Alternative Materials For Cantles

**TheOfficialBren** · 24th January 14, 09:56 AM

Not wanting to hijack another thread decided to start my own.

The subject was cantles. Mostly, I have seen brass, leather, and silver. What are some other materials that you gents like for your sporrans?

Steel? Aluminium?

Show us your other cantles (please)!

**Father Bill** · 24th January 14, 09:59 AM

I fell off a horse once while riding at a full cantle.

**ASinclair** · 24th January 14, 10:19 AM

BREN, here's a link to some folks that make beautiful pewter cantles.

http://www.clanart.net/

**Lime** · 24th January 14, 12:37 PM

I've toyed with the idea of a wooden cantle but I don't have the necessary skills to execute it... maybe one day.

**Downunder Kilt** · 24th January 14, 12:54 PM

Here a a couple of photos of a wood cantle, made by a member of this forum
Woodensporrancantle_zps24da8dcf.jpg
Woodensporrancantle1_zpscdeb7172.jpg

Another member has made a functioning cantle out of aluminium a while back.

**artificer** · 24th January 14, 01:40 PM

Brass and silver are very traditional, as they are soft enough to work but hard enough at relatively thin gauges to not deform without some serious trauma being visited upon them.

German Silver/nickel silver and bronze (depending on the alloys) both get MUCH harder when worked. A term called 'self tempering'.

As Downunder Kilt mentioned in the other thread - there is a great deal of difference between a functional hinged cantle and one that is basically a decorative plate.

The hinged variety need to be more structurally sound to support the hinge arms as well as to make sure the front and rear plates don't get horribly bent out of shape.

Here's one I did a short while back in Bronze and Nickel Silver in the 'plate' style

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**Downunder Kilt** · 24th January 14, 01:45 PM

Another wood cantle
Wooden cantle.jpg

And here is the thread by Thomas H who made that aluminium cantle
http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...se-hair-79024/

**TheOfficialBren** · 24th January 14, 06:25 PM

Very cool. Thank you, gents.

**IsaacW** · 24th January 14, 06:34 PM

I think a carved antler like moose could be very attractive for a cantle... Perhaps a "fake " one and not one that is hinged and opens.
I am also a food some of the leather cantles that I have seen on Scott/Artificer's sporrans. Lately, I have been very much drooling over that beaver fur with leather (simulated to look like beaver tail) cantle sporran inspired by the Campbell image. I am a lover of beavers and have been looking at some beaver fur I have in the basement thinking of how I can make it into a sporran. This is inspiring me! I also have some beaver tails skinned out and ready to tan that my look nice incorporated into such a sporran.