All About Pocket Knives

Alien883 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:46 pm

TripleF wrote: ↑Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:29 am I know nothing about making sheaths.
What type of leather?
Where to buy?
Fixed blade sheath with no snaps.

Thanks

Sheath I have done...
Give me a shout if u need more help!!

Beautiful work!!!

Just need the money to buy some leather.....

Alien883 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 1:41 am

OLDE CUTLER wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 11:05 pm

Alien883 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 5:46 pm

Sheath I have done...
Give me a shout if u need more help!!

Some nice examples of your sheaths. I could never get into floral carving, preferred basketweave or animal carving. Your floral looks great.

Just playing around, never been taught by a pro....just having fun with it!!

Another option to carving and stamping leather is embossing. When I was working leather professionally 40 years ago I had some embossing dies made that greatly speeded up the process. I have shown some examples with a couple of products that I still have from back in the day. A local rubber stamp company could make these for me out of a zinc casting from my pen on paper diagrams. The zinc is relatively fragile, but by epoxying the thin zinc die onto a piece of 3/8" scrap steel, they could be kept from bending which would break them and they would last indefinitely. I had my makers mark stamp made this way and still use it. I used to make a lot of military replica holsters and Civil War replica leather and the US die shown was used to emboss that onto the flap holsters. I too learned everything I know about leather just by doing it and making every mistake there is to make.


This was embossed onto the top of leather shotgun shell boxes that I used to make for hunters and trapshooters. The black silhouetted area is depressed into the leather. When the dampened leather has dried, waterproof indelible ink was used to make the design stand out. I used to make large numbers of embossed belt buckles like this one I still use. Note all the wear and scuffing on it. An example of the US embossing die work The actual zinc casting for embossing the US on holsters and the belt Leatherman sheath shown.

I have found a drill press is the best way to make holes in multiple layers of leather. Trying to push a needle through by itself is not productive.

Well, it's not a knife sheath, rather an axe collar.
I bought some assorted leather pieces of ebay for my birthday, then scored a roll of raw hide at the flea market last month (never
seen soooooooo many leather dealers before, wish I had a few hundred dollars to drop).

Thanks to djknife for the punch!!

Watched a few YT videos and here's my first leathert creation!!

Lookin good Scott . I made one just like that too . Working with leather is fun .

In my area we have 2 shoe repair shops.
They have been very helpful and one is also a retailer of Tandy products.