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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:56 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 2:14 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 3:00 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 4:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:29 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 6:40 pm
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[Kudzu] Haha! I'm not handy at all! This is how my tool aquisition has worked several times in the past... Step 1: Kudzu buys cheap piece of crap off of Ebay or from a thrift store, or cobbles something together out of super glue and wishful thinking. Step 2: Kudzu blesses piece of crap but does not consecrate it. Step 3: Kudzu uses piece of crap at every circle, calling it "The Ghetto [name of tool]" and becoming the laughing-stock of the local Wiccan community. Step 4: Loving member of The Family breaks down and buys/makes/improves a tool for Kudzu. Step 5: Kudzu consecrates fancy tool and receives many compliments on it. Step 6: Kudzu puts piece of crap on a give-away table at a Family gathering for Family members to fight over joyously.
Step 7: Kudzu makes this post in Tea's Thread on Gaia- considering Tea lives but a couple hours away.
Step 8: Kudzu tells Tea what she needs, likes and wants.
Step 9: Tea makes it if it is counted amongst her skills
Step 10: Tea gives it to Kudzu.
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:10 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:23 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 9:51 pm
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My turn.
The materials I like best myself are different woods- largely hazel, oak, apple, cherry, rosewood and linden.
Horn and Antler- (I like mule deer and black tail over other deer antler, not a fan of moose antler, and I like steer horns with a hint of blue pigment to them better than ram horn or anything else of that ilk).
Here’s a picture of my drinking horn…
… I’m a little disheartened by it at the moment. It was used at my Handfasting- but it is under the impression it belongs somewhere else. gonk I’m hoping I can convince it otherwise.
Big fan of titanium- especially blackened Titanium.
I love alexandrite and I love smooth green river stone as well as generic pebbles.
I also love leather and fur, but for some odd reason I have a lot of “snow furs”, white rabbit and artic fox for the most part.
Wool is nice, especially for cloaks- but I prefer viscose fabric.
Colors are another concern. In what I like to call “formal” settings, I usually am found in black, blue and white. This would include the Blots of the local Asatru group that I attend. In “casual” settings- that is pretty much everything else (largely working on my own in a “shamanic” function) I am usually found in browns, blues and greens. Save for the black and white- almost everything I were has modeled or muted tones- for a very practical reason- it helps when I am borrowing from the Earth.
On to the tools themselves.
I am currently working on obtaining my jewelry and my blades. I’d make it myself, but I don’t have any equipment that would stand up to working with titanium and live to tell the tale.
I intend to have 14 piercings- even if folks will only be able to see 13- all of which will be done with implant grade blackened titanium. Eventually the nostril piercing will shift from a ring to an amy-emerald change alexandrite stud with a bevel setting in blackened titanium.
My goal is to make/buy/commission a titanium “bayonet” that will have it’s mounting converted into a sheath for a secondary blade. The “bayonet” will have either a leather or wire wrapped handle, while the smaller secondary blade will have an antler handle.
I have a brown leather “putsi”, what some folks would call a “Medicine bag” that has a silver ring and a wooden zanki charm on the outside.
I have my pendent:
I am currently putting the final touches on my ran or “walking staff”. It comes just to the pit of my throat in height.
I do have a couple simple wooden bowls I used, as well as a rather large stone mortar with a wooden pestle that looks like it could be a child’s baseball bat.
Then we have my bowed psaltery. It is made of Cherry and Rosewood and has a rosette of the Slavic Fire Flower.
Finally, there is my ink- which I am also working towards. In addition to a series of tools being bound into my flesh (a “map of the universe”, a “wish-maker” and a warding), there is also the actual sacrifice that is offered at the time the ink is taken.
All my ink is done in black for the time being- an echo of the black and “white” affinity of some of the lessons my Baba imparted.
I also have “ancestor tokens”, including a silver rosary from my Baba, pictures, wooden carvings, fishing poles from my father, and I own a couple of crystal balls from my Nana, and a number of different “divination” tools, a set of bone dice that is over five generations in the family.
And speaking of divination, I do own a set of Zanki I made myself.
The final item of importance to me is “makeup”, more for it’s use as a temporary spell than aesthetics- not that aesthetics don’t come into play at all… but you get my drift.
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 11:53 am
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 4:57 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:39 pm
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Posted: Sat Jul 08, 2006 7:21 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 09, 2006 12:36 am
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TeaDidikai [Kudzu] Haha! I'm not handy at all! This is how my tool aquisition has worked several times in the past... Step 1: Kudzu buys cheap piece of crap off of Ebay or from a thrift store, or cobbles something together out of super glue and wishful thinking. Step 2: Kudzu blesses piece of crap but does not consecrate it. Step 3: Kudzu uses piece of crap at every circle, calling it "The Ghetto [name of tool]" and becoming the laughing-stock of the local Wiccan community. Step 4: Loving member of The Family breaks down and buys/makes/improves a tool for Kudzu. Step 5: Kudzu consecrates fancy tool and receives many compliments on it. Step 6: Kudzu puts piece of crap on a give-away table at a Family gathering for Family members to fight over joyously. Step 7: Kudzu makes this post in Tea's Thread on Gaia- considering Tea lives but a couple hours away. Step 8: Kudzu tells Tea what she needs, likes and wants. Step 9: Tea makes it if it is counted amongst her skills Step 10: Tea gives it to Kudzu.
Ooh! I just have to take you up on that! I'll have to check up with my Elders to find out more about the specs that ideal tools might meet!
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