My Kit

This is my Reenacting kit and tools, or most of them anyway. Some things are a little hard to get together for a picture.... like my anvil....

Let's see... in no particular order... 3 knives, 2 spoons, a fork, a pair of carpenter's pliers, a roll of tarred marlin, 2 belaying pins, a set of woodcarving palm tools, a workman's cap, a square, a mallet, a watch, a pair of woven garters, a hammer, a tomahawk, a level, a leather jack, a stoneware mug, 2 leather pouches, a belt, 2 canvas bags, my leather working kit, which contains a bunch more stuff, like awls, pins, dividers, etc, a Spanish musket drill command cheat sheet, a sharpening stone, a copper tube, a 'pirate coin' that was in my tip jar at the tavern one weekend, my bit roll, a brace, 4 chisels, a carving knife, a left handed hook knife, a blade for a right handed hook knife, pencils, a tinker toy, a sharpening steel, 4 large leather scraps, a flint and steel kit, and a length of flannel to make char cloth.

There are a few things in my kit that aren't period correct. Like the level. The public rarely sees these things, but occasionally, you need a level, so you try to find one that will blend in with the bench if it's set down as a visitor walks up. You try to avoid the public seeing these things, but if they do, you hope it blends in well enough that they don't really 'see' it.

In this picture, the things that aren't correct: Pencils, the 'pirate' coin, level, tinker toy, and the musket drill sheet.

The drill sheet is an aid for, well, musket drill, the tinker toy I use as a teaching aid to explain a pegged joint to children, the pencils stay hidden when visitors are around, and I haven't even looked at the 'pirate' coin since I dropped it in my bag weeks ago.

I guess the level is the only one I don't feel 100% comfortable with having in my kit.

Please, don't call me a Farb! It's just a level!