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    Great pics!!!! Inspiring!!!

    All I need is a source for cantles!!!!

    Anyone know of someone who sells retail (not wholesale)?

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    I have it on very good reputation that all the commercially available Arctic Acrylabeast hides come only from road kill. The National Geographic researched the rumors of dwindling herds and found just the opposite. A normally shy and timid beast (except for those long canine teeth and rear claws which they use to dig through the frozen tundra for their favorite food, the Burrowing Artic Shoestring Snake.) It seems that the Acrylabeast breeds better than Lemmings and the overpopulation causes them to go mad and commit suicide by running out in front of logging trucks on the Alaska Highway. Greenpeace is now involved protesting the Inuit trafficking in Acrylabeast hides. They believe that as more hides find their way into the New York and Paris fashion runways demand will place undue stress on the herds and cause a huge underground market and that soon licensed hunting will begin to cull the herds.
    As the traditional migration routes of the Acrylabeast create huge swaths of overturned earth which the Oil Companies and Power Line Companies have always used for free, it is felt that if the herds are culled Gas and Electricity prices will rise due to increased costs of actually having to clear their own routes for pipelines.
    “We have already seen a decline in the quality of furs.” Said Inuit Chief Agulicuactx McTundra. “Our traditional art and livelihood is in danger as more non-tribal sporran makers discover the beauty of our Arctic Acrylabeast firs.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by MacWage View Post
    Great pics!!!! Inspiring!!!

    All I need is a source for cantles!!!!

    Anyone know of someone who sells retail (not wholesale)?
    I have to admit to it, I DO! Are you in a big rush? The cantles I have are hand poured pewter and I have six new designs coming out in the spring along with waistplate to match. ( waistplate is optional ) Not what you would call cheap, but then quality items never are. For those in North America they fall under NAFTA so there would be no Import duties tagged on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC View Post
    I have it on very good reputation .......

    Ouch, ouch, ouch..... spitting a diet cola through the nose while reading this is not good for your health!
    "A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America", for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." anon

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC View Post
    I have it on very good reputation that all the commercially available Arctic Acrylabeast hides come only from road kill. The National Geographic researched the rumors of dwindling herds and found just the opposite. A normally shy and timid beast (except for those long canine teeth and rear claws which they use to dig through the frozen tundra for their favorite food, the Burrowing Artic Shoestring Snake.) It seems that the Acrylabeast breeds better than Lemmings and the overpopulation causes them to go mad and commit suicide by running out in front of logging trucks on the Alaska Highway. Greenpeace is now involved protesting the Inuit trafficking in Acrylabeast hides. They believe that as more hides find their way into the New York and Paris fashion runways demand will place undue stress on the herds and cause a huge underground market and that soon licensed hunting will begin to cull the herds.
    As the traditional migration routes of the Acrylabeast create huge swaths of overturned earth which the Oil Companies and Power Line Companies have always used for free, it is felt that if the herds are culled Gas and Electricity prices will rise due to increased costs of actually having to clear their own routes for pipelines.
    “We have already seen a decline in the quality of furs.” Said Inuit Chief Agulicuactx McTundra. “Our traditional art and livelihood is in danger as more non-tribal sporran makers discover the beauty of our Arctic Acrylabeast firs.”
    Oh no!!!!
    I had no idea I was a party to all this!

    It don't mean a thing, if you aint got that swing!!
    'S Rioghal Mo Dhream - a child of the mist

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    Jim,

    A very handsome fancy dress sporran. I admire someone who can take inexpensive odds and ends and make something that is so much more than the sum of it's parts.

    Good work!

    As for the Wizard...

    Quote Originally Posted by The Wizard of BC View Post
    I have it on very good reputation that ...”
    Absolutely Brilliant! Thanks for the laugh.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MacWage View Post
    Great pics!!!! Inspiring!!!

    All I need is a source for cantles!!!!

    Anyone know of someone who sells retail (not wholesale)?
    You could check these guys out, they sell on ebay

    http://stores.ebay.com/1-Scottishite...QQftidZ2QQtZkm

    have not had dealings with them but I saw it a while ago.


    The Wizard's comments just killed me too, thanks for the laugh, now I have to clean my monitor.

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    WOW! Holy Moly! That is some fine looking sporran. Well done! int:

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    [QUOTE=McMurdo;322332]You could check these guys out, they sell on ebay

    http://stores.ebay.com/1-Scottishite...QQftidZ2QQtZkm

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    They sure do!!
    Many thanks for this link
    It don't mean a thing, if you aint got that swing!!
    'S Rioghal Mo Dhream - a child of the mist

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    Really like both DIY sporran (JimB and Bubba). Good job, lads.

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