Here is the final mace in the pinochile series. Why pinochile not poker or blackjack? My grandfather was a pinochile addict, loved it. In his memory. Red leather cord wrapped handle, diamonds are painted, red Jasper cabochon hilt with a diamond painted in it (+5 fire damage). I feel like this one could do some decent damage. Links to the other maces in the series below.
Club: https://www.reddit.com/r/MACES/s/yvv8KZAHbe
Here is the mace of clubs or club of clubs. Next piece in the pinochile series. Black leather handle, laser etched ♣️, obsidian cabochon hilt ( 25% chance to cast death?). This shaft i used is a bit different. Its a brushed pewter finish (note the darker gray color). If you are looking to make pipe mace and want a finished shaft, look in the ceiling fan area form universal down rod. They are 3/4 and the y thread in all the way with showing the threads. One more to go. The mace of diamonds. ♦️
Links to the other maces in the pinochile series.
Here is the next mace in the pinochile series. Mace of hearts. Red braided leather handle. Rose quartz hilt (50% chance to cast enchantment). I decided to keep the hearts in the upright orientation and it has a nice hooking 🪝 damage effect. Also made this weapons rack this week. Almost filled up already. ♣️♦️ Will be coming soon and will be display in the vertical position on the rack like the ♥️♠️.
The mace of spades ♠️. Part of the pinochile series im working on. Leather handle, blue Goldstone set in hilt, laser etched spades ♠️. ♣️♦️♥️coming soon. FYI the collar is a good way to cover up the threads were the head meet the shaft. Just 1" pipe cut. It fits just right on 3/4".
This is my my weapons collection up to date. Ive made everything here except for the fist hammer. Which one are you going for if its battle time or just one you like? I just finished the sword not to long ago. Ita my 1st sword I have made. I call it the sword of the Phoenix. Hand casted bronze and forged from 5160. Most difficult was probably the casted skull mace. New to casting.
7 maces
1 hammer 🔨
1 flail
1 shield
Daggers and knives
1 sword
This is my my weapons collection up to date. Ive made everything here except for the fist hammer. Which one are you going for if its battle time or just one you like? I just finished the sword not to long ago. 1st sword i've made. I call it the sword of the Phoenix. Hand casted bronze and forged from 5160.
I saw this nice little bonk on amazon and had to get one! It was only about $25. Its actually a hammer. I might redo the handle as I heard the head can come loose.
This is my my weapons collection up to date. Ive made everything here except for the fist hammer. Which one are you going for if its battle time or just one you like? I just finished the sword not to long ago. I call it the sword of the Phoenix. Hand casted bronze and forged from 5160.
My latest creation. I call it the Jack of clubs. Its looks like a giant jack from the game " jacks" some younger people may need to look it up. And its obviously a club of sorts. Also kind of shaped like the ♣️. Made from gas pipe parts. Added a little paint as an after though but I ike the look. Leather handle and imbued with lapis luzili in the pommel. So +5 frost 🧊 damage? Or water 💧?
My 8th mace to my collection i made and 1st pipe mace I've made. Decided to make it shiny and weld the caps to the 6 way. Leather wrapped handle. I made the shield 🛡 as well. I have 3 more pipe maces in the shop. Fun to make!
I highly recommend this tool. I haven't seen any posts with people using sintered glass filter funnels. Idk there might be.... anyhow you can use them with a hand pump or a electric vacuum pump with a cold trap. You can filter in a matter of seconds. And the product comes out almost dry. You just scrape it off and dump right into a dish to finish drying. Pic 2 and 3 after after a few seconds after turning off the pump. Very little wasted into a coffee filter. Not very expensive and saves a lot of time. FYI they can get clogged but you just run hot water through it followed with a little ETOH to dry it and its ready to go.
I like to use silicone skull 💀 molds to freeze my leftovers. Freeze it in the molds and vacuum seal for nice sized portions. This is some Texas no bean chili. Its just fun and I love Halloween. 🎃
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So the results are in for the pickled sausage science. I went about 3 weeks in the brine.The clear all around winner was the Greenridge beef stick. It retained a good texture and flavor hot and cold.
Here is a chart for my ratings. When the sausages are cold they all have a very similar flavor and texture. If you eat them this way the type of sausage doesn't matter as much IMO. I highly recommend warming them to just slightly above room temperature. The flavors and textures are 10x better this way. If you make them hot the vinegar gets overpowering. The hebrew hot dog was very good, warm, maybe one of the best, but the cold texture was probably one of the least favorite. Litl smokes had soft but pleasant texture.
I omitted the salami. Boiling the salami didn't turn out as well as unboiled. It seemed to strip much of the flavor. It made it bland and the texture was kind of grainy. I don't recommend boiling.