Just a Few Simple Ones (New Pics Added)

[Horsewright]

Just a few simple ones finished this past week.

A pancake sheath with a small Carlos Border stamp. To be carried over the left front pocket for a right hand crossdraw.

A Slotted sheath. This one can be worn 360 degrees on the belt. The belt goes through the slot and then over the body of the sheath.

A Horizontal sheath to be worn over the left front pocket.

Questions and comments always welcome.

 

[Robber58]

Simple but very clean and nice. Your work always impresses me. I am curious about the border around both sides of the zig zag stamping. They look like more than simply wide swivel knife cuts. I really like they way they make the stamping stand out.
Randy

 

[Guitarist7.62]

Robber58, looks like he ran a stitching slot tool over the swivel knife cuts.

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks Randy. I do make a swivel knife cut first. Then I use my pokey tool to widen the cuts. I do this several times through out the process. After the first cut I run the pokey tool in that cut which widens it. This makes keeping the dividers in the cut much easier to mark the second side of the channel. After the second line is cut I run the pokey tool in it too. Widening both sides of the channel makes accurate placing of the stamp much easier and then your pattern looks better. After stamping I'll run the pokey tool down both sides of the channel and all the way around again. When I wet mold the sheath the channels get squished a little. While still damp I run the pokey tool around the channel again. My pokey tool is a modelling spoon that has a spoon on one end and a rounded point on the other. Just a cheap little Tandy tool but I use it for a lot of things.

 

[Sonnydaze]

Absolutely top-notch artistry in both leather and steel. Nothing better, IMO.

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks Sonnydaze! Here's those knives:

 

[Gafishing]

Always impressed by your work sir

laying pipe all day, literally

 

[darkmatter35]

What I like about your work Dave is that your knives and sheaths are equally capable on the showroom floor as out on the range. Nice work.
John

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks guys!

 

[leatherman]

Sometimes simple can be the most elegant solution.

and those are elegant my friend.

 

[Doc.]

That first knife and sheath really speak to me. Just awesome work.

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks very much Dwayne and Doc. Appreciate it.

 

[Horsewright]

Couple of more following our simple theme:

The knife, my Sonoran Hunter (A2 at 62 RC) with sheephorn handle:

Had a few requests lately for slide type holsters. So decided to add em to the stable.

Sometimes getting too cool can bite ya. There's a reason I have consitently turned down requests for fully carved spur straps over the years. Here's why!

Ya just can't see all the cool tooling. Simple works best sometimes.

 

[Macan]

As usual beautiful work. And the sliders turned out really nice. From the picture (with both sliders)I would never say that the small one would work, but I have no doubt that you tried that allready (Its even more interesting that way)

 

[v8r]

Horsewright,
On your pancake sheath in the top picture. Did you use a welt?
The reason I ask is that I have a knife that I recently finished that I want to build a similar style sheath for.
The blade is made from quarter inch thick 5160, so I figure it would need a welt in my case. What are your thoughts?

 

[Horsewright]

v8r absoutely use a welt. I always use a welt on the edge side of any sheath. Check the stickies at the top of the page. There's a tutorial there on how I do pancake sheaths.

 

[Hengelo_77]

beautiful work

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks Macan and Hengelo. Macan yeah it works well.