Dont nuke your sheath!!

[Mark Williams]

Good grief I'm stupid. I finished a knife and sheath for a buddys birthday. I noticed a little fog of moisture in the blade about an hour before I was due to go give him the knife. So what ingenious thing do I do you might ask?
I decide to put the sheath in the microwave for a couple min. I'm doing a little polishing with some flitz and I hear a sizzling sound. OH Crap, I exclaimed as I rush to open the nuclear reactor. As the fog cleared i see what appears to be some sort of fried pork skin has been placed in the microwave where my sheath once resided. But all was not lost!!!!

I quickly forced the knife into the sheath and formed the leather around the blade. I tossed the thing into the freezer to cool it and my smoking fingers. Deb came into the kitchen to see why I was chugging on a bottle of cheap bourbon. I pulled it out of the freezer to show her and she said that she liked it even better now. I looked at it for a minute and decided that I did too. It now had a nice wrinkled finish and was beautifully molded to the blade. I decided that the leather now was what I would now call my "Elephant scrotum" style sheath

I gave the knife to my buddy and told him what had happened. he took the knife to work to show all his co-workers and the all loved it.he told them all that it was in fact elephant scrotum. A rather goofy fellow that came into the room a little late for the description asked to see the knife........ The first thing he did was put the knife and sheath up to his nose and takes a big whiff and says " Boy that smells good". Needless to say this fellow will never have a normal life again until he finds differant employment.

 

[Disco Stu]

Sounds groovy. Don't suppose you got any pics? I'd love to see the sheath. "Elephant scrotum"

 

[Dan Gray]

"Elephant scrotum" ha ha ha LMAO

 

[TJ Smith]

Thats Great.
Sounds like the first time I diped a sheath in hot wax. The quick way to turn a fairly decent 10 inch sheath into a 6 inch piece resembling a fried pork rind.
Don't ask me about microwaving green wood.
Take Care
TJ

 

[J. Neilson]

Damn, that's good. Glad it worked out, except for what's-his-name. I'd like to see a picture of that, too.

 

[John Andrews]

That really was good! TJ, what about the microwaving green wood? I just have to ask.

 

[AKA Knife Knut]

Yes! Please tell us!

 

[misque]

OK, We gotta know how the green wood microwaving experiment turned out. Please, do tell.

Oh BTW, "Elephant Scrotum"? That was freakin' hilarious!

 

[Mark Williams]

I finally bought a dig camera. So here is the long awaited Elephant scrotum sheath. Hopes ya like.

Mark

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[indian george]

I feel sorry for the Elephant

 

[John Andrews]

Yeah, you could spot that one in the herd! Good looking sheath, and good laugh on the unh, sniffer feller.

 

[tmickley]

kind of a small elephant?

I made one of those after a wax dip. I thought I would kind of melt the residual wax into the leather so I heated up the oven to around 220. Came back 10 minutes later and found pork rind...

I don't wax dip anymore, I started wetting the leather, molding as needed and using a food dehydrator at around 185 degrees to dry it out. Comes out much harder and won't soften in heat.

 

[indian george]

Tracy: When were you that close to a elephant to check out the size?????

 

[John Andrews]

Remember that great post a while back about the sheath in the microwave? Anyone remember where that was?

 

[etp777]

Heh, John, I think you mean the post that's the start of this thread here. Least thats' latest one I remember. Go read first post in this thread. Someone just revived it this week, was about three months ago for first post.

 

[ddavelarsen]

Wow, how'd I miss this three months ago?! This is hilarious! Mark, that's a great looking combo, the knife handle makes me want to pull that baby out and heft it in my own hand. Lucky customer!

If you can figure out a way to duplicate this, you could be onto something distinctive. Otherwise your customer has a very unique piece with plenty of attendant stories! This is the stuff heirlooms are made of.

Thanks for sharing,

Dave

PS I'd sure like to hear the microwaved green wood story too! Maybe we need a volunteer to exeriment?... - he he he -

DL

 

[John Andrews]

If he isn't gonna tell us, I might haul my old shop microwave out of the shop and see what happens in the yard when I fire it up with some green wood. This way I wouldn't burn down my shop to find out what happens, huh? Maybe make some scrotum sheaths first? I have a goofy neighbor that would smell them. Maybe taste 'em too, and guess what they are made of.