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Showing posts with label Jack Weeks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Weeks. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2024
Monday, September 18, 2023
Hunting Pouch by Jack Weeks with Powder Horn by Cory Joe Stewart
With Fall fast approaching, I worked on getting my squirrel hunting rig together. Attached are pictures of my 6x8 rifle bag made from repurposed black calf skin with a hand woven strap with my flat horn made and scrimshawed by Cory Joe Stewart of North Carolina
I made the bag with 2 hanging pockets inside. Accoutrements include: a small loading block, a priming flask, a patch case, a ball tube, a powder measure and a vent pick.
Copy and Photography supplied by Jack Weeks.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Hunting Pouch by Jack Weeks
A veg-tanned, D-shaped bag(8"x9") with rings and buckle by Ben Hoffman. The tooled flap is bound with black calf skin and lined with red wool. There are 2 sets formed pockets on the interior back. The finish is hand dyed and rubbed with bear oil.
Copy and photography supplied by Jack Weeks.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Hunting Pouch by Jack Weeks
This is a 9x10 heart shaped bag of 3-4 oz. veg tanned cow hide with 2-3 oz. welt with fringe and 2-3oz. pocket and flap trim. The buckle and rings were hand forged by Ben Hoffman. The knife is a repurposed antique broken butcher knife made by I E N Holm and Sons Cutlery Sheffield-ENG. The blade is 5 1/2". I made the sheath. Feathers by grouse
Photos supplied by Jack Weeks.
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Hunting Pouch by Jack Weeks and Scrimshawed Powder Horn by Rick Lorenzen with Forged Buckle by Ben Hoffman
A cowhide hunting pouch by Jack Weeks
8x9 Heart shaped bag
Main pocket with calfskin trim
Light tooling on flap and strap
Brass buckle
Srimshawed horn 13"
Forged iron buckle on horn strap.
Copy and photos supplied by Jack Weeks.
Monday, September 13, 2021
The River Hunter's Clutch
Today I'm fortunate to live on a beautiful tributary of the Wild Scenic Ausable River located in Michigan's northern forest. Native people and early settlers often hunted deer at night, by lantern light, floating down river in canoes. Today slender "Ausable Fishing Boats" still carry people down river.
With the help of two of my friends, Rick Lorenzen and Ben Hoffman, I have put together a collection of period items, "The River Hunter's Clutch". I imagine it would suit a hunter of the day.
I started with my 9x12 inch cowhide bag. It has a tooled pinwheel on the flap, game straps and two wet formed shot bags. One with a thigh rolled neck cord and the other to be carried inside the bag.
Rick provided a 12 inch cream and black scrimshawed powderhorn featuring star shaped sunflowers. Within the stem he features the gospel passage John 15:5. Ben forged the black iron strap buckle and rings on the small game straps.
A measure made of river cane, a vent pick, an aged trade knife and an H&B trade axe with leather shoulder sheath complete this collection.
The Ausable has long been a source of fur, food and fun. I partake of all, except hunting deer by lantern light.
Jack Weeks
Two Ravens Leather Work
Rick Lorensen
Rick Lorenzen Powder Horns
Ben Hoffman
Hoffman Reproductions
Copy and photo supplied by Jack Weeks.
Monday, July 5, 2021
2021 CLA Live Auction: The Battle of Oriskany Set, by Jack Weeks, Ben Hoffman, and Rick Lorenzen
Reliable auction supporter Jack Weeks organized a trio of talented artists to create a stunning black powder rig that pays homage to the Patriot heroes who fought at the Battle of Oriskany in 1777. The battle, which took place in New York’s Mohawk Valley, was largely waged by the region’s German settlers and Native inhabitants.
Lorenzen’s powder horn captures the spirit of those Patriots. The piece is inspired by an original horn made by Frietrich Leppert, who served in New York’s Tryon County Militia. This large 13-inch-long horn sports a black spout and a mellow, aged patina. The surface of the horn sports engraving inspired by Germanic folk art, as well as depictions of a Georgian home and a gentleman smoking a pipe. The horn also carries an engraved German version of Psalm 77:2: "But I said; I must endure this. The right hand of the highest can change everything."
Week’s bag is the creation of an experienced craftsman. This sturdy cowhide bag measures nine inches square, is trimmed in black pigskin, and exhibits subdued floral tooling. As protection from the elements, the leather was dressed with beeswax and bear oil. The gusseted main pocket is large enough to hold tools, extra ammunition, and a small food sack. Just under the flap is an open pocket for ammunition, permitting rapid reloading. The set includes a few extras: a leather ball tube, a brass vent pick, and a powder measure.
