08-26-2013, 04:36 PM
Yeah, too many wild flowers, it really is a wheat field though at an agricultural museum!
The waterskin I bought in the UK from saddlers den, but I have made another one based on the design. Pretty simple - short piece of copper or brass tube, attach a cheating waterproof liner (I like using wine bags out of wine boxes) by gluing the mouth of the bag around the neck of the tube. Next lay your contraption out on leather and cut to a shape you like and that will hold the liner, sew the two halves together around the liner, at the mouth of your new leather bag, glue that also to the brass tube, then use leather cord and glue to whip and bind around the tube nice and tight. Make a cork or wooden stopper, attach it to the neck of the waterskin by a leather cord.
You should think about suspension before you sew up the leather. My waterskin has two brass rings on the 'shoulders'.
The waterskin I bought in the UK from saddlers den, but I have made another one based on the design. Pretty simple - short piece of copper or brass tube, attach a cheating waterproof liner (I like using wine bags out of wine boxes) by gluing the mouth of the bag around the neck of the tube. Next lay your contraption out on leather and cut to a shape you like and that will hold the liner, sew the two halves together around the liner, at the mouth of your new leather bag, glue that also to the brass tube, then use leather cord and glue to whip and bind around the tube nice and tight. Make a cork or wooden stopper, attach it to the neck of the waterskin by a leather cord.
You should think about suspension before you sew up the leather. My waterskin has two brass rings on the 'shoulders'.
Paul Elliott
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
Legions in Crisis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/17815...d_i=468294
Charting the Third Century military crisis - with a focus on the change in weapons and tactics.
