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Well here is the holiday weekend sheathmaking venture. All of these are spoken for, and thats good. Maybe soon I'll be able to start buying knives again without running up the balance on the credit card. Hopefully anyway. These are made for Fallkniven F1's, NL5's and, of course, Sarge Knives.




 
Beautiful work Andy:thumbup: :cool: :)

Wow, that style of leather looks great on knife sheaths.

I can't help imagining it for a gun holster! I bet cowboy action shooters would kill for that style of leather on their six gun belts.
 
Andy,
I am very impressed...The hammered antique look is hard to pull off, but you have done it nicely!!!

The 4th sheath on the right in the second pic is AWESOME!!! I highly doubt that I could do anybetter on my best day...

Kudos bro!
 
Are you distressing it with a ball-peen hammer? (Is Nasty helping?) If not, how do you achieve that look.
 
Yep its a ball peen hammer. Its not hard at all Dave. You should do it on gun holsters. Do the border first then peen evenly over the area, then go back and really wack that sum gun in a dozen spots. Only takes a minute to do. Really comes out beautiful too. I didn't think I'd like the black one, but I was wrong. Its sweet. It was ordered without the tooling, but I'm gonna have to do one black and tooled to see how it looks. These are fun. I moved the firesteel loop down, so the handle doesn't get in the way of the knife handle too. I like that better.
 
*Very* nice Andy...especially like the ball peen application.

See? Not just for heads and kneecaps any more!
 
aproy1101 said:
Yep its a ball peen hammer. Its not hard at all Dave. You should do it on gun holsters. Do the border first then peen evenly over the area, then go back and really wack that sum gun in a dozen spots. Only takes a minute to do. Really comes out beautiful too. I didn't think I'd like the black one, but I was wrong. Its sweet. It was ordered without the tooling, but I'm gonna have to do one black and tooled to see how it looks. These are fun. I moved the firesteel loop down, so the handle doesn't get in the way of the knife handle too. I like that better.
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Looks great Andy! Really nice and you're improving each time. And guys, Andy's on my second sheath for me. Moving the loop down is a good idea Andy, and one I should have thought to suggest. That black would look great with the F1; way nicer than the factory black flap sheath.

Norm
 
Svashtar said:
Looks great Andy! Really nice and you're improving each time. And guys, Andy's on my second sheath for me. Moving the loop down is a good idea Andy, and one I should have thought to suggest. That black would look great with the F1; way nicer than the factory black flap sheath.

Norm
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I thought so too. My second and third are in those pictures, (I think).
Really good work Andy.

Dick
 
Fantastic work! darn near breathtaking! (and that's saying some for a simple knife sheath!) I gotta admit, I might be a little jealous. I'm working on about my 12th sheath, and mine still look like totally primitive in comparison.

The distressed leather and that loop for the Swedish fire steel are simply awesome!

You done yerself proud, my friend.
 
Thanks to you all. Its especially good when you're around RWS.

Dick, yours are in there. Natural colored with loops, and thats your Sarge peeking out of the top of one of em. And your firesteel too. Thanks for the words Norm. You'll be an owner of both versions. You're the first person to request the larger firesteel with the oak handle be fit to em. I own one of those 12K strikers already, so thats no problem. Its gonna look great.

I didn't think I'd like the black, but... I do. I've also got Ox Blood stain. HD showed me a link to a green stained sheath that was pretty too. Wierd, but reallly pretty. For my own sheaths, I'm gonna stick to natural. Yvsa once said that there wasn't much that was prettier than a properly tooled and natural colored leather sheath. I have to agree. Once I figured out how to guage the dampness of the leather my tooling really started to stand out. Once you dye it that subtle contrast is lost. The peen marks get darker and take on a kinda shiny sheen over time also. Really appealing after a month of wear.

Everything I know about this stuff I learned here. Thats why I'm still posting them here. All this came from participating with you guys. If you get tired of seeing them, or I overstep some invisible boundary, please let me know. Until then you guys should feel proud. You tought me this and motovate me to improve each round. So, thanks for your support and help and all your kind words too.
 
aproy1101 said:
I didn't think I'd like the black, but... I do. I've also got Ox Blood stain. HD showed me a link to a green stained sheath that was pretty too. Wierd, but reallly pretty.
For my own sheaths, I'm gonna stick to natural.
Yvsa once said that there wasn't much that was prettier than a properly tooled and natural colored leather sheath. I have to agree.
Once I figured out how to guage the dampness of the leather my tooling really started to stand out.
Once you dye it that subtle contrast is lost. The peen marks get darker and take on a kinda shiny sheen over time also. Really appealing after a month of wear.

Everything I know about this stuff I learned here. Thats why I'm still posting them here. All this came from participating with you guys.
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Andy every time you post pix of your latest work I see an improvement, which is the way it ought'a be!:thumbup:
And you're right about getting the leather "cased" just right. Too damp and you don't get any burnishing effect and too dry the saddle stamps can, and often do, tear the leather just enough to make the work ugly.:(
Your edges are greatly improved but still need some work from what I can see with the pix. The edges look nice and smooth and well boned but are still a bit "choppy" to my old eyes.;)

One of these days when you get really good you ought'a try some inverted carving, now *That* is a trip and takes loads and loads of patience.
When a person gets to where they can do an expertly inverted tooled piece with few to no visible mistakes I consider them *Arrived!!!!*
I never did "totally" *arrive* but I was very, very, close!:thumbup: :D :cool:
And it wasn't the tooling that kept me from "arriving" but the care of the rest of the piece.
The background leather on a perfectly inverted tooled piece will have only the markings that were on the leather when it was tanned.
It's dayumed hard to not mark well cased leather in at least a few places when you have to make contact with the piece in order to tool it to begin with!!!! :eek:
 
Thanks Yvsa. I took a look in the leatherworking section over at KF and boy am I a newb. Those guys are the shiznit. I got loads of improving to do thats for sure. These all shipped out this week. When the guys get them they can tell you better than I how the edges look. My photo skills are rudimentary at best.
 
Andy, the two Sarge sheaths showed up today, the are fantastic!! The hammer peening and tooling is excellant, the edges smooth and polished. These are truly "custom" sheaths, you are to be congratulated (as well as paid) for the great scabbards. The three you have done for me and my Sarge knives completes my small knife needs, I'll look at some of my larger stuff, keep up the craft.

Thanks again

Dick
 
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