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Packing Iron for Knife sheaths
Packing Iron is a great reference for gun leather and Madison Grant's book, The Kentucky Rifle Hunting Pouch for pouches. Is there a similar book for period knife sheaths?
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not really - John Baldwin's book on beaded sheaths has some good examples, but the price has become ridiculous, but you can usually get it through Inter Library loan.
Other than that several of the books by Prof Colin Taylor have some sheaths included, Alex Kozlov's book from Crazy Crow on sheaths includes some good images of originals, The Peacemakers by Rl Wilson has some good examples. Much other info can be found online at various sites such as the sales and auction sites: Sherwoods Gary Hendrshott's various auction catalogs Cowan's auction catalogs Butterfields Greg Martins Museum sites are another source - her are just a a couple of them http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/north http://www.splendidheritage.com/nindex.html FWIW - many of the pieces today being marketed by modern makers as frontier pieces are not based on original examples and are what is known as "fantasy" pieces amongst the cognoscenti - this is not a derogatory term just one that denotes a piece is based on the frontier "that might have been" not what actually was, much like the "world" created by Virgil Englund for his work. Bottomline if you want to do documented reproductions then you will have to do the research of the originals and not copy or be inspired what other contemprary makers build without researching their work __________________ Chuck Burrows Hand Crafted Leather & Frontier Knives dba Wild Rose Trading Co Durango, CO chuck@wrtcleather.com www.wrtcleather.com The beautiful sheaths created for storing the knife elevate the knife one step higher. It celebrates the knife it houses. |
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Thanks Chuck,
I have Peacemakers in the library, I will pull it out. Btw gave Wicket & Craig a try and very pleased. Tooled a nice set of saddlebags. They get an A+ |
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