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Brenton

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A commissioned sheath for a new customer, with a quality folder, stacked welt makes for heavy duty wear, crocodile inlayed, quilted back, pigskin lined, detachable belt loop, all hand stitched.
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Quilt Back, pigskin lined,
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Belt loop
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That's a stout package. How'd you get the holes for stitching to line up front to back with so many layers. Looks very good.
 
Excelent work! I really like the tooling you did on the flashlight loop and backing.
 
markb said:
That's a stout package. How'd you get the holes for stitching to line up front to back with so many layers. Looks very good.
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Its not easy, a lot of work can come undone at this stage, I guess why most makers stear clear of "stacked welts". I use a stitch wheel on the face side & carefully line up the rear side after some trial shots then marry the front to the back. Its slow, full of pitfalls & needs lots of practice.
 
Brenton said:
Its not easy, a lot of work can come undone at this stage, I guess why most makers stear clear of "stacked welts". I use a stitch wheel on the face side & carefully line up the rear side after some trial shots then marry the front to the back. Its slow, full of pitfalls & needs lots of practice.
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...or use a drill press....
 
I use an awl blade mounted on my arbor press with an adapter. Works very well, you just need to make sure its laying completely flat on the surface. If the sheath has a retention strap or belt loop in the way then I will use scrap leather to level it out on the deck surface. I punch through 4 to 5 layers thick of 9oz leather quite often with this setup.
 
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