Bits and Peices

Hard Kit is all other accoutrements that are not clothing, weapons or armour. This includes pots and tents, and flint & steel, and other things like that.

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ForgeCorvus
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Bits and Peices

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Hiya all

A few things I've been working on or recently acquired.

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Oil bottle and Khazad axe puck in belt pounches, these are some of my first forays into wet-moulding and tooling.

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An 'old' coin purse, reused to hold nails of three different sizes, the medium ones are rose-heads from an old hardware shop I found on ebay. The big one is handmade and I've had it for a few years...... I can't remember exactly how it came to me though.

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Folding melting spoon for lead,tin and other soft metals. Shown folded in the first photo

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Detail of the filework on the handle

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Detail of the bowl and one way hinge.

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A 'new' coin purse being used for its intended service, next to it is a small silver box I picked up recently and one of the coins Elleth sent me last year as part of my Yule gift.

Other things in the top photo are:
Two pairs of shears, I'm not sure which ones I like the best yet..... Both of them needed fettling to make them cut cleanly.
Serpentine awl, this has a square point at one end (for drilling small holes) and a flat cutting point at the other for piercing leather.
Small steel Penannular I forged when I was 16 or so.
Big sack needle (drilling and filing the eye was not easy)
Plummet (this one is forged from tin with a lead tip because I don't really want to handle lead too much)
Stick of tin solder
Two octagonal beeswax candles
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Excellent! That spoon is very cool.
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Very nice!
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Loving those ordinary items which give the kit a finished sense. The bag of nails is a brilliant idea.
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