Khukri sheath #2 W.I.P. *Picture Heavy!!* - Update 3 is live

Parts of the sheath will be done in Saddle skirting and parts will be done in standard tooling leather. And I accidentally ran out of tooling leather. Will pick some more tooling leather up on my way to Thanksgiving with family. Not sure if I'll be back after dinner Thursday or this weekend. Should have something to show next week for sure.
 
Whoopsy out of tooling leather? Sounds like a significant issue for a sheathmaker, good thing you can grab some on the trip. Have a great holiday and enjoy the family get together. Looking forward to seeing it coming together.
 
Shavru said:
Whoopsy out of tooling leather? Sounds like a significant issue for a sheathmaker, good thing you can grab some on the trip. Have a great holiday and enjoy the family get together. Looking forward to seeing it coming together.
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Yes, it's quite the problem. Should have gotten leather 2 weeks ago when I was at my brothers for 3 days. Got a nice hide last night. Looks like we'll be back home tonight or in the morning. Can't hardly wait to get more done in the shop. . I'm on a break between dinner and desert. LOL!
 
Oh ...I see how it is! You leatherbenders have to keep your leather with a family member so you dont use it all up at once:D Smart thinking. Im gonna have to try that with beer. Just cant leave too much at the out-laws house. Have a great weekend Heber. Enjoy your desert.
 
ndoghouse said:
Oh ...I see how it is! You leatherbenders have to keep your leather with a family member so you dont use it all up at once:D Smart thinking. Im gonna have to try that with beer. Just cant leave too much at the out-laws house. Have a great weekend Heber. Enjoy your desert.
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LOL!! Thanks! I sampled 1 pie and ate left overs. Went up north Wednesday. Shopped at Tandy on my way to my sisters house. Left the new hide in the car. Since my brother and sister both live a few minutes from Tandy, I frequently store hides and supplies at their house's. Call up the shop, order what I need and have a relative pick it up. Then when we see each other next, I get the stuff. Our local Tandy does a great job picking hides for me. Wish I could have been there this morning, they have some sweet sales.
 
17 pictures in the first update. This time, I'll let the pictures do the talking. The molted brown will change a little after the sheath is sealed.
 
Is that tool in the last photo a scraper? Cutting edge on the radius or on the straight back.

I have absolutely no use for something like that but I gotta have one. I'll think of something to do with it when I get it.

I seen em someplace at a leather outfit, a fair or something. Cool looking. Who knows what it takes to blow my dress up?
 
That does it, I might just have to get me one of them. Guys pretty good with it.
 
Bawanna said:
That does it, I might just have to get me one of them. Guys pretty good with it.
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For a long time, I thought they were a bit silly and strange. The one that I have was gifted to me. I watched a few videos on how to use them and went to town cutting up scraps. These days I hardly use anything else to cut leather. They are really nice! I keep my sharp using a home made strop and White compound. Black compound only if I went to long between touch ups, then white and cut. Good, good knives!
 
I spent the first 10 minutes of the video rewinding and watching the tool board behind his head at the start when he is talking... I think HI should make a complete set of leather working knives including that round knife. I can think of a lot I could do with them... clipping coupons, Opening my medication bottles LOL. Maybe even a bit of leather trimming here and there. Actually it would be very useful right now, I am cutting a few leather umm gaskets is the only thing I can think of to call them. Replacments for the leather pieces that cushion the blade/hilt connection on a couple of old baskethilt swords. So far I have made a mess with all the attempts to cut them but I am getting closer.

The piggyback sheath looks GREAT! I can't wait to see how it is going to complement the larger one as it comes together.
 
Thanks Shavru! Today I need to color the front and back, cut out the loops, glue a ton, fit and adjust, glue, fit, adjust and so on. LOL! Not sure how much of that will get captured with pictures.

There's a number of different styles of Round knives. The one that I use is just one style. My mom has an old one that's much bigger then mine for cutting stuff in the kitchen. Smaller works better at detail work. If H.I. could make some small round knives that were really thin, they may have a great product on their hands. My round knife is 1/16" thin or thinner. I think my mom's is also about 1/16" thin.
 
Super impressive widmanh.... I love the photo sharing! It makes my morning/day to have knife and sheath porn to look at. Thanks again for the pics.
 
gurkha berserka said:
Super impressive widmanh.... I love the photo sharing! It makes my morning/day to have knife and sheath porn to look at. Thanks again for the pics.
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Thanks! It's so nice knowing that my work is appreciated. Update 2 has been posted. Enjoy!
 
Took me a while to figure out why the sheath went from brown to black in the pictures. It is wet for the forming right? I was sort of wondering why you formed it after attaching it to the side of the other sheath then I figured the other sheath needs to conform to the same shape to help hold in the little knife instead of being completely flat in that area. I guess being wet doesn't effect the size of the side of the large sheath when it is attached to the welt? I would have thought it might get a bit smaller when it is formed like that. Interesting to know now that I see it being done that isn't the case.
 
That is one hell of a piggy back rig. I would love to have a set up like that for my Bark River A2 Bravo 1 piggybacking a 18in WWII. I just need to get through holiday shopping and stop buying DOTD's lol. Thanks for the update, it made for another great start to my work day. I will be day dreaming about sheaths all day longs.
 
Shavru said:
Took me a while to figure out why the sheath went from brown to black in the pictures. It is wet for the forming right? I was sort of wondering why you formed it after attaching it to the side of the other sheath then I figured the other sheath needs to conform to the same shape to help hold in the little knife instead of being completely flat in that area. I guess being wet doesn't effect the size of the side of the large sheath when it is attached to the welt? I would have thought it might get a bit smaller when it is formed like that. Interesting to know now that I see it being done that isn't the case.
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The leather darkened from getting it wet to Wet form the pouch. The Piggyback is a variation on a Randall Style pouch. Getting the leather wet stretches the leather and allows one to work it easier. As the leather dries, it holds the shape that you formed it to. Since it's being formed while it's in it's stretched state, the pouch/pocket will shrink a little making it snugger then you could do by hand. When the leather dries, it lightens back up. Leather stretches with normal use. Having the pouch a smiggen tight at first, keeps things from getting to loose down the road.

gurkha berserka said:
That is one hell of a piggy back rig. I would love to have a set up like that for my Bark River A2 Bravo 1 piggybacking a 18in WWII. I just need to get through holiday shopping and stop buying DOTD's lol. Thanks for the update, it made for another great start to my work day. I will be day dreaming about sheaths all day longs.
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That was my plan. Take lots of pictures yesterday, post last night for the Late night or Morning crowd to see. :) The Bravo 1 is a big knife. If the Khukri is long/wide enough, the pairing may work. I think my Aurora would work great, do to it's slim profile. Sweat combo, and Expensive! The sheath alone would set you back a pretty penny or two (such things should be kept to PM/Email ;) ).

I'm sitting here wondering if there's anything else to do on the sheath as I wait for it to dry. . .
 
Loving it. It's fantastic that you are photographing its construction and posting it for all to see.
 
Dirtbiker said:
Loving it. It's fantastic that you are photographing its construction and posting it for all to see.
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Glad to hear it! The colors are still fluctuating. Checked the front a bit ago, color has lightened up a bit, but it's not back to normal yet.

New keeper strap is what I need to figure out. . . :)
 
I just added update 3 to the OP. :) Sheath will be done tomorrow.
 
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