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Ernie - I go around to the trees that have been damaged a bit and scrape off the pitch - I like the older dried stuff when I can get it but the softer is good too you just have to cook off the moisture longer. I clean off as much junk as possible but don't get radical about. Melt it down and...

Here's my approximate recipe for what is traditionally known as coad or hand wax 60% pine pitch, 39% beeswax, 1% Olive oil - extra virgin Pitch: I usually collect my own but you can buy it cleaned an ready to use here - a pound goes a LOOOOONG way...

He's a Cowboy Action Shooter actually and as for making a sheath for you - sounds like a plan and I don't even need the knife.....let's talk whenenever you're ready

Here's what I made and sent over all to the same gent.... This gunrig in 2007 This pouch in 2008 This knife & sheath in 2009 Roughcountry glad you enoyed the view....

You can contact me via PM regarding your project. I specialize in historically correct period pieces such as you are requesting. Examples of my work can be seen on my website www.wrtcleather.com - I build historical pieces from the mid-1700 to the late 1800's so there are is a wide and varied...

The conchos are aged - the larger ones on the belt came from Indian Jewelry Supply (www.ijsinc.com) The smaller ones on the holster are from Buffalo Brothers. Ranger belts with multiple cartidge types like this are a product of the 1890's and early 1900's. According to my research paper...

With all due respect to bubba-san I'd say this is more than likely a war trophy brought home from Europe and not an American tomaahwk head at all It's a pretty typical war axe style from eastern Europe - look at the similarity to Viking era and later Euro war axes. 1) Tomahawks originally...

A South Texas rig that went to Italy..... This gent wanted open toes and a bit short with an antique roller buckle..... here's the knife.... A drop loop leftie.... Another South Texas rig with a Montana variant on the left..... And a later period Ranger rig with...

VERY nice Randy and the hawk sheath is in fact close to several originals in concept albeit not as long in the handle but still.... here's a couple of originals:

Thanks Randy! and I did get you're email with the buffalo hunters kit - sorry to be slow responding but I've, been fighting with a migraine for two days now and I'm still not sure who'e winning......

Glad ya'll enjoyed the view and thanks for the kind comments.. I posted pics of the finished pouch in a separate thread...

This is the finished pouch from my earlier Ciboleros Buffalo Hunting Set post.. A more rustic style of shot pouch made of alum tawed sheepskin and lined with linen. The flap of the pouch is made from the leg section and the edge was left as skinned. The linen lining adds a bit of fringe to the...

The Ciboleros were the Spanish and mixed blood buffalo hunters of Northern New Mexico. They hunted buffalo for meat and robes on the Llano Estacado aka Staked Plains of North Texas, Eastern New Mexico, and SE Colorado. To learn more about these intrepid hunters here is a link and there is even...

Actually Randy I never did get to use - I sold only the bag in Novemeber 2009....All the rest including the horn are staying with me along with my special knife...... as for making ugly - I just can't LOL!. I do have one in the works similar for myslef, but it will be quilled with some...

Cliff I had to chuckle at this question since it is one of the few things that sets my teeth on edge since the term possibles bag has been wrongly applied to the shot bag (also in period parlance: shot pouch, schott bag, bullet bag, bullet pouch, ball bag, or ball pouch) since the late 1960's...

Thanks you guys and Dan yes this one is MINE ALL MINE! I also have one of Gib's hawk heads and one other blade that is mine. Other than that I've got just a few other CactusRose pieces to make up for sale and then it will be the end of an era......

Since folks seemed to enjoy the last one here's another one - this was originally intended for myself but funds got short and I wound up literally selling it off my back The bag design, size, and decoration are based on the shot bags (one of the actual names used for such bags in the literature...

Thank you all for yor VERY generous comments - they are much appreciated. For me that's what it's all about for me. I am very lucky that I get to make my living (well sort of these days - this economy sucks!) doing what I love most, but it's when that new owner calls or writes and lets me...

In 2003 I began collaborating with bladesmith Gib Guignard, who shared my love of the American frontier and the gear carried by those who lived there and then. A short two years later Gib passed on, but before he did he made this very special blade for me as surprise birthday present. The blade...

Something a bit different in style for me...... The first mountain men came from the east and this set was inspired by those early trappers such as Forest Hancock and Joseph Dickson who went up the Missouri River in 1807 with John Colter, Thomas James who went west with the Lisa expedition...