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Maidens 2014 tokens

Roana is going to make pewter coins - More to come later

Possibility for feast tokens?

http://www.save-on-crafts.com/tagswood.html - 75 of them for $12, could stamp / paint / burn

Past tokens

Leather scales stamped and hung on a string

The program booklet

DIY Wooden Wax Seals -- These were cool, but very time-consuming to make. Getting people to help was like pulling teeth. (Notes from before we did it: This could be something fun to try with simple dowel rods. If the steps are broken down over time it probably wouldn't be much more time-consuming than the beaded bookmarks or pewter tokens we've done. I'd suggest making the length of the dowels no longer than 3 inches and drilling a hole near the top to string floss or twine, so people can loop them on their garb. The seal image would need to be something simple, something people would want to use in the Midrealm or on scribal work, or just various letters of the alphabet. I have no idea, but it looked interesting.)

Cheap plastic beads

Another idea: http://alphaofficium.weebly.com/

This site is an "SCA mint" that makes custom site tokens / coins.

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oooOOOOOoooh, I really like the leather stamp! How would we get the stamp into leather - does it come with a press of some sort, or is it a hammer-away-til-it-looks-good type of thing?

On a similar note, there were people at one of the local festivals a few years ago who had a big drop-weight press that stamped images into both sides of a penny and turned them into necklaces. I don't remember their contact info though...

It's a hammer-in stamp. I've used the type before, and it would take a lot less time than trying to draw / carve the device into each piece. The biggest obstacle is the price. But, if it's something we can reuse again and again, maybe the shire will be okay with the purchase.

(somehow that got transplanted to the home page even though I was looking here when I hit post the first time...)

Also, from a poke around the Tandy site it looks like it would take $100 to $200 to get enough leather to make a couple hundred tokens by cutting squares from strips, so saving $ on the stamps might be a good idea.

I need a "like" button for the place that does the coins! Does anyone know if they do versions that have threading loops already available so we wouldn't have to punch holes ourselves?

If not, I'd imagine it would be technically possible to use an awl to add holes, but wouldn't really want to because the reverse side would then become sharp and likely to puncture fingers, garb, and thread (says the voice of experience who's hole punched steel and applied it to fabric before).

The site says he can add a hole for 5 cents her token...but for that, I think a nail and a hammer would work just as well. Pewter is actually pretty soft and easy to puncture / sand.

oh, yeah, pewter is easier than what I was working with, which was basically popcan-type aluminum and really sharp and pointy. :D

Another couple ideas, using pieces from past token assembly kits:

* Instead of making sealing stamps which take carving, how about putting seals on folded-over ribbons? We could carve the Wurm Wald arms into a dowel to make the seals, or maybe use the leather stamps as seals? (Is sealing wax sturdy enough to handle being manhandled all day, though? I haven't used it myself, but presume it has some kind of inherent strength in order to survive the medieval equivalent of the mail system.)

* Likewise, what about ink or a seal stamped on handmade paper? I think the Art Coop sells big pieces of handmade paper that we could cut into token sizes with a paper cutter pretty quickly.

* Glass beads of a period style? Thread one on a piece of leather cord or lucet and tie it?

I don't know how well sealing wax would last all day, but I've seen tokens made from potato-stamp images on fabric with paint. Glass beads are also an easy way to go.

I like the price! Though the shape looks a little modern...but maybe that's not such an issue...? Better ask the autocrat! :-)

I'm currently Barter-Town-trading for a set of rune-shaped leather stamps. We could either use them for leather stamping tokens or we could use them to make molds for pewter casting tokens. (I figured this would be a particularly appropriate year to have rune-type tokens as a potential option. :D)

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