Horsewright Knives and Leather

[Horsewright]

Working on a new batch of knives currently. Will have some pics and shortly. Some of you might be interested in a WIP I did for the Sheaths and Such section here on BF:

Post in thread 'Spur Straps a WIP'

Sunday at 1:38 PM

Moving on with our WIP:

After trimming the excess thread from sewing I will then trim all the excess lining leather off. I use a roundknife for this as it goes around the tight curves so much better than other types of knives.

I will then sand the edges of the parts getting the top leather and the lining leather even. Since my friend Coleman, at @Sharp & Fiery, said I couldn't show my Cobra Finisher any more I didn't take any pics of this step! The finisher sanding drum won't fit down into the two tight inside curves on the bib part. So to...

• Horsewright

• 
• 
• 

 

[echoscout]

 

[mitch13]

Working on a new batch of knives currently. Will have some pics and shortly. Some of you might be interested in a WIP I did for the Sheaths and Such section here on BF:

Post in thread 'Spur Straps a WIP'

Sunday at 1:38 PM

Moving on with our WIP:

After trimming the excess thread from sewing I will then trim all the excess lining leather off. I use a roundknife for this as it goes around the tight curves so much better than other types of knives.

I will then sand the edges of the parts getting the top leather and the lining leather even. Since my friend Coleman, at @Sharp & Fiery, said I couldn't show my Cobra Finisher any more I didn't take any pics of this step! The finisher sanding drum won't fit down into the two tight inside curves on the bib part. So to...

• Horsewright

• 
• 
• 

Very nice Dave.
Do people tend to add a fancy yoke to go with rhe tooled strap?

 

[Horsewright]

Very nice Dave.
Do people tend to add a fancy yoke to go with rhe tooled strap?

Sorry my friend what do you mean by yoke?

View attachment 2890246

It keeps bouncing around here between felt and straw time! Yesterday I was wearing a straw and Nichole was in felt.

That's a great song. Very funny!

So yesterday we were helping some friends. Our friend Mary Kay has some grass that needed eating and our friend John had some cows that needed grass to eat. So we met over at Mary Kay's to check the fence and fix some holes. Everybody was wearing a Horsewright knife and sheath on a Horsewright belt. I had on my snake gun in a Horsewright holster too, since we were trudging through some tall grass.

Then we ran home and saddled horses and drove over to John's to load his cattle:

There was one steer that cut back. There's always one. Maybe he heard John and I guesstimating his weight seeing if he was big enough to slaughter. Queen Sabe? Anyhoo we went back for him:

Ya always want to go as slow as ya can but sometimes ya gotta turn the burner up.

Helps to have a couple good ponies that ain't afraid to bodycheck a steer when he tries to back up that alley. Both of em smacked him with a shoulder.

Got er done and and dropped em off at Mary Kay's. Came home and cracked a beer. It'd been hot all day.

 

[echoscout]

"There's always one" ain't that the truth

 

[mitch13]

Sorry my friend what do you mean by yoke?

It keeps bouncing around here between felt and straw time! Yesterday I was wearing a straw and Nichole was in felt.

That's a great song. Very funny!

So yesterday we were helping some friends. Our friend Mary Kay has some grass that needed eating and our friend John had some cows that needed grass to eat. So we met over at Mary Kay's to check the fence and fix some holes. Everybody was wearing a Horsewright knife and sheath on a Horsewright belt. I had on my snake gun in a Horsewright holster too, since we were trudging through some tall grass.

Then we ran home and saddled horses and drove over to John's to load his cattle:

There was one steer that cut back. There's always one. Maybe he heard John and I guesstimating his weight seeing if he was big enough to slaughter. Queen Sabe? Anyhoo we went back for him:

Ya always want to go as slow as ya can but sometimes ya gotta turn the burner up.

Helps to have a couple good ponies that ain't afraid to bodycheck a steer when he tries to back up that alley. Both of em smacked him with a shoulder.

Got er done and and dropped em off at Mary Kay's. Came home and cracked a beer. It'd been hot all day.

Maybe my research was wrong.
This what I came across
"yoke", "branch", or "heel band", which wraps around the heel of the boot. The "shank" or "neck", which extends from the back of the yoke and is the area that touches the horse. The rowel, seen on some spurs, a revolving wheel or disk with radiating "points" at the end attached to the shank"

Well the metal pieces

 

[Horsewright]

"There's always one" ain't that the truth

For sure!

Maybe my research was wrong.
This what I came across
"yoke", "branch", or "heel band", which wraps around the heel of the boot. The "shank" or "neck", which extends from the back of the yoke and is the area that touches the horse. The rowel, seen on some spurs, a revolving wheel or disk with radiating "points" at the end attached to the shank"

Well the metal pieces

Gotcha. Yeah heel band is the term we use. We'll just say spur though collectively for all the parts. Yes sir almost always decorated particularly in our Californio style of western horsemanship. I have three pairs of spurs:

This pair was custom made for me by my good friend Mike "Tapadero" Vatalero of Taps Bit and Spur Shop. I told him something California and slipped the bridle and turned him loose.

This pair is silver inlaid and engraved as well as quite of bit of firework on the steel.

This pair that I seldom use I traded for with a German Bit and Spur maker at a show here in California.These two are silver inlaid and engraved.

My final pair is silver overlaid and engraved.

 

[mitch13]

For sure!


Gotcha. Yeah heel band is the term we use. We'll just say spur though collectively for all the parts. Yes sir almost always decorated particularly in our Californio style of western horsemanship. I have three pairs of spurs:

This pair was custom made for me by my good friend Mike "Tapadero" Vatalero of Taps Bit and Spur Shop. I told him something California and slipped the bridle and turned him loose.

This pair is silver inlaid and engraved as well as quite of bit of firework on the steel.

This pair that I seldom use I traded for with a German Bit and Spur maker at a show here in California.These two are silver inlaid and engraved.

My final pair is silver overlaid and engraved.

Some great details on those spurs
Very informative as well,
thanks Dave