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Good list. I like the fork, historically correct for period work lol. I have a sheath that i made using only a pocket knife, a single piece of leather strap and some leather shoe lace. Its not a fashion statement by any means but its worked for over 40 years.

man you have a unique and wonderful style. Beautiful!!

i got one of those humpbacked bowie blades from a friend one time, i took my Dremel tool, all i had at the time, and cut the hump off and made it a drop point. with your humpback bowie your sheath can be made the same way as a straight blade it will just have to be wider to fit.

you be careful man that heat stroke is no fun!! stay hydrated..

i do it like him also but i will add the needle positions are also determined by the direction of the angle of the holes and the direction you are sewing. if you sew front to back then placement is different than sewing back to front for example. I didn't watch the whole video maybe he mentioned that.

"Leatherwork" covers thousands of products and thousands of tools of every kind. could you be a bit more specific. sewing machines. stamps, hammers, knives???? No single company makes everything. What do you plan on making, boots, bags, holsters? Everyone has their own opines mine is vintage/ antique tools overall are better quality than the majority of the modern stuff i have tried.

beautiful as always. i love that period type of tooling you do it really makes them unique.

A picture of your blade would help, most of the d guard bowies are straight blades with a clip point and many of the period sheathes are simple fold over /taco type sheathes. Most of those i have looked at had no means to secure the blade, because its length doesn't make it a blade that will easily fall out of its sheath. Period sheath could mean about anything in this case most folks in the 1800's either personalized the existing sheath or made their own the best way they knew how.

yup and available feed is the reason, you can look at the United states on google earth for the best image. Where the Midwest ends and the west begins you will see a distinct color change the earth goes from pretty green to desolate brown. That big brown brown area is where the wild west happened and where farms stopped and ranches started. Why because there was little water and even less fertile soils. After the civil war broke assed men, now known as rootin tootin cowboys would gather wild Spanish cattle and herd them out into that big dry brown area, about a 1/3rd of the US, let them feed on what little grass there was then herd or after the railroad was built ship them back to the Midwest to feed lots which btw were invented at this time to fatten up those range cattle before sale for slaughter. Why because the Midwest has plenty of good feed while the west doesn't. So out here where i live there is a marked difference between ranches and farms and a marked difference on how raising cattle is successfully done. There is little green pasture land to do both, winter cattle and graze cattle in the summer. It was and still is a very precarious business out here. one bad winter or one dry summer could make a rancher sell off most of his entire herd no matter what age they are. You folks in the Midwest can easily feed a cow forever for free and let it have as many calves as you want. Its amazing as i write this i realize the picture in each of our heads of a cows life. i see them daily out in a vast desert wandering miles through sagebrush and sand feeding on what little they can find while some of you may have a much different picture of cattle lazily standing around grazing in rich succulent grass. ya gotta love the world as it is.

Both references from Canadian sites. Veal means the meat of a bovine animal that has the maturity characteristics set out in Schedule I to Part IV and a carcass weight of 180 kg or less as defined in the Livestock and Poultry Carcass Grading Regulations established under the Canada Agricultural Products Act. Any carcasses not meeting the "veal" definition must be labelled as beef. So that they will constantly give milk, dairy cows are artificially impregnated every year. After a nine-month gestation, calves are routinely taken from their mothers days, or sometimes just hours, after being born. Male calves are sold to veal farms at auction and will be slaughtered at about five months old, while females will eventually become dairy cows themselves. These young females will never be nursed by their mothers, however; all of their milk is destined for human consumption.

yes my son is a youtuber two years into it and only about 160 followers he is planning on becoming rich and famous.

i never noticed the date but wonder why it popped up if no one commented recently, could be someone I cant see I guess. oh well!

yup

yup cattle ranching is done differently even here in the US. it is really dependent on how much natural feed they can get on the land they have to use that created the different methods long long ago.

Statistically yes but reality is no. Veal comes from two month old's at the latest.so no the herd isn't 50 /50 more than a couple of months on any dairy farm. Sorry Sheila its about money and profit and dairy people and ranchers are not making money feeding critters they cant feed for free that is the reality of life on a farm or ranch.

very cool!!!! i use something similar for rabbits too, longer ties so the rabbits drag in the snow the fleas if they have any fall off behind you that way lol.

i also commend you for the willing ness to take your time and make videos but did you google how many already exist? My suggestion is to google the topic you are thinking about before committing time and energy to something that may have been already covered ad nauseum. You tube is a fantastic learning resource imo but its become so overwhelming that a guy could almost watch leather videos on wallets, phone cases and beginner type doo dads for the rest of his natural life with little or no new info in any of them. If you are putting out new and previously unknown processes them by all means you wisdom will be helpful to many many folks. Good luck my friend in all your endeavors.

this will work just fine. i cant tell from the pic either it may be the back loop also covers the slot. like it would resemble the whole triangular back shape from your loop edge all the way around the slot and be the reason the slot area is sewn in the picture/ your belt would go directly into the loop section from the slot if you get my meaning.

It went great i slept right through it. no barby for me today finally stopped snowing lol stayin indoors with a good cold beer and some nice hot stew.

i use both too don't get me wrong but not on belts that go through loops and flex all day long neither will wear well but they have their place for sure.

i understand your frustration but what's nice is you don't have to use either one if you don't like em.

i wont argue the point the book is correct. its a cool book but i wont use tar as a liner for my bottles, i will take my set of foxfire books over this one any day, especially the wheel wright section. Most dairy farms don't have bulls at all, so no they aren't really 50% of the herd, at least not more than one, they are useless to them and cost money, especially if they smell the neighbors cows. Beef cattle are sold at two to three years old that's where the majority of leather comes from. The young male dairy cattle and beef cattle are sold at two or before also don't have calves so their hide isn't ruined by either fighting or breeding. beef ranching is a whole different concept than dairy farming. biggest is and what your not getting is they don't keep the females to have calves over and over. they sell the cows after one, or two, if they want to expand, then raise the calves. they also don't impregnate the whole herd every year they stagger the breeding so they can stager the cash flow as well see the idea is to make a living. Bottom line is you dont make a living selling old tough beef you make a living selling young tender beef and you cant sell old hides either apparently. The money is made on the animal not the milk, you simply cant feed a beef cow for years and make a profit, they have one calf then off to the feed lots if a rancher wants to increase his herd size then maybe two calves so there are very very few "old" beef cows if any at all. After being sold by the rancher they are then fattened up in a feed lot.

it appears to be a double loop stitch in most of the Stohlman books.

Beef cattle are sold at a much younger age usually two/three year olds. they breed them once usually around puberty. dairy cattle live for years up to 15 and have multiple calves thats how they stay producing milk. the book is correct.