Project Blog - Historic Sporrans / Brass Cantle Project

[hylander]

Quick update,
I found a good supplier of turned brass knobs and finials.

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Care to share your find?

[MacBean]

Care to share your find?

I'm curious about this too. I did search for "brass turnings balls caps knobs and finials" and came up with some similar, but not this one. What about this? http://www.libertybrass.com/

I do agree that the slide mechanism may be nicer than a pull or push (and that one doesn't want much of a knob for this or else it may catch and release accidentally).

[artificer]

I'm curious about this too. I did search for "brass turnings balls caps knobs and finials" and came up with some similar, but not this one. What about this? http://www.libertybrass.com/

I do agree that the slide mechanism may be nicer than a pull or push (and that one doesn't want much of a knob for this or else it may catch and release accidentally).

That's the right one, they're all there. I just collaged the images from various offerings into one image for ease of viewing, to eliminate the extraneous things, and to compress the scale a bit. It also aids me in sketching to have them all in one place.

[artificer]

Here's a set of horse hair tassels I've just sent out.

These were commissioned.

The little ring riding right at the top of the bell is to prevent the chain sliding out of position during shipping, and is removed once the tassels are installed in the sporran.

In the near future I hope to start making the bells from brass, nickel, and cast pewter (ornate Victorian style).

I'm still experimenting with various sizes of bells, as well as patterns for the bottom edges of the bells and pinked leather trims that rest between the metal and horse hair.

This project gets more and more intricate every time I do something..