Author Topic: A simple knife fix-it and new clothes for it  (Read 2643 times)

Offline ChuckBurrows

  • Frontier Knifemaker & Leathersmith
  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 1066
    • Wild Rose Trading Company
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
A simple knife fix-it and new clothes for it
« on: January 03, 2013, 12:39:25 AM »
A fairly simple 1870's tack style - bark tan body, braintan cuff, brass tacks, and rawhide lace. The belt goes through the slot and over the body.



A simple way to fix a cracked handle with stitched on rawhide and also it covers up the three rivets that weren't used much until after the late 1880's or so, thus making it more PC for the earlier period. The rawhide is decoed with brass tacks and three linen cord wraps. It's a small Russell Green river (hunter's style?) knife





aka Nolan Sackett
Frontier Knifemaker & Leathersmith

Offline ChurchandSon

  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 188
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: A simple knife fix-it and new clothes for it
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2013, 05:33:22 AM »
Awesome Chuck and one of my favorite styles of sheaths....A hunter/butcher in a tacked up case just looks....right!
My peening of tacks leaves a lot to be desired but you make it look easy.....
A Pilgrim in the Unholy Land of Kydex

Offline TwoWalks Baldridge

  • Top Active Citizen
  • *
  • Posts: 1336
  • Liked:
  • Likes Given: 0
Re: A simple knife fix-it and new clothes for it
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2013, 08:37:43 AM »
Chuck a thing of beauty. My favorite style of knife and sheath.  A sheath of that design was actually the first leather item I ever made in the year of '72. Of course mine was not that nice. but held up for years.
When guns are banned, fear the man with a hammer

Advertising

  • Guest
Re: A simple knife fix-it and new clothes for it
« Reply #3 on: Today at 11:26:52 AM »

 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk

© 1995 - 2023 CAScity.com