I've just started the research stage (read Googled it and red a bit) of making a pair of rotary quern stones. What I'd like is one thing based on a excavated Saxon one, ideally that I could get away ( cosmetically) with as a Roman or late Iron Age one, if that's possibly and they weren't radically unlike.
Has anyone been daft enough to do this by any chance who can give some practical advice? Or can anyone save me all the trouble and point me to a dirt cheap source of excellent reproductions which will save my time and lessen the chances of me removing a thumb during the construction? I'm not holding my breath on the latter....
I've only done a minimal amount of stone working so if this is something I shouldn't be attempting, that is harder than I am currently deluding myself it will be, please put me right now.
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Tom
Has anyone been daft enough to do this by any chance who can give some practical advice? Or can anyone save me all the trouble and point me to a dirt cheap source of excellent reproductions which will save my time and lessen the chances of me removing a thumb during the construction? I'm not holding my breath on the latter....
I've only done a minimal amount of stone working so if this is something I shouldn't be attempting, that is harder than I am currently deluding myself it will be, please put me right now.
atb
Tom