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ron55 said:
I really like your sheaths - especially No 2. The patina, the aged look and knots in the cord. Everything. Matches the knife extremely well. What do you mean by positive/ negative cord wrap? And how did you get your cord to look so well aged?
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Thanks very much. I have difficulty make pristine leather sheaths. They ALL look vintage as soon as I am done with them. :( I have no idea how the masters keep their leather so pristine. The DEK 1 sheath above is my most successful "clean" sheath out of 15 or 16 projects. Anyway...

The cord is from an Etsy seller and comes in many colors. The cord for the CHAGA knife is a "distressed" color BUT working with it tends to add plenty of character, which I like a lot. The POSITIVE/NEGATIVE refers to the actual cord wrap (positive) along with the impression in the leather (negative) where I tied some cord tightly into the wet leather then removed for the "shadow" of cord - a subtle detail. I think another full band of leather cord would have been too much for the scale of the sheath.

Thank again, I appreciate your appreciation.
 
RayseM said:
Thanks very much. I have difficulty make pristine leather sheaths. They ALL look vintage as soon as I am done with them. :( I have no idea how the masters keep their leather so pristine. The DEK 1 sheath above is my most successful "clean" sheath out of 15 or 16 projects. Anyway...

The cord is from an Etsy seller and comes in many colors. The cord for the CHAGA knife is a "distressed" color BUT working with it tends to add plenty of character, which I like a lot. The POSITIVE/NEGATIVE refers to the actual cord wrap (positive) along with the impression in the leather (negative) where I tied some cord tightly into the wet leather then removed for the "shadow" of cord - a subtle detail. I think another full band of leather cord would have been too much for the scale of the sheath.

Thank again, I appreciate your appreciation.
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Thanks! I'm going to try something vintage at some point. You've been very helpful.
 
got this ole set of Kershaw kitchen knives, need me some new leather cutting tools, so combined the two for maximum efficiency!
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Lorien said:
just finished this one up. I could definitely be happier with it, but lessons were learned and things will improve over time. But it's sturdy, and will last.
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lol you sound like me when I finish some sheaths. Looks great my friend, nice touch with that twisted stitching at the top.
 
duramax said:
lol you sound like me when I finish some sheaths. Looks great my friend, nice touch with that twisted stitching at the top.
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it's especially tough with a one off like this one, where I'm designing it and experimenting as I go- there's always something that I'm not 100% happy with. On this sheath, there are a number of things. But I always tell myself not to let perfection be the enemy of good enough. Although I'm always aiming for perfection, I know that I'll never finish anything or get better at anything if I don't go easy on myself and get over the mistakes I make, and just complete the damn thing and move on!
 
Lorien said:
it's especially tough with a one off like this one, where I'm designing it and experimenting as I go- there's always something that I'm not 100% happy with. On this sheath, there are a number of things. But I always tell myself not to let perfection be the enemy of good enough. Although I'm always aiming for perfection, I know that I'll never finish anything or get better at anything if I don't go easy on myself and get over the mistakes I make, and just complete the damn thing and move on!
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I couldn’t agree more, well said !!!!

I fall into this myself, I’ll design and build a sheath. Once I’m finished I think to myself where improvement can be made. I make notes now for these adjustments.
 
bladegrinder said:
I just finished these two sheaths, first time using Fiebings antique paste, I think they turned out ok for the first time with this stuff. I'll probably use it more often now.
the knives are Alabama Damascus and CPM154.

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you have a great eye for matching your tooling to the handle material. That first package has a real Giger-esque vibe to it, which I dig
 
bladegrinder said:
I just finished these two sheaths, first time using Fiebings antique paste, I think they turned out ok for the first time with this stuff. I'll probably use it more often now.
the knives are Alabama Damascus and CPM154.

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Nice job. I hope that pine cone handle material (thats whats on the first knife right?), works out better for you than it did for me. I used it quite a bit and had a lot of problems with it after a short period of time. The pine cone would lift out of the resin. I was buying the material from a very reputable dealer and they replaced the material with stabilized wood. I had bout I don't know how many knives that I had folks send in to be re handled, a lot. Folks really loved it and several didn't want to send their knives back in, they were just gonna live with it. but they all did eventually. The last hold out was just displaying the knife, not using it and eventually he did too, as it started raising as well jsut sitting there.

This one I made my wife. This is how we found out that there was a problem as we had one too.

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Some others.

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Here's the pic I was looking for. This angle distinctly showed the pine cone material lifting out of the resin.

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HOpe ya had better luck than I did.
 
Thanks Dave, I’ve made several with the pinecone and as far as I know there hasn’t been any issues. That one picture you have with the lifting look like the sweet gum handle scales. Was it just the sweet gum you were seeing problems with or was it the pinecone scales too?
 
Horsewright said:
Nice job. I hope that pine cone handle material (thats whats on the first knife right?), works out better for you than it did for me. I used it quite a bit and had a lot of problems with it after a short period of time. The pine cone would lift out of the resin. I was buying the material from a very reputable dealer and they replaced the material with stabilized wood. I had bout I don't know how many knives that I had folks send in to be re handled, a lot. Folks really loved it and several didn't want to send their knives back in, they were just gonna live with it. but they all did eventually. The last hold out was just displaying the knife, not using it and eventually he did too, as it started raising as well jsut sitting there.

This one I made my wife. This is how we found out that there was a problem as we had one too.

GEjrZ8X.jpg


Some others.

GIf4bfN.jpg


khroKCI.jpg


YawKzaE.jpg


Here's the pic I was looking for. This angle distinctly showed the pine cone material lifting out of the resin.

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HOpe ya had better luck than I did.
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Hate to see stuff like that happen!
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bladegrinder said:
Thanks Dave, I’ve made several with the pinecone and as far as I know there hasn’t been any issues. That one picture you have with the lifting look like the sweet gum handle scales. Was it just the sweet gum you were seeing problems with or was it the pinecone scales too?
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No they were pine cones just different ways of slicing up the cones. Ya know the funny thing was nobody ever contacted us. I called everybody that I’d made a knife for. So nobody ever complained. Even a pro chef that ya see on tv sometimes. She loved them and didn’t care. Finally got bad enough that it was bothering her hands, so I did her set of four or five too. She was the second to last to send em back.
 
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