Tribal (still needs stitches)

[Mark Williams]

Brown, bloody and swollen should be a good name for this project. I learned a lot from my mistakes.

1. Wear rubber gloves when you dye.

2. Get a good awl.

3. Dont stab through the sheath into you index finger.

4. Dont hit same index finger with hammer.

5. Get someone else to make my sheaths.

It really was fun though. This is something for myself. But aren't they all if I dont give them away.

Thanks for all the info Chuck ( wildrose). I did have enough linen left on the stitching awl to do the loop. I see what you mean about waxing the needle, definately easier.



Mark

 

[Nathan House]

Nice looking work,you can tell you put alot of thought into the sheath,very well done

 

[Bruce Bump]

Thats a cool sheath! I have been thinking of damascus with stick cavemen and animals.

 

[Mark Williams]

Thanks Guys,

This was fun to do. I made the stamp that created the texturing for the background of the scene.I just took an old bolt and dremelled it till I was happy. I used the stone cones to make the dimples. I did some accidental manhood reduction. If you look close at the pic, you can tell the warrior was extremely more endowed than he is now. He was inadvertantly immasculated when I was texturing the background.
My barbour linen is being shipped today along with a bunch of other tools at whatnots.
Now I've just got to get some knife made so I can make some sheaths.

Mark

 

[Ripper]

Darn Mark, that is really nice, tribal indeed.
Interesting handle sticking out there: what's the rest of it look like?
Well done on that sheath.
Regards,
Greg

 

[heatride]

Mark I like it its really unique.

 

[Mark Williams]

Here's a pic of the knife. Its forged 5160. I made one just like this that I had quenched in water and forgot to temper. I decided to cut down a small redtip tree with it . I hit the tree in a crotch and the blade shattered (more like exploded). I hammered out another and here it be. I took off the leather wrap as it was just too big for my hand.

Mark

 

[John Andrews]

Mark, nice sheath! Only, I suggest not coloring with blood. Just a friendly barb, guy. Really, nice work, seriously. The homemade tooling really turned out great, and adds to it being unique.

 

[Wild Rose]

This was fun to do. I made the stamp that created the texturing for the background of the scene.I just took an old bolt and dremelled it till I was happy.

Cool Mark. One of my favorite background stamps of all time is a set I made by taking 16d sinkers and tapping on the heds until the cheering wasn't so sharp. After that I just filed them into several appropriate shapes. Junk yard leather tools (my name for them any way)can be the best of all.