Day wear cantle

[Micric]

Downunder,

Thanks for that picture.
Been messing about making a cantle myself, and made a dropped hinge to give the bag more 'gape' Wasn't sure if this was right or not, but see this one is made that way.

Helps a lot!
Thanks again!

R.

[Downunder Kilt]

Downunder,

Thanks for that picture.
Been messing about making a cantle myself, and made a dropped hinge to give the bag more 'gape' Wasn't sure if this was right or not, but see this one is made that way.

Helps a lot!
Thanks again!

R.

As Rex has said this sporran was on ebay and there were several photos of it which showed how the bag was attached, the locking mechanism, etc.
If you would like a copy of them let me know

[Tiny]

As Rex has said this sporran was on ebay and there were several photos of it which showed how the bag was attached, the locking mechanism, etc.
If you would like a copy of them let me know

Purely for education it would be great to get those pics. I'm still sorting through things in my head before making my first cut in any hide or leather. any fur scraps left will be made into tassles for the dress sporran though I hope to have virtualy no waste from these projects.

[ThistleDown]

Mike, if you don't have all of them let me know and I'll post what you are missing.

There is something more to be said in this thread -- perhaps. In his first response to the OP Artificer said that it is generally thought that brass is for day wear and silver for evenings. Cygnus later quoted McKinnon as saying that there is nothing wrong with silver during the day.

The best way to understand how we think about Highland dress in the Highlands today is to think "flashy".

We DON'T do flashy during the day. How we do the flash in the evening and the night-time ( ) is another subject, but during the daylight hours -- long in the Summer and shorter in the Winter -- we are much more subdued. Not much silver before 18 bells and what there is is limited to the kilt pin and an odd belt buckle. No silver sporran cantles, shoe buckles, buttons and the like.

Now that's not to say you shouldn't tart yourself up in feathers and silver and a' and a', it's just to say we tend, in Scotland, to snicker at some of that, so if you wish to wear as it is worn....

Rex

[Downunder Kilt]

Here you go guys, there are 7 here and I had 8 into total (1st on on page 1 of thread.)
Thanks for the offer Rex, if you have any more please post them.

[Downunder Kilt]

Just as a side note, the person that bought this off ebay also purchased, last night, a 1953 type MOD brass functioning cantle attached to a blancoed issue sporran for 156.00GBP and if they had to get it sent offshore the postage was 52.00GBP.
If you find one on ebay it's going to be a battle and costly

[Tiny]

Just as a side note, the person that bought this off ebay also purchased, last night, a 1953 type MOD brass functioning cantle attached to a blancoed issue sporran for 156.00GBP and if they had to get it sent offshore the postage was 52.00GBP.
If you find one on ebay it's going to be a battle and costly

Good to know. I was really looking at the brass colored cantle from SWK right now. but had thoughts of having one of the metal workers in the area whip me up something.

The reason I'm doing this is 2 fold as I can forever say I made this when asked about the sporrans and I can controle cost to some extent. If I was able to spend $300-$400 on a sporran I would just have bought an L & M mask sporran and been done with it.

I'm enjoying the hunt for pieces for these sporrans just as much as I will from wearing them. I managed to find a great deal on my badger pelt and what turned out to be an ok deal on my skunk pelt. I have some crushed veloure kicking around for the liner, though I'm in a few auctions for tartan fabric that might be used for the liner instead.