Hank that's really too bad!!!! Sorry to hear it happened with one of my favorite khukuri's!!!!
As for suggestions to fix it, depends on what you want, how it looks when you're finished with a repair, and the access to a place where you could get a strip of leather.
You could get a strip of leather wide enough to wrap around the scabbard from front to back and over the spine and long enough to cover the whole length.
If you chose that route you could build up a smooth layer of epoxy over and in the split then after it dried put on a thin coat and glue the leather on.
But you need to be careful whatever you do to Not get any epoxy inside the scabbbbard or you might never get the knife back in!!!!
Or you could just glue up the split and wrap the whole thing with electrical tape.
If you want an actual better than new almost poke proof scabbard then send it off to Terry.
He fixed the scabbard on my UBE wonderfully.
T-Bone took it all apart, cleaned it out and epoxied the wood back together and then replaced the leather.
Except for the fancy tooling it is twice or more better than brand new.
And it is probably the best fitted scabbard I have for any of my khukuri's!!!!!
T-Bone uses a leather that's vastly improved over the water buffalo from Nepal.
It may not be as tough and as hard because it's fully vegetable tanned, But it's plenty tough enough and I believe it will in the long run even hold up better and last much, much longer than the original, mostly because of the improved tanning methods used on it.
T-Bones work is impeccable and for the prices he gets probably the best bang for the buck on the planet!!!!
I would send it to T-Bone.... You won't be sorry.
