Saxon purse mount strike a light?

[tombear]

Hi All
do any of you clever smiths out there make a copy of Anglo Saxon purse mount strike a light? I can do the copper and leather bits for a tinder purse but just ain't set up to do the actual steel part (I do have a bunch of worn files I've squirrelled away for steels)

ideally, depending on price I'm looking for two, one for the lad, one for me.

Cheers!

Tom

 

[Jared]

http://sharkdesigns.co.uk/home_pages/1_fire_online_store.html#fire_steels ?

 

[chas brookes]

Hi

Dave Budd would be the man to talk to

 

[tombear]

Thanks for the input folks.

heres a couple of links to nice original examples

http://www.time-lines.co.uk/anglo-saxon-frankish-integral-buckle-purse-mount-016804-25822-0.html

and in burial 218

http://users.stlcc.edu/mfuller/Canterbury/TempleHill.html

Most probably the flap of the tinder pouch would have a slot for the buckle to pass through and there would have been a strap end hanging down from the belt although I've seen a drawing that had the buckle well buckled to the end of a strap coming off the pouches flap so the steel acted like a dangling weight keeping the flap down, it don't look right at all.

ATB

Tom

 

[tombear]

Now being sorted, will show results when its all done!

ATB

Tom

 

[Chiseller]

Now being sorted, will show results when its all done!

ATB

Tom

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