I figured that's how it went together - I like it!

interesting - I'd never seen that before! I'm gonna have to try one someday. :) Regarding the Sutton Hoo purse: I've always taken it as evidence that belt pouches generally were a thing in that time/place, and the buried person simply had a particularly nice one. Much like for us rich people have ca...

It's the stitched-on top flap that gets my attention. :) I think I started doing things that way after looking at too many 14th c. girdle purses and 18th c. shot pouches. I don't know how "in period" it is for Eriador to stitch on the top flap rather that just make the back and flap one pi...

It is beautiful!!! How strange to see so much sun! Here in New England the snow is starting to turn to slush, so I imagine you're starting to smell fall on the air? I totally understand your conflict: I had to live in CA for a couple years for work, and as truly beautiful as it was outside of the ci...

Oh I love it!

That's awesome! I second the toggle idea - or even a ring attached to the drawcord opposite the side where it ties. ... the advantage there is that the weight of the bag is carried on the ties themselves, which means that there's much less pressure on any stitching. (You can't see it in the snapsack...

Oh dear, too late - but..

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAYS!

.... well isn't that a wonderment?

hunh.

Clever!!

That is AMAZING - am I seeing it right that it's in two metals? Or is that an artifact of the cleanup process?

.... Am I the last person on earth to see this painting that was presumably hanging in the Inkling's favorite haunt?
Hrmmm.....


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"so I turned rings from aluminium..." I will never think I'm clever or resourceful again after hearing that. Srs though - cool! "Ah the promise and disappointment of x-punk. A return to handmade craftsmanship and the use of natural materials that devolved into a low-end flooded by dro...

awww.... SO SWEET.

.. My workdesk looks out over the pasture, and currently I keep a modern 10x monocular by the window for checking out critters along the treeline. As I've been generally comfy-fying the workarea, it occurred to me a brass "Victorian / pirate-y" pocket telescope would be so much more twee. ...

Oh very nice!

... nothing like years of experience for fixing a design.

Absolutely! If I post something here, it's with the active *desire* to provide fodder for other people's work. Knock yourself out! :mrgreen: I sent EPS files for what I have to Manv, and I'm happy to send you a copy to if it helps. More practically, I think we have two considerations: 1. We don't wa...