OT: Homemade Karda Sheath [one pic]

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tychoseven

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I lost my old EDC folder, and in the meanwhile I put together a passable sheath for my FF's karda. I can't stand not having a sharp implement with me...I feel naked. It's a modification of the design found here.
I didn't have enough leather to add a belt loop so I just cut one into the back. It's not the prettiest sheath, but it cost one old glove and a 30 minutes of my day. Enjoy!

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-Tycho-
 
Not bad at all for 2.1% of a day. The karda sure looks like it belongs there.
 
Nice,
If the glove leather is soft enough to give you cause for concern, it's a fairly simple matter to make a rawhide liner that will readily slip into the existing sheath. Wet molded rawhide, allowed to dry nice and hard, is pretty much "caveman Kydex". :D

Sarge
 
Cool!!!!:thumbup: :cool: Personally I like what is called the "Primitive Look" on sheaths, scabbards and knives.:D :thumbup:
That's similar to a sheath pattern I sent to Sarge the other day using one piece of leather to make, except it isn't stitched in any way.;)
 
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to aquire me some rawhide...those squirrels that have been dining on my garden better watch out. Is squirrel leather even any good? Eh, we'll find out. Otherwise I'll have to go scrounging for roadkill deer up in the mountains. Yeah, I could probably buy rawhide, but where's the fun in that?

-T7-
 
If'n you ain't got time fer shootin' tree rats, skinnin' roadkill and such, just pop into any petshop (no, don't shoot/skin the pets). A large rawhide dog chew, if soaked in a bucket of water 'til it's soft, will unroll/untwist into a pretty good size piece of rawhide. 'Course for making a liner for a scabbard, I prefer the much thinner rawhide from a deer or a goat.

Sarge
 
Sylvrfalcn said:
If'n you ain't got time fer shootin' tree rats, skinnin' roadkill and such, just pop into any petshop (no, don't shoot/skin the pets). A large rawhide dog chew, if soaked in a bucket of water 'til it's soft, will unroll/untwist into a pretty good size piece of rawhide. 'Course for making a liner for a scabbard, I prefer the much thinner rawhide from a deer or a goat.

Sarge
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Whew Sarge! I thought you were going to suggest buying a puppy in the pet shop :barf:
:D
 
Just joking :D Here's litle Louie, our new Katrina dog.

I appreciate the ingenious improvisation of this sheath. I once worked as a day laborer on a loading dock with a destitute older guy who had made a found fancy silver handled table knife into a working cutting tool - and a Prince Albert tobacco can with a corrugated cardboard liner into a pocket sheath for it. I was very impressed at the time, and still remember it. :) It was a point of pride for him. Perhaps the only one he had in his life at the time. If I ever write a novel, he and his knife will be in it. Unless munk wants to use it :eek:
 
Yvsa said:
Cool!!!!:thumbup: :cool: Personally I like what is called the "Primitive Look" on sheaths, scabbards and knives.:D :thumbup:
That's similar to a sheath pattern I sent to Sarge the other day using one piece of leather to make, except it isn't stitched in any way.;)
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Gimmie Edutsi...please...
 
excellent sheath - great idea - well done!
 
Judging by the striped markings forming a letter "M" on his forehead, that there's an American Tabby. Why he chose a Kalashnikov variant is a mystery to me. Still, judging by his lack of front sight focus, poor body position, and lousy trigger control, I could easily give him a "third eye" while he's "spraying and praying". So, nice try (and really cool graphic), but ain't skeered. Here kitty, kitty, kitty, THUNK. :D :) :D

Sarge

p.s.: regardless of how I feel about some animals, and people for that matter, I would never harm a living creature except out of necessity (not even a cat)
 
By the way Tycho, thanks,
Your frontiersman style scabbard inspired me to make myself a new neck knife this afternoon. Antler handle and file blade natch, beads from the Four Winds Pow Wow this past weekend :D

Sarge
 
It looks like a western firearm holster . Even the handle of the knife looks a little like the butt stock of an old lever action . Nice job . I,d like to see the rest of the knife ?
 
Kevin the grey said:
I,d like to see the rest of the knife ?
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Look at the picture on the right above the sheath.
The knife is in full view there.:rolleyes:
 
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