Panther Primitives

[highlandcelt]

I was surfing around and remembered a company that's in West Va. It is "Panther Primatives". I used to get my primative camping gear for fur-trade era camping called a rendezvous, and thought to myself, "I wonder if they are selling kilts and accessories now?
I looked in their online catalogue, in PDF, and found in the index, that they ifact do carry kilts now! They only have 2 models to choose from as of the 2005 catalogue, and they are very reasonably inexpensive at about $56.00 + shipping. They also carry a dirk and a skian dubh.
Go to Panther Primitives to check it out.

[Colin]

Some interesting stuff, that's for sure.

http://pantherprimitives.com/pdf2005...primitives.pdf

For anyone interested, their is a really cool pin (Rogers Rangers ) on page 111, some dirks and sgian dubhs on page 115, kilts on page 150, and some belts on 156.

Thanks for the link

[davedove]

For anyone interested, their is a really cool pin (Rogers Rangers ) on page 111,

That's a great pin. I may have to get me one.

[highlandcelt]

I forgot about the Rogers Rangers pin and the belts. DUH! LOL. I have the RR pin. It's about an inch or so tall and about 2 inches wide. Nice pin.

[auld argonian]

Yeah, the Rogers Rangers pin really caught my eye...my brother is a big fan having gone through an awful lot of time and expense to find a really nice copy of "Northwest Passage". I sense a minor birthday gift....

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[O'Neille]

Some interesting stuff, that's for sure.

http://pantherprimitives.com/pdf2005...primitives.pdf

For anyone interested, their is a really cool pin (Rogers Rangers ) on page 111, some dirks and sgian dubhs on page 115, kilts on page 150, and some belts on 156.

Thanks for the link

Nice selection, Also flasks p.81, buttons p.135, nice belt blanks. Did anyone notice that their "Kilt" is probably a ladies skirt as it appears the apron fastens right over left. O'Neille

[auld argonian]

Just ordered a couple of the Rogers Rangers pins and warned the lady that she might want to keep the box out...they've been discovered by Xmarks!

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[auld argonian]

...and not to stretch the thread out but I also see that they have canvas bedrolls...been looking for a decent one of those for camping; sleeping bags can get too hot sometimes. Love to get Mrs. Argon to let me get one of those "Out of Africa" style tents...

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[highlandcelt]

Yeah, there tents are top notch! I used to have a "Bakers Lean-to".I'd like to have a nice wall tent, now.

[Caradoc]

Love to get Mrs. Argon to let me get one of those "Out of Africa" style tents...

While I've not found fault with the Panther Primitives canvas, their method of sectioning poles (to make them more easily transportable) was at one time one of the nastiest pieces of kludgery I've seen on a tent.

They'd used a 2"x4"x9' piece of wood for a center pole, and sectioned it by cutting it in the middle at a 45-degree angle, then putting a stamped/pressed galvanized steel sleeve around the joint.

Ordinarily, this wouldn't be a problem, but if there's any lateral stress on the center pole (like during a midnight windstorm, for example) the sleeve simply comes apart along the rolled seam, and the tent comes down on the sleeping occupant's head. Additionally, the opened sleeve represents about 9" of burred steel edge. While we were trying to jury-rig the pole back together at least until morning, I nearly lost the fingerprints on my left hand when they came across that edge in the dark.

The owner of the tent managed to get the bloodstains out of the canvas, and I had to wear bandages and fingercots for a couple of weeks before things got healed up.

I hope they've modified that since I last saw one.

The canvas itself is fine - good stitchwork, far more waterproof than any nylon tent.

It's nice to see they're starting to carry more Scots hardware than they used to.