Horsewright Knives and Leather

[echoscout]

 

[JB in LV]

 

[NoRest]

 

[NoRest]

 

[echoscout]

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Mestano sure is a handy knife

Good pics of your Cowboy

 

[NoRest]

Good pics of your Cowboy

Thanks. I really like that model. My next is going to be a Paisano. It should be in Dave's next batch.

 

[Jakeywax31]

 

[Horsewright]

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Great pic Amigo. Good to see that Cowboy getting some use!

Speaking of a Cowboy. I was at a cutting event last Saturday and saw this young cowboy with his Horsewright Cowboy in a Slotted sheath:

He showed me the knife it was a Cowboy in AEB-L with cocobolo for the handle. It had quite a bit of wear on it. He said he carries it daily. He pointed out that he had one of our show legal curb straps on his bridle too:

Kinda a funny not really deal. While back I made a friend a belt for his birthday. It was hanging in his closet on a rack with all his other belts. His daughter's dog got in to the closet somehow and ate the tips off of all his belts! With the new one I built him:

Something new for us too on the belt front is we've started doing a decorative "gunslinger" stitch. We've been asked about this a lot over the years and thought it was maybe time to why not, so we did.

I'm finishing off a new batch of knives right now. Will be buffing and polishing them today. There will be some new interesting handle materials and combinations too.

 

[Horsewright]

Wow a bunch of great pics guys! I was a page behind, didn't even see them while I was posting. Yep any 26C3 blades on order and there are several, are in the next batch going to heat treat. It's quite a large batch with 69 blades. They are all cut out now and I've started profiling on the grinder. I hope to have them done by the end of this coming week or the first part thereafter. Cut to shape, then profile on the grinders, drill needed tang holes, cowboy surface grind and then stamp each blade with my maker"s mark. It's a process for sure.

Great shot showing the hamon on that Cowboy Greg, Wow!

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Those Ulticlips are great. We use them on our IWB holsters. Great idea on that Slotted sheath.

 

[JB in LV]

Yep any 26C3 blades on order and there are several, are in the next batch going to heat treat

I'll reach out after Blade Show to get something in the works, Dave (miraculously, last year I came out of the day there under-budget, which I would have never ever thought possible).

 

[Jakeywax31]

Those Ulticlips are great. We use them on our IWB holsters. Great idea on that Slotted sheath.

Thank you. I did have to find longer screws but it works like a charm for the front pocket. These knives are so great. So happy to have it.

 

[echoscout]

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Nice Vaquero

Great pic Amigo. Good to see that Cowboy getting some use!

Thanks amigo If I was in better health it get some more serious use.

Something new for us too on the belt front is we've started doing a decorative "gunslinger" stitch. We've been asked about this a lot over the years and thought it was maybe time to why not, so we did.

Liking the new belt stitching

 

[Horsewright]

Thank you. I did have to find longer screws but it works like a charm for the front pocket. These knives are so great. So happy to have it.

Thanks!

 

[Horsewright]

The Mestano was a big help catching some Pennsylvania native Brook Trout for my son and I.

Sorry trying to work off my phone

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Took me a while to find these pics:

These are Golden Trout hybrids. Two distinct types here. These first three pics I didn't recognize as hybrid Goldens as I had caught quite a few before but they looked like the last two pics. I contacted Fish and Game with a pic and right away a State Fisheries biologist contacted me and explained that the differences had a lot to do with how much Golden an how much Rainbow was in each. He said a lot of it too, was based on location and how long the two species had to integrate. Interesting stuff. The one Nichole caught is a monster for these guys and like your natives the average is much more like the one I'm holding.

Got those knives all finished yesterday. Really looking good. Sharpening today and starting the sheaths. Might get some roping practice in if the hurricane winds we've had the last couple of days hold off.

 

[peanutsxx]

Great pic Amigo. Good to see that Cowboy getting some use!

Speaking of a Cowboy. I was at a cutting event last Saturday and saw this young cowboy with his Horsewright Cowboy in a Slotted sheath:

He showed me the knife it was a Cowboy in AEB-L with cocobolo for the handle. It had quite a bit of wear on it. He said he carries it daily. He pointed out that he had one of our show legal curb straps on his bridle too:

Kinda a funny not really deal. While back I made a friend a belt for his birthday. It was hanging in his closet on a rack with all his other belts. His daughter's dog got in to the closet somehow and ate the tips off of all his belts! With the new one I built him:

Something new for us too on the belt front is we've started doing a decorative "gunslinger" stitch. We've been asked about this a lot over the years and thought it was maybe time to why not, so we did.

I'm finishing off a new batch of knives right now. Will be buffing and polishing them today. There will be some new interesting handle materials and combinations too.

Nice work as always, Dave! My son-in-law made me a belt with that stitch pattern -- now I know what its called!

 

[ecallahan]

Took me a while to find these pics:

These are Golden Trout hybrids. Two distinct types here. These first three pics I didn't recognize as hybrid Goldens as I had caught quite a few before but they looked like the last two pics. I contacted Fish and Game with a pic and right away a State Fisheries biologist contacted me and explained that the differences had a lot to do with how much Golden an how much Rainbow was in each. He said a lot of it too, was based on location and how long the two species had to integrate. Interesting stuff. The one Nichole caught is a monster for these guys and like your natives the average is much more like the one I'm holding.

Got those knives all finished yesterday. Really looking good. Sharpening today and starting the sheaths. Might get some roping practice in if the hurricane winds we've had the last couple of days hold off.

Beautiful! Looks like you were using a fly rod?

 

[Horsewright]

Yes sir both of our preference

 

[jfk1110]

 

[Horsewright]

Nice work as always, Dave! My son-in-law made me a belt with that stitch pattern -- now I know what its called!

Nichole does that stitching. She just finished a purse last night where that is how she did the shoulder strap.

Beautiful! Looks like you were using a fly rod?

I use a short 3 weight and she uses a 4 weight for those streams.

 

[echoscout]

These are Golden Trout hybrids. Two distinct types here. These first three pics I didn't recognize as hybrid Goldens as I had caught quite a few before but they looked like the last two pics. I contacted Fish and Game with a pic and right away a State Fisheries biologist contacted me and explained that the differences had a lot to do with how much Golden an how much Rainbow was in each. He said a lot of it too, was based on location and how long the two species had to integrate. Interesting stuff. The one Nichole caught is a monster for these guys and like your natives the average is much more like the one I'm holding.

Enjoyed seeing your fishing pic pard