Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Primitive Skills => Topic started by: bjrogg on April 03, 2022, 12:04:33 pm
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I’m certainly not the best leather worker, but I have done a few simple projects.
Don’t need much for this one. A little hide, a scissors, a stapler and a large needle.
First step. Cut lace by cutting it from around the outside of hide.
Bjrogg
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Then the hard part. Making yourself cut up that hide.
I’m not going to need much hide for this project and a few holes in the right places aren’t going to hurt anything. Makes it a little easier to cut this piece off the hide. No measuring. Just using what I have.
Bjrogg
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Then I lay the cut piece over the hide as a rough pattern. I think this spot will work nice and not waste much hide.
Bjrogg
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I have these two pieces
Bjrogg
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I put them together how I want them and staple them together.
Bjrogg
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Then I stitch them together using the lace I cut and a large needle. I’m using a different color for contrast.
Bjrogg
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I stitch it together all he way around
Bjrogg
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Then I stitch it all the way around again 180 degrees out of phase from the first time around. I’m also using a different color from first pass.
Bjrogg
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Then I make a Flemish twist strap and attach it to the flap of my sheath using a piece of river cane for a stiffener.
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Next is the magical part.
Cutting fringe. I love fringe. It makes all the unmeasured scraps look neat and gives the whole project the look I like.
Bjrogg
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Pretty simple. A little crude. Just my style.
I hope you give it a try
Bjrogg
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Nice ! Way Kewl - Bob.
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Nice work.That'll hold that knife nice and secure.
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Thanks Bob
Thanks Ed. Pretty crude compared to some of the fine stuff you’ve done. It’s a start though and I kinda like this look.
Getting a little more comfortable using my leather. Maybe I’ll even get up enough nerve to cut up one of my brain tan hides .
Bjrogg
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Nice job. Great use of the material, too! Nothing wrong with a primitive look! :OK
Hawkdancer
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Thanks Jerry.
I do really like that the only material used is the hide
Bjrogg
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I like it, simple, nice work,also like the overalls. ;) :) That's all I wear unless going to Church. ;) :) I am like you, hate to cut up a good clean hide, I do a lot and always have 1 or 2 that don't turn out good all over so i keep them to cut up for projects, the others I just keep to spread out on something, cover up with, look at or trade. :)
Pappy
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Thanks Pappy.
I really like the overalls. I was asking my wife to get me them for years and she always told me I wasn’t old enough. One night about a month before my 60th birthday I found a bag sitting on the kitchen table. It had a pair of bibs in it. My wife said I wasn’t supposed to see that.
I asked her if I could try them on anyway. I’ve been wearing them ever since. It’s amazing how much more work I can get done not having to use one hand to hold my pants up and they are so comfortable. Even in the heat people ask aren’t they hot. Not really. They fit loose and the slightest breeze blows down my leg. Actually think they are cooler.
Bjrogg
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It always amazes me the work that was done a couple of hundred years ago by people with far less sophisticated tools.
Nothing wrong with being thrifty here.I have those traits myself.
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It always amazes me the work that was done a couple of hundred years ago by people with far less sophisticated tools.
Nothing wrong with being thrifty here.I have those traits myself.
It is amazing isn’t it Ed.
One thing is they didn’t sit in front of a TV.
I think they made things to improve their lives as much for entertainment as for using them.
Kinda like half the fun of a bow is making it.
Bjrogg
PS you have some real skill and knowledge Ed. I always enjoy looking at your work.
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Thanks but I feel it's so so and good enough for myself.There are some real artisians out there.Going to buckskinning camps and trade fairs gives a person some insight on ideas etc.
Check out the work shown on the PP site sometime.
Good thing about stone point knives is that they will never ever rust.
Got some deer & elk leg pouches and full length pants from 2 bucks app. the same age I'll get around to making sometime.Shot both the bucks with primitive equipment too.Kind of an added incentive.
They sure wear nice.
Make enough stuff with enough hides around makes it easier to cut into those brain tan hides.It's best to make things with a lot of fore thought done first.No impulsive moves.
Leather work is something that just grows on a person I guess.Sorta like handling furs too.
I believe it's a connection to where all these things come from.
Way too many disconnected people out there nowadays.