Members dhaverstick Posted January 2, 2018 Members Report Posted January 2, 2018 My good friend, John Pruitt, made a couple traditional muzzleloader rifles for my dad and me and asked me to make him a shooting bag as payment. I finally finished it yesterday. What is really special about this piece is that the body of the bag is made from the hide off the moose I killed with my longbow in 2015. The light brown dotted leather is ostrich hide and the colored leather is ostrich leg skin. The trim and fringe are deer hide and I carved the buttons out of the antlers off a buck I killed with my longbow. Everything was sewn by hand using artificial sinew. The bag has one external pocket and two internal pockets. I hope he likes it! Darren Quote
Members Kulafarmer Posted January 2, 2018 Members Report Posted January 2, 2018 Sweet! You tan the hide? Or send out? Just curious Quote
alpha2 Posted January 2, 2018 Report Posted January 2, 2018 That's amazing! Quote So much leather...so little time.
Members rodneywt1180b Posted January 2, 2018 Members Report Posted January 2, 2018 Between it being an awesome bag in it's own right and the personal connection of the antler and moose hide I'm sure he'll love it. Great looking bag! Quote
garypl Posted January 2, 2018 Report Posted January 2, 2018 Beautiful work! I like the rifles as well - LH flintlock and mule hammer sidelock - don't see that many of either styles around much! Gary Quote Cowboy 4500, Consew 206RB-4
Members kiwican Posted January 2, 2018 Members Report Posted January 2, 2018 Awesome work. Is the moose strap a single piece or folded over for more strength? Quote
Members battlemunky Posted January 2, 2018 Members Report Posted January 2, 2018 Man, that is an awesome piece of work! That stitching and lacework is insane. Quote
Members JD62 Posted January 2, 2018 Members Report Posted January 2, 2018 That is some magnificent work! Those are very nice rifles too. I'd be proud to carry any of them( I'm strictly pre 1840). Quote One day at a time my friends John
Members Stetson912 Posted January 3, 2018 Members Report Posted January 3, 2018 Very nice! Where might one find info on the lacing applique and different stitching you did? Quote
bikermutt07 Posted January 3, 2018 Report Posted January 3, 2018 How could he not love it? That is awesome. Quote I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with. Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day. From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Members YinTx Posted January 3, 2018 Members Report Posted January 3, 2018 Awesome, he is going to get asked 1000 times where he got that! YinTx Quote YinTx https://www.instagram.com/lanasia_2017/ https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK6HvLWuZTzjt3MbR0Yhcj_WIQIvchezo
Members MichaelT Posted January 3, 2018 Members Report Posted January 3, 2018 Wow! That looks great- you really put a lot of thought into that. I really like the mix of different leathers-, the textures and colors really make it pop. I can't fathom why he wouldn't love it- and if he doesn't- check his pulse! Nice rifles too. Quote
Members Stetson912 Posted January 3, 2018 Members Report Posted January 3, 2018 After looking closer I don't think the trim around the inlays was laced was it? How did you do that! Again, remarkable work. Quote
Members dhaverstick Posted January 3, 2018 Author Members Report Posted January 3, 2018 Thanks, everyone! Kulafarmer, I killed that moose about 70 miles north of Edmonton, AB. The guide and I skinned it out in the bush and took it to a tannery in Edmonton which, oddly enough, sent it to someplace in Ontario to actually tan it. From the time I turned the hide in to the time I received my leather took about a year. What amazed me about the whole deal was the price; only $7 a square foot! The hide those rifles are laying on is the finished product and I think I ended up with a little over 30 square feet of 5 ounce leather. What I do to outline the colored pieces is glue down 1/8" leather lace around the perimeter and then sew it down with a single thread of artificial sinew using an "X" stitch. Darren Quote
Members Stetson912 Posted January 3, 2018 Members Report Posted January 3, 2018 Awesome. Thanks! Quote
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