[Sca-cooks] Looking for a woodcut

[Helen Schultz]

Actualy, it is bolted together at the tip with wing nuts.  The pins on the sides are at an angle, so the spit won't get knocked off easily.   The legs fit into the dirt quite nicelyly.  It stands about 4.5' to 5' tall and is about 4' wide.  There are nice little hook things (don't know their real names) that hold the pig onto the square spit and keep it from spinning.... and then the whole pit is wired onto the spit piece.  Very stable.

However, you are more than welcome to come take a peek at it.  I usually camp in N-01 on St. Lawrence Way... Good Friends Camp (there is a nice little sign over the entrance gate).

~~ Meisterin Katarina Helene


----- Original Message ----
From: Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2007 2:50:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Looking for a woodcut


I'll hafta get up and look at it next Pennsic. It just doesn't look
very stable to me. More than adequate for keeping the pig off the
ground in the tug-of-war with gravity, but it looks to me like if
someone brushed against an end, the whole thing would fall down.

On 4/3/07, Helen Schultz <meisterin02 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I had a friend make me his rendition of that spit set-up a few years ago... you can see it at:  http://meisterin.katarina.home.comcast.net/pennsic30.html.  The only thing I can see the artist left off was those things to hold the meat onto the spit pole.  My spit isn't exactly like the one from Scampi, but close, and it all comes apart for easy transport.  I've dont a 60# pig on it, and smaller ones, as well.
>
> ~~ Meisterin Katarina Helene
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Saint Phlip phlip at 99main.com
>
>
>
> If you want a blacksmith, I can probably find you one down there.
> Might not be SCA, but will likely be SCA friendly ;-) Or, if you make
> it to Pennsic, I can likely teach you enough so you can make it
> yourself.
>
> I've been looking at that picture too, and it's my belief that the
> artist left something out, because, as pictured, the bloody thing
> would have all your food in a heap.
>
> At any rate, I too intend to make one, after I get a few other
> projects done. With luck, by Pennsic, I'll have a completely period
> smithing set up ;-)
>
>
>


-- 
Saint Phlip

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Priorities:

It's the smith who makes the tools, not the tools which make the smith.


 
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