Fixed blades

Horsewright said:
Finished the sheath off for this Sonoran Belt Knife yesterday. 26C3 high carbon steel (RC 63-64), sheep horn handle and bocote spacer with a flower carved Pancake Sheath:

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Couple years back had a guy approach me about making him a pair of woolies. He'd come up from LA county and he didn't look like he rode horses either. Fact he looked like he very much didn't cowboy. I asked him why he wanted a pair of woolies as they were gonna be very spendy with us having to buy a buffalo hide to get er done. He said he'd grown up watching all the old westerns and he just wanted a pair to hang on the wall. He brought me his entire covid stimulus check to build em. Here modeled by my daughter:

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He drove up to pick em up and said what else can we make with the left overs. Can ya do woolly wrist cuffs? Yep I says. He drops off more money and I build him a set of wooly wrist cuffs:

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He picks em up and says what else can we do and I say saddlebags and he drops off more money:

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Then he says, a purse for the wife and drops off more money. Now my wife usually makes all the purses and bags on this outfit but she didn't want anything to do with all the fuzzies so I'm thinking half a saddlebag with a strap and thats what I did:

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He says how bout a Top Hat and I says above my pay grade and pointed him to a guy I know of that makes leather top hats. Lots of projects out of one $1,000 buffalo hide:

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Not from buffalo hide a Mestano:

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Top notch work as always. The knife is a work of art that will handle the job put in front of it.
 
Horsewright said:
Thank you sir! That Sonoran Belt Knife while originally designed as a ranch knife and specifically for branding makes an ideal Bird and Trout too.
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Please excuse the off-topic question, but is that an old octagonal Marlin in one of your saddlebag pictures (posted 6/13/2023)?

It's gorgeous. Well, so is your leather work, of course.

Thanks,
Joe
 
Aardvark said:
Please excuse the off-topic question, but is that an old octagonal Marlin in one of your saddlebag pictures (posted 6/13/2023)?

It's gorgeous. Well, so is your leather work, of course.

Thanks,
Joe
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Yes its a Marlin 1894 C in .45. It is JM marked but has the crossbolt safety so not super old. If ya miss with this one its your fault.
 
Oh, I'm very familiar with the answer to the "whose fault is it that I missed" question. I'm not even good enough to blame either the gun or the ammunition. Windage, maybe?

Thanks for your answer.

Joe
 
RLB0414 said:
Somehow I don't think you miss. Might bounce a couple off of a hard head but not miss
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Yeah done that too. My best shot ever, was rolling a running coyote at bout 300 yds with a pistol. Nichole witnessed it and she'd throw me down hard if I was telling a tall tale. First shot was bout 10 yds shy and he kicked it into high gear. Second shot was right between his legs and he jumped straight up in the air. Third shot rolled him. Pistol was a Polish Takarov in 7.62 x 25mm. That round is a rocket.


Aardvark said:
Oh, I'm very familiar with the answer to the "whose fault is it that I missed" question. I'm not even good enough to blame either the gun or the ammunition. Windage, maybe?

Thanks for your answer.

Joe
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You bet Joe! I'm a better pistolero my own self rather than a rifle shot.
 
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