Beaver or Acrylabeast

**turpin** · 28th September 07, 07:46 PM

I Just picked up a beaver pelt. What a beauty! And looks like the face will pop out well into a mask. I'm looking forward to the experiment. I vote for the beaver over acrylabeast, Grant. The feel of the fur is like nothing else. And no greenhouse gases were produced in the manufacture of the fur.

**ccga3359** · 28th September 07, 07:52 PM

Originally Posted by turpin

I just picked up a beaver pelt. What a beauty! And looks like the face will pop out well into a mask. I'm looking forward to the experiment.

Ah yes I did check out your sporrans, very tempted especially at that price. But this sporran just speaks Canadian. That and I don't eat badger yada, yada, yada (please ignore ramblings).

**Riverkilt** · 29th September 07, 11:47 AM

The beaver fur looks a lot like the buffalo fur on my custom sporran from Miss April's Carpetbags. I find myself absentmindedly petting the sporran a lot. Very soft fur. Have had some comments about the appearance of the patch of fur worn in the proper sporran position though. A conversation starter for sure.

Ron

**ccga3359** · 29th September 07, 11:50 AM

Originally Posted by Riverkilt

Have had some comments about the appearance of the patch of fur worn in the proper sporran position though. A conversation starter for sure.

Ron

Trust me Ron I've been biting my lip on this thread from the start. I mean, come on it's beaver after all...

**Surly Dave** · 29th September 07, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by turpin

I Just picked up a beaver pelt. What a beauty! And looks like the face will pop out well into a mask. I'm looking forward to the experiment. I vote for the beaver over acrylabeast, Grant. The feel of the fur is like nothing else. And no greenhouse gases were produced in the manufature of the fur.

Well, maybe the beaver got a hold of a burrito at one time...

**Panache** · 29th September 07, 12:35 PM

No synthetic fur is going to match the softness of beave, so for texture the beaver one is the clear winner.

However I would vote for the Lesser Acryla beast one. I think it is a better looking sporran that would go with more outfits than the beaver one. I am not a fan of gold/brass in my kilt accessories. The gold highlights of the beaver sporran are too formal for most occasions (actually to me they screams "trying too hard" to be fancy). The simple silver of the first sporran is classy, which I'll take any day over "fancy".

Cheers

Jamie

**ccga3359** · 29th September 07, 12:42 PM

Originally Posted by Panache

No synthetic fur is going to match the softness of beaver, so for texture the beaver one is the clear winner.

However I would vote for the Lesser Acryla beast one. I think it is a better looking sporran that would go with more outfits than the beaver one. I am not a fan of gold/brass in my kilt accessories. The gold highlights of the beaver sporran are too formal for most occasions (actually to me they screams "trying too hard" to be fancy). The simple silver of the first sporran is classy, which I'll take any day over "fancy".

Cheers

Jamie

Yes but it's LESSER Acrylabeast! If it were GREATER Acrylibeast that would be a different story. My life is too valuable to hunt such an animal. But if someone were to capture one and forcibly hand it over to me then forget the beaver...

Possibly this will be worn with my Maple Leaf most of the time which will have oxblood straps and brass buckles, with similar material on the braided sporran strap & ranger belt (this is all for when Canuck slows down and gives me a second thought!).

**ccga3359** · 1st October 07, 03:14 PM

Update, beaver sporran has been ordered and is currently being made. I shall have in two weeks. This I found more environmentaly sensitive than the lesser arctic acrylabeast as it will save trees for future generations.