Mary Ostler

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The front legs are almost done.Some light sanding and cutting the pivot waste down and its time to move on to the longer back legs.

The hardest part was making sure it was dead center even. If it was off even a little the squared section would be out of wack.

The project I am currently working on has some decorative elements that require breaking the rounded spindle into evenly measured segments. The lathe I own did not have a built in indexing system, and neither does any of my chucks. It is possible to wrap the spindle in paper and then try folding the paper [...]

With Christmas sneaking up fast, I have been forced to start working on presents. First up is Emily’s first birthday/christmas present. I had originally wanted to make her a rocking animal. Leland got a super cool rocking goat for his first birthday, but the idea kind of got nixed on me. I was told that [...]

I entered the Tir Righ A&S competition this year. I had originally wanted to enter a set of conjecturally accurate trestle table. Everything was going swimmingly until disaster happened.  While rushing from one theatre at the Vancouver International Film Festival to another, I fell and broke my ribs. The pain associated in trying to mortise holes into hard aged oak was [...]

Long, long ago…
When I first joined the SCA, I had wanted to start fighting with all the heavys. I made armour, and went to fight practice…and eventually built my own helm. Its a nasty piece of work as I really had no idea what I was doing. The welding job was pretty bad (Having not [...]

I am thrilled to announce the formation of Woodcrafters guild based in Tir Righ, An Tir.
I have been wanting to start something like this for quite a while now, but have held back. I have a habit of sabotaging everything I start with my sense of humor. Now two individuals from Danscombe have stepped forward [...]

Baroness’ Birthday tourney took place yesterday. It was a smallish event, but still covered all the basics. Rapier, and Heavy fighting, A&S contests, dancing, feasting, drinking, court, and merchant row. I ran a small merchanting booth selling wooden goodes (turned stuff and furniture). Since I spent most of my time merchanting, and hanging out with [...]

Two weekends ago I was given a copy of  “Japanese Joinery”. Although not a historic based book, it gives a whole truck load of information on the “ART” of Japanese Temple building joinery. I am seriously intimidated by some of these joints, as they have a lot of angles, dado’s, mortise & tenon, lap joints with sliding  [...]

This is my halloween post. It has nothing to do with the SCA, but it is my favorite day all year, so I need to share. I went to two different Sci-Fi theme halloween parties this year. The second one was a Classic Scifi Party, so I decided to do a homage to 1920-40 sci-fi [...]