My first knife of the year, check it out.

Remy, if you really want to get into making your own sheaths, I HIGHLY recommend Chuck Burrow's Wild Rose sheath making video from Center Cross Instructional Videos. It's a two DVD video which goes through the entire process start to finish. Chuck is a natural at education, and the video is very easy to follow and replicate in practice. It increased my leather work quality by a factor of 10 in one viewing.

--nathan
 
I second the Wild Rose DVD. A must have.

I forgot to add. Salem, I agree that you need a better mark, something that reflect the beautiful clean work you do. The cherry on top. :thumbup:
 
Thanks for looking, fellas, I'm glad you dig it. Patrice, you are right- I'm building the Crawford etcher as soon as the parts come in. Didn't you do the same? How's it working for you?
 
Salem, I built a Crawford etcher a number of years ago, and it's working great. I did wire it up for a lower (edit) voltage to make my stencils last a little longer. I just use salt water for my solution. Maker sure you don't wet your felt too much. It just needs to be damp. If you're getting a significant halo around the etch, it's probably from too much fluid. I use Q-tips in an alligator clip rather than the felt pad, and I like the control it gives me. I use very brief (1/2 second or so) contacts in a repetitive fashion covering the entire stencil multiple times. You need to let the etch gas-off, so make sure you lift up periodically.

--nathan
 
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Salem, like Nathan I wired it for 12V and I also use saltwater with the q-tips. I do 3 q-tips each side going over all over the stencil (it gets dirty). Then 1 q-tip both sides on AC to darken. Works good especially with Ernie's stencils. Might tweak up the process a little more with time but it already does a pretty good job.
 
love it! great job...everytime I see white (be it ivory, micarta, whatever) and red liners with a nice tapered tang it just oozes class! lucky man whoever got that puppy.
 
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