#knife sheath

[chwiirleader]

This sheath was made for the upcoming Pearl Ellis art Exhibit on March 1st.

This leather Sheath was tooled in #hermanoakleather and features a birch bark braid pattern, signifying the interwoven nature of community.

I chose a combination of leather lace and copper hardware to compliment the look of the piece and as a nod to our indigenous metalworking practices.

[admiraltx]

I picked up some sheaths from J W Askew, Albany Texas today. Went ahead and ordered some more, they’ll work real well with my knives

[memetrash-coyote]

Now that everyone's gotten their gifts, I can post them! Starting with my gift for @memetrashmom, a fancy knife sheath for her favorite knife. Luckily, I have the same knife, so I didn't have to sneak around to get a tracing of the blade. It's been a lil while since I made one for a kitchen knife. I'm pleased with how it turned out and it's a fun contrast to the ones I made her husband lol

[armory-rasa]

Knife day #2 -- this goes a lot faster when you know what you’re doing

Once it had reached a neighborly hour for hammering, I beveled the design:

And man oh MAN, what a difference using good leather makes. Look at that lovely burnishing. 😻😻😻

Experimented with using a seeder stamp to make the background this time:

It’s interesting; I don’t hate it. Reminds me of frog eggs.

Shaping it around the knife over lost a lot of the detail near the fold though. Next time I’ll make sure the tooled parts stay a little further from the spine:

I did some manual touchups to the tooling, and finished the shaping:

Stained it (with Eco-Flo medium brown antiqueing gel, followed by Fiebings dark brown antiqueing paste), gave it a topcoat of resolene:

With the stain, I actually prefer the seeder to the backgrounding texture I used yesterday. I don’t even think it took any longer to do.

Lay down contact cement on inside edges, wait 15 minutes:

Press sides together, decide where you’re going to cut off the excess. I had learned yesterday (but forgotten about, and failed to correct for when I was designing the pattern for this one) that the edge needs more allowance around the handle than the blade, in order to have enough room to fit the rivets, so I widened it out a bit:

Cut off the excess: 

Round & smooth the edges with dremel and sandpaper:

Stained edges and burnished them with tokonole again, then punched my holes. (And set an eyelet into the top, instead of putting two belt loops):

Put in the rest of the rivets and BAM, FINISHED.

and oh my god it is the cutest thing EVER. LOOK AT THIS LITTLE GUY. LOOK HOW PHOTOGENIC HE IS. 😍😍

(I’ll be honest, I’m considering keeping this one for myself instead of selling it.)

So yeah -- sheath all done, and pre-patterning it before molding was a smashing success. I’m looking forward to making more seaxes with knife guy, because I’ve got the sheaths DOWN, my dudes.

[copperrein]

[thewarfactoryau]

Quick little afternoon project to practice some weathering and finishing ideas. Belt sheath for a small knife. Bees wax and burnishing on the edges, mixed dye and chems on the finish, general wear via chisels and sandpaper, extra antiquing gel well layered on top of it all

[safitechs]

Best quality leather sheath for knife

[codyjordanleather]

A knife sheath I made for a morakniv companion