Father and Son Sporrans

[ohneplo]

"...can I have the car this weekend?"

Kevin, you can have the car, the house and I'll throw in the kayak!

I am just blown away Young Sir. WOW, what a range of styles, materials and craftsmanship. Fellow XMarkers I'm as impressed as you seem to be and because we don't live close by this is my first viewing as well. WOW

I'll be both honored and proud to wear any of those Kevin if I can beat your fans to your doorway by September. Looking forward to the combined celebration weekend, even more so now.

XMarkers, please know that Kevin has developed all these talents on his own because his Dad only crafts in metal and wood. Don't know just where all that creativity and energy comes from but he certainly makes us very proud.

Again I'm honored that you've thought of me Kevin in sharing some of your handsome creations and look forward to seeing all of you soon!

Love you,

Proud Dad

[kevinkinney]

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[Smayniac]

I too am interested in knowing how you did those braided cantles. I have some experience leatherworking, but haven't tried a sporran yet.

I've also looked at the roadkill I see here in sunny California and been tempted to try my hand with one of them; I've been concerned about freshness, and disease.

I looked over at the thread on the making of the silver fox and noted the muppet subthread, I still have a "Cookie Monster" puppet I thrifted years ago, I might try him as a full mask sporran. I've been at Disneyland all week, but they don't have anything that lends itself to conversion.

cheers,

Bob

[kevinkinney]

Howdy,

The camera returned. Here's how the cantles are braided.
Each of the edges has a set of holes punched through it. I laced opposing leather strips through the holes, forming sets of 'loops' on the front and back sides of the leather, about 1/2" in from the edge. Below the last set of loops on either end, I punched a slightly larger hole, and brought three strips of leather up from the inside, and began braiding them. After two sets of overlapping, I started 'hooking' the outside braid through one of the loops. One of the three strips would pass through the loop on the outside surface, the strip in the middle would rest on the edge, and the remaining strip would pass through the opposing loop on the inside surface.

This shows the outside edge of the hunting sporran, the loops that anchor the braid is covered by the braid itself, but you can see the pattern in the background with the holes for the loops:



Here's the inside edge of the same. Since the strips of leather have a front and a back side, I made sure to turn/adjust/align them as they were passing through the inside loops. It's kinda ugly.



Here's how they look as the strips align over the edge of the cantle on the fur sporrans. For the most part, they lie flat, but this Elk leather was uneven due to my cutting. I had to use brown leather for the bag and the back edge, as I ran out of Black. To account for this, I cut the back panel to be about 1/4" smaller around the top.



Finally, here are the pattens for the different types, with the matching holes for the loops along the edge.



I used brass lacing needles for the strips of leather. It's hard work to pass everything through the loops, and around itself. For the dress sporrans and the hunting sporrans, I left 12" of loose strips on either ind of the edge. Those were braided, then passed through matching holes on the front and back panels to form the hinges.

Cheers,

Kevin.

[Highland Logan]

Nice work. Have you done anymore of your full-masks? The fox ones you posted were nice.

Frank

[SFCRick]

very nice sporrans

[meinfs]

They're all fabulous and inspiring!

[Smayniac]

Thanks for the braiding instructions. I'll have to get some supplies and give it a try after I finish my Xkilt projects.

Bob

[kevinkinney]

Howdy folks,

Fall is almost here. We're about to upload our new website. This means that all of our photos will be removed to make room for better ECW images.

If you like any of these, or you want to pirate an image or two- please grab them before August 28th.

Cheers,

Kevin.