For those who would like to make their own rune-set, I have covered this on my Ar-Kan Rune-Lag Blog on Google Blogger. In short, to make the runes I used ROWAN wood, since 'rowan' stems from the same root as 'rune'. This is the 'Mountain Ash' bearing Red Berries. The runes are cut from around a half-inch (no metric measures here) rowan twigs, burned on, and then carved with a knife (use one kept just for this) to make them neater, and then stained with Red Ochre, then in order to preserve the wood left in Linseed Oil (Flax is sacred to Freya).