New Knife

abnscout5w

abnscout5w

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Here is my latest knife; it is made with 440C and hand rubbed with 600 grit whitetail horn for handle and brass guard. I call it Seneca Skinner and made it for my father-in-law who is a Seneca Indian. The sheath was the hardest I ever made; I worked on it for a month to finish.

Todd Robertson
www.onehorseknives.com
 

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Very nice!* I'm planning a similar project.

Steve
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Potomac Forge
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ABS Apprentice
 
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No wonder it took you a month on the sheath. My fingers hurt just thinking about making one that intricate.

Great work all around.
 
abnscout

How do you construct a sheath like that? I love the "frontier style" or whatever with the fringe and beads and whatnot. My question is: What sort of leather and what sort of construction do you employ so that the knife does not cut through the buckskin or whatever?

My experience has been with tooling leather which is nice to work with but doesn't bead well or fringe well. Kydex inserts (would work but not very authentic)? Rawhide insert rather like a kydex?

Love that sheath. I made one from very old leather that was on an old Western Bowie but I had a hard time dealing with an insert. 35 years ago, I took some basic suede, created a sheath for the sheath and attached it over the factory sheath.
 
What sort of leather and what sort of construction do you employ so that the knife does not cut through the buckskin or whatever?


I used buckskin for the outside then used some 5-6oz tooling leather for an insert.


How do you construct a sheath like that?

I cut out the buckskin like I am making a pouch sheath, I the mark out my design of how I want the beads to look like, after all that I made my own little ruler that has marks that are the width of a 11/0 bead, then I transfer the marks to the sheath, using something sharp ( I made my own awl from O-1 steel and a peace of horn) punch a small hole on ever make, I then use a whip stitch to attach the beads. I use number 11/0 Czech beads and get all my supplies from Crazy Crow Trading Post.

I bought and read Plains Indian Knife Sheaths and looked at the Crazy Crow website to get the colors for each tribe.
 
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