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[ecallahan]

Here's a couple pics

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That all looks so awesome! I’m curious if you glue the leather to the shoes for your coasters?

Edit: quoted the wrong thread.

 

[Horsewright]

Here's a couple pics

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Excellent job! Very nice. I like the slide concept too. Probably what I use the most my ownself is a slide. I made it years ago for a Smith 908. But it happens to fit from smallest to largest: Kimber Micro 9, Springfield EMP, Smith 908, Springfield Loaded and Dan Wesson Specialist in 10mm. Again excellent work!

 

[Texoma]

Horsewright thank you for the compliment Dave
I really enjoy this thread your work is outstanding as is others who post
I don't post much and probably should

 

[ecallahan]

Some recents:

Twelve Horseshoe Coasters with brand.

With matching notebook cover:

A pair of water buffalo chinks with turquoise double fringe and highlights heading to Ohio:

Oak carved yokes with a brand:

This order included an oak carved belt:

An order that finally made its way to Norway. The duffel bag was hung up in US Customs for months. Thought it was stolen as they denied having it even though thats what the tracking showed. Weeks later showed up back at out local post office. We were in the process of making a new duffel for the customer and had added in the sheath and the IWB holster for his bother.

This one was shipping a couple of hours to the west of us:

This leather has been the favorite so far that Nichole has used. However, its gone, she can't get anymore:

Made this Loop Holster for a local guy. He's actually the grandfather of one of my cowboys:

This old Colt was taken in trade for a horse by his great, great grandfather. It was made in 1877. He said as a young boy he would clean it about once a week for his great grandmother who was in possession of it at the time.

I love all your work. I was wondering if you glue the leather to your shoes, for the coasters?

 

[Gary W. Graley]

E ecallahan here's a thread that shows how Dave goes about making those coasters

Horsewright Coaster Thread

and my small contribution to this amazing thread of wonder, you guys are creating some stellar items!!! so this seems pretty lowbrow but I think it worked out well. I recently picked up a BPS Savage fixed blade made in the Ukraine. The sheath for the most part is well done, thick leather, thick welt and they incorporated a dangler thingy for the belt loop. I'm not much of a dangler kind of guy so I drilled out the rivets holding the soft leather of the dangler off the sheath and inserted a threaded copper hardware through the top hole and then glued up a belt loop, punch a hole through the bottom of that and fastened it onto the sheath. So now while it doesn't dangle out of control, it will swivel out of the way if needed. Also now when I go to draw the knife...I draw the knife and I do not end up pulling the knife/sheath/beltloop dangler thingy...I just draw the knife, plain and simple. I ground in some curves along each side to give it some interesting look, instead of just straight sided.

I cut off the lower part of their belt loop dangler system which could also be used as the main belt loop, keep in mind while the leather looks thick and solid...it's not, it's very very very soft and bendable. I had left the lower rivet in place as it wasn't hurting anything by staying there.

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then I took the top bit that I left and glued the 'dangler' part to that stub and then fastened it together with copper screw and base.

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while that worked and would be one way of modifying it, the leather was just too narrow and soft to really work well, when you tried to draw the knife you also pulled the sheath at a weird angle.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

SO, I ditched that 'using what it came with' idea and took some 8/9 oz leather and folded up a belt loop, glued the lower portion together and punched a hole through so I could fasten that directly to the sheath. Which meant I had to drill out the existing rivets, so I drilled out both while I was at it, no sense leaving the lower one on there.

Here's how the sheath looked when I inserted the base of the screw section through the leather

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Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

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and now, when you draw the knife, you draw the knife right away and when you go to sit down or get in a truck/car you can swivel the sheath up and out of the way easily.

Again, simple stuff but might spark some ideas for those that have sheaths like this to make it a better carry.
G2

 

[Horsewright]

I love all your work. I was wondering if you glue the leather to your shoes, for the coasters?

E ecallahan here's a thread that shows how Dave goes about making those coasters

Horsewright Coaster Thread

and my small contribution to this amazing thread of wonder, you guys are creating some stellar items!!! so this seems pretty lowbrow but I think it worked out well. I recently picked up a BPS Savage fixed blade made in the Ukraine. The sheath for the most part is well done, thick leather, thick welt and they incorporated a dangler thingy for the belt loop. I'm not much of a dangler kind of guy so I drilled out the rivets holding the soft leather of the dangler off the sheath and inserted a threaded copper hardware through the top hole and then glued up a belt loop, punch a hole through the bottom of that and fastened it onto the sheath. So now while it doesn't dangle out of control, it will swivel out of the way if needed. Also now when I go to draw the knife...I draw the knife and I do not end up pulling the knife/sheath/beltloop dangler thingy...I just draw the knife, plain and simple. I ground in some curves along each side to give it some interesting look, instead of just straight sided.

