Been Busy!

[Gary W. Graley]

While not at the high numbers my friends are at, it's been a busy few
weeks, intermixed with car troubles/accident some guy tried to drive
through my wife's van, long story short, we now have a new to us Kia Sorento!

here's some of the stuff I've been doing as of late;

a bare top sectioned bali sheath, first one I've done like that and it does
look pretty nice plain as that too;

Two sheaths for a fellow from Brazil;

a vertical sheath for a nice Scott Cook Lochsa folder;

Made two for this one, the pivot down was causing some rub marks and the
thumbstud sticks out far and digs into the sheath, the sheath above works
quite a bit better, but you lose the lanyard portion;

sheath for a very nice WD Pease folder

sheath for an extremely nice Jerry Halfrich folder

and finally two sheaths for two Buck 110's now the 110's I've always asked that
a person sends his in, as they are different one from another and these proved
that to be true, one is just marginally thicker than the other;

AND I have a slew of Bali sheaths to start on tomorrow, as I say, this has been
a very busy week or two!
G2

 

[SBranson]

Always a treat to see your super clean work. Nice stuff.

And boy there's some nice knives there.

 

[rayban]

Beautiful work as always GG...... do I see a double row of stitching along the bottom where you tied down the belt loop?

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Thanks, no, not a double row there, just shows where I back stitch a couple of spaces
so the thread is doubled up at that point. NOTE: where I back stitch, vertical or horizontal
I enlarge the next to the last couple of holes so as to make room to stitch through a second time!

On the vertical sheaths, I'll sew down to almost the bottom of the sheath, then fold
down the back belt loop and glue that in place, then put the thread back through again
and continue sewing the rest of the way around the bottom, tying it altogether at that point.

The longer belt loop on the vertical sheaths help when you go to sit down, you can
angle the sheath out of the way or raise it up to clear the chair as you sit down.
Also this way you don't have a row of stitches inside to contend with that the
knife could rub against or vice versa, if I do have to sew a belt loop higher up
I make a groove so the thread sink down a little bit, but I hate weakening the
leather in that fashion.

G2

 

[Greg45]

That's some great looking work, Gary!

It's good to see you posting a few. :thumbup:

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Thanks Greg, with all the travel and such going on, it's
good to be home and able to get some stuff done, still
have a sizeable backlog right now, working on that this week!
G2

 

[Whiskey River]

Gary! Your skills at leather working are incredible. You are a Master at what you do with these sheaths. I am just getting into leather work and hand stitching is where I suffer the most (thus the new stitching machine!) .... you make it look easy.

Super work as always!

Jon

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Thanks man, I can't imagine a machine on this kind of sheath, tight to the sides
of the form doesn't allow much room, so I guess it'll still be hand stitching for me!

I've also seen that your work is progressing very nicely!!!
G2

 

[billwilson]

how about pictures of the back??

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Hi Bill, those are long gone, but here is what the vertical sheaths look like

and a shot of one of the horizontals, these get an extra layer of leather between the knife
and the back section that becomes the belt loop, adds a bit of rigidity to the overall sheath.

G2

 

[VictorCoelho]

Outstanding work!!!:thumbup::thumbup:

 

[robot37]

Oh man! I just crapped my pants. A lot.

PM inbound with an inquiry.

thx,
-nate