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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #620 on: October 30, 2014, 09:13:05 PM »
KT, thank you for the kind words.

Very Nice knife.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #621 on: October 30, 2014, 11:32:07 PM »
Those are some fine holsters, Henrik. Classy, as always.

Those scabbards look very cool, Camano. The bandolier is a great idea.

KT, that's one beautiful knife. Wade sure does nice work.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #622 on: November 10, 2014, 01:48:35 PM »
Customer wanted a Pancake style holster that snapped on the belt. Here is my version of a SnapCake (based on the Axiom style holster) This is for a Taurus Judge. Customer requested the two tone Ranger badge style Concho.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #623 on: November 10, 2014, 09:07:35 PM »
Camano keep m coming . Love your work. KT
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #624 on: November 10, 2014, 11:24:19 PM »
Good pancake design. It looks like it would be comfortable. Thumbs up.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #625 on: November 11, 2014, 07:15:29 PM »
C. R. ,It looks good , nice design… 8)

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #626 on: November 27, 2014, 08:54:53 PM »
Last two knifes scrimshawed by Linda Stone. KT
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #627 on: November 27, 2014, 09:14:07 PM »
They are both very impressive. I realy like  the second one.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #628 on: November 28, 2014, 10:30:35 PM »
Beautiful knives, KT. The scrimshaw she did is very well done.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #629 on: December 19, 2014, 05:59:10 AM »
Not leather per-say , but I hope y'll will find some interest in this trunk

here is the background... it's a survivor ..

A Victorian metal trunk circa 1887-mid 1920's , these trunks were used as Steamer trunks & travelers.
Mine and the subject of this re-purpose  and restoration is dated 1901.

I acquired it from Walt Disney World, where it had been in rotation use as a Emporium prop, that is it was used as a display piece
last used to showcase Disney Plush Characters.  
They,  I was told acquired it from Ringling Bros. Circus lot purchase 30 years ago ...Or so the inventory list states...

How I came to get it, is not so interesting, seems they were going to scrap it  ::)
I asked and they gave it to me  :)

So what I started with was, the trunk dented and with character, though it had been painted dull silver...
One could see the original color has been brown , and at some point navy blue inside  ???

So I began, first to remove the old paint but only to the OEM color... I decide not to hammer out any of the well earned dents..
and a search to find the parts to repair the locks missing pieces.
Ebay was my friend, and in my search I found several more Trunks for sale and selling at prices as high as $240  :o

So below is the $240 selling piece, the Mustard yellow one , and another in brown, I saw on Australian Ebay, bidding was @ 90 £ pounds  :-\.

and finally my restoration ,  ( appears to shine, but that just the angle of the sun through the bay window )
Note:  the restored  Titanic Steamer label I reproduced...

It is now re-purposed as our needed coffee table.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #630 on: December 19, 2014, 06:00:26 AM »
Close-up of the original Titanic steamer label  :)

Note: my reproduction above
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #631 on: December 20, 2014, 06:52:04 AM »
Howdy Major,
Great pictures and an interesting story to boot.

At the NCOWS Nationals I camp in the primitive area. I use a trunk that my wife's grandmother brought over from Italy in the early 1900's. My non period stuff gets hidden it. My father-in -law re-painted and restored the inside of this trunk.
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #632 on: December 20, 2014, 01:50:30 PM »
Very nice find, Major. It looks great. How cool it is that you were able to save it from being destroyed. The story around it is fascinating. Congrats. Thumbs-up for the label, too. Would a label like that be put on all trunks being brought aboard or just ones owned by the shipping line?

Johnny, that trunk is also a fine one. It makes a great end table.  8)

Thanks for sharing them, pards.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #633 on: December 20, 2014, 02:55:38 PM »
can't say on the label .... seems it use would have been rare ...
I liked the Titanic label so I chose to  use it... in reality , a trunk so labeled would be on the Atlantic floor  :-\
Unless off loaded at Cherbourg  or Queenstown prior to the fateful crossing.

Trunks of the time were often covered with such.... I reproduced a few old Hotel ones as well and attached them  ....a search will net many designs and I suppose they were the mark of a Trunk well traveled.
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #634 on: January 10, 2015, 12:54:23 PM »
This is a drinking flagon, a 'flacket' specifically. When the Mary Rose (Henry VIII's flagship which sank in 1545) was eventually raised many hundreds of objects were found and conserved. Among them was the original of this flacket. I found the archaeological illustrations online, magnified them to the right size and reconstructed it as accurately as I could. I wet-moulded it around two wooden formers using 8-9 oz. leather (the same weight as the original) and sewed the two halves together. There are two lines of stitching for watertightness.
I have yet to line it with brewer's pitch and fit a neck gasket. It's about 9 inches high.
It's more than likely that this type of all-leather 'canteen' was duplicated in other cultures. Mexican, perhaps?
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #635 on: January 10, 2015, 03:26:11 PM »
Skeeter,

Nice work.

I have two similar containers made for me by Erik Myall, a harness maker a Colonial Williamsburg.
The drinking vessel is called a "black jack" and was probably the most common type drinking container for most people.
The other is simply referred to as a "water bottle" (canteen)
These types of containers date back to the early Middle Ages throughout much of Europe and very easily found their way to the New World.
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #636 on: January 10, 2015, 07:10:52 PM »
Looks great, Skeet. Nice job carrying out that design.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #637 on: January 10, 2015, 08:29:18 PM »
Skeeter, it looks great.

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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #638 on: January 10, 2015, 10:56:58 PM »
That is very cool...
I have an old one that was shot bag or at least found with shot in it  :-\
not as large, maybe.
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Re: Show Off Your Non-Cowboy Stuff Here
« Reply #639 on: January 11, 2015, 04:22:00 PM »
Nice work every one, thanks for sharing and giving us a look see  ::)


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