Horsewright Knives and Leather

[Sacto]

Hangin’ with Pedro and my Horsewright today.

 

[Horsewright]

Hangin’ with Pedro and my Horsewright today.

Looks like that Mestano is wearing well. Pedro has em lined out!

 

[Sacto]

Looks like that Mestano is wearing well. Pedro has em lined out!

For sure, the Mestano has been a great little work knife. Pedro has been great too. So much instinct and so fun to work with. Plenty of bite but willing to hang back and let the cows move.

 

[Horsewright]

This was the day that Canela the Flying Cowdog, retired herself. When we left camp to make a gather she went about a hundred yards with us, then she turned around went back to camp and sat down.

Just a pound mutt, adoption but the best cow dog I ever had. You could actually direct her to a specific cow that needed encouragement or discouragement.

I'd been trying to load these snotty steers but they kept putting me up on the fence. After three tries and it getting worse each time, I told Canela to get ahold, as she'd been waiting patiently outside as she should. She ran in like a missile, bit the lead steer on the nose and turned and ran. He's bellowing and slinging snot everywhere and goes stampeding along with the rest of them after Canela. She leads em through the sweep, down the alley and through the chute. She ducks out at the edge of the trailer and the steers thunder into the trailer looking for that dog to stomp. I slide the gate closed and take em to the sale. She's just sitting there grinning.

 

[RLB0414]

This was the day that Canela the Flying Cowdog, retired herself. When we left camp to make a gather she went about a hundred yards with us, then she turned around went back to camp and sat down.

Just a pound mutt, adoption but the best cow dog I ever had. You could actually direct her to a specific cow that needed encouragement or discouragement.

I'd been trying to load these snotty steers but they kept putting me up on the fence. After three tries and it getting worse each time, I told Canela to get ahold, as she'd been waiting patiently outside as she should. She ran in like a missile, bit the lead steer on the nose and turned and ran. He's bellowing and slinging snot everywhere and goes stampeding along with the rest of them after Canela. She leads em through the sweep, down the alley and through the chute. She ducks out at the edge of the trailer and the steers thunder into the trailer looking for that dog to stomp. I slide the gate closed and take em to the sale. She's just sitting there grinning.

I guess the thought of a 1000#'s worth of hooves to the head gives encouragement to stay out of harms way.

 

[Horsewright]

I guess the thought of a 1000#'s worth of hooves to the head gives encouragement to stay out of harms way.

It definitely can make you either wiser or dumber. Although Canela was definitely cray cray, I always thought it was pretty cool when she knew she didn’t want to make those big circles again. She said I’ll just hang out here till you guys get back.

 

[Horsewright]

And then echoscout and Sacto Dave Stamey did a free concert in our neck of the woods yesterday afternoon:

He performed with Cowboy Poet Gary Robertson:

This was lakeside in a gated community here in Tehachapi called Bear Valley Springs. We'd already been trail riding with friends there Friday and Saturday. They have over 40 miles of horse trails from meek and mild jaunts to very much not.

We'd rode up and over the back of the mountain range to Cummings Valley and made our way over to the Tehachapi Wine and Cattle Company. They are all set up with tie rails and water troughs for the ponies and we could sit outside in the shade, keep an eye on the horses and have lunch. Then we rode back a great ride! This is Nichole on her mare Hatari. Hatari's first big girl trip. She's mostly been trained as an arena (cutting) horse. But she was raised in rough terrain and hadn't forgot where to put her feet. Was out of the shop quite a bit since Friday, only had an hour here an hour there. Gonna hit er hard today, putting together sheaths.

 

[echoscout]

It definitely can make you either wiser or dumber. Although Canela was definitely cray cray, I always thought it was pretty cool when she knew she didn’t want to make those big circles again. She said I’ll just hang out here till you guys get back.

Smart dog

And then echoscout and Sacto Dave Stamey did a free concert in our neck of the woods yesterday afternoon:

He performed with Cowboy Poet Gary Robertson:

This was lakeside in a gated community here in Tehachapi called Bear Valley Springs. We'd already been trail riding with friends there Friday and Saturday. They have over 40 miles of horse trails from meek and mild jaunts to very much not.

We'd rode up and over the back of the mountain range to Cummings Valley and made our way over to the Tehachapi Wine and Cattle Company. They are all set up with tie rails and water troughs for the ponies and we could sit outside in the shade, keep an eye on the horses and have lunch. Then we rode back a great ride! This is Nichole on her mare Hatari. Hatari's first big girl trip. She's mostly been trained as an arena (cutting) horse. But she was raised in rough terrain and hadn't forgot where to put her feet. Was out of the shop quite a bit since Friday, only had an hour here an hour there. Gonna hit er hard today, putting together sheaths.

