Horsewright
Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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Well it really wasn't a whole week. Came back from our annual camping trip at the beach Monday night last week, so amidst all the unpacking from the trip on Tuesday had four sets of leggings to finish. Prior to the trip I'd cut out the leggings and started putting some of the parts together. So now had to finish the construction and then all the detail work. With 4 pairs there was a LOT of detail work.
Monday morning relaxing in the cool clean beach air.
Tuesday back at the grindstone, (I can say that cause I make knives too, but thats this week, last week was leggings).
Three of the four pair of the leggings are Chinks the fourth pair are Charmitas. Here we see the back belts, pocket flaps, pocket straps and lots and lots of buckles. These are for the chinks.
Making the buckle billets for the pockets. 8-10 oz Wicket and Craig russet saddle leather skivved down.
Two of the pair of chinks had been ordered as saddle tan leather accents. The other as dark brown. Using that russet leather and just oiling it will produce a way better saddletan than any bottle of dye will. Period. Here the one billet has been dyed and the other two oiled. After dyeing I will also oil it. Putting on the Wyoming Qucik Slik to rub the edges with the canvas.
More parts. Here we have the pockets with the gussets sewn on and the buckle billets installed.
Glueing up the rear belts on this pair.
Sewing on the buckle billet. Ferdco 440 Pro machine and 207 thread top and bottom.
Starting in on the leg straps for all four pairs. Each pair needs six 4" straps and six 8" straps. The longer straps are half round cut on one end and English strap punched on the other and then have seven holes punched. Each short strap is the buckle billet so is bag punched in the center for the buckle. When the process, such as here is the same for the two different types of leggings I would work on all four pairs at once. When the process diverged because of the different styles then I would do them separately.
On the chinks these Half Dollar conchos hold the leg straps on. Don't forget the Lock Tite! The veggie tan leather here has not seen any dye, just oil and then finished with Bag Kote.
On the charmitas the leg straps are riveted on and then that dark brown string will be woven through the holes covering the rivets on the outside. Kinda like this:
Glueing the connector strap for the charmitas. The apron is glued on the backside afterwards and then all three layers sewn together at once.
The charmitas are finished. They just need their wrap and tie belts riveted on.
The chinks are done too. The very last thing is sewing on the pockets. So now I go and grab my model out of her office where she's working on a CCW purse. We've found over the years that leggings just photo better on, instead of hanging on a rack. We try to photo every pair we make for advertising, Instagram Facecrack, all that stuff.
Nichole trying on the first pair in the shop. Behind her is a pretty good stack of elk sheds I traded for. These will be knife handles later. The boxes under the bench are all different types of exotic woods for handles too. All four of these pairs of leggings were closer to Nichole's size than they were to me so she wore em all for the pics.
The Charmitas. They were a little short for Nichole so we didn't take an overall shot. Sometimes a guy has to use a little judicious pic taking.
In a box and off to MD they go. Made my self imposed Fri deadline on all four pair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The chinks:
So in the box and all three of these pair head off to UT.
Thanks for looking and as always questions and comments are welcome.
Monday morning relaxing in the cool clean beach air.
Tuesday back at the grindstone, (I can say that cause I make knives too, but thats this week, last week was leggings).
Three of the four pair of the leggings are Chinks the fourth pair are Charmitas. Here we see the back belts, pocket flaps, pocket straps and lots and lots of buckles. These are for the chinks.
Making the buckle billets for the pockets. 8-10 oz Wicket and Craig russet saddle leather skivved down.
Two of the pair of chinks had been ordered as saddle tan leather accents. The other as dark brown. Using that russet leather and just oiling it will produce a way better saddletan than any bottle of dye will. Period. Here the one billet has been dyed and the other two oiled. After dyeing I will also oil it. Putting on the Wyoming Qucik Slik to rub the edges with the canvas.
More parts. Here we have the pockets with the gussets sewn on and the buckle billets installed.
Glueing up the rear belts on this pair.
Sewing on the buckle billet. Ferdco 440 Pro machine and 207 thread top and bottom.
Starting in on the leg straps for all four pairs. Each pair needs six 4" straps and six 8" straps. The longer straps are half round cut on one end and English strap punched on the other and then have seven holes punched. Each short strap is the buckle billet so is bag punched in the center for the buckle. When the process, such as here is the same for the two different types of leggings I would work on all four pairs at once. When the process diverged because of the different styles then I would do them separately.
On the chinks these Half Dollar conchos hold the leg straps on. Don't forget the Lock Tite! The veggie tan leather here has not seen any dye, just oil and then finished with Bag Kote.
On the charmitas the leg straps are riveted on and then that dark brown string will be woven through the holes covering the rivets on the outside. Kinda like this:
Glueing the connector strap for the charmitas. The apron is glued on the backside afterwards and then all three layers sewn together at once.
The charmitas are finished. They just need their wrap and tie belts riveted on.
The chinks are done too. The very last thing is sewing on the pockets. So now I go and grab my model out of her office where she's working on a CCW purse. We've found over the years that leggings just photo better on, instead of hanging on a rack. We try to photo every pair we make for advertising, Instagram Facecrack, all that stuff.
Nichole trying on the first pair in the shop. Behind her is a pretty good stack of elk sheds I traded for. These will be knife handles later. The boxes under the bench are all different types of exotic woods for handles too. All four of these pairs of leggings were closer to Nichole's size than they were to me so she wore em all for the pics.
The Charmitas. They were a little short for Nichole so we didn't take an overall shot. Sometimes a guy has to use a little judicious pic taking.
In a box and off to MD they go. Made my self imposed Fri deadline on all four pair!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The chinks:
So in the box and all three of these pair head off to UT.
Thanks for looking and as always questions and comments are welcome.
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Love the sheat!
