Project Blog - Historic Sporrans / Brass Cantle Project

[artificer]

Ok, Scott... Now you're just showing off.

I wish it were the case. They simply don't exist. Give it a web search.

Appropriately sized brass turnings are barely available. The place I linked to on the first page has cut their stock offerings by a bit and also has $100 minimum order for STOCK parts.

Real silver ones do NOT exist. Apart from making them, my only other option is a jeweler. By the time I pay a jeweler to make them, I could afford the lathe AND the silver, still have the lathe for future work, and re-melt all the machined off silver for future use. As an additional benefit I can make things specifically to a commissioner's request.

In essence this situation is this entire project in miniature. It is simply something that doesn't exist, so I'm forced to make them.

My wife has already been advised

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