Horsewright Knives and Leather

[Horsewright]

Dave, do you offer an open top, vertical carry sheath for a Buck 110? I checked your website but did not find one?
Thanks

Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Rick

I can do one that is slightly angled, a pancake style.

 

[RLB0414]

I can do one that is slightly angled, a pancake style.

Thanks Dave. I will contact you through your website.

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks Dave. I will contact you through your website.

Sounds good

 

[Horsewright]

Hope all are having some great Holidays!

Kinda handy having a website where you can sell some In Stock items. I was taking some pics of some projects I'd just finished prior to shipping them off. Nichole comes out and brings this really cool travel bag and says I should take some pics of it for the site. It was a personalized order that she was working on and she'd forgotten to stamp the intials on the handle. One of the first things you do when making your parts. Can't do it at the end so... add this one to the website and build a new one for the customer.

She really did a very nice job on that bag. Can't tell ya how many times, over the years I've done something similar.

Had a couple of interesting orders just prior to Christmas. Both were for fellow BF members:

This flower carved knife and sheath are heading to Australia via Wisconsin. Edit to add the pic I forgot!

The Cowboy knife was from 26C3 high carbon with turqouise spacers:

The carved Horizontal sheath had a matching belt:

These carved belts are expensive because they take a loooong, long time:

The second set was also for a BF member. This one was done in the Carlos border stamp:

A Cowboy knife, Horizontal sheath, belt and matching Pancake holster. This Cowboy was also in 26C3 and it had an ironwood spacer with Buckeye Burl handle:

 

[echoscout]

Nice knives and leather work amigo

 

[Horsewright]

Nice knives and leather work amigo

Thank you sir!

 

[Horsewright]

Thought some of you here might be interested in this video:

I'll be finishing off cutting out a new batch today. 117 in this batch and 35 left to cut out. If weather allows I'll go to profiling too today.

 

[echoscout]

Sure enjoyed the video Dave

 

[Horsewright]

Sure enjoyed the video Dave

Yeah thats a good one isn’t it. The tall saddlemaker, John, is a friend. Helped me figure out the construction on a pair bull nose taps one time when we were out to dinner.

 

[mitch13]

Thought some of you here might be interested in this video:

I'll be finishing off cutting out a new batch today. 117 in this batch and 35 left to cut out. If weather allows I'll go to profiling too today.

Very cool Dave.
I was going to watch it on my phone but on my laptop great detail on that work.
Thanks for sharing.

 

[Horsewright]

Very cool Dave.
I was going to watch it on my phone but on my laptop great detail on that work.
Thanks for sharing.

You bet my friend!

We've been busy after the Holidays:

Nichole makes our IWB holsters. These are always constructed of horsehide, a much better leather for this application as it is thinner, yet denser.

Normally these are made small, medium and large, with each size fitting numerous handguns. Lately her most popular one ordered, has been for the Smith J frame revolver. This is different enough that it has its own pattern. She also has been kicking out purses. She has several in process and finished this one and sold it before I even had pics of it:

I finished off this tapered belt specifically made for this buckle yesterday. It's for a very good friend and she has lost a lot of weight lately and her old belt that we'd made her for this buckle no longer fit. She also had a set of eight steak knives on order and I'd finished the knife roll for them the day prior.

First real knife roll I'd ever made. I spent a lot of time researching what to do and what not to do and then built a pattern. I'd bet ya, counting all the research and the cussing and discussing inside my own head, I've got more time in building the knife roll, than in building the steak knives to go in it.

It has a water buffalo flap to protect the handles of the knives and eight slots for the blades.

The knives are handled in ironwood with a buckeye burl spacer. The blades are AEB-L stainless at 62-63RC with heat treat by Peters. The same friends a couple of years ago and me make them a full set of kitchen knives. So this handle on the steak knives is the reverse of the kitchen knives. They were handled in buckeye burl with an ironwood spacer.

Today I'll be working on profiling that 117 blades I finished cutting out yesterday. These guys:

 

[waynorth]

Thought some of you here might be interested in this video:

Very interesting Video, Dave!! I know a lot about each step it takes but I know little about what makes a Saddle great!!!
(I used to make a living making Sandals and Bags!!)

 

[jfk1110]

 

[Horsewright]

Very interesting Video, Dave!! I know a lot about each step it takes but I know little about what makes a Saddle great!!!
(I used to make a living making Sandals and Bags!!)

Yeah its kinda cool from my side to having made lots of different things but never a saddle.

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That water buff just gets better and better doesn't it? Nichole just made a big batch of all three sizes to replenish stock. Sold a lot of these guys right before Christmas.

 

[jmgruber]

You bet my friend!

We've been busy after the Holidays:

Nichole makes our IWB holsters. These are always constructed of horsehide, a much better leather for this application as it is thinner, yet denser.

Normally these are made small, medium and large, with each size fitting numerous handguns. Lately her most popular one ordered, has been for the Smith J frame revolver. This is different enough that it has its own pattern. She also has been kicking out purses. She has several in process and finished this one and sold it before I even had pics of it:

I finished off this tapered belt specifically made for this buckle yesterday. It's for a very good friend and she has lost a lot of weight lately and her old belt that we'd made her for this buckle no longer fit. She also had a set of eight steak knives on order and I'd finished the knife roll for them the day prior.

First real knife roll I'd ever made. I spent a lot of time researching what to do and what not to do and then built a pattern. I'd bet ya, counting all the research and the cussing and discussing inside my own head, I've got more time in building the knife roll, than in building the steak knives to go in it.

It has a water buffalo flap to protect the handles of the knives and eight slots for the blades.

The knives are handled in ironwood with a buckeye burl spacer. The blades are AEB-L stainless at 62-63RC with heat treat by Peters. The same friends a couple of years ago and me make them a full set of kitchen knives. So this handle on the steak knives is the reverse of the kitchen knives. They were handled in buckeye burl with an ironwood spacer.

Today I'll be working on profiling that 117 blades I finished cutting out yesterday. These guys:

Any Gordo models in the pile?

 

[echoscout]

Any Gordo models in the pile?

I see what looks like three on the left hand side of that pile.

 

[Horsewright]

Any Gordo models in the pile?

I see what looks like three on the left hand side of that pile.

Yes sir! Several Rancheros too, the Gordo’s big brother.

Good eye my friend!

 

[jmgruber]

Yes sir! Several Rancheros too, the Gordo’s big brother.

Good eye my friend!

Thank you both. I will keep my eye on the in stock knives page for when they are finished.

 

[Horsewright]

Thank you both. I will keep my eye on the in stock knives page for when they are finished.

If you are looking for something specific, best to DM me here.

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

I often joke about being semi retired these days because I make small batches of knives, usually around 12 or so. This is at Nichole's insistence and it is easier on the old guy. Was scrolling through some pics just now and came across these. They are both Christmas batches. I had a friend at the time who said that if he had to get all that out by Christmas that you'd find him curled up in the fetal position under the bed! It was just normal around here. Some years were so busy we stoped taking orders in August for Christmas.

Different year:

The damascus Bowie went to Norway along with a box of other things we made.

The customer's wife was happy with her sage green wildrag.

How do you get the welts of your drum dyed wickett & craig skirting to match the color of the dye so nicely? That's a beautiful stack of sheaths.

I've got this brown skirting in (love it btw - thank you - so much easier to work with than that gnarly hermann oak shoulder) and I'm putting some sheaths together but the exposed edges are natural colored and not brown.