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Living History Equipment and Leather Goods

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Beaver News #46 – January 30, 2017

This time Mark talks about a passion of his, Living History re-enactment. Ever since he got introduced to it back in the late seventies, while living in Germany, he is hooked.

Early on he manufactured his own outfits and gear and has built many authentic items over the years including a 1930’s VON nurses bag made off an original for the Burnaby Village Museum.

In today’s video, he shows a big variety of the living history products that we manufacture for re-enactors including:

  • Trotter Knapsack
  • Rawle Pouch
  • British Cartridge Box with or without tin insert
  • Cap Pouches
  • Wood and Leather Canteens
  • Belts of all kinds
  • Cross Belts for bayonets
  • British Military Suspenders
  • Haversacks in canvas and vulcanized rubber
  • Civil war cartridge boxes
  • cap pouches
  • etc etc

 

To watch it click the image below.

Signature 3D Cartridge Loops

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Beaver News #45 – January 16, 2017

In this week’s Video Mark is talking about the different kinds of cartridge loops, especially about our Signature 3D loops, and how they are manufactured.

He also explains how he builds these loops onto belts, holsters, staging strips etc in a way that they never expand and become too loose for your cartridges to the point that they fall out.

You find these 3D loops on the following products in our Online Shop:

Gun Belt Prospector
Mare’s Leg with Cartridge Loops
Mare’s Leg with Cartridge Loops and Concho/Keeper
Buscadero Rigs
Single Holster Rig Desperado

We hope this video is helpful and gives you some ideas on cartridge loops, the different styles and how they are put together.

To watch it click the image below.

Custom Buscadero Rig

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Beaver News #43 – December 5, 2016

In this week’s Video, Mark talks about our custom handmade Buscadero Rigs. He actually shows off the rig that he is using when he does Cowboy Action or other fun shoots.

All our Buscadero rigs are made of high-quality leather, they are hand cut, bevelled and edged and come with

  • Buscadero Belt lined smooth or with suede
  • Ranger Style Buckle with quick screws for easy exchange of buckle
  • Re-inforced slotted panels on both sides
  • custom fitted and moulded holsters (You can check out this video to find out how we are making these).
  • quick release hammer tabs
  • leather buckle straps or lace tie-downs
  • Signature style 3D cartridge loops, standard is 12 loops, in one row or split 6 and 6
  • your choice of Conchos at extra cost

Check out the video below:

You can customize your rig at extra cost with:

  • border tooling
  • basket weave
  • carved floral or oak
  • custom carving

Contact us for a quote.

Spend Remembrance Day with this Veteran

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Beaver News #42 – November 14, 2016

In this week’s Video, we take you behind the scenes and let you be part of how this veteran spends Remembrance Day 2016.

In previous years Mark was part of the Seymour Battery (Seymour Artillery) and their Salute in Port Moody,

2015 Remembrance Day with https://beavermountainworks.com

2015 Remembrance Day

But this year he went back to the way he prefers to spend this special Day and how he’s honouring his fallen comrades and fellow veterans, the POW’s (Prisoners of Wars) and the MIA’s (Missing in Action).

Timeline: 
0:15  How Mark starts the day
1:15  Saddle up
1:25  where Mark is at 11.11 am
2:40  does he have a whole horse or not?
3:30  later in the day, the Salute at the fire
4:20  How Mark ends this special day

Spend the day with Mark by clicking here or on the image below.

Forget about the Ghosts, beware of the White Spirit Wolf

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Beaver News #41 – October 31, 2016

In this week’s Video, we wanted to talk about Archery Supplies, items you dream of that we can make.

It started off really good until Mark realized that it was Halloween… after that we don’t exactly know what happened other than Mark is gone and in his place sat the White Spirit Wolf….  but watch for yourself:

by clicking here or on the image below.

Since you have to do your own leather work until Mark transforms back into human form, check out our How-to Videos: 

Tutorial: How to cut out a corner

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Beaver News #40 – October 17, 2016

In this week’s Video, we are talking about how to cut out a corner when doing leather work – not to confuse with How to cut a corner when doing leather work 😉

This tutorial will even be valuable to you if you are not doing leather work yourself but you are (or might be in the future) a customer that wants to buy an item hand made from leather. After watching this video you know what to look for to see if the artist knows his craft and went the extra mile to ensure he produces a beautiful and high-quality item.

If you are doing leather work yourself you might have struggled with this task in the past and have ended up with that unwanted cut that Mark shows at 2:55. Then you probably tried to fix it but ended up messing it up even more. Let Mark show you this simple trick so in the future cutting out a corner will not be any trouble at all.

Watch the video by clicking here or on the image below.

Other How-to Videos :

Specialty Project Trapeze

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Beaver News #39 – October 3, 2016

In this week’s Newsletter and Video we would like to remind you, that we don’t just manufacture Holsters, Belts, Briefcases etc but that we stand by our motto:

You dream it – we make it!

Mark was working on a project for a client who is into acrobatics like they do in circuses. He made a padded leather lace-up cover over a shackle on a trapeze hoop. Check out the video below and don’t miss the hint of the Day at 3:18.

Watch the video by clicking here or on the image below.

Back to work after the Summer Break

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Beaver News #38 – September 19, 2016

Well after a long unintentional Summer Break we are back with our Beaver News…. did you miss us?

Of course, we also have a new video for you, to start the new season we give you a quick look behind the scenes and show you how hard we work here at Beaver Mountain Works. Enjoy.

Watch the video by clicking here or on the image below.

We have been very busy all summer long with a steady stream of custom leather work. At the end of September, we moved our workshop for 10 days to the Heffley Creek Black Powder Rendezvous. Here two impressions:

2016 Heffley Creek Rendezvous https://beavermountainworks.com You dream it - we make it!

2016 Heffley Creek Rendezvous. As you can see this is a primitive Rendezvous so our Shop and Trading Post were housed in a tent.

2016 Heffley Creek Rendezvous https://beavermountainworks.com You dream it - we make it!

2016 Heffley Creek Rendezvous. Here you see the Shop and Trading Post from the side and a customer busy working on his moccasins

Molded and lined Mare’s Leg Rig

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Beaver News #37 – May 30, 2016

In this episode, Mark introduced ‘the big brother’ of our famous Mare’s Leg Holster

This holster comes fully lined and form fitted to the rifle. We can manufacture the following variation of the regular Mare’s Leg also in this higher end version such as:

– border tooling only
– with Keeper/Concho
– Last Bullet

We can build it as a slide-on holster that you can wear with any gun belt (i.e. our unlined Prospector Belt or our lined Drifter Belt) or with a holster backing to wear “cowboy Style” on a Buscadero belt.

Watch the video by clicking here or on the image below.

Firearm Covers

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Beaver News #36 – May 16, 2016

In this little episode Mark talks about covers for your firearms.

We manufacture a broad variety of different cases, socks, and covers for your precious rifles and shotguns.As you will see in the video, we can use

  • Hudson Bay Blankets
  • Deerskin
  • Canvas
  • Witney Blankets
  • Civil War Blankets

We can also make it out of cowhide leather and we make wooden cases lined in and/or covered in leather although we don’t show any of these in this video.

Watch the video by clicking here or on the image below.