Deep pouch dangler sheath tutorial

[cavetech]

Many thanks, Sarge, for a well written and informative tutorial.

Please keep them coming.

I'd like to see on on how you turn a file into a knife.

 

[Bladite]

excellent tutorial

as a fibre arteest, i learned me some kumihimo a while ago. knitting and crochet go a long way, but fancy braids, in cord, and leather, are quite useful too.

i too collect ze skillz. ze more ze better

bladite

 

[Sylvrfalcn]

excellent tutorial

as a fibre arteest, i learned me some kumihimo a while ago. knitting and crochet go a long way, but fancy braids, in cord, and leather, are quite useful too.

i too collect ze skillz. ze more ze better

bladite

Ever done any lucet braiding? One of the funner classes I taught a bunch of medieval enthusiasts went like this;
- Knife and carving tool safety and sharpening
- Basics of wood carving
- Introduction and history of the Lucet (Viking age to Victorian era)
- Carving a Lucet (I'd already hand sawn a bunch of poplar blanks for them)
- Learning to braid on a Lucet
- Uses and applications for Lucet braided cord

Pretty much how all my classes run, you're gonna learn to do this, so you can use it to do that, and that'll help you do this other thing that you had no idea about until you came to this class.

Sarge

 

[Bladite]

Ever done any lucet braiding? One of the funner classes I taught a bunch of medieval enthusiasts went like this;
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Sarge

yeah, though not strictly two strand using an actual Luet. pretty much any of the "crochet type" chains can be done with a "french knitter" - 2-9 pins, i have a variety of plastic ones with different pins... one can also do some of them, in particular, what looks VERY like Luet style with just a crochet hook - faster too i think, though i'd have to experiment. in knitting, it's typically called I-cord when circular, and can have any number of strands, i have a knitting machine collection, one can do tubes easily, and 6 strand i-cord is fast. it's also good as edging when done with double-pointed needles. pretty but slow going to add to existing things.

if you like to fiddle, i know you do, some craft stores, like ac-moore have leetle knitting machines, that do tubes - might be useful for SOMETHING? :>

i've also tried Naalbinding and a variety of other randoms. want to try "card knitting". i know a guy that grows his own silk-worms, and then harvests them, dyes it up, and cards weaves. neat. someday too i'd like my own set of looms - at least 4 harness, maybe 8 :> plus a frame loom - that's cheap and easy. yar.

bladite

 

[Bladite]

this too - double lucet

http://kws.atlantia.sca.org/photos/doublelucet/

bladite

 

[Sylvrfalcn]

this too - double lucet

http://kws.atlantia.sca.org/photos/doublelucet/

bladite

That looks more busy than my Guatemalan backstrap loom, which itself is an exercise in fortitude when making a long belt. One that I haven't gotten around to yet is finger weaving. I've seen some beautiful finger woven stuff, but everytime I've tried it so far I just wind up with a big old hairball.

Sarge

 

[redsquid2]

Pics #4 and #5
Now you get to see what I use that antler tip for

Trim away your excess leather from the back with a SHARP knife. You want to trim down close to the seam, but not so close you cut into your stitching. Then use something smooth and hard (like an antler tip?) to burnish (polish) down the trimmed seam. I've carved the pointy end of my antler tip into somewhat of a stylus, and that's what I use for tooling in a bit of decoration.

The punch is used to put in four holes for threading the suspension cord that the sheath will dangle from. There's other methods/approaches you can use, but I like this one best (duh, it's simple).

Boy! That looks nice!