Whacha Been Up To......

Ebbtide said:
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So wifey came home with this plain, unfinished wood bone sign to make for our daughter.
Initially I thought wood burning tool. But that’s pretty limiting.
Paint? Too many options lol
I realized “Who am I kidding? I’m a leather guy!”

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Mr Callahan hisownself!

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Very cool!! Great idea.
 
Speaking of small knives here’s one that I just finished up for a friend from church a Buck 375

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Some say why do you need a slip sheath for such a small knife? A couple reasons, protection of the knife and also making it a little easier to find in your pocket
😃
G2
 
Horsewright said:
Thats cool Gary.

Finished off a new batch of knives and sheaths:

A Rodeo.

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A Cowboy.

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A Vaquero.

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Also finished up a holster for this older Beretta:

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NIchole has been busy too:

A notebook cover.

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A travel bag:

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And a new Crossbody Purse design, a prototype for herself:

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Completely canvas lined and all interior seams are bound:

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We've been doing this awhile. In front of the Alamo in 2003. They didn't call me Chief Greybeard back then:

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I'm always impressed by how clean your work looks. The edges, the beveling, no foot marks from the sewing machine. I like your plain sheaths the best but only because I'm a philistine and not a fan of tooling. Going to have to go track down that tutorial of yours again, was really interesting to see your process... lots of neat tricks at play.
 
Fitted sheath for this awesome Case, round 2. The first one became way too loose very quickly.

This time I followed much of Gary's thread on sheath making. I'm not a horizontal draw kinda guy, so I switched it up a bit for vertical.
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Of course it's black with white stitching. My favorite. Here are some more angles.
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Great advice was to wet, form and dry. Then re-wet and form again. Amazing how much stronger it becomes. I don't have a bone smoothing tool but I used a burnisher and a paintbrush that I polished up on a wheel with some rouge. I do have some unshaped bone covers, maybe they could be formed into tools? Worth a try.
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Of course it wasn't perfect. Here are some extra stitch holes in the back. I didn't account for the belt loop correctly. There wasn't any awls around here, but a good old icepick worked perfectly to mark though 4 layers of leather. Useful things to have around.
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This is a nice sheath and I'm proud to carry my knife in it! Thank you Gary for the awesome tutorial. I still have to get some of the leather balm for it. Normally I'd hit it with neatsfoot and buff it up but that would probably weaken the hold on the knife.

So... Still learning. Added a few more tools to the want list from this project. Better edgers.. a grooving tool...
 
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RickHuf RickHuf certainly looks quite solid! I've been leaning more towards vertical sheaths myself, they are a different makeup than the horizontals, where I add that middle layer, on verticals I don't make them like that, as the vertical carry gravity is working for you, where on horizontals, gravity is the enemy ;)

Start at this point it shows vertical work

And a bone folder is your friend, and finger nails are NOT your friend ;) those need to be trimmed down so as not to mar the work.

Keep up the good work sir!
G2
 
Gary W. Graley said:
RickHuf RickHuf certainly looks quite solid! I've been leaning more towards vertical sheaths myself, they are a different makeup than the horizontals, where I add that middle layer, on verticals I don't make them like that, as the vertical carry gravity is working for you, where on horizontals, gravity is the enemy ;)

Start at this point it shows vertical work

And a bone folder is your friend, and finger nails are NOT your friend ;) those need to be trimmed down so as not to mar the work.

Keep up the good work sir!
G2
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Thank you sir! I'll give that a shot soon. There is a knife en route that would be a good candidate.

This sheath didn't need to be so tight and fitted for vertical carry..... But I really wanted to try!
 
Tight is still a good goal, the vertical sheaths take a days work as you keep going back to the sheath to reform it about every 1/2 hour or so while it is drying, which takes the stretch out of the leather some and aids in better retention when all is said and done.
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Gary W. Graley said:
Tight is still a good goal, the vertical sheaths take a days work as you keep going back to the sheath to reform it about every 1/2 hour or so while it is drying, which takes the stretch out of the leather some and aids in better retention when all is said and done.
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Sent you an email Gary.....Looking for something like this below!!

Thread 'A new FROG for my Mountain Kotanto' https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/a-new-frog-for-my-mountain-kotanto.1900090/
 
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