Horsewright Knives and Leather

[RLB0414]

Buffalo horn with buffalo overlay on the sheaths

 

[afishhunter]

Color Case Hardened Steel bolsters, and iornwood, or a burl wood loaded with critters and fancy pins?





Sorry. I'll "SHHHHHhhhhhh the f*k up!!!" and get back under me rock now.

 

[DocJekl]

Other end of the spectrum here is The Sonoran Camp Knife, the largest standard knife I make.

Quick question for everyone. if I were to do those Sonorans as a matching set, what handle material would folks like to see?

THIS SONORAN CAMP KNIFE IS EXACTLY WHAT I'D WANT FOR MY NEXT HORSEWRIGHT whether in AEB-L or Damascus

 

[pjsjr]

Quick question for everyone. if I were to do those Sonorans as a matching set, what handle material would folks like to see?

Ram's horn, with stag, and as waynorth , Charlie mentioned matching, in a close second.

 

[Horsewright]

Wow guys thanks for the input! I was way off, I was gonna do walnut but maybe no now. So my plan is to do this batch with the elk. I have more blades so I'll do another pair with the sheephorn, as while I have a few sets of sheephorn in stock, none are big enough so will have to order some in. The elk I have.

Turquoise & ebony.

Thats an interesting combo. I've never used ebony. Quite a bit of African Blackwood though. Its pretty similar.

 

[Horsewright]

Buffalo horn with buffalo overlay on the sheaths

Use to use a lot of buffalo horn. Not so much anymore. Use to import it myself from India, I used so much. Did have some problems with it wanting to curl back up. Pretty sure I could outsmart it these days though in that regard. I had two cousins in NY that every year would order an identical knife. One year it was a Buckaroo Grandes with buffalo horn handles. They wanted to know if there was buffalo leather out there we could make the sheath out of. Thats what got me started in the buffalo leather deal. Researching for that project.

THIS SONORAN CAMP KNIFE IS EXACTLY WHAT I'D WANT FOR MY NEXT HORSEWRIGHT whether in AEB-L or Damascus

I've got some suitable AEB-L enroute!

 

[RLB0414]

Use to use a lot of buffalo horn. Not so much anymore. Use to import it myself from India, I used so much. Did have some problems with it wanting to curl back up. Pretty sure I could outsmart it these days though in that regard. I had two cousins in NY that every year would order an identical knife. One year it was a Buckaroo Grandes with buffalo horn handles. They wanted to know if there was buffalo leather out there we could make the sheath out of. Thats what got me started in the buffalo leather deal. Researching for that project.

I've got some suitable AEB-L enroute!

Those are beautiful

 

[Horsewright]

Those are beautiful

Thank you!

 

[mitch13]

Wow guys thanks for the input! I was way off, I was gonna do walnut but maybe no now. So my plan is to do this batch with the elk. I have more blades so I'll do another pair with the sheephorn, as while I have a few sets of sheephorn in stock, none are big enough so will have to order some in. The elk I have.

Thats an interesting combo. I've never used ebony. Quite a bit of African Blackwood though. Its pretty similar.

Elk & sheephorn will be good

 

[Horsewright]

Elk & sheephorn will be good

Good deal, thinking for sure thats what I'll do.

 

[cbach8tw]

Got my large buckaroo sheath today, thanks.

 

[mitch13]

Got my large buckaroo sheath today, thanks.View attachment 2587270

Cool,
You will have to let us know what it's like. I have a couple on my wish list.

 

[cbach8tw]

Cool,
You will have to let us know what it's like. I have a couple on my wish list.

Will do when I get my 112 in it.

 

[DocJekl]

The Horsewright Paisano in 63 HRC AEB-L and Sheepshorn handle, (came in the same day as the Carothers EDC2 in D3V). Paisano is 6.5" long with 2.625" blade.

For size comparison

 

[Horsewright]

Got my large buckaroo sheath today, thanks.View attachment 2587270

Good deal! Kinda a funny story on how we mark those and some other projects too. Thats branded with a branding iron. Whats funny about that is the branding iron itself. Its a full size electric iron just like we would use on our cattle. In fact its exactly the same as its made by the same guy.

We knew that he made brands for craft use too we just never envisioned that it would be the same size as our regular brand! We use it on a lot of soft leather projects:

 

[Horsewright]

The Horsewright Paisano in 63 HRC AEB-L and Sheepshorn handle, (came in the same day as the Carothers EDC2 in D3V). Paisano is 6.5" long with 2.625" blade.

For size comparison

Very cool! Thanks for the order and the great pics!

 

[GB940Rookie]

Here’s a belt and sheath Dave made for my Bowie.

 

[echoscout]

Good deal! Kinda a funny story on how we mark those and some other projects too. Thats branded with a branding iron. Whats funny about that is the branding iron itself. Its a full size electric iron just like we would use on our cattle. In fact its exactly the same as its made by the same guy.

We knew that he made brands for craft use too we just never envisioned that it would be the same size as our regular brand! We use it on a lot of soft leather projects:

Those pics of branding sure bring back a lot of memories!

 

[Horsewright]

Those pics of branding sure bring back a lot of memories!

I’ve got a silver horseshoe nail in the hat band of my black hat too!

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Nice collection of knives in this thread, Horsewright , Dave makes some top notch knives and sheaths!
Here's one I had a while back that I used during this short tutorial on making diamond knots with paracord, his sheath is in the background, I added a horizontal carry adapter to it.

G2