The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Thank youYour tooling & stamping keeps getting better and better, Bill!! A bunch of really good looking sheaths there.
I appreciate it 
Thank you
I just ordered some new tools and stamps. Nothing like adding new tools to add to stress level lol.
I believe we do. I have a couple that truly make me nuts !!!We have a lot of the same stamps.
Reminds me that I should do more stamping more often…
lol.
I believe we do. I have a couple that truly make me nuts !!!
We should start a stamp rental / loaner service lol.
Finished off a couple of oak carved holsters. Actually kept one for myself.
Test driving my new holster. Been so hot here lately that we saddle up about 6pm or so:
Caught a few drops of rain:
Nichole keeps kicking out those duffel bags. This time an almost nubuck type leather much lighter in color than her norm:
Whacha been up too?
Plenty busy round here:
Finished off a new batch of knives and sheaths:
These two are the gifts for the high bidders at a bull sale. Same outfit we get our bulls from:
Had five different pancake sheaths to oak carve this batch. Most I've ever done at one time:
Made this knife bout a hundred years ago. It was in for a new sheath and Italked the owner into a rebuild on the knife too. Re ground the blade (lots of life and hard use), re etched and re handled:
Whacha been up too?
Very nice indeed!! What finish are you using?
Just Wow my friend Wow! Bet those new stamps don't cause the same amount of stress as the first time ya sat down at that big Cobra?
Thanks you sir!!Dave!!! Nichole and your products are always bang on! So nice. Thank you for sharing such excellent photo’s.
Now isn’t that the truth !!!! Lol
I learned fast you don’t fight the cobra, just go with it lol
Or play a flute and ease it up out of its basket. But ya gotta wear a turban or well a cowboy hat.Now isn’t that the truth !!!! Lol
Speaking of pics. Its @#$%&%$# frustrating to take pics of chaps when ya don't have the body they are suppose to go on. So ya get flat and unexciting pics like this new pair ready for pick up:Dave!!! Nichole and your products are always bang on! So nice. Thank you for sharing such excellent photo’s.
Yep for you. Good deal. Bout the only thing I use is Bag Kote it has a lot of carnuba wax in it. I'd suggest it over the oil finish you are doing . It will help seal the pores against dirt and dust with out changing your matte finish. One coat is pretty much a satin finish and two coats and you start getting some sheen without being plastic looking.Thank you for the kind words, Dave.
For that particular sheath, I went with neatsfoot oil…super lightly. Leaves me with a matte finish and still soft feeling (but firm) leather.
If I want a shiny finish, then I use a flexible acrylic finish (also pretty lightly applied) and then buff the heck out of it. Haha.
Actually, a question for you (or anyone who uses a wax finish), what kind/brand of wax do you prefer? I’d like to try out a wax finish soon.
Edit: Now I’m unsure if that question was for me or John.
Or play a flute and ease it up out of its basket. But ya gotta wear a turban or well a cowboy hat.
Speaking of pics. Its @#$%&%$# frustrating to take pics of chaps when ya don't have the body they are suppose to go on. So ya get flat and unexciting pics like this new pair ready for pick up:
So yeah ho hum. So the guy came to pick em up last night but he didn't get here till after dark so no pics of him having em on. Well thats 3 pairs in my list down, 2 more to go as far as orders. The gal that I made the last pair for hasn't been able to get over and pick em up yet so they were still hanging up in the office:
So Nichole saw these pics of the chaps and said no ya got to do better. They're not something you'd want to use for advertising. So she came up with this idea and took these:
Bam! That works, literally in front of the front doors to the house but it works. So she played with the other pair too:
And hanging from the horn of her saddle:
Yep much better. Course she's been busy too. First matched pair of duffel bags for a husband and wife:
First two tone duffel bag and this is the first one she's built for stock, it'll be on the website soon:
And trying a new leather on our Travel Bags called Roughman Oiltan:
Looks great
Very nice job lol
Great job on the sheath! and the knife!!
