looking venture into leather work

[vikingextreme93]

I have been admiring many of the custom leather sheaths here and am interested in trying to make my own so I was just wondering what information resources would be good to read to have a clue what I am going to at least attempt to do?

 

[rayban]

Here's a pretty good little tutorial...
http://www.knives.com/sheath.html

 

[Phil Dwyer]

Here are some links copied from http://www.knivesby.com/knifemaking.html. I'm working from Chuck Burrow's (of Wild Rose Trading Company) Custom Knife Sheaths DVD.

• Sheath's
  Sewing Leather Chuck, Wild Rose Trading Company
  Stitch Pony Chuck, Wild Rose Trading Company
  Medal Bruce Evans
  Mexloop Wild Rose Trading Company
  Pouch Bruce Evans
  Pouch Dan Gray
  Braided leather keeper strap Dan Gray
  Pouch Stone and Steel knife works
  Clip Tracy Mickley
  Kydex under Leather Dan Koster on BFC
  Wood Edgewise, hosted on OldJimbo's website
  Wood sheath by Stacy Aspelt on BFC
  Dipping Mike Hull
  Welts Making adjustable Welts Wild Rose Trading Company
  More links for Sheath making on BFC

 

[xaman]

wow, that's a lot of great info!

 

[Ebbtide]

Dive in and do it.


I tend to rush things and get ahead of myself and my skill level.
So to combat this I have to plan carefully and set limited goals.
Once I reach that goal I'll walk away for a while and come back and set a new goal after thinking it thru.

The sheaths take longer to get done, but the results are much better than when I tried to knock one out in a couple hours.

Go for it

 

[vikingextreme93]

thats some awesome insight and several styles to boot, thanks phil!!!