Still working on my display situation, my axes are spread out between my shop and garage. I’m thinking large locking metal cabinets, but for the time being many of them stay stacked closely in a safe which makes removing them difficult without clanking them around and risking chipping a bit or something.
I have used rags to separate them but that is not a good solution and doesn’t do much to protect the bit.
My collection is growing far more rapidly than I could make sheaths for and even if I was just stitching up some simple masks, I don’t want to make dozens of them and don’t need them for looks or travel but rather just for storage. I certainly didn’t want to stitch anything and didn’t even really want to do a lot of riveting.
So I wanted to make the cheapest easiest mask that I could possibly come up with.
These literally cost me pennies and take less than 2 minutes to make.
Again not for looks. Just trying to figure out if I could make 100 masks for almost no cost or effort. I’m sure this has been done before but here is what I came up with.
First make nice with your local high-end furniture store and ask them for their discontinued remnants of leather upholstery. I had some extra Line 20 and even smaller Glove Snaps laying around. The light weight glove snaps worked particularly well with the soft thin leather but both were fine.
Cut the swatches into squares then in half so you have triangles.
Envelope fold the bottom and side and secure the two with the back of snap then put the front of the snap on the top flap. Doesn’t take but the first couple to figure out the right spacing so your corners aren’t too open or bunched up.
That’s it. No stitches, rivets or edge trimming, nothing but a button.
I can bang these out at a furious rate and could have done more than this in an hour if I hadn’t run out of smaller button snaps.
Not fancy by any means but a more elegant solution than rags.