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    Here's some more I've completed last couple weeks. The colorful acrylic material has been selling really well. It shines up gorgeous!
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        #4
        Very nice looking. Good job. I really like that green handle.

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                  #9
                  Nice work.

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                    Who do you guys use for making sheaths? I make a very primitive leather blade cover basically two pieces of leather shaped for blade and sewn together with leather string kind of an indian looking thing but would like to look into getting some sewn or maybe even try them myself. How hard is it to sew leather. What kinda special equipment do you need? Right now I cut the leather out and use a plain leather punch. I just got a nice set of leather stamps for doing some design work I was going to start playing with also.

                    Thanks in advance for advice.

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                      #11
                      Theyre beuatiful how much if you were to sell these go for?

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                        #12
                        Wow, very nice!

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                          #13
                          I'm doing my own sheaths (and it definitely shows, lol). It's kind of like knife making itself, it's a slow progression and learning curve. Watch some youtube videos and go buy some basic leatherworking tools to start with.

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                            #14
                            i do my own sheaths, too. This is how I make a simple fold over sheath that has a belt loop and covers part of the handle.

                            I start with a cereal box. I draw a straight line, then set the blade next to the line with the spine facing the line and about 3/4 cm from the line. Then I trace around the blade. I try to remember to do this part before attaching the handles because it makes it easier to trace around it.

                            Then I draw the sheath around the blade. I make sure I have about a centimeter around the blade for the welt, but when I get up to the handle area, I flare the sheath out some more to make more room because the handle is thicker. Scroll down about 1/3 of the way on this thread and look how bbs383ci does it. I do something very similar.



                            I only draw half of the sheath. Then I use a pair of scissors and a straight edge to score that center line. Then I fold the cereal box along that line and cut out both sides of the sheath at the same time. Then I cut the belt loop off of one side.

                            Now that I've got a template for the sheath, I put it on some 6-7oz veg tanned leather, trace around it, and cut it out with an exacto knife. Before tracing it, though, I make sure I'm not about to accidentally make a left-handed sheath (unless that's what somebody wants). To avoid that, I'll put the cereal box template on my side to make sure I have everything situated correctly.

                            Once I have the leather sheath cut out, then I'll draw the welt on the cereal box sheath, cut that out, then use that as a template to cut a welt out of some more leather.

                            I do all my tooling and dying at this point. I get it nice and wet to do my tooling. Then I bevel the edges of the top of the sheath and the belt loop, then burnish the edges. I don't let the sheath dry completely before using a gel antique dye on it. The combination of these two things makes it easy to fold the sheath and the belt loop. I just kind of crease them. Once I've got it dyed, I'll wax the edges of the top and belt loop and burnish again.

                            Then I use contact cement to glue down the belt loop. I used to use Barge, but I've switched to a different kind. They both work fine. I'll first glue the belt loop into place, then use diamond-shaped pricking irons to poke holes. Then I use artificial sinew and two needles to do a saddle stitch to stitch the belt loop down.

                            Then I glue in the welt and glue the sheath together. Then I use the stitch groover to cut a groove where I want the stitching to be. Then I use stitch marker, which is kind of like a pizza cutter with points all along the wheel, to make stitching marks inside the groove. Then I poke those with a scratch awl to make them easier to see. Then I use a 1/32" drill bit in my drill press to drill the holes. This part would look better if you use a stitching awl, but I haven't got the hang of that yet.

                            Once I have all the holes drilled, I stitch it up with a saddle stitch and artificial sinew.

                            Then I wet the edges and use a edge beveler to bevel the edges. Then I burnish the edges. Then I dye the edges with the same dye I used to dye the rest of the sheath. Then I burnish again. Then I wax the edges with bees wax (whatever you use to wax your bow strings will work great). Then I burnish again.

                            At this point the sheath may be a little tight. I'll sometimes stick my finger in it to widen it a little where the handle will be, but it'll loosen up as you stick the knife in and out.

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                              #15
                              Nice Todd! And Sam makes the best sheaths I've ever seen.

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