Yeah. So I began revamping, repairing, and reworking a number of things in my Ranger kit. Among other things, I am about to make new arrows with a shorter draw length, shorter flights, and all of them self nocked. For another, the two hickory bows I have been tinkering with in a somewhat frightened manner have come up for some woodburning decoration....and in one a cut down and the addition of some siyahs, sort of, to give it a more Numenorean - Elvish look..and still remain totally functional. An advanced technique but I will try anyway...most likely making a hash of it all.
Of course, I can't just burn simple designs or nice English words, no, I have to use the Tengwar and do the words in either Quenya or Sindarin. Because I like complicating my life.
This came about because I have removed the cherry grip on my Elven hunting knife so I can work on the blade some and fashion a guard plate and ferrule for it. Then came the idea of inlaying metal into the grip..fine, I can do that. But it didn't stop there. No, I had to realize I have asphaltum and therefore I could in fact etch the blade of the knife....which led to Tengwar and the Elven languages.
Worse, the followup on that was the realization that I can also etch scales for armor. Not to mention helm, pauldrons, and the like. Not like I don't have enough to do, but of course, complicating my life is what I do.
Since the forge will be in use again very soon, I can add that to the list of things I am attempting to do. Yay.
Whatever is wrong with me? And of course, I want to make arrowheads using the forge..and now it hits me that I can also etch arrowheads...GAH! Save me from myself.
Yes, there will be photos...everyone and their uncle wants a photographic record of my madness it seems.
Oh well.
Eledhwen
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