Quote Originally Posted by Baldybrown View Post
Absolutely spectacular! How many hours did it take you to complete it?
Quote Originally Posted by CopperNGold View Post
Each one of these is an heirloom piece that will be handed down from generation to generation. The design and craftsmanship is spectacular. Beautiful work, Artificer!

I also wondered how many hours it takes to make sporrans of such quality and attention to detail, especially Thistledown's sporran with the hammered leather.
Sorry I'm not quite able to quantify hours spent, chaps. I don't usually work that way. Between dyeing (where applicable) glueing, braiding and stitching I have a fairly loose estimate of time usage. Also, I usually have several projects churning at once, so while dye is drying one one project, I'm doing sketches or hammering studs in another piece.

Much like formulae you've seen for kilt-makers (handmade) the time/vs/compensation is relatively small. Nobody gets rich with hand crafts anymore.

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