A BASKET OF THUMBRINGS FOR FALL

A basketful of thumbrings would hardly seem an exciting event, but after hand making this basketful I felt really grateful to be finished for a while. Actually, I recently did a marathon event of thumbring making for a client that required four hundred in a hurry and almost did my right hand in for good. These little beauties require a lot of hand work and I have improved the methods used in the process several times. The latest improvement has been to cross peen the rivets for a very tight fit and extra smooth interior on the ring section. A blacksmith of some 50 years of ability explained the set up for doing horse harness rivets on leather to me and it applies perfectly to making another improvement to the thumbring. Posted by The WhistleSmith at September 14, 2005 3:30 PM | TrackBack