Back to the boring old sheath style

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thatsaknife

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I tried my hand at a new style of sheath with a horizontal carry
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Turn out I just dont like it.So I made a bushcrapt style sheath for it
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It is just like all my other sheaths
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But it works for me
Whats your go to sheath?
 
TAK Nothing wrong going with what is tried and true and works for your situation... similar to one I often make
But here is a slight variation which I am happy with...
 
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Ok help me out with that first sheath. It looks like one piece of leather that you then cut a slot for the blade? I really like the design.
 
I'm pretty stuck on horizontal crossdraw. I can get to it with either hand and it is completely out of the way until I need it. This my own personal knife and sheath here.

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Vertical carry horseback is all kinds of problems waiting to happen. Zieg mentioned some in another post where the sheath was rubbing on the cantle (upright part behind me) which then poked the handle up into him. To us a knife is a safety device as well as just darn useful. I've personally cut horses out of 4 wrecks. The idea of getting to it with either hand is also important. Once was roping on a green colt. Caught a calf that was quite a bit livlier than the horse. He ran around behind the horse and came back up on the other side. So the rope went from the saddle horn on my right side, around my lower back and forward on my left side. Its attached to a 400lb calf that is going real fast and real hard that way. The rope has pulled me down over the saddle horn trapping my right hand so I can't pop my dallies (wraps of the rope around the saddle horn attaching the rope to the horn, normally when things go south you can just un dally, fix it and start over). I'm reaching for my knife with my left hand when I remember (this all happened really really really fast) my spur. Reach forward with my left leg, spur the horse in the left shoulder which spins him around 360 and now we're facing the calf without the rope wrapped around me. My buddy who is riding over knife in hand to cut my rope says: "You'd better start singing Kum Ba Yah." Horz carry where I can get to it with both hands is for me.
 
I really admire your work Horsewright you certainly show me my attempts a fairly pedestrian I like a horizontal carry too but usually for my folders.
 
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@ THATSAKNIFE...That sheath is just a sandwich construction hopefully the pics will explain it.... note the retaining strap is recessed into the back leather and the back of the sheath and the belt loop is one piece of leather. (The Knife is home-made based on a design by a US Maker - Don Davis)
 
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Thanks Brumby. I really like that folder sheath with the Bulldog knife. Cool concept.
 
Cool sheath idea brumby... I might have to try that out as well. Like the way you use the button strap over the piece of leather...
My standard go to sheath is probably the simple 3 layer sandwich type for pocket carry. Just because it is what I usually do.
 
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Vertical carry horseback is all kinds of problems waiting to happen. Zieg mentioned some in another post where the sheath was rubbing on the cantle (upright part behind me) which then poked the handle up into him. To us a knife is a safety device as well as just darn useful. I've personally cut horses out of 4 wrecks. The idea of getting to it with either hand is also important. Once was roping on a green colt. Caught a calf that was quite a bit livlier than the horse. He ran around behind the horse and came back up on the other side. So the rope went from the saddle horn on my right side, around my lower back and forward on my left side. Its attached to a 400lb calf that is going real fast and real hard that way. The rope has pulled me down over the saddle horn trapping my right hand so I can't pop my dallies (wraps of the rope around the saddle horn attaching the rope to the horn, normally when things go south you can just un dally, fix it and start over). I'm reaching for my knife with my left hand when I remember (this all happened really really really fast) my spur. Reach forward with my left leg, spur the horse in the left shoulder which spins him around 360 and now we're facing the calf without the rope wrapped around me. My buddy who is riding over knife in hand to cut my rope says: "You'd better start singing Kum Ba Yah." Horz carry where I can get to it with both hands is for me.
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Thanks!!! You've just made my point for me to a friend. She has commissioned a fixed blade knife that will be just under 8" and when I suggested a horizontal sheath she almost freaked. She had never heard of such a thing and is reluctant to even try it but your post may push her over the edge into at least giving it a try.
Her and her husband are both ropers and he has a folder I made for him that he will not go into the arena without for the same reasons you mentioned. In his career he has cut 2 other ropers free before they could be seriously injured. Who knew playing with calves could be so dangerous!! Thanks again......
 
Before I acquired shorter fixed blades, I couldn't be without a one-hand-opening knife. Now with a more varied collection, I can get to a blade quickly when the ordure frappe le ventilateur. In my horse circles, knives are discreet, when present at all, but I'm known as the cavalry guy, and as a fulltime trainer and instructor, everyone knows I'm never without a sharp tool. I preach the gospel of knife carrying, but few of my local clients follow suit. Now my Indiana students, where I do clinics, all carry.

Zieg
 
I can't tell you how many "day after" the wreck stories, (and orders) I've heard and received. Most of the time it was: "I had a knife but I couldn't get to it in my pocket, under my chaps" etc. Most working cowboys/buckaroos carry 2 or 3 knives. In our ranching circles there are several things you would never see and that's because they are safety items: rubber soled boots, leather only (need to slip out of that stirrup sometimes), no lace up boots, pull ons only, (boot should come off if a guy gets hung up) seen this twice work like it should and lace ups not once, causing injury. And of course the knife. We gathered the last two days on our ranch. Had a crew of eight. All eight had knives, ladies too, (crew was 3 gals and 5 guys). 5 of the 8 had small fixedblades and 3 had pocket clip knives of one type or another. Ner did find all the calves we were looking for. Will be hauling the ones we did find to the sale this morning.
 
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