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  • #1

    Ready to get back in the hobby

    Hello out there. My name is Tim Allen after many years of doing WWII and Vietnam, I would like to get back into the Civil War hobby. Just a note: I was a fool for selling off all of my stuff years ago when I decided to get out of Civil War :cry_smile. So NOW I need to put together a basic kit. Because I have not been active for several years, I am out of the loop on where I can get the best: haversack, blanket, shoes, ground cloth and leather goods.

    Any help would be greatly welcomed. Thanks again and I hope to see you all in the field!

    I guess I have to make myself a couple of new hats!
    Tim Allen
    Tim Allen
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  • #2
    Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

    Hallo!

    Welcome back!

    On the one hand, depending upon "where" you were in the Hobby when you left, and where you want to be when you return, if may be possible that your old kit from years ago may not allow that is the gap is too great.

    ;) :)

    Seriously, I would suggest thinking about your "Mental Picture" of what you see yourself doing and where you see yourself fitting in. THEN, it will be easier to deal with the kit you need to do it (whatever that may be).

    Others' mileage will vary...

    Curt
    Curt Schmidt
    In gleichem Schritt und Tritt, Curt Schmidt

    -Hard and sharp as flint...secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
    -Haplogroup R1b M343 (Subclade R1b1a2 M269)
    -Pointless Folksy Wisdom Mess, Oblio Lodge #1
    -Vastly Ignorant
    -Often incorrect, technically, historically, factually.

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    • #3
      Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

      Tim, Great to see that you are coming back. I know your hats are still treasured by those who have them. I came back into this mess last year after taking 6 years off. The makers are all different now, but there are quality makers still. If you need any help please email me. e_stephenson@mac.com

      Eric
      Last edited by estephenson; 10-08-2009, 09:04 AM.
      Eric Stephenson

      [URL="http://www.military-historians.org/"]The Company of Military Historians[/URL]
      [URL="http://lodge245.doylestownmasons.org/"]Doylestown Masonic Lodge No. 245 Free and Accepted Masons[/URL]

      "Captain Dike is in the hands of some brother Masons, and to the Order he owes his life." OR s.I v.II

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      • #4
        Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

        Tim,

        CS or US or both?
        Joe Smotherman

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        • #5
          Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

          Took five years off myself.

          SOLD EVERYTHING and I'm kicking myself in the tail for it....
          Andrew "Abner" Martin
          AKM Dry Goods

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          • #6
            Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

            Tim..,

            It is great to hear from you. In your "honor" - and as I am writing this - I am wearing my black beehive TA Hat you made me some years ago. The great thing is that the older this hat gets, the better and better it looks. Wished I could say the same for myself.

            Welcome back, Tim..!

            Regards,
            R. L. (Rick) Harding, Jr.
            United States Marine Corps 1971-1972
            Life Member - Disabled American Veterans
            Capt., ret. - Trans-Mississippi Rifles
            Member - Co. F, 1st Arkansas Infantry Battalion, TMB
            Member - TMR Veteran's Assoc.
            Member - Morehouse Guards, 3LA

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            • #7
              Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

              Originally posted by Travelin Cornfed View Post
              Took five years off myself.

              SOLD EVERYTHING and I'm kicking myself in the tail for it....
              Now Abner, there are a couple of items I've excavated that will be going back to your house ............, If you'll recall you sent me a box of debris. It's not like I ever throw anything away.

              Though some of it did become Critter Christmas Presents.
              Terre Hood Biederman
              Yassir, I used to be Mrs. Lawson. I still run period dyepots, knit stuff, and cause trouble.
              sigpic
              Wearing Grossly Out of Fashion Clothing Since 1958.

              ADVENTURE CALLS. Can you hear it? Come ON.

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              • #8
                Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

                Originally posted by Spinster View Post
                Now Abner, there are a couple of items I've excavated that will be going back to your house ............, If you'll recall you sent me a box of debris. It's not like I ever throw anything away.

                Though some of it did become Critter Christmas Presents.
                You always were one of my favorites.....

                I don't suppose my porkpie was in there, was it?
                Andrew "Abner" Martin
                AKM Dry Goods

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                • #9
                  Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

                  While you are at it make me a fine Tim Allen hat, HAW HAW HAW. I got rid of mine and now I regret it. A nice beehive, light brown.
                  Thomas J. Alleman
                  "If the choice be mine, I chose to march." LOR

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                  • #10
                    Re: Ready to get back in the hobby

                    You left?

                    No wonder I never got around to getting a hat from you!
                    Thanks,

                    Mark C. Foster
                    Flint, Mi

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