Help, leather sheath disaster

[jasonprom]

In my infinite wisdom, I decided to use some spring clamps to unsure a tight fit when wet forming my leather sheath. As you can see it left indentations from the clamps on the sheath as it dried. :grumpy: Obviously I learned this is a terrible idea, but is there a way of fixing this? It still is very functional, but I think I'll chalk this one up to experience as far as aesthetics goes.

 

[rayban]

If you haven't put a final finish on it yet, go ahead and wet it down good and bone those marks out. Then start molding the leather to the knife using your hands, and your boning tools.
Live and learn, I have a large box full of assorted leather projects that for some reason or another didn't turn out so well

 

[jasonprom]

Rayban, thanks for the info. I have not done the final finish yet, so I think I'll try fixing this tonight per your suggestions.

 

[Rick Marchand]

Rayban's got it.... it also helps to bend the leather up to stretch the surface. You may have to reform the sheath after but it will help. There is no need to clamp it like that while wet forming.

Something else to consider would be tooling the leather to hide the marks. You can make cool patterns with all kinds of improvised instruments. I've used many things including; chopsticks, forks, stones, bricks and drumsticks. Make random patterns to blend in any flawed areas.

 

[jasonprom]

Rick,
That is a great idea to make a pattern like that to hide or blend the mistake. If the marks don't come out, I am certainly going to try that.
I made this knife for my own use so that I can learn more about the steel I am using and it's capabilities. So, I might just try this on this sheath since I like learning new techniques.

 

[Hengelo_77]

rough it up and cover it with thin chrome tammed leather?