Project Blog - Historic Sporrans / Brass Cantle Project

**YoungMan** · 18th March 11, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by artificer

Total weight ~14oz.

Which such a light weight, I'd be interested to know how it wears compared to sporrans of a modern design. Also, is this something they would have considered a "day sporran" or an all occasions sort of kit?

**artificer** · 18th March 11, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by YoungMan

Which such a light weight, I'd be interested to know how it wears compared to sporrans of a modern design. Also, is this something they would have considered a "day sporran" or an all occasions sort of kit?

It rides much lighter than a normal piper's sporran. The flexible body makes it a lot more comfortable when sitting (car or dinner) or moving about a lot (no bouncing off your 'bits').

At it's time, it would be THE sporran a gent would have worn for all occasions (if he could have afforded a sporran that wasn't a hand-me-down).

**artificer** · 19th March 11, 04:15 PM

Posting over myself again, but I've got breaking news.

I got a wonderful call this evening regarding the OTHER half of my project- the brass cantles. My smith finally got the proper material in. The master has been machined and it already at the foundry. We should hopefully see the test pours (4-5 units, by his guess) in the next week or two!

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