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Easy to Find Hardcore Tent Pegs

3/17/2018

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By 1st Sgt. Koepp

     We have more reenacting secrets to share today.  As you've noticed, I've been sharing a lot of work and research on Civil War camping.  Recently, I turned a set of issued tent pegs as seen in A.J. Hammler's Civil War Woodworking Vol. 1 and referenced by Fredrick Gaede.  I made mine traditionally by riving blanks from a green log, fine tuning the billets on my shave horse, and turning them on my spring pole lathe.  This method posed some challenges since Hammler's design required using a round nosed scraper on the neck of the peg.  Scrapers aren't really for green woodworking as they leave a very rough finished as compared to the standard gouges and skews used in green wood craft.  This just means the originals were turned seasoned on power (steam/water) or treadle lathes.  If you have a lightly used CW original, you'd expect to see the cross marks of a live center probably on the head of the peg.  I think they came out alright and it was a great exercise for me to practice replicating turned items.  Being a student of military gear, as many of you are, I always thought this style looked awfully familiar.
     My local air museum had it's regular militaria sale that I always try to make.  It's small, but I always manage to leave spending more money than I intended.  After talking to a friendly reenactor from AEF Northwest (WWI), I wrapped up my shopping by stopping at my favorite vendor.  I purchased a full, original CW musket cap tin and a set of these WWII era (also inter-war era) tent pegs to share with you.  In my opinion, these are about as close to a dead-on alternative as you can get for improving your CW dog tent impression.
     In the pictures, you can see the WWII pegs and the ones I made from Hammler's book, which aren't perfect but pretty good for a first try.  I've also placed a WWII peg directly on top of Hammler's template for you to see the similarity and judge for yourself if this would be a reasonable choice for you.  I paid $4 each for my WWII pegs and that's about what they're typically going for.  $20 for a set of WWII pegs is a lot cheaper than investing in an electric lathe and a set of chisels and they're much more readily available.  Above all, they're much more hardcore than those ubiquitous iron stakes that have no business holding down a shelter half.
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