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Wild Rose

Wild Rose

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Well being busier than a one legged man at a butt kicking contest trying to catch up with orders and fighting with the phone company over constant line outages I haven't had much time to even visit the forums let alone post so I figured I'd post a two fer of a couple of Cowboy sheaths:

This first is one of a pair I finished up just before Christmas for a real working cowgirl who is also a cowboy action shooter. The inspiration for this bandoleer style is the one worn by Tell Sackett in the movie The Sacketts", but it also converts to a belt sheath via the frog type belt loop.
The Bandoleer & Sheath - front view.
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Bandoleer & Sheath - front showing back of sheath and how it attaches.
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Bandoleer Sheath with belt loop attached
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Bandoleer Sheath with belt loop unattached
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And here is the second of the pair: a boot/belt knife style.

Boot Sheath with belt loop attached.
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Boot Sheath with belt loop unattached.
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Y'know,Chuck, ya keep that up, ya could just get good at it! Hey,TOP NOTCH,Chuck! You must be a pretty good history buff,also. Your work seems to fit the periods perfectly,too. Yes,sir! I really enjoy your work, and pictures.
 
Chuck I was wondering about you the other day - purely selfish, needed a solid fix of this beautiful work - and I'm glad to see you got the message! :D Dang those are fine.

How do you clean up and burnish the welt (or just the edge of the sheath I guess?) with the fringe in it? Just curious, I'm not likely ever to try something quite that elaborate...

Thanks for the inspiration!

Dave
 
Thanks guys - these were a nice change of pace from the "frontier" pieces (although those are my first love.)

Dave I basically build the sheath first without the fringe by rubber cementing it lightly together - carefully sand the fringed edge to even everything up and then pull apart and realign/reglue with contact cement. After everything is together I burnish the fringed edge with Gun Tragacanth and an antler tip - takes maybe five minutes to get "right". Actually as you might can tell I'm old fashioned and mostly burnish all the edges by hand after sanding to 220 with an old and slow 4" x 36". I do have a buffer setup to do it with - that's how the big boys and shoe shops do it - but hand burnishing is "safer" - hard to screw it up and it's sort of soothing anyway. Friction (Gum Trag helps) is what really gives you that glass smooth edge (many old timers in fact used a piece of glass to scrape the edge with before burnishing.)
 
Chuck, I look at a lot of things here and admire the workmanship but don't fall head over heels about it.

Your stuff is another matter. It is just unbelievable and this piece is one of your better ones. Just amazing.
 
Thanks Peter - that means a lot coming from you.

(BTW - I was persuing the American Longrifle Forum last night and guess who's name I recognized :D......After finding that forum I'm in big trouble :rolleyes: )
 
great...yet another forum to fall headfirst into...thanks guys!!


Great work, Chuck!
 
I think you will like it there Chuck. The fellows there are to muzzle loader building what the folks here are to knife making. Top of the food chain!:D
 
I think you will like it there Chuck.
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Peter - after an 80 hour week I decided to take the day off - signed up as Gray Wolf so I'll see you there. Looks like a great bunch of guys - I recognize a few other names as well.

she'd be a very happy cow girl I will bet..
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Dan - Last time I talked to her she was wearing both rigs with her neck brace on (she broke her neck, face, arm, and leg a while back an was one sick puppy for a while) while doing the house work - her friends and neighbors think maybe she suffered a bit of brain damage as well - she just tells them anybody who chooses to be a working cowgirl/cowboy has to be a bit brain damaged to begin with! ;)
 
Chuck they are breath taking! Thanks for sharing.

Would you mind a link to the american longrifle forum?
 
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