Re: feast gear

["Gary Bryers" <gbryers@conterra.com>]

Poster: "Gary Bryers" <gbryers@conterra.com>

If you choose to make your own feast gear from wood, first, use a good,
close-grained hard wood (Oak is typically too open-grained for this
purpose, and though pine will work, it is a soft wood, and subject to major
marking by knives and forks).
   Having made your trenchers, bowls, etc., you will probably be
best-served by rubbing linseed oil into them.  This will seal them without
making them toxic, as other treatments might.  You will need to apply this
several times, letting it soak in well each time.  Then wipe it out after,
and perhaps a light washing using no more than a very mild soap.  You will
hav eto repeat this from time to time, as use and cleaning will eventually
remove the oils from the wood.


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> From: RoyalLady@aol.com
> To: atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
> Subject: feast gear
> Date: Saturday, April 26, 1997 11:37 PM
> 
> 
> Poster: RoyalLady@aol.com
> 
> I need a little help from some kind person.  My husband and myself have
> recently joined the SCA and are trying to get our feast gear together. 
We
> are trying to make our own out of wood.  My question is what do you use
to
> seal the wood to protect it from various food and drink?  Or where can we
get
> good acceptable feast gear?  Any information you can send would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Gelis de Fraser
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