Leather sheaths

Elephant hide sheath for Schrade 165. These resulted from a cull in Africa and Albert Baer bought a bunch of elephant hide and paid Africans to do some work on them. There were not many and I think they all went to Sears in 165s and 153s.

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Gary W. Graley said:
Protect both knife and person are the sheath's primary duties, looking pretty while doing it? always a plus ;)

This one I was quite fond of, I normally don't hand sew down both sides but it was requested and I liked how it turned out. It is meant as a soft leather pocket sheath for a folder. Hand stitched and embossed by me.

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This one is a belt carry sheath, leather was wet formed to conform tightly to the knife so the knife snaps into place. The embossing was done by using a paracord bead, you don't always need to buy 'tools' to do your embossing, I saw the bead and figured I could press it down to make that nice embossing into the leather, using an aluminum block as an anvil and a C-clamp to apply pressure into the leather.

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another belt sheath, it takes some time and hard work to wet form these sheaths, otherwise they might lose their retention. Also some knives that do not have enough contours don't lend themselves for good candidates for wet forming.

Yukonsheath by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

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Very nice work Gary
 
tongueriver said:
Imperial Sport Set

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You don't see these too often, and I'm betting that they had to have been short lived because the bernard patent Sargent pliers would have certainly been more costly than the imperial H6.

Sargent actually is still in business making their parallel jaw pliers here in the USA, but they're quite pricey and when used examples are so plentiful at a low price it's hard to justify a new pair.
I may have to bite the bullet on a pair of their brass jaw pliers some day just to show them a little support.
 
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