Ohio blacksmith Ben Hoffman contributed one of his renowned hand-forged knives. Hoffman forged this blade, which is patterned after 18th century originals, from steel salvaged from an antique crosscut saw. The blade was triple-tempered and fitted into an aged deer antler handle. The cowhide neck sheath is hand sewn with linen thread and dyed a period-correct black.
For more information on the work of the artists, contact them directly: Rick Lorenzen: rickpsalm91@gmail.com Jack Weeks: jlwweeks@gmail.com Ben Hoffman: hoffmanreproductions@yahoo.com; www.hoffmanreproductions.com
Photography by David Wright
Text by Joshua Shepherd
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Thursday, September 17, 2020
New Hunting Pouch by Jack Weeks
I just finished this bag for squirrel season. Nine by nine inches square, veg tanned cowhide. Edges bound with black deer hide, forged buckle by Ben Hoffman. I like the large open pocket under the flap, to hold Lowell Haarer ' s loading block and my Jeff Botinger priming horn, easy access for reloading. Other items find plenty of room in the main pouch behind.
Copy and photos supplied by Jack Weeks.
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
2020 CLA Live Auction: KINGS MOUNTAIN BAG AND HORN By Jack Weeks and Rick Lorenzen
Hunting Bag - 8 inch X 9 inch, Horn 16 inches on outside curve
Jack Weeks and Rick Lorenzen have assembled a rig typical of those used by American Patriots that hailed from the back country settlements in Virginia, North Carolina and what is now Kentucky and Tennessee. These “Overmountain Men” from the western slope of the crest of the Blue Ridge, mustered at Sycamore Shoals, near present Elizabethtown, Tennessee for the march on Colonel Patrick Fergusons Loyalist troops raiding the Carolinas.
Charles William Parkingham Hooper Adams, (1745 -?) Jack’s 5th great-grandfather trekked east from his home in western North Carolina with Lenoir’s Rangers for the valiant fight at King’s Mountain South Carolina.
Ferguson had a force of 100 Provincial regulars and these were joined by 1000 Loyalist militia. Ferguson reached North Carolina's Broad River, where he issued a pugnacious public letter, calling the local militia to join him lest they be "pissed upon by a set of mongrels" (the Overmountain Men). Distrust and dislike ran deep on both sides in the battles in the Carolinas.
On October 7, 1780, a mounted force of 900 Overmountain men surrounded Ferguson on King’s Mountain and proceeded to attack uphill, frontier rifles and Indian tactics versus Redcoats and loyalists holding the high ground. The result was one of the salient victories of the Revolution and the beginning of Cornwallis’s road to Yorktown.
Jack and Rick have created a horn and bag to celebrate the Battle of King’s Mountain and Jack’s great grandfather’s service. Jack’s simple bark tanned deer hide bag has a woven strap and a forged iron buckle. The strap carries a forged vent pick and Jack’s hand made bear hair pan whisk. Bag and strap are hand dyed dark brown. Included is a handmade bark tanned deer hide bullet bag, dyed to match. It sports a whittled maple stopper, decorative cones with red dyed dear hair tassels and a braided hemp cord strap.
Rick’s superb gray-green scrimshawed horn is graced with period correct floral and geometric designs including an eagle, folk art animals and a crescent moon with stars. “Lenoir’s Rangers NC 1780” pays tribute this North Carolina Company that fought and died for our freedom, An engraved quote from the Bible, John 15.1, calls to mind the is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
Rick’s horn has a turned wood plug secured with wooden pegs. It features a panelled tip with an engrailled edging. Attached to the horn’s tip is a boar’s tooth powder measure. Jack added an adjustable vegetable tanned strap with a forged iron buckle. To complete the outfit Rick donated an 11 inch belt knife with a 6 inch blade and antler handle by an unknown maker. Jack added a sheath with raw silk lacing, and hand dyed to match the bag and horn.
Rick and Jack can be rightfully proud of this rig. It is constructed in the simple style of the overmountain folk but reflects their deadly purpose to safeguard their families and drive the British out from their land.
Ferguson was right. And Cornwallis was on the road to Yorktown
Jack Weeks
Two Ravens Leather Work
PO Box 214
Luzerne MI 48636
(909) 390 3676
Rick Lorenzen
Rick Lorenzen Powderhorns
PO Box 1640
Acme, Michigan 49610
To see all the Artists' contributions to the 2020 CLF Live Fund Raising Auction, visit our website at http://www.contemporarylongriflefoundation.org/2020-live-auction/
Copy by Heinz Ahlers
Photography by H. David Wright
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