Antler Lucet

[Ranasp]

So I was looking at a few members in my SCA group making cord with a device called a "lucet".  The one they were using looked a bit like a wooden tuning fork but in a more Y shape with a hole at the intersection.  Of course it made me think of antler tines and how easy it would be to make a lucet out of them, and then I saw this page: https://halldorviking.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/lucets-and-lucetting/ the third photo down interested one of the weavers, and I said I could easily make that out of antler by drilling out the center and sawing the antler down for the raised bits.  I saw elsewhere someone was using a hook and grooves to make pulling the thread loops easier, so I filed grooves into either side and made a temporary hook out of the chunk of antler that I sawed off.  This is just a test one to see if the weavers like how it handles and what modifications it will need to be more effective, but I thought it wasn't bad for a first try.

[Chief RID]

Very interesting. Twisting up fibers is interesting and useful stuff. Thanks.

[Ranasp]

Showed it to the fiber people and consensus was the nubs at the top need to be a bit longer, but not by a whole lot.  I'll probably bang out a few different sizes from other antler chunks, since what's comfortable for one person won't necessarily be for another. 

[Zuma]

Innovation even centuries late is what makes us tick.
I hope you have some more tock
Cool concept.
Zuma

[neuse]

That is interesting and definetly something I have never heard about.

[Ranasp]

Thanks Neuse, I love it when someone learns something new.   

Looks like I need to make the knobs a bit longer still and work on making a hook to grab the thread with.