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General Informationabout Oswald Rune Sets |
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I am no longer making a full range of rune sets.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 limited rune set production if and when my health improves, but for the meantime I'm sorry to say there are no rune sets available. My idea is to make unique rune sets whenever I have the time and the inclination, then post them on this page for sale on a first-come-first-served basis. Prices will probably be in the range US$200-300. 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.
I would love to refer visitors to another supplier if I could find one that I
would feel confident in recommending. I am looking for an independent maker of handcrafted wooden rune sets working in the UK,
preferably an individual craftsman or craftswoman who
works to the same high standards of accuracy and craftsmanship that I have tried
to achieve. If you happen to know of anyone like
that please ask them to get in touch. 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 pages on each style.
Oswald's world-famous rune sets are 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. You will wonder how you ever managed with plain factory-produced runes and their bland, ambiguous responses - if they respond 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 the blank 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. I have quite a big stock of handmade plain unfinished spruce and birch ply boxes ready for decorating and interior finishing if anyone would like to buy them. They could quite easily be used for any kind of craft, not exclusively as rune boxes. I can even help by letting you into some of my trade secrets for decorating and finishing if you order enough of them! Let me know if you are interested. 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 workshop in Buckinghamshire in the heart of England.
The Rune Sets
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