FSTDT Forums

Community => Creative Outlets => Topic started by: erictheblue on March 02, 2013, 11:36:06 pm

Title: Runes
Post by: erictheblue on March 02, 2013, 11:36:06 pm
As I mentioned in the Confessions thread, I have started studying a Druidic path. My wife encouraged me to make my own set of runes. We have a holly bush growing in the back yard, so I cut a dying branch and turned part of it into a rune set. (Another part is a wand.)

(http://i212.photobucket.com/albums/cc56/bardkesnit/Runes_zps61d8ced1.jpg)

Amazingly, I did not burn my hand while woodburning the runes. I haven't done woodburning since I was about 11, so I wasn't sure how well I would do.
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: Cerim Treascair on March 03, 2013, 02:00:30 am
Wow... Eric, those look AWESOME!
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: JohnE on March 03, 2013, 02:38:13 am
Those are very cool. Great work making them yourself.
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: chad sexington on March 03, 2013, 02:43:54 am
Not to nitpick of course, but runes are norse, not druidic - you could try ogham?  At any rate, good work on them :)
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: erictheblue on March 03, 2013, 04:39:46 am
Quote from: chad sexington on March 03, 2013, 02:43:54 am
Not to nitpick of course, but runes are norse, not druidic - you could try ogham?  At any rate, good work on them :)

I know. However, runes keep coming up in the Celtic books I read. They also mention ogham, which will be a later project.
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: ThunderWulf on March 03, 2013, 01:54:00 pm
Awesome work.  I don't know why but I have always found runes and Ogham to be extremely interesting.
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: Osama bin Bambi on March 03, 2013, 02:43:07 pm
Very nice-looking. I always liked the look that wood-burning produced.

Also, just for your perusal, here's (http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ogham.htm) a link on Ogham and its details and history. Personally I think it's interesting just for the designs it could be incorporated into, since it's much easier to write in a circle than some other scripts. Apparently they were written on monuments, like the one pictured in this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogham) article. I actually started learning to write in Ogham at one point even though I didn't know Irish, but I stopped because one of the downsides is that it is difficult to read. (The letters look similar when squished close together.)
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: Old Viking on March 04, 2013, 08:15:40 pm
A big dip in the stock market? I'm runed! Runed, I tell you!
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: Material Defender on March 07, 2013, 11:56:15 am
Looks nice.
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: erictheblue on April 13, 2013, 09:34:28 pm
Since the runes came out so well, I decided to try more woodburning. I've been wanting a journal to record my rune readings. In looking around on the Web, I saw several woodburned ones, but they were all at least $50. I did not want to spend that much, so found a seller on etsy that sells blank wooden journals for $16.

I found the design I wanted

(click to show/hide)

With the help of trace paper and a couple of Sharpies (for the pentagram and the moon), this was the result:

(click to show/hide)
Title: Re: Runes
Post by: ThunderWulf on April 13, 2013, 10:32:14 pm
Very nice!