Just stumbled on to this thread. My first pouch, made about 30 years ago, was my daughter's high school era should pocket book. She was tossing it out, so I cut it apart and reversed the leather, so the "suede" side would be out. I sewed a sheath on the strap, and hung a horn from the straps...I was very proud of my authentic stuff...when I got a little deeper into the game, I designed and made a pouch out of "purpose bought" leather,,has a fancy weeping heart cut out backed by red leather...it has a sheath sewn at a 45 degree angle on the back of the pouch....as I carry my horn on the other side, there is no banging between the knife and the horn. I'm about to make a new pouch. It'll be a lot smaller, will have two internal pockets, one for the priming horn, the other for the odds and ends...there won't be a sheath on it, as I don't use cut patches...but pre-cuts, and I will use a bullet block while hunting. I'm not trying to get more PC, just simplifying...even when cartridge hunting, my whacking great bowie has been replaced by a folding Buck knife....one very good point that I would like to support is Reged's warning about positioning knives where they can do us harm...my strap knife was from an old straight razor, but even so, I thought about it a while before I put it near by heart....years ago, working in NYC, I was horrified to read about a fellow commuter who'd fallen on the station platform (tripped) and had had his pen go through his heart...carried in a breast pocket...Hank