Sounds like a great weekend pard
Stamey's song Cowpoke has been playing in my head this morning

Packin a Mestano today

 

[Horsewright]

Smart dog

Sounds like a great weekend pard
Stamey's song Cowpoke has been playing in my head this morning

Packin a Mestano today

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Yes sir it was a great weekend! Hope your’s and everyone’s was too!

 

[jfk1110]

That pooch is smarter than your average human these days!!!!
The great ones live forever....... In our hearts n minds....

 

[Horsewright]

That pooch is smarter than your average human these days!!!!
The great ones live forever....... In our hearts n minds....

For sure!

 

[Sacto]

And then echoscout and Sacto Dave Stamey did a free concert in our neck of the woods yesterday afternoon:

He performed with Cowboy Poet Gary Robertson:

This was lakeside in a gated community here in Tehachapi called Bear Valley Springs. We'd already been trail riding with friends there Friday and Saturday. They have over 40 miles of horse trails from meek and mild jaunts to very much not.

We'd rode up and over the back of the mountain range to Cummings Valley and made our way over to the Tehachapi Wine and Cattle Company. They are all set up with tie rails and water troughs for the ponies and we could sit outside in the shade, keep an eye on the horses and have lunch. Then we rode back a great ride! This is Nichole on her mare Hatari. Hatari's first big girl trip. She's mostly been trained as an arena (cutting) horse. But she was raised in rough terrain and hadn't forgot where to put her feet. Was out of the shop quite a bit since Friday, only had an hour here an hour there. Gonna hit er hard today, putting together sheaths.

Nice, Dave Stamey is great! I bet that was fun. I love seeing a concert in a small venue.

I spent the weekend camping in the mountains with the family. No knife pictures, but I had my Mestano with me. Turns out it’s a good camp knife too. Did a little fishing, unfortunately no fish pictures (or fish) either.

 

[Horsewright]

Nice, Dave Stamey is great! I bet that was fun. I love seeing a concert in a small venue.

I spent the weekend camping in the mountains with the family. No knife pictures, but I had my Mestano with me. Turns out it’s a good camp knife too. Did a little fishing, unfortunately no fish pictures (or fish) either.

Good deal on the camping trip!

 

[Horsewright]

Just finished off a batch of knives and sheaths. They just made it onto the website yesterday afternoon. Several sold before I got them on the website.

I'd just finished the knives a few days back and was getting ready to start on the sheaths. I received a call from a rancher in OK. He was looking for three knives for his three granddaughters. He said he really liked the Paisano that was currently on the website as one of his three:

This Paisano in Giraffe bone.

He asked for a couple other smaller ones so I told him about the Vaquero I'd just made with the same bone, literally cut from the same piece:

I just explained the knife to him and he said good. Then kinda hesitantly, he asked if I was doing anything in pink. It so happened intuit very batch I had this Vaquero too:

He said sold and he wanted three pancake sheaths with his brand on it., a Diamond D. Interestingly he felt that the granddaughter he was getting the pink Vaquero for would be the only one that would continue on in the ranching lifestyle.

 

[jfk1110]

Just finished off a batch of knives and sheaths. They just made it onto the website yesterday afternoon. Several sold before I got them on the website.

I'd just finished the knives a few days back and was getting ready to start on the sheaths. I received a call from a rancher in OK. He was looking for three knives for his three granddaughters. He said he really liked the Paisano that was currently on the website as one of his three:

This Paisano in Giraffe bone.

He asked for a couple other smaller ones so I told him about the Vaquero I'd just made with the same bone, literally cut from the same piece:

I just explained the knife to him and he said good. Then kinda hesitantly, he asked if I was doing anything in pink. It so happened intuit very batch I had this Vaquero too:

He said sold and he wanted three pancake sheaths with his brand on it., a Diamond D. Interestingly he felt that the granddaughter he was getting the pink Vaquero for would be the only one that would continue on in the ranching lifestyle.

Nice job!!

 

[RLB0414]

Beautiful work. I hope his granddaughters carry, use and enjoy the knives for a long time.

 

[cbach8tw]

That is a nice trio and I hope they use them and feel how good they are as an EDC or camp knife. Great job.

 

[Horsewright]

Nice job!!

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Beautiful work. I hope his granddaughters carry, use and enjoy the knives for a long time.

That is a nice trio and I hope they use them and feel how good they are as an EDC or camp knife. Great job.

Thank you guys for the kind words. Yeah he was a lil worried about two of the girls keeping them just as a memento but he did feel the third would be a user.

 

[Horsewright]

At the same time that I did the sheaths for this last batch:

I also did this holster order. The construction techniques are very similar so I did them at the same time. This was for a 6" Colt Python:

This particular Mestano has some extraordinary grain. What do ya think?

Do you have a favorite Horsewright handle material?

 

[echoscout]

Great work as always Dave! Reckon the Bocote on the Mestano is verah nice Elk and Ram Horn are favorites. When it comes to wood Desert Ironwood, Mesquite and Bocote are favorites.