My shot at a mug

[Seamus]

I've been wanting to make one of these for quite some time. Though I have read about a forthcoming tutorial, I've not found one that already exists. So I had to wing it.

I haven't finished the painting I want to do, and I haven't lined it with pitch or bees' wax, and I still need to burnish the lip.

For a first attempt, though I certainly went over board on the size, turned out pretty nicely in my opinion (and I'm usually pretty critical of myself).

I'm open to opinions and suggestions from those of you with more experiance than me in this area:

Edited January 28, 2009 by Seamus

[Seamus]

One more shot to demonstrate the size:

[Luke Hatley]

How much will that mug hold ?

looks like about 1/2 gallon.

[Seamus]

How much will that mug hold ?

looks like about 1/2 gallon.

Well... umm... I'll geek something out and calculate the approximate volume. I can't test it imperically at the moment as the stitching holes would leak.

It measures 4.375" in diameter (2.1875" radius). It's 6.875" deep. Doing the math using 3.142 for pi gives us 3.142 x 2.1875 x 2.1875 x 6.875 = 103.365 cubic inches. OnlineConversion.com tells me that this converts to .447 gallons... so... yeah... 1/2 gallon. That'd be 1 quart. 2 pints. 4 cups. 32 ounces. Ultimately... plenty of mead. For our metric friends... thats about 1.6L.

[Luke Hatley]

LOVE THAT MEAD............

Edited January 28, 2009 by Luke Hatley

[Seamus]

I just realized that I said 1/2 gallon is 1 quart, yadda yadda. It's actually double all those. I must have been pretty tired.

[Angster]

If this is your first shot at making a mug, then it was very well done. I'm currently working on building a new work bench for my leatherworking, and as soon as it's done, I'll get a tutorial on how I make my mugs. Again, very nice job!

[Seamus]

If this is your first shot at making a mug, then it was very well done. I'm currently working on building a new work bench for my leatherworking, and as soon as it's done, I'll get a tutorial on how I make my mugs. Again, very nice job!

Yes, this was my first attempt at a mug. Not my first leatherworking endeavor, but my first mug. I'm still learning how to tool leather and what not, which is why I went with the simple triquerta design.

I have made a second mug, which I will get shots of tomorrow evening. It's considerably smaller (it actually fits completely inside of the first, with room to spare on the sides and above it), but I did a little more extensive tooling. I scored a lattice work into the sides all the way around. Looks very nice, if I do say so myself. I'll post here and let you folks be the judge.

Thanks for the complement, and I look forward to seeing your tutorial as I'd like to see if I can improve on my own self taught method.

[Seamus]

And, now a look at the bottle I need to wax:

Shaped it using popcorn kernals. I owe thanks to someone off of these forums for that idea. I was going to use BBs, but the popcorn was much cheaper, and more readily available.

[Luke Hatley]

: thanks for the Heads up on popcorn.......i won't be washing Sand from my

Bottles any more............