Thanks, fellas. I just make stuff for myself, and it's definitely not in the professional class of items like James Rogers, Eric Fleisher, Eric Ewing, and others on here make. More like homespun frontier utilitarian stuff. But it is always all by hand, period correct as possible, and often sentimental value as well as I use hide, bone, antler, wood, etc that I harvested myself. The button on this wallet was made from an antler of a buck I killed in 1990. Its rack hung in a back workshop at my parent's house for 32 years as a hat rack. When visiting them last summer I saw that the skull plate had broken and the antler was sitting on a desk, so I took it to use it for accoutrements. The rack had 4 points on one side, and just a long crooked spike on the other. The tip of the spike side was made into a 50 grain powder measure, the crown portion given to Scott Summerville at CLA last year who made a nice knife with it, and the in-between remnant I made a couple buttons with, including the one on this wallet. I plan to make a double hunting bag with an attached sheath for the knife and will hang the powder measure from the strap. Here are pics of all the items made from that antler.
