Greetings one and all from Niagara Ontario

**LK-13** · 9th March 07, 04:57 PM

hello everyone,
my name is Wayne Shaw, handle is LK-13 (well radio call sign actually)
I'm a Paintball player looking at picking up 2 Kilts,
one to Play Paintball in and one for nights out and so fourth.

i do know that I'm going to be going with the Black Watch Tartan as there have been Shaw's
in the Black Watch from it's beginning and the Shaw Clan Tartan is almost identical to the Black Watch Tartan.

these will be my first kilts so I'm going to be lurking a lot trying to learn as much as i can.
this way i hope when i do have questions i wont put my foot in my mouth by asking anything too daft.

**LK-13** · 9th March 07, 05:07 PM

ok here's a couple questions,

can someone please discribe just exactly what a Selvedge is?
and how it differes from a hemmed edge.

how does the Sport Kilt stack up against the SWK Standard Kilt quality wise?

**ccga3359** · 9th March 07, 05:14 PM

Selvedge is the finished edge on the material. The threads are looped back into the finished product during manufacture. This will not ravel like like a cut edge. A hem is material folded and sewn up to prevent threads raveling. So a hem would be two thicknesses and a selvedge one. SWK are traditional style kilts worn up above the navel (24" length) my first and currently only kilt is a SWK heavyweight, Sportkilt is worn lower and has and elasticated waistband. Welcome from Burlington You are surrounded by many X-Markers and meet monthly for drinks, just look for post, calling all SOKS (Southern Ontario Kilt Scotciety). SWK are traditional style kilts worn up above the navel (24" length) my first and currently only kilt is a SWK heavyweight, Sportkilt is worn lower and has and elasticated waistband.

**MrLion** · 9th March 07, 05:25 PM

Welcome from western Oregon!

**Splash_4** · 9th March 07, 05:29 PM

Welcome aboard from Snellville Georgia

**Wompet** · 9th March 07, 06:17 PM

Greetings from just across the river in Grand Island, New York.
If I ever make it to one of the Kilt Nights, I'm the SOKS New York Auxiliary. (To the rest of the SOKS - I am planning on the March 29th in Hamilton, just let me check my schedule, okay?)

Oh, and the 29th is the next Kilt Night, at the Scottish Rite in Hamilton. I don't have the thread link at the moment, but a quick search should turn it up.
And Jerry at Stillwater could have you in a Black Watch by then (we think he uses the transporter from Star Trek for shipping

)

**ccga3359** · 9th March 07, 06:23 PM

Originally Posted by Wompet

Greetings from just across the river in Grand Island, New York.
If I ever make it to one of the Kilt Nights, I'm the SOKS New York Auxiliary. (To the rest of the SOKS - I am planning on the March 29th in Hamilton, just let me check my schedule, okay?)

Oh, and the 29th is the next Kilt Night, at the Scottish Rite in Hamilton. I don't have the thread link at the moment, but a quick search should turn it up.
And Jerry at Stillwater could have you in a Black Watch by then (we think he uses the transporter from Star Trek for shipping

)

Here is the thread; Scottish Rite Club. As for the 29th we of the Clan Destine will be sneaking across the border to steal Wompet away for a night in Hamilton. Problem is the only one with the power and mandate to stop us is Wompet himself! Sort've a catch-22, eh?
Oh and Wompet is only fantasizing about that star trek thingy. Jerry at SWK actually ships items out days, even weeks before you actually decide to even order the stuff. Nothing as unrealistic as tele-transporting machine or time-space warping continuum nonsense.

**MacHummel** · 9th March 07, 06:27 PM

Hey LK
I grew up in Niagara Falls graduated from westlane, I'm also a kiltmaker that specializes in a poly/viscose kilts that suit your needs for paintballing. i live in Fergus now, Welcome

**ccga3359** · 9th March 07, 06:29 PM

Originally Posted by MacHummel

Hey LK
I grew up in Niagara Falls graduated from westlane, I'm also a kiltmaker that specializes in a poly/viscose kilts that suit your needs for paintballing. i live in Fergus now, Welcome

Oh yeah, Pete one of you casuals in the mossy oak / woodland camo with a steel plate between the aprons for some of them there low shots. We should get a kilt paintball thing going. With you suppling free klts to the winning (my) side!