Antler kilt pins

**BuchananBiker** · 19th September 12, 11:55 AM

Loon Mountain is coming up and there was something missing from my kit.... A kilt pin! So I put some thought it and came up with a couple ideas. One was easy, do a kilt pin of the Buchanan crest. Then I thought a bit further. Birch is one of the plant badges of Buchanan, so why not do that? As it happened, I still had some antler from another project and some time on my hands, so I made both. And that's a US penny for scale.

**Oberu** · 19th September 12, 04:32 PM

Very nice man! Your a crafty cuss

**Destin_scot** · 19th September 12, 05:36 PM

nice scrimshaw work, do you have a frog pin or something like that epoxied to the back?

**BuchananBiker** · 19th September 12, 06:24 PM

Kept it simple. I cut and shaped wee little steel plates for the back and epoxied them. I'll use a rare earth magnet to keep them in place.

**Oberu** · 20th September 12, 08:11 AM

EEK! I've lost a few things using magnets so be careful!

**MacGowan** · 23rd September 12, 06:13 PM

Those are neat little pins. I like your art technique..

**BuchananBiker** · 24th September 12, 12:26 PM

Originally Posted by Oberu

EEK! I've lost a few things using magnets so be careful!

Nearly did! It was at the end of the day, my youngest was all hopped up from dancing (Celtica was awesome) and ran over to hug me. Knocked my pin off. Found it and the magnets. I'll be switching over to a proper pin forthwith.

**RunTheWorldOnMac** · 29th September 12, 06:38 PM

I am thinking it would be nice to make a pin out of a spikehorn antler. I could always cut a tine off and sand it down to make it look appealing and attach a magnet or pin...

**sailortats** · 30th September 12, 06:11 AM

Here is a pic of my staghorn kilt pin. I purchased it from USA Kilts to wear on my Stewart Old sett kilt also from USAK.

and miracles never cease, I only see one dog hair in this pic. That has to be a first as I usually have more dog hair on my kilts than my dog Abby has on her.