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General Informationabout Oswald Rune Sets |
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These comments will be updated when some These pages are included for those who are interested in the products I used to sell either because they own one of my sets or maybe a set has come up for sale on eBay or some other auction site, or perhaps you are just interested to see what my sets were like. I would like to resume Unique Rune Set production if arthritis in my fingers improves sufficiently, but for the meantime there are no Unique Rune Sets available. I do intend to make sets whenever I have the ability, the time and the inclination, then post them on the Unique Rune Sets page for sale by the "First price sealed bid auction" method. Winning bids will probably be in the range US$150-350 depending on the appeal of the box decoration and the rune wood rarity. Not cheap, I know. But then, my rune sets never were cheap. Designing unique artwork; decorating and interior finishing of boxes; selection, cutting, marking, finishing and empowerment of rune sets; meticulous attention to detail in all stages of production - it all takes time. As I always used to say to folks: if you want the best, there's a price to pay for the time it takes and the expertise employed. The general description below explains more.
As you can see from the feature-box at the top of the page, co-operative partner artisans will soon be making their own
versions of the regular rune set types. Their details will be appearing here and on other pages of the website just as soon as I can
get them started. The following is adapted from the introduction to the Rune Set pages when I was offering a full range of products and the links lead to feature retrospective pages on each style.
Oswald's world-famous rune sets are still used by serious amateur runecasters, professional occultists, top runemasters and runemistresses. The sets have been featured in magazines such as Prediction and Traditions and were seen on American TV in a program about divination entitled Oracle. I had scores of testimonials from satisfied customers who found them the most accurate and highly responsive rune casting sets ever made. You would find links to the Runemaker product pages on all the most reliable rune websites such as the Rune School, The Rune Gild, Sunnyway, etc. Oswald rune sets were - and still are to the best of my knowledge - the only divining runes personally endorsed by Freya Aswynn, the world's foremost living runemistress. The thrill of casting with fully empowered hand-crafted runes has to be experienced to be believed. Users would wonder how they ever managed with plain factory-produced runes and their bland, ambiguous responses - if they responded at all. Every rune set included 24 runes plus 1 spare, an introductory eBook on mini-CD or full size CD-ROM, and a casting bag. The 24 Runes were handmade from windfall or forested branches of Ash, Willow, Cottonwood, Poplar, Alder, Witch Elm, and other wild woods. I would never take wood from living trees. Each set was cut from a single branch, polished and varnished with a durable non-toxic water-based finish. I only use the original 24 runes myself for divination, but I know a lot of people like to have a blank to represent Destiny or Fate. That is quite a modern idea, so you could just keep that as a spare if you preferred. For more information about the controversial blank, read the rune meaning page or the FAQs. The runes were hand marked by the pokerwork technique using a hot iron tool in the traditional manner.
Boxes were made from recycled timber - primarily Birch plywood from used tea-chests, Spruce, Beech, and Pine from furniture factory and lumber yard offcuts, and scrapped doorframes. Boxes were decorated with designs as specified for each product, then varnished and polished. The interior was fabric-lined to match the rune bag. The full-size sets were divided into small compartments, one for each rune. All the rune sets were supplied with a provenance statement giving the serial number, the wood, where it was found, and the date the set was made. The boxed sets had a provenance card on the inside of the box lid. With other sets, the statement could be found on a mini-CD or CD-ROM supplied with the set. The history of every set is still kept in perpetuity, along with a few spare blanks that can be used to replace lost or damaged runes in years to come. All products were individually made by hand in my own home workshop in Buckinghamshire in the heart of England.
The Rune Sets
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