Pards!!! Display your FINISHED!!! Small Leather Projects here.

[Camano Ridge]

KT, you have not lost your touch. I like that one a lot. Where did you get the US concho?

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Pretty cool, KT. Thanks for sharing.

[KidTerico]

Camano and Marshal thank you. KT

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Looks great KT, your grandchild will love it...

  tEN wOLVES

[KidTerico]

TW thanks a lot. KT

[Johnny Dollar]

Hello all!

So I decided to try my hand at building a set of holsters for my 1860 cap and balls.  I've never made holsters before so I wanted a simple design but had to carve something.  I made a floral design similar to the ones I carved in the knife sheath and bullet pouch I posted about a few up from this one.      These are unlined with a right hand cross draw.

-JD

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Nice holsters, Johnny. Those smoke wagons will be very happy in them. You're doing good work. Thanks for the pics.

[Johnny Dollar]

Thanks much!   now I need to make a belt for them.  I'm trying to come with the style.   

[Litl Red]

A friend of mine recently built a Bowie out of a really big industrial file.   Turns out scabbards for such aren't easily found.  So he asked me to knock him one out.   Good thing he really doesn't expect to carry the thing.  The "flattened" teeth are still almost fully capable.

But that toothpick does look awesome.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

That scabbard looks good with the knife. It's a nice rig. Thanks for sharing.

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Nice job Red, looks just like they use to build them in the day...


tEN wOLVES 

[Litl Red]

Thanks

The layout is a copy of one shown in a picture from a museum.   Saddle stitched and no decoration but with modern metal rivets.    The plain leather sets you up for the surprise you get when you pull out the knife.   The antler handle is from a deer he took.   He's got a trophy trophy there with that blade and that handle. 

[TUCO-the-ratt]

Lots of beautiful leather on this thread.

Here's my first try at posting a photo on this board. Hope it works.

This is a gun belt and holster I made about 20 years ago. (pictured with my new vaquero) It is styled after a fast draw rig rather than the authentic western leather style of the 1880s.

[Johnny Dollar]

Hey that's a nice rig Tuco!  Certainly has a lot a character too.

[KidTerico]

Tuco  Great looking rig.  KT

[Camano Ridge]

Tuco I like it, it has character.

[Ten Wolves Fiveshooter]

Tuco, well done pard, like CR said it has character...

tEN wOLVES 

[TUCO-the-ratt]

Thanks for the kind words guys.

Here are a couple more. A couple of winters ago my daughter (18 at the time) and I decided to each build one of the rigs in the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. I built, as close as I could copy, Clint Eastwood's rig with the same flesh side out, stitch pattern, buckle and so forth. My daughter did Lee Van Cleef's rig with the same stitch pattern dimensions and extreme forward rake of the holster. I photographed them with similar revolvers as those used in the movie.

[Marshal Will Wingam]

Those are some nice rigs, Tuco. Very impressive. Thanks for sharing with us. Looking forward to more of your work. Welcome to the forum.

[Litl Red]

You say this thread is for us to show "Small Leather Projects" ??

OK.  Small it is.  

My friend has some knives that have gorgeous antler grips.  They range from an awesome (size and beauty) Bowie to this patch knife.   The blades range from the Bowie that came from a really big shop file to the patch knife with it's blacksmith hammered Damascus.    They are so interesting themselves that we decided the scabbards should be plain and simple...  which was good since trying to match their level of interest would be nigh unto impossible.