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BubbaBlades

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I noticed that many knives are packaged with a cardboard cover protecting the blade. I have used cardboard to protect my blades from vise jaw damage while making handles. I figured that if cardboard was good, fiberglass covered cardboard was even better. I outlined my blade on two sheets of cardboard and cut two pieces approximately 1/2" wider than the blade. I used two pieces of scrap cardboard to provide thickness (between the two sheets of cardboard) for the back of the blade and one piece next to the cutting edge. A coating of fiberglass resin before assembly and two sheets of glass matting with resin after assembly produced the sheath in the attached scan. I didn't finish the final coat because I wanted the "rustic" look. The blade fits fine and it is easy to remove. Because of the blade involved, I thought that this would be of more interest on this particular forum.
Best to all,
Bubba
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=314358&a=4192287&p=54369384&f=0
 
Now it would be a good idea to drill a hole in the very bottom of the scabbard to let any moisture out.
What happens when the cardboard gets to wearing out and shedding?

Looks like a helluva neat alternative to a kydex scabbard!!!!:cool:
 
Yvsa,thanks for the drain hole suggestion. I may not have made it clear, but the entire inside of the scabbard is coated with fiberglass resin. It is waterproof and it is very resistant to damage from the blade. If you get water or dirt inside, you just turn it upside down. I also fiberglass coated a conventional leather covered wood scabbard (see attached scan). Uncle Bill, I will let you know how both of these scabbards hold up.
Bubba
http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=314358&a=4192287&p=54371555&f=0
 
Bubba forgot to welcome you if I hadn't sometime before, like Uncle Bill and a couple of others with bad memories sometimes new people here get forgotten. So welcome to the Cantina even if you've been here before.:)

Bubba if the scabbards hold up well have you ever considered making one for someone else?
And about what would one cost if you did make a few?
I don't know if T-Bone and the Sarki Shop would be up to making such a thing and sometimes some guys want a more durable scabbard than the ones that have proven themselves for the last several hundred or more years.;)

And you're welcome for the drain hole idea, for all I knew you could have had one at the bottom on the reverse side.:)
And all solid scabbards really need a drain hole. You may be in a position sometime where you don't have time to stop and turn it upside down.
 
Thanks for the welcome Uncle Bill and happy birthday. Yvsa, I just got back from my workshop and there is now a drain hole (coated with epoxy of course) in the bottom of the cardboard scabbard. The total scabbard project took about two hours of work and $6.00 in materials. I am not making any knives or related products at this time, however, I will let you know when I start production again. I have been a silent observer of this forum for several months and I enjoy the "lighter" tone of it. I see a HI purchase in my future and that may lead me to become a junior "researcher".
Bubba
 
Bubba we'll see if you can "just get one" khukuri.:D:D
I don't think too many have, most wind up with at least 3-4 and then there are some people like me who have 30 or better, more is better.:)
Of course none of us are in the class of John Powell or the Lurker Who Buys.
I think something was mentioned that they had over 600 each.;)

Okay on the scabbards. I don't get out to the woods anymore, ot at least haven't been in some time so I don't need such a high powered rig, but some of the guys here probably would be interested.
Let us know when you get back to making things for others.
 
And with JIC as your fiend, you are all set - you won't even need any enemies, you'll have your hands full with your fiends. How did that get past the spell check?

BTW - Welcome to the Cantina and Stage Stop - dedicated to making the bar scene in the first Star Wars movie look tasteful and upper class.
 
Welcome as well, Bubba, where are my manners? Right.. I don't have any!:p

It is entirely impossible to have just one HI Khuk. I was lulled into thinking, " Ah, I just get this one..." I'm here to tell you that seeing a beautiful Khuk on the screen and holding one and using one are two very different animals.

There are many great things about Uncle Bill's BirGorka Produced Khukuris, but one of my personal favorites is that they perform as advertised and are darn good lookin' in the process!:D :D

-Craig
 
I wonder if the resin can be thinned enough to just seal the wooden scabbards without building up their dimensions or would paint do the same job? Then restitch the leather.
 
Bubba, another thing you might try is using thin wood coated in fibre-glass. I'm a hockey player, and that's how hockey sticks are made. Usually ash or poplar coated with a thin layer or two of glass and resin. I know my goalie sticks regularly take shots at 80-90mph, (and pucks aren't light or soft) and they usually last me quite a while.

I think using 1/8" or 1/4" ash coated inside and out w/ fibre-glass, and with the drain hole would make a light and very tough scabbard. Might be an interesting idea for one of the local "woodchucks".;)
 
I'll leave all this creative stuff to woodchucks, kamis, sarkis, and others. All I know how to do is make a bottle of Heineken disappear.
 
Local legend tells of a cave in Fort Lauderdale where a mysterious stranger is sometimes seen wearing a cape, kilt and cowboy boots. I am taking the cardboard sheath to this cave tomorrow as part of my research. If this stranger (emphasis on strange) exists, I will offer him the sheath in exchange for cave artifacts.
Bubba
 
Bubba -

As advised by that great outdoorsman, Elmer Fudd, "Be vewy vewy careful". Some of those "cave artifacts" are not what you may expect. Some very strange things have gone into that cave, and have never come out. There was one redhead.....never mind...
 
Wal,
THAT Redhead,Blond,& dark haired lass ALL came willingly!:D
As a matter of fact THEY enjoyed MY err,ah, CONVERSATION! THEY also now like K'S!hMM, JUST AFTER ONE LEFT,I SEEM TO BE MISSING ONE OF MY dURBA'S!! YOU ALL DON'T THINK SHE...naw!,she WOULDN'T!! :)
jim
 
Tsimi, thou art to be commended for thy offering and on behalf of thee erstwhile forumites, I accept!!!;) :D :p :p :p
 
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