New Knife Sheath
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 6:12 am
Keeping with my recent trend of new items to refurbish my kit, I made a new sheath for my belt knife tonight, from start to finish!
Made of veg-tan leather and dyed with Eco-Flo Gel Antique in their dark brown color. I’m afraid I rushed it a bit and didn’t Allow it to fully dry during the dying process, or buff it enough between coats, and therefore the faux-antique quality of the stain didn’t really Come out, but in the end I quite like the color. All of the tooled designs were done freehand, and basically made up on the spot, drawing inspiration in large part from the design aesthetic of Cedarlore Forge.
This was my first time making a knife sheath, and I definitely learned a few things in the process. For one, the leather stretched a bit during the wet-forming process, and therefore didn’t really hug the knife tight enough to keep it snugly in the sheath - and the whole reason I set out to make this was because the sheath I bought with the knife had stretched out with use and no longer held it snugly, so that was kind of an important part of the build. To combat this I added a small extra row of Stitches at the top, which did accomplish what I was hoping it would, but ended up being a bit TOO snug, so I had to stretch it out a bit afterwards. Also, these stitches don’t have the spacer strip of leather that sit’s in the center of the main seam I’m a little concerned that they therefore may get too much contact from the blade upon sheathing and unsheathing, causing me to have to replace them over time, but we’ll see.
Anyway, this one is done, and now on to the next project!
Made of veg-tan leather and dyed with Eco-Flo Gel Antique in their dark brown color. I’m afraid I rushed it a bit and didn’t Allow it to fully dry during the dying process, or buff it enough between coats, and therefore the faux-antique quality of the stain didn’t really Come out, but in the end I quite like the color. All of the tooled designs were done freehand, and basically made up on the spot, drawing inspiration in large part from the design aesthetic of Cedarlore Forge.
This was my first time making a knife sheath, and I definitely learned a few things in the process. For one, the leather stretched a bit during the wet-forming process, and therefore didn’t really hug the knife tight enough to keep it snugly in the sheath - and the whole reason I set out to make this was because the sheath I bought with the knife had stretched out with use and no longer held it snugly, so that was kind of an important part of the build. To combat this I added a small extra row of Stitches at the top, which did accomplish what I was hoping it would, but ended up being a bit TOO snug, so I had to stretch it out a bit afterwards. Also, these stitches don’t have the spacer strip of leather that sit’s in the center of the main seam I’m a little concerned that they therefore may get too much contact from the blade upon sheathing and unsheathing, causing me to have to replace them over time, but we’ll see.
Anyway, this one is done, and now on to the next project!
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I especially like the star design.