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Our work represents 15 years making museum quality
harpoons. Some of our "irons" are actually used today in
a subsistence whale fishery. Some small museums order
our whalecraft to supplement their exhibits. Mostly
though, our harpoons are purchased for home, office,
and business establishments desiring a nautical theme.
We base our "irons" on the Catalogue of the Whaling
Museum Whalecraft Collection. These are real harpoons,
we hand make them new and age them to look old.
The irons are stamped with the whale boat designation,
ie, WB (waist boat), LB (larboard boat) and the makers
mark. It is then aged by a controlled corrosion to a fire
black patina. It is lightly oiled to preserve the iron as one
would an artifact of old.
Susie then serves the split socket with genuine tarred
marline (smells like the old ships). She then uses her
marlinespike to end the serving with a sailors turkshead
knot. She bends the "iron strap" ( genuine hemp line ) to the
socket with a double hitch and splice and tars part of the
whale line. Thus the iron is done!
If it is to be a full sized harpoon, a suitable pole of old,
50-100 yrs+, dead standing and naturally distressed
dense Alaska spruce is cut from our homestead. It is hand
hewn with a drawknife to fit the socket and a light
rubbing of boiled linseed oil is used as a preservative. It is
then stopped to the pole using marline.
.
Our harpoons ship in the U.S. for $28.50 via USPS
Priority Mail.
Contact us first for intl. shipping charges and size
allowances.
We have a PAY PAL button on our contact us page.
We guarantee our work 100%. If not completely
satisfied we will refund your money. Buyer pays shipping
back to us. We have never had an unhappy customer!
harpoons. Some of our "irons" are actually used today in
a subsistence whale fishery. Some small museums order
our whalecraft to supplement their exhibits. Mostly
though, our harpoons are purchased for home, office,
and business establishments desiring a nautical theme.
We base our "irons" on the Catalogue of the Whaling
Museum Whalecraft Collection. These are real harpoons,
we hand make them new and age them to look old.
The irons are stamped with the whale boat designation,
ie, WB (waist boat), LB (larboard boat) and the makers
mark. It is then aged by a controlled corrosion to a fire
black patina. It is lightly oiled to preserve the iron as one
would an artifact of old.
Susie then serves the split socket with genuine tarred
marline (smells like the old ships). She then uses her
marlinespike to end the serving with a sailors turkshead
knot. She bends the "iron strap" ( genuine hemp line ) to the
socket with a double hitch and splice and tars part of the
whale line. Thus the iron is done!
If it is to be a full sized harpoon, a suitable pole of old,
50-100 yrs+, dead standing and naturally distressed
dense Alaska spruce is cut from our homestead. It is hand
hewn with a drawknife to fit the socket and a light
rubbing of boiled linseed oil is used as a preservative. It is
then stopped to the pole using marline.
.
Our harpoons ship in the U.S. for $28.50 via USPS
Priority Mail.
Contact us first for intl. shipping charges and size
allowances.
We have a PAY PAL button on our contact us page.
We guarantee our work 100%. If not completely
satisfied we will refund your money. Buyer pays shipping
back to us. We have never had an unhappy customer!
About Our Business
About Us
Some of our helpers. They eat a lot !
Our "whaling vessel", we are building when we are not making harpoons.
My first "Iron" boat
