Ancient style Conan tankard
Just wanted to share this wooden beer mug I crafted recently for my collection.
Everything was made entirely by hand, no power tools. Also in the photos: the axe I quickly forged to cut the staves because I didn't have a suitable one. I did almost all the woodwork with this hatchet.
The tankard is, of course, set in the Conan context again (imagine a dim Cimmerian, Tauran, or Nemedian tavern 12.000 years ago - badly lit, the smell of cheap, sour wine and old sweat in the air, cutthroat mercenaries and adventurers from all Hyborian realms playing dice for their last pay or the meager loot taken from a fat traveling merchant, while barmaids, dancers, and harlots look for those with enough silver to spend the night...). But it would probably work in any other fantasy/LARP setting as well.
The wood is cherry, cut from a nearly 40-year-old, well-seasoned log I still had lying around. It was treated multiple times exclusively with wood butter.
The staves are as precisely joined as the deliberately irregular structure allows, and any remaining gaps were sealed with brewer's pitch/barrel sealant. So it’s completely watertight and functional.
Height: 7" (18 cm)
Weight (empty): ~53 oz (1500 g)
Capacity: almost exactly 0.26 gal (1 liter)
Materials: Cherry wood, steel, and custom forged bronze rivets.
Now it's time to empty this thing. By Crom!