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A fine fellow by the name of Richard, (a member of this forum and someone who many of you probably know) made a very nice rendition of a seax, which he sent to me to make a sheath for.
It took quite a bit of time to figure out what I was going to do with it, but I eventually settled on what you'll see here.
The sheath is made from 9oz veg tanned leather, dyed and hot packed in house. It's lined with beautiful, buttery soft Australian Red Deer hide, which came from the farm I grew up on, (we raised those deer for a short time). That deer hide is over 30 years old!
All the copper hardware was harvested from some very old wire which came from the site of a very old lighthouse.
The deer antler was found in the forest near my house, and the cedar base is from salvaged wood milled by a local mill, (very close to the lighthouse where the copper was from).
As simple as it looks, this sheath was the most challenging sheath I've ever made, and the pressure was exacerbated by the fact that the handmade knife it was made for was very fine indeed.
I feel like this was a success and that my work compliments the knife quite well. I'm glad I took my time with it.
It took quite a bit of time to figure out what I was going to do with it, but I eventually settled on what you'll see here.
The sheath is made from 9oz veg tanned leather, dyed and hot packed in house. It's lined with beautiful, buttery soft Australian Red Deer hide, which came from the farm I grew up on, (we raised those deer for a short time). That deer hide is over 30 years old!
All the copper hardware was harvested from some very old wire which came from the site of a very old lighthouse.
The deer antler was found in the forest near my house, and the cedar base is from salvaged wood milled by a local mill, (very close to the lighthouse where the copper was from).
As simple as it looks, this sheath was the most challenging sheath I've ever made, and the pressure was exacerbated by the fact that the handmade knife it was made for was very fine indeed.
I feel like this was a success and that my work compliments the knife quite well. I'm glad I took my time with it.
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