Bits and Peices
Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2024 6:23 pm
Hiya all
A few things I've been working on or recently acquired.
Oil bottle and Khazad axe puck in belt pounches, these are some of my first forays into wet-moulding and tooling.
An 'old' coin purse, reused to hold nails of three different sizes, the medium ones are rose-heads from an old hardware shop I found on ebay. The big one is handmade and I've had it for a few years...... I can't remember exactly how it came to me though.
Folding melting spoon for lead,tin and other soft metals. Shown folded in the first photo
Detail of the filework on the handle
Detail of the bowl and one way hinge.
A 'new' coin purse being used for its intended service, next to it is a small silver box I picked up recently and one of the coins Elleth sent me last year as part of my Yule gift.
Other things in the top photo are:
Two pairs of shears, I'm not sure which ones I like the best yet..... Both of them needed fettling to make them cut cleanly.
Serpentine awl, this has a square point at one end (for drilling small holes) and a flat cutting point at the other for piercing leather.
Small steel Penannular I forged when I was 16 or so.
Big sack needle (drilling and filing the eye was not easy)
Plummet (this one is forged from tin with a lead tip because I don't really want to handle lead too much)
Stick of tin solder
Two octagonal beeswax candles
A few things I've been working on or recently acquired.
Oil bottle and Khazad axe puck in belt pounches, these are some of my first forays into wet-moulding and tooling.
An 'old' coin purse, reused to hold nails of three different sizes, the medium ones are rose-heads from an old hardware shop I found on ebay. The big one is handmade and I've had it for a few years...... I can't remember exactly how it came to me though.
Folding melting spoon for lead,tin and other soft metals. Shown folded in the first photo
Detail of the filework on the handle
Detail of the bowl and one way hinge.
A 'new' coin purse being used for its intended service, next to it is a small silver box I picked up recently and one of the coins Elleth sent me last year as part of my Yule gift.
Other things in the top photo are:
Two pairs of shears, I'm not sure which ones I like the best yet..... Both of them needed fettling to make them cut cleanly.
Serpentine awl, this has a square point at one end (for drilling small holes) and a flat cutting point at the other for piercing leather.
Small steel Penannular I forged when I was 16 or so.
Big sack needle (drilling and filing the eye was not easy)
Plummet (this one is forged from tin with a lead tip because I don't really want to handle lead too much)
Stick of tin solder
Two octagonal beeswax candles