YOLO! Yellow Knives

Horsewright said:
No. I've cut too far and not far enough but I can't recall ever cutting them off. A guy is gonna lose some in life for sure once they get to being used. Now on the other hand and sorry for the pun but I do watch my left hand holding the square closely. Have a chap making buddy that made the round apart of the tip of his thumb pretty square doing this with a roller knife. He now uses a piece of angle iron instead of a square! He's very experienced at this as am I and still it happened.

A lil primer on chaps or leggings I did back in 2018. Kinda cool:

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Years ago there use to be this little restaurant here in town called The Summit. They were very close to where Hwy 58 crossed the summit of Tehachapi Pass and thus the name. Could easily see it from the ranch. Their claim to fame was they had 58 different beers from around the world. They'd give you a little card and every time you tried a different beer they'd punch the number out on your card for that beer. After you had tried all 58 you had achieved "the summit". They put your name on a plaque on the wall, gave ya a t shirt and a coffee mug proclaiming the same.

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That is some expert-only technique, Dave!
 
Horsewright said:
No. I've cut too far and not far enough but I can't recall ever cutting them off. A guy is gonna lose some in life for sure once they get to being used. Now on the other hand and sorry for the pun but I do watch my left hand holding the square closely. Have a chap making buddy that made the round apart of the tip of his thumb pretty square doing this with a roller knife. He now uses a piece of angle iron instead of a square! He's very experienced at this as am I and still it happened.

A lil primer on chaps or leggings I did back in 2018. Kinda cool:

Horsewright

Thread 'Climbed the Summit!'

Years ago there use to be this little restaurant here in town called The Summit. They were very close to where Hwy 58 crossed the summit of Tehachapi Pass and thus the name. Could easily see it from the ranch. Their claim to fame was they had 58 different beers from around the world. They'd give you a little card and every time you tried a different beer they'd punch the number out on your card for that beer. After you had tried all 58 you had achieved "the summit". They put your name on a plaque on the wall, gave ya a t shirt and a coffee mug proclaiming the same.

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Speaking of Woolies…IMG_0741.jpegThis is a signed poster by a famous outlaw artist named Bob “Daddy-O” Wade that hangs in my office. He took a whole bunch of these lost old west photos starting in the 1970s and projected them on to large canvases and then painted them in color. His images are everywhere now. You even see them in card shops.
 
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DaveHS said:
Amazing!
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Thanks! They are the original knives that came in a store countertop display case where they stay. My step-dad gave them to me when I was a teenager. It’s a cherished collection for obvious reasons.
Edit- I’ve often considered carrying them, but just can’t bring myself to do so. They are all uncarried except for the one Soddy and Mini Trapper with engraving.
 
KentuckyBlackBird said:
That yellow smooth bone is so sweet, Dave.
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Thanks haven't used it a while as a handle material. Might be time to soon again. I've done some sheaths too for yellow handled knives. They are pretty common in our western world. I think the idea is if you lay it down in the branding pen while wraseling a bull calf or something ya can find it again eailsy in the dust, mud, blood and grime.

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DaveHS said:
Speaking of Woolies…View attachment 3031802This is a signed poster by a famous outlaw artist named Bob “Daddy-O” Wade that hangs in my office. He took a whole bunch of these lost old west photos starting in the 1970s and projected them on to large canvases and then painted them in color. His images are everywhere now. You even see them in card shops.
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That's cool. There's a poster in our lil movie house The Hitching Post Theater. Its from the early days of movies and features a film by two brothers that were actual local bandits prior to being movie stars. Don't recall their names. In some of my old books on Californios and vaqueros from that era say on up to WW1 there are multiple photos of woolies here in Ca and ya wouldn't think so cause of the heat. One that sticks in my mind is a group of ten to fifteen riders in front of a motel for a big 4th of July celebration in Firebaugh Ca. Now Firebaugh ain't named that cause of its frigid temps, especially in July. 105-110 degrees not unusual. I don't remember the exact ratio but the vast majority of these guys were wearing woolies. Don't know maybe they insulate so well they keep ya cool in the summertime too. Those above look like Angora or Icelandic sheep. I've made three pairs over the years. Two from buffalo and one from bear.

The last pair was for a guy that just wanted them to hang on the wall as he'd grown up watching westerns and just wanted a pair. Now they are spendy, the buffalo hide alone was over a $1,000 but he kept bringing me his stimulus checks. It certainly was hot the day our daughter modeled them for us prior to his picking them up.

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He asked what we could do with the leftovers. Wrist cuffs:

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Finally saddlebags:

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Made a purse for his wife too which I don't have any pics of but basically a single saddle bag with a strap. He wanted a top hat too but I told him that was above my pay grade! Heck if I was to make a pair of woolies now I'd have to sit down and think about it for a while. Probably a long while.

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