Horsewright
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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I've got a great customer and amigo that has a fondness for Mr Steingass's knives. I've featured some of the work I've done for him and a Steingass he sent me, before in these pages. The original order morphed into a set:
Recently I was sent a couple more Steingass knives and once again the ordered morphed into a set. Included this time was one of my Coyote models with sheep horn handle, filework and an engraved bolster. The two Steingass's on top and mine (with the tail) on the bottom:
Since sometimes a guy needs Sunday go to meeting sheaths for his knives we took care of that too:
The first Steingass is a one of a kind chute knife. The knife and sheath tell the story and I thank him for his service. I spoke with our own Paul Long for sometime about how to attach the Special Forces emblem to the sheath. While I've made several thousand sheaths, this deal was out of my comfort zone a bit as I'd never done something similar. We decided overlaying the emblem was the best answer. We'd also discussed inlaying it too but this worked best. This was try number three. The pins broke off of the first emblem as Paul thought they might. So then I tried inlaying it and tossed it, so here we are . But plan C worked. Also, this is the only one of my pancake sheaths that I've ever lined:
The second Steingass was a walnut handled dagger. I was a little scared of this one but changing the welt pattern inside the sheath tamed the beast:
My Coyote. Engraved by my friend bit and spur maker Mike "Tapadero" Vatalero.
The chute knife:
The dagger:
If a guy is gonna carry a knife in a sheath, most of the time he's gonna need a belt to do it. Since we had previously made a flower carved belt for him, this time we made a black belt with carlos border stamping to match the black sheaths. And since a guy has to take care of his peeps I made him one of our water buffalo leather belts just because. He didn't know about it till he opened the box:
Each belt is lined with a beautiful Horween leather:
I made the belts on the thick side so they will support the weight of a pistol, well, cause a guy has to have matching holsters too:
Both for a Sig 938:
The whole shooting match, (pun intended):
Thanks for looking. Hope ya enjoyed the tale. My wife and I worked together on this order. She did all the flower carving and sewing on the belts. I did all the other tooling and construction. Questions and comments are welcome.
Recently I was sent a couple more Steingass knives and once again the ordered morphed into a set. Included this time was one of my Coyote models with sheep horn handle, filework and an engraved bolster. The two Steingass's on top and mine (with the tail) on the bottom:
Since sometimes a guy needs Sunday go to meeting sheaths for his knives we took care of that too:
The first Steingass is a one of a kind chute knife. The knife and sheath tell the story and I thank him for his service. I spoke with our own Paul Long for sometime about how to attach the Special Forces emblem to the sheath. While I've made several thousand sheaths, this deal was out of my comfort zone a bit as I'd never done something similar. We decided overlaying the emblem was the best answer. We'd also discussed inlaying it too but this worked best. This was try number three. The pins broke off of the first emblem as Paul thought they might. So then I tried inlaying it and tossed it, so here we are . But plan C worked. Also, this is the only one of my pancake sheaths that I've ever lined:
The second Steingass was a walnut handled dagger. I was a little scared of this one but changing the welt pattern inside the sheath tamed the beast:
My Coyote. Engraved by my friend bit and spur maker Mike "Tapadero" Vatalero.
The chute knife:
The dagger:
If a guy is gonna carry a knife in a sheath, most of the time he's gonna need a belt to do it. Since we had previously made a flower carved belt for him, this time we made a black belt with carlos border stamping to match the black sheaths. And since a guy has to take care of his peeps I made him one of our water buffalo leather belts just because. He didn't know about it till he opened the box:
Each belt is lined with a beautiful Horween leather:
I made the belts on the thick side so they will support the weight of a pistol, well, cause a guy has to have matching holsters too:
Both for a Sig 938:
The whole shooting match, (pun intended):
Thanks for looking. Hope ya enjoyed the tale. My wife and I worked together on this order. She did all the flower carving and sewing on the belts. I did all the other tooling and construction. Questions and comments are welcome.
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It looks like you might have another opportunity to make some pants for another Steingass made. Our client has another one on order (which I have to start soon). 
