Project Blog - Historic Sporrans / Brass Cantle Project

[artificer]

Beautiful! No one could tell at a glance that it wasn't an antique cantle, but it's destined to be an heirloom. Thanks for sharing another outstanding piece.

SM

That's my hope. "Sporrans your Grandchildren will fight over" Maybe that will be my new catch phrase.

Brilliant Scott. Hopefully the commissioner is a fellow XMarker as I am most interested to see the locking mechanism on this beauty. Another magnificent creation mate.

As far as I know he's not a member here. I'll send you a pic of the mechanism. It's a fairly standard pull release.

Yep, that's the Real Deal alright. Brilliant work, Scott.

Thank you, good sir!

Less than a pound? Not nearly as much as I guessed by looking at it.

I think it's the rectilinear shape that gives it a touch more visual weight than the arced "Culloden" style brass cantle sporrans. The metal is similar in gauge to the ex-MoD cantles, with a touch extra thickness on the front and rear faces, exactly the same on the rim.

In fact, I just weighed my ex-MoD sporran, and there is only 2oz difference. Since the leather on my MoD bag is about half the thickness on this one (and this one has internal pockets), the cantles are probably only ~1oz different in weight on their own.

I've got some quite exciting things coming down the pipe soon, so stay tuned for more brass cantle sporran (and perhaps other, more precious metals...) and more MacLeay sporran-y goodness.

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[English Bloke]

That's a beaut Scott! Any chance of a peek inside??