I has been awhile since I posted any of my homespun stuff, so I thought I would break the dry spell. After spending many evenings looking through Madison Grant' Kentucky Rifle Hunting Pouch book I decided to make one.
The heart shaped hunting pouch is made from soft chap leatherand sewn with hemp. I free sliced the flap edges for a ragged look. The leather surfaces were airbrushed with different leather dyes to give a used, but not distressed, broken in look. I fired up the forge and formed a buckle for the 1 5/8 inch strap. The pouch measures 8 1/2 inches wide and 9 inches deep. To add some protection from the weather the flap measures 10 inches wide and 10 inches long.
The powderhorn is also a simple poorboy about 12 inches along the curve. The plug is red oak. The forged strap shackle was secured to the horn by soaking to soft deer rawhide strips in hot hide glue. When ever you mix rawhide or sinew with hide glue you get something like epoxy fiberglass only mountain made. The straps are brain and smoke tanned moose buckskin. The powder spout plug is made from a broken and broomed deer antler tip.
The roach belly knife is forged from 1/8" 1095 high carbon steel. The half tang blade measures 4 7/8 inches long and over length is 9 inches. The handles are thin scales of moose bone with 6 iron pins. The rawhide sheath is sinew sewn and attached to the the back of the pouch.
With the exception of the drill and air brush, the only tools used were hammer, anvil, forge, file, awl and knife.
Joe
The heart shaped hunting pouch is made from soft chap leatherand sewn with hemp. I free sliced the flap edges for a ragged look. The leather surfaces were airbrushed with different leather dyes to give a used, but not distressed, broken in look. I fired up the forge and formed a buckle for the 1 5/8 inch strap. The pouch measures 8 1/2 inches wide and 9 inches deep. To add some protection from the weather the flap measures 10 inches wide and 10 inches long.
The powderhorn is also a simple poorboy about 12 inches along the curve. The plug is red oak. The forged strap shackle was secured to the horn by soaking to soft deer rawhide strips in hot hide glue. When ever you mix rawhide or sinew with hide glue you get something like epoxy fiberglass only mountain made. The straps are brain and smoke tanned moose buckskin. The powder spout plug is made from a broken and broomed deer antler tip.
The roach belly knife is forged from 1/8" 1095 high carbon steel. The half tang blade measures 4 7/8 inches long and over length is 9 inches. The handles are thin scales of moose bone with 6 iron pins. The rawhide sheath is sinew sewn and attached to the the back of the pouch.
With the exception of the drill and air brush, the only tools used were hammer, anvil, forge, file, awl and knife.
Joe