I cut off the lower part of their belt loop dangler system which could also be used as the main belt loop, keep in mind while the leather looks thick and solid...it's not, it's very very very soft and bendable. I had left the lower rivet in place as it wasn't hurting anything by staying there.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

then I took the top bit that I left and glued the 'dangler' part to that stub and then fastened it together with copper screw and base.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

while that worked and would be one way of modifying it, the leather was just too narrow and soft to really work well, when you tried to draw the knife you also pulled the sheath at a weird angle.

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

SO, I ditched that 'using what it came with' idea and took some 8/9 oz leather and folded up a belt loop, glued the lower portion together and punched a hole through so I could fasten that directly to the sheath. Which meant I had to drill out the existing rivets, so I drilled out both while I was at it, no sense leaving the lower one on there.

Here's how the sheath looked when I inserted the base of the screw section through the leather

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

and now, when you draw the knife, you draw the knife right away and when you go to sit down or get in a truck/car you can swivel the sheath up and out of the way easily.

Again, simple stuff but might spark some ideas for those that have sheaths like this to make it a better carry.
G2

Thanks Gary! I'd forgot I'd even wrote that deal up. That link that Gary posted will help ya out E ecallahan . It pretty much details the whole process of making those coasters. We use Clear Gorilla glue for that project. The clear formula doesn't foam up like other formulas of Gorilla Glue and is very good at holding dissimilar materials like an iron horseshoe and leather together.

Great save on that sheath Gary!

 

[ecallahan]

I made a wallet for my son. I used burgundy W&C. I also got some John James needles and Ritza thread 0.6 mm for this. This was the smoothest job I’ve done. Good leather and tools and advice from you all. He loves the outdoors so I found a stamp with trees and mountains.

 

[Robber58]

I made a wallet for my son. I used burgundy W&C. I also got some John James needles and Ritza thread 0.6 mm for this. This was the smoothest job I’ve done. Good leather and tools and advice from you all. He loves the outdoors so I found a stamp with trees and mountains.
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Nicely done partner! I suspect your son will love it.
Randy

 

[Horsewright]

I made a wallet for my son. I used burgundy W&C. I also got some John James needles and Ritza thread 0.6 mm for this. This was the smoothest job I’ve done. Good leather and tools and advice from you all. He loves the outdoors so I found a stamp with trees and mountains.
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Great job! Nice pics too! Beautiful leather.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Not the most beautiful, crisp job…but a good start to a proto.

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

I made another one!

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

This is what my sheaths look like. They're probably going to look like this forever. And I'm okay with that! As long as I can make an adequate container for my knives, I'm happy ( and other people seem to be too!)

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

This is what my sheaths look like. They're probably going to look like this forever. And I'm okay with that! As long as I can make an adequate container for my knives, I'm happy ( and other people seem to be too!)View attachment 1954874View attachment 1954875

Pretty damn good if you ask me.

Are you sealing in the dye or just oiling it?

 

[eric brinkerhoff]

I'm actually just heating it up and rubbing in some beeswax! I get most of my leather from a fellow over in New Hampshire by the name of Andrew Wood ( a phenomenal leather worker who makes world class horse harness!) So the colors tend to be geared towards what looks good on Morgan horses!

 

[Horsewright]

Finished off a batch of knives and sheaths:

An oak carved holster for a Glock 17:

Couple of pancake sheaths for another knifemaker:

Nichole finished off this duffel bag:

Heck then we saddled up and went for a ride. Getting the horses legged up for our fall works next week.

Horsewright water buffalo belt, oak carved pancake holster and spur straps.

A customer sent me this pic. He'd taken one of my Rangeflap holsters and attached a harness from another chest holster that he had. Says its extremely comfortable and stays put whether riding a horse or a four wheeler or even fly fishing.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Dave, I never tire of seeing your work sir, very inspiring and the photos are well done too !
G2

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Dave, I never tire of seeing your work sir, very inspiring and the photos are well done too !
G2

100% agree with you on this Gary.

Outstanding work, Dave.

 

[Horsewright]

Dave, I never tire of seeing your work sir, very inspiring and the photos are well done too !
G2

100% agree with you on this Gary.

Outstanding work, Dave.

Thank you guys!! Appreciate the kind words.

Finished off a few tooled belts yesterday. Displayed this time with from whence they came:

This one was tricky. The silver buckle set was from another belt of the customer's that no longer fit. The tip had a unique attachment method. Basically a flanged nut set into the leather and then a screw from the bottom up into the nut. Lining that nut up with the small hole in the bottom of the tip was a trick!

Two large basket stamped, one small basket stamped, (tapered) and one Carlos Border stamped. Also made a water buffalo belt at the same time but didn't take any pics as it didn't come from that side of Wicket and Craig.

Another neat photo shared by a customer of our Horseshoe Coasters in use:

 

[Phill50]

100% agree with you on this Gary.

Outstanding work, Dave.

Yes I second or 3rd that.

Amazing work guys!!

I need to stop by here more often.

 

[Horsewright]

Yes I second or 3rd that.

Amazing work guys!!

I need to stop by here more often.

Thanks!