helm have been researched for a particular knight, which I have made a brief summary of each and have framed these all over my walls. You can see my walls there's so many framed summaries. More like a museum.
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #13 on: 2011-05-14, 15:43:37 »
Cool! Feel free to post pictures and the like, if you'd like to share them. You can click "additional options" at the bottom while composing a message, and attach up to 4 files/images in a post. There's a size limit there, so for larger files and pictures, off-site hosting would be needed, such as Flickr or Photobucket for pictures.

Pennsic is an annual event held by the SCA (which is international in scope). The event is held in PA north of Pittsburgh, usually in early August. It's huge... as in, 10,000 to 15,000 daily attendance, with most camping on-site.

Here are pictures from the two years that we went to Pennsic:
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Re: A good day to thee fellow knights.
« Reply #14 on: 2011-05-20, 19:53:40 »
I had NO IDEA Pennsic was so HUGE...goodness, one could get lost in there!  I have GOT to get to one of these!  Now I gotta ask- what's the license plate mean?

Do you bathe while you're there or go full medieval and go without?  Didn't see any rivers or lakes, just a bank of port-a-johns.

I am just in awe over these pics...this looks like a real gas man.
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