Well...pretty it isn't...

Mistwalker

Mistwalker

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....and hurriedly thrown together it was. I think I have about 1.5...maybe 2 hours in it at most.

Yep, it's kind of ugly...and even the low light of sunrise can't help that lol. Just as I knew going into it, the leather is too thin but I added some reinforcement at the throat and at the tip front and back. I got glue smeared here and there in the process too. But it is the first welted sheath I have ever made, and I did learn a lot about how I am going to do the real sheath. BUT, even with all of its flaws...and it nowhere near doing justice to the blade it holds...

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It's still a heck of a lot better than this :D

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For now I was mainly just interested in being able to secure it...at least marginally. I knew what I was doing was just a temporary solution. I am really looking forward to getting the leather and doing up the next one. I will take my time on it and do it right :thumbup:


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OldPhysics said:
Hey ... I'm impressed!:thumbup:

And it does the job.:cool:
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Thanks, I did better than I expected to do on the first one, there are 11 pieces of leather in it. It does do the job...albeit barely right now. I don't think you can buy leather any thinner...unless maybe they make a leather veneer lol. If it takes me a bit to get the material together for the other one I'll add reinforcement in the middle too. I have cool ideas for the next one. The Beacon 527 glue I used isn't kidding when it says it's quick drying.
 
Thats not bad at all. Its a machete sheath after all. If its pretty, then you probably spent too much $ or time on it.
 
Mistwalker?

Two things:

First thing: How pretty are YOU when you go woodswalking? People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...or is it...people in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses? Does it do the job? Fine. It is lovely.

Second thing.: By whose work are you making a comparison? On BF, and this forum, there are folks who are crazy-good artisans of leather. Might try to not compare yourself to professionals with innate skills and years of experience and professional interest.

You did good. :)

Now, go get it dirty.
 
Fiddleback said:
Thats not bad at all. Its a machete sheath after all. If its pretty, then you probably spent too much $ or time on it.
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Thanks Andy, it was a learning experience. I have made a few sheaths in my day...just none this big or this complicated. Mostly goat hide and deer skin and no welts. I wont mind at all spending a few bucks on materials nor the few hours making the new one and I will still get it dirty...even more so than this one. This one isn't durable enough to get it very dirty, the belt loop is too thin.


chainring said:
I like it - good start!
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Thanks man, I think it is too.


caine said:
Looks good to me. Look better once is get dirty
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Thanks bro, it will be given no choice but to get a little dirty :thumbup:

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Kismet said:
Mistwalker?

Two things:

First thing: How pretty are YOU when you go woodswalking? People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...or is it...people in stone houses shouldn't throw glasses? Does it do the job? Fine. It is lovely.

Second thing.: By whose work are you making a comparison? On BF, and this forum, there are folks who are crazy-good artisans of leather. Might try to not compare yourself to professionals with innate skills and years of experience and professional interest.

You did good. :)

Now, go get it dirty.
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Me?! Ha, I'm not pretty no matter what I am doing...but I try to make "pretty" things. I'm told I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but I disagree...I just try to make this as well as I can make them.

Actually I wasn't comparing it to anyone else's work...more comparing it to my woodworking I guess...

This is the bar I made for my brother when I was building his house. I didn't have access to a cabinet shop when I guilt it. I built it on-site using just a Craftsman bench-top table saw, a skill saw, a router, two cordless drills, a belt sander, and a palm sander. All of the raised panels and even the doors were made on the table saw, and I made every thing about this bar from sheets of plywood and a stack or 1 x's. I think it is beautiful but only based on the tools I had on hand at the time... it's kind of ugly compared to what I can do in a full-on cabinet shop.

I still didn't feel a bit bad the first time i spilled a beer on it :)

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That looks really nice Mist. I'm such a fledgling woodworker. Its a lot tougher than knives.
 
Fiddleback said:
That looks really nice Mist. I'm such a fledgling woodworker. Its a lot tougher than knives.
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Thanks Andy, I really enjoy taking wood and turning it into a piece of art.

Looking at your knives I'm sure will be a fine woodworker.

Funny, I was just saying the exact opposite the other day. I suppose it's all in what you are used to...

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"The bar I built for my brother while I was building his HOUSE???!!!!!!????"

fine. just fine. You can build whole darned house and you don't like your sheath work. :)

There's artistry in your work. Maybe not in sheaths, yet.

Lovely wood-working. :)
 
Kismet said:
"The bar I built for my brother while I was building his HOUSE???!!!!!!????"

fine. just fine. You can build whole darned house and you don't like your sheath work. :)

There's artistry in your work. Maybe not in sheaths, yet.

Lovely wood-working. :)
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Well...I didn't exactly build the whole thing by myself :o

I ran the entire project from start to finish. I did a lot of the interior designing, I did the site drawings and the blue print drawings to get the permits, and I did the trim and woodwork. The house has several interesting features...one of which is a separate dedicated electrical circuit for running specific parts of the house from a generator, and I did all of the bar by myself. I didn't build the fireplace you see in the background but I did design and engineer it. It's 5 feet wide, 3.5 feet high, and 4.5 feet deep, and it sitting on a pad of 7yards of concrete with Glenn said he had always wanted a fire place like the ones at Cracker Barrel restaurants so I spent a few long lunches at different Cracker Barrels on the clock and getting my lunches paid for to design his dream fireplace. I am looking forward to sitting by it again real soon, the first leaves are already falling :)

My nephew in the fireplace

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I enjoyed making the sheath very much, I have inspirations for a few of them actually. I'm looking forward to making the next one.

Thank you for your compliments.
 
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I like it!! I've made what I call 'junker sheaths' for several of my knives, some I like more than ones I've bought or taken lots of time to make 'em look good.
 
Nick-t said:
I like it!! I've made what I call 'junker sheaths' for several of my knives, some I like more than ones I've bought or taken lots of time to make 'em look good.
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Thanks man, I'm really not all that interested in making the next one actually "pretty"...there'll be no tooling or anything...I just want it to be thicker leather so it will actually be durable because this blade is going to get a lot of woods time. The last couple of days I've been really glad I have this sheath, the machete has already gotten some miles on it.
 
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