Mountain Possibles Bag, Flint Wallet, Scrimshaw Turkey Call

[Littlef]

I have a whole bunch of stuff I've never tried before.  Here's my first bag.  A possibles bag.  I made it out of 4-5oz leather, with a pillow ticking liner,  then added rabbit to the front.  I sewed it inside out.  I never thought I've get it turned right side out.  I took me almost an hour, and I had to beat it with a mallet to get the corners to collapse in.  But I got it, and the seams didn't rip.  It a beaver tail front flap.  I thought I would be appropriate to actually get a beaver tail to make it.  At the bottom of the strap, I picked up a few pieces of trade silver.  The front flap is I could get them to attached directly to the strap, so I wetted some 2-oz leather pinned them to it, and then sewed the 2-oz onto the strap.  I attached a patch knife and a powder measure to the straps.  

 

Then, I made a flint wallet, and a carved a moose in the front.  First time for trying to make an animal type carving.  Trying to push myself to do some different stuff. 

 

Finally, its not really leather work, but I made a turkey wing bone turkey call, and I tried doing a little scrimshaw in the bone.  At some point, I want to make a powder horn for the bag, and I want to scrimshaw it.  Needing to get some scrimshaw practice before I tackle that.  

 

Edited April 6, 2025 by Littlef
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[DieselTech]

Nice work. They all look great. 

[Gezzer]

Love the beaver tail and the scrimshaw work !  

[AlZilla]

Wow. That is a great way to use the beaver tail. Definitely eye catching against the rabbit.

 I just got a few beaver tails last week that need a use.

[chuck123wapati]

You are the best-dressed mountain man in the Rockies, indeed. Nice work!

Horns are fun getting them thin enough to see through will make you pull your hair out lol.

[Littlef]

4 hours ago, DieselTech said:

Nice work. They all look great. 

Thank you very much!

[Littlef]

4 hours ago, Gezzer said:

Love the beaver tail and the scrimshaw work !  

Thanks!  I love the deep grain pattern in the beaver tail.  It’s really holds the antique to make it pop.    I was amazed how much some simple scrimshaw added to the look.  I’m definitely  gonna try to incorporate some more of it in future projects.  

54 minutes ago, chuck123wapati said:

You are the best-dressed mountain man in the Rockies, indeed. Nice work!

Horns are fun getting them thin enough to see through will make you pull your hair out lol.

Thank you sir.  I truly appreciate that.   I’m kinda excited to start a horn, and work through the process.  

[DoubleKCustomLeathercraft]

Oh great! Now you got me wanting to get a beaver tail to work with. That bag looks pretty damn awesome! 

[Littlef]

15 hours ago, DoubleKCustomLeathercraft said:

Oh great! Now you got me wanting to get a beaver tail to work with. That bag looks pretty damn awesome! 

thanks.  I saw the description of these possibles bags, and the front flap was referred to as a beaver tail, because of the shape.  I thought, I wonder of a I could get a real beaver tail and what does it look like.  It wasn’t very expensive.. maybe 20 -30 bucks-ish, from a guy on Etsy.  When I saw that neat deep grain pattern in the tail, I was immediately sold.  

[Littlef]

On 4/6/2025 at 11:45 AM, DieselTech said:

Nice work. They all look great. 

Thank you very much!

On 4/6/2025 at 1:00 PM, AlZilla said:

Wow. That is a great way to use the beaver tail. Definitely eye catching against the rabbit.

 I just got a few beaver tails last week that need a use.

Thank you sir!