| lancaster |
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| 10/01/26 11:02 PM |
Re: Happyness is a new flintlock!
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I am rather lucky these days. This morning I received a very nice little hunting bag, which looks like a colonial possible bag. Yet it must not be very old, there are original sewn cartridges loops inside. Funny detail, there was in the pocket a hunting license dated 1914.
I work with leather. This summer I will make a replica of it, it will go wonderfully with my flintlock.
Isn't it pretty??
Very nice game bag indeed mate - a perfect piece of kit for you & your smoke pole!
If it's still in good enough nick then I'd take it along for a nostalgic hunting ride one day regardless!
You will need soft yet strong leather, what are you thinking of using?
If the leather hasn't been meticulously cared for over the last 100 years, it's very likely hard and in danger of breaking. Ironically here, a specialist in the restoration of spiked helmets once explained this to me: leather always retains a certain moisture content, which you protect with leather grease. If this minimum moisture level drops below a certain point — I don't know exactly what it is anymore — perhaps 15%, then the leather changes irreversibly; it becomes hard and cracks when move.
This man also worked for the Swedish Royal Guard; he probably knew what he was talking about.