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On that top one, on the top edge, it got kind of rough. If you have the roughness all over the edge your edger needs sharpening. But when its in a spot like that and not all over its just the leather. A lil looser fibers there. It happens. One lil trick that helps is to come back with the edger and go in the other direction. This can (sometimes) clean that up pretty well and make it more uniform. So in that sheath edge down from the throat to the tip on that top edge see if that doesn’t help clean it up a little. Course it never hurts to touch up the edger too first.I scrapped the first set of sheaths for the Trail Guide knives. The more I looked at them, the less satisfied I was. I was concerned the soft/spongy leather would be a longevity/safety concern. Second set is turning out MUCH better.
Good deal glad that is working out for you. I’ve had way better luck with W and C over HO. I’ve had untanned sides from HO, literally still rawhide in the center. Several of em. Try cutting that out. I’ve had white gooey stuff come out of the leather so bad I sent the whole side back. They didn’t know what it was. I had one with so much hair still on the side that ya’d a thought it was almost a hair on side. Sometimes I even had a real nice side. Still the W and C as you mentioned is consistent and more good stuff for ya buck.
Horsewright
took awhile to dial everything in, mostly getting the tension balanced. Lots and lots of experimentation
one huge pain in the ass which I didn't anticipate, is how easily these bladed needles cut threads. So instead of backstitching with the machine and wrecking my work, I'ma do it the olde way.
I'll get there one day, but all things considered I'm pretty happy with how my stitches turned out. I am especially happy that sewing these things up only took a fraction of the time I takes me to do it by hand. Stitches are straighter, too
SwissHeritageCo
-the photo's probably a little overexposed, but there are definitely foot prints. Since these things get a fully wet molding, I'm hoping the marks will rub out some.
Finishing the ends by hand is not a huge big deal, and it looks pretty kewl, since the stitches area a little different. Like olde worlde meets nw wrld!
I keep looking at these things and still can't quite get over it. The stitch lines are so much nicer looking than I usually produce, at least on the front side of the sheath.
the thread is kind of a cigar brown.
Ya might have to adjust, sounds like. Mine are all built to the individual, specific knife anyways so, I'm always adjusting. This is done on the welt and the welt side for the most part.
As the resident expert I have another annoying question. Have you noticed how different leathers can cause different retention? I know you wet mold everything so it doesn't much matter in that case, but what I'm finding is that this new w & c leather seemingly makes the pouch cavity larger vs the super hard tempered hermann oak.
I'm worried my existing patterns wont offer the same retention. I can always case the sheaths and make them more flat but I'm a little concerned that I might need to adjust all of my patterns to accommodate the new (slightly softer temper) leather.
Cool nice job..... Well at Least the # wasn't higher........
