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Website News and Messages
Posted June 21st 2011
Notice to Craftsmen and Craftswomen
When you visit the products pages you will find retrospective articles about amulets of
different types, rune sets, gandrs, pendulums and all the other products
that I used to make.
The rune sets always attracted a lot of interest and were in great demand, and the range of amulets
was always popular. They featured single runes, personal monogram bindrunes, bindrunes for dozens of
practical purposes, even some for pet protection.
I can still do all the design work for the entire range of products. I can supply you with artwork you can copy, provide
explanatory pdfs and documentation that you can use for paper leaflets and packaging. I can't make the actual physical products any more
because arthritis in my fingers is too far advanced these days. But I still get a lot of enquiries from visitors who want
something made, so we could set up a co-operative service
and supply them from this website .
Visit this new mini-site if you're interested.
Posted June 5th 2011
A Runic Empowerment Ritual
This
new e-book (April 2011) at last reveals the full empowerment ritual I have used for the activation of
divining runes, amulets, and
tattoo designs for many years. The 19-page ebook in full color is priced at US$2.95 and includes:
● An illustrated article on the creation of a Vé (a sacred space) for rune work with detailed instructions.
● The full ritual with illustrations.
● All incantations for the empowerment of a runic design on a solid surface or on skin for a tattoo.
● Some useful pointers on devising your own personal ritual elements and incantations.
● Plus a free bonus of 11 decorative Nordic and
Pictish border designs.
For more
information or to order please visit the
ebooks page on my author website.
Posted May 8th 2010
The Runes Forum is now 'Read Only'
The Runes Forum has now run its course and the
pro version advertisement-free service was discontinued on March 17th 2010.
My thanks to all contributors in the past for making the early years full of lively discussion. However, over the last 2 years of the Forum's existence the volume of postings had dried to a trickle and it was no longer cost effective to keep on paying the hosting fees, nor sensible to keep the volunteer moderators looking out for new messages that happened so infrequently.
There are still over 300 threads and a total of more than 1700 posts available to view for the meantime, but the pages are now hosted by the Bravenet free service which inevitably carries a lot of advertising in banners and popups etc. No new posts are being accepted and the forum will I suppose eventually get deleted.
If there is anyone out there who would like to take over the name "The Runes Forum" it is for sale. Or indeed, if anyone would like to take over the forum as it stands and re-open it a transfer of ownership can be arranged. The hosting fee was something like 50 bucks a year the last time I checked. Contact me for more information.
Posted February 15th 2010
Production of physical products discontinued
I am sorry to say that from March 2010 I will no longer be making any physical products. Rune sets, runic pendulums, and rune staffs have
been discontinued since 2007, and now the amulets of all types will also
be discontinued as well, although I still offer artwork services. E-products such as e-Books, fonts, transcription
and the artwork services are still operative and will continue to be available.
This has been a very difficult decision for me, but one that I should have made years ago, I have simply been putting it off for too long. The fact is I have been in poor health for some time and with arthritis in my fingers steadily getting worse it is now close to impossible to make these products.
Long absences from the workshop and interruptions to my work have soaked up too much of my available time and I therefore decided not to take on any new orders for hard products. People have been telling me for years I was killing myself with work and I laughed. But maybe now I am starting to believe them.
When you visit the rune wares pages where all the products were featured you
will now see a series of "retrospectives" for those who are interested in
the range of products that were available in the past. These pages might help
when some of my products show up for resale on eBay and other
similar auction websites.
The retrospectives will remain on the website primarily for the guidance of crafters who may be considering a
co-operative arrangement to offer their own products on runemaker.com.
Posted December 9th 2010
"Rune Reminder" eBook revised and updated
In response to popular demand, the Rune Meanings pages of this website are available for download as an eBook.
The publication has now been revised and expanded with new pictures
and improved PDF resolution for cleaner text and sharper images.
Previous buyers have automatically received this updated version and
will receive any future
revisions free of charge.
Posted December 13th 2009
"Discovering Runes" by Bob Oswald
I wanted to publish something that would be useful to both
experienced runesters and to novices in a down to earth and friendly
style and without getting too technical. So now I have written
Discovering Runes which I hope will be an interesting and
informative read as well
as being a vital reference book for rune users of all abilities.
It is published by one of England's most popular and highly respected illustrated book publishers Regency House Publications, and distributed by Book Mart in UK and Chartwell Books in the USA. It has 256 glossy pages of 8x8 inches (200x200mm) with 260 full color illustrations.
The book is widely available from good bookstores and online booksellers at modest prices,
but a personally
signed and dedicated first edition is only available from runemaker.com or boboswald.com. Please
click here to load the order form. Temporarily
out of stock - please call back.
The prices including packaging, shipping
and tax are:
| United Kingdom: | GB£ 8.95 |
| Europe: | EC€ 17.00 |
| USA, Canada | US$32.95 |
| Rest of the world: | US$ 35.95 |
All copies of Discovering Runes supplied
from this website will be first editions personally signed and
dedicated by me. If you would like a special message above my
signature, just write it in the "Other Information" box on the
shopping cart and I will confirm your request before shipping the
book.
Posted November 11th 2007
Runezine Discontinued
If you have read the above posting about production cut-backs you
will know that my ageing body has been letting me down somewhat of late.
Sadly, the Runezine e-zine is another thing I decided to give up.
I ran the Runezine project from 2001 until it was finally closed down at the end of August 2007. Runezine subscribers were contacted and asked if they wanted to subscribe to a new list. If you missed out on that but would like to receive very occasional email news messages from Runemaker Group, please click this link to subscribe. My sincere thanks to all Runezine readers for their support in the past, I hope everyone found it interesting and occasionally useful.
Enjoy your site visit, and use the
Contact page if you want to get in touch.
May the best of good fortune follow you always,
Bob Oswald
The Runemaker
Last updated:
July 1st 2011