Contributing Member fredk Posted July 24, 2023 Author Contributing Member Report Posted July 24, 2023 The trowel may not be used on too many occasions but maybe quite a bit on those occasions. Confused? Its for my number 1 favourite dottir's archaeology kit, so on the few occasions she'll be on a dig the trowel will be / might be used a lot. Easier to make without straps, nicer with straps? I'll go now and cut leather for them Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
CFM chuck123wapati Posted July 24, 2023 CFM Report Posted July 24, 2023 13 hours ago, fredk said: @Sheilajeanne @Handstitched - there was a video circulating on youtube a while back showing a female police rider with a ponytail riding along and both her and the horse's tail swung in unison, like two metronomes. afair the rider was from Norway, maybe this same rider I've started to make a scabbard for a trowel. Its still at the early stages. Before I go any further I have to decide if I should, or want to, put on retention straps over the back edge. This trowel will just be laying inside a tool box until needed. Opinions on straps? yes, no? The trowel sits on the base of the scabbard with welt pieces fitted and the top part lies in front, yet to be shaped im for one retention strap and a belt loop. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Contributing Member fredk Posted July 24, 2023 Author Contributing Member Report Posted July 24, 2023 A belt loop might be a good idea but in this case I don't think its required Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
Members Sheilajeanne Posted July 24, 2023 Members Report Posted July 24, 2023 (edited) Fred, having taken part in a dig or two myself, where has your daughter been digging? I've also watched Digging For Britain, and found it very interesting! And did you know that the Drumheller dinosaur museum will allow you to take part in a dinosaur dig? That was one of the two digs - the other was part of a credit course I took at University. Profs love to use students as unpaid labour to do their digging for them...lol! The dinosaur dig took place on our honeymoon, and was very much enjoyed by both of us. I was excavating a dinosaur vertebrae. The central part of the vertebrae was the size of a dinner plate! I can tell you the exact date - as I was soaking my weary sunburnt bones in the jacuzzi of our B&B afterwards, my husband came into the bathroom to tell me Princess Diana had been killed in a car crash. Speaking of pony tails - love the tail lights on these mustangs! Edited July 24, 2023 by Sheilajeanne Quote
Members Handstitched Posted July 25, 2023 Members Report Posted July 25, 2023 ... 1 HP and they have 4 on the floor , Ha !! 11 hours ago, fredk said: A belt loop might be a good idea but in this case I don't think its required You could compromise and make the straps removable? Just a thought. HS Quote ' I have a very gweat friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus, He has a wife you know, do you know whats she's called? Incontinentia.......Incontinentia Buttocks '
Contributing Member fredk Posted July 25, 2023 Author Contributing Member Report Posted July 25, 2023 22 hours ago, Sheilajeanne said: Fred, having taken part in a dig or two myself, where has your daughter been digging? #1 favourite dottir is still at Uni. I think she's been out on a few digs as part of her course but getting detailed info from her is like impossible. She takes after her maternal grandfather who only answered questions with, no, yes or silence I bought a pattern for a leather tool box-bag off dieselpunk and I'm now getting things and making cases for them. I have to start on that tool bag too 11 hours ago, Handstitched said: You could compromise and make the straps removable? Just a thought. I'll sew straps on the bottom part of the scabbard and have poppers on the top side to hold them closed Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
Members Sheilajeanne Posted July 25, 2023 Members Report Posted July 25, 2023 2 hours ago, fredk said: #1 favourite dottir is still at Uni. I think she's been out on a few digs as part of her course but getting detailed info from her is like impossible. She takes after her maternal grandfather who only answered questions with, no, yes or silence I bought a pattern for a leather tool box-bag off dieselpunk and I'm now getting things and making cases for them. I have to start on that tool bag too I'll sew straps on the bottom part of the scabbard and have poppers on the top side to hold them closed Sounds like a good way of doing it! Those trowels get pretty sharp with use! Quote
Contributing Member fredk Posted August 1, 2023 Author Contributing Member Report Posted August 1, 2023 A lot of recent talk on the form about certain skivers reminded me that several years ago, maybe 7 or 8, I bought one of these. Never used it yet. I must set it up and larn how to use it And more recently, like only about 5 years ago I bought one of these. and again never used, or maybe just the once Another 'machine' skiver I have and do use for straps is this one. Not used too much recently but it was used a lot when I made battle-ready medieval shields and made the straps for them But most of the time I just use my two old simple types which I started off with; The safety beveller and the super skiver Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
CFM chuck123wapati Posted August 3, 2023 CFM Report Posted August 3, 2023 i love natural history in all forms. Ive been watching a show called time team, its a bunch of Scottish archeologists, who spend three days digging sites. they aren't very good at it due to the time line they work in and spend most of the time drunk i think but they are funny to watch and do dig up some good information and history about Ireland, Scotland and Briton. There are several places here in Wyoming that you can go and dig for dino bones and fossils, Fossils of invertebrates or fish can be kept but bones and such are illegal. I have found fossil bones, fish scales, leaves etc. I find many on the surface lol. When i was a boy my dad had an archeologist friend down in the four corners region. His house was full of pottery and bones that he was working on. the coolest thing i ever saw was a 1000+ year old baby he found, still in the papoose and still very much mummified. The hair skin and clothing was all still remarkably well preserved as well as the body. That was in the 70s and laws have changed now the native tribes wont allow their ancestors remains to be dug. I'm sure his life's work has all been reburied. Quote Worked in a prison for 30 years if I aint shiny every time I comment its no big deal, I just don't wave pompoms. “I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, and I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.” THE DUKE!
Contributing Member fredk Posted August 3, 2023 Author Contributing Member Report Posted August 3, 2023 The original Time Team with Tony Robinson, Mick Aston and Phil Harding* was the best. It gradually went bad. It fed our family its weekly dose of history lessons. I think, watching a lot of that and all the CSI tv series was what made my dottir go study forensic archaeology. When she qualifies, she'll be one of those who go to old crime scenes to get evidence. Sites like war crimes scenes. Head of her faculty is one of the worlds leading forensic archaeologists, Dr Sue Black, who was born and bred and grewed up not far where #1 dottir lives now and went to the same Uni. But they've not met yet When I was a kid a family friend used to take us up to his cabin in woods in Wisconsin for fishing trips. Up there I found some native arrow heads, just laying on the ground. A few were obsidian. I had about 20 or 25 and over the years the number went down. The last few were stolen when a small safe I had them in was stolen * in my early days of leather working a chap came to me and asked me to make a 'finds' bag just like Phil Harding's one (or it might have been Mick's bag). Just a simple shoulder bag with a rounded bottom, on the gussets loops for pens & pencils, and a pocket for a small note book. The client chap was a new qualified archy Quote Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..
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