Let me see your homemade sheaths!

[Vadim]

[Vadim]

Leather sheath for Supertool 300.

[nakken]

Excellent work and beautiful materials, Vadim. Love the ST300 sheath

[MadPlumbarian]

Dang that’s beautiful work!
JR

[Vadim]

Excellent work and beautiful materials, Vadim. Love the ST300 sheath

Dang that’s beautiful work! JR

Thank you! 

[Jpac]

Awesome sheaths @vadim !

[Vadim]

Awesome sheaths @vadim !

Thank you,  Jpac !

[Vadim]

Horizontal Carry sheath for Sebenza 21

[Vadim]

ESEE Candiru, neck carry sheath.

[Vadim]

Sheath for Council Velvicut Axe.

[Vadim]

ESEE IZULA-II

[MadPlumbarian]

Dang, that’s some nice work!
JR

[Aloha]

 

[Jpac]

 

[Vadim]

[Jpac]

A couple of sheaths I´ve made lately

IMG_20221224_195132 by juan pedro almeida, en Flickr

IMG_20221224_195043 by juan pedro almeida, en Flickr

IMG_20221021_170850 by juan pedro almeida, en Flickr

IMG_20221021_170910 by juan pedro almeida, en Flickr

[MadPlumbarian]

Nice job!
JR

[kottskrapa]

  

[Jpac]

@kottskrapa @MadPlumbarian thank you sirs!

[pfrsantos]

Here's my most recent sheath. Well, it's a card/money sheath, so you probably can call it a wallet, too.

 

My previous one could only carry four cards. In this one, I manage to carry nine (four in the left, more accessible side, five on the right). The leather is quite soft, maybe in time it can hold more cards, but the ones I have right now are more than enough.

At first, I had the bills stashed inside, behind a set of cards, folded in three. This made the wallet bulkier. I added the lighter coloured strap to the front, wher I can keep the bills just folded in half. Much more accessible and thinner in the pocket.

Explorer shown for scale. The wallet, with the bills, is thinner than this SAK.
 

[Jpac]

Looks good!

[Tinner]

Tried my hand at a clip slip

 

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[MadPlumbarian]

Nice job you cut to size, stamped, and threaded?
JR

[Tinner]

Yup, started out as a piece of veg tanned leather. Made a template on card stock first then traced to leather. All cut, stamped, saddle stitched and finished by yours truly.

[MadPlumbarian]

Very impressive, I bought into all of that waaay back, never got any good but could do my basics, very nice job!
JR

[Tinner]

Thanks MP! I jumped in both feet then took a break because things were hectic. Came back a bit rusty and messed up the basket weave on this sheath for my rehandled Sharpfinger. About four stamps in I screwed up the pattern so I just continued the screw up until it was its own pattern. Lol. Came out not too bad so finished it and it is a functional sheath.

 

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[MadPlumbarian]

Dang nice job, it would work for me, great work on the stitch work and edging, I can make them functional but not pretty, this basically started because I switched from a maglite, to a huge double 123a battery flashlight seen in the pic, I liked my double carry like the one attached to the backpack, so I found junk and whipped up the top one staying up till like 12am all so I could have something to carry the next day with the flashlight next to it, then moved on, that bottom one was my last piece, and took the longest, I didn’t have anything to turn it and well I wanted it black, so I had to use a mixture of a few thing in which included vinegar, which stunk up the house, and it took like over a week to two weeks, so it sat in the window, between the the glass and screen, as you can see it changed to black, the smell faded but for some reason it looks twisted, yet fits perfect, but that beat up middle one was my pride and joy at the time, I got the flap just right for the leatherman unlike the screwup in the one before, and I used that thing for like 3yrs straight, the next one which I call the box, cause well let’s face it, it looks like a box, it worked but never got used, cause well, it looked like something Batman might use from back in the day, still have all of them somewhere, but I just carry a sak, those sheaths I’ve altered, just ripped out all the stitching and then re stitched them with diff colors, I mean come on what looks better then a black sheath with black stitching? Red! Double stitched so it shows! The kid loved it when he got his first sak, especially when I switched out one scale to black, his first sak and it was custom to him, so he named it Deadpool! I got a free sak of the same so I switched out both scales to blue did the same with the stitching and out in blue again double stitched, and since it was a large sak I called it the beast from X-men, was one of my fav, here’s a pic,,
JR

[Tinner]

I like the restitch on those sheaths. Compliments the knives very well. 

  Pictured below is my first sheath. Rocked it for about 3 years. Functional, yes. Attractive, not really. The leather was procured from a craft shop and I’m guessing the aim was the scrapbookers. Chrome dyed and fairly soft. I originally made it for my Victorinox Hiker but it was stretching so I upgraded to a Fieldmaster adding a layer and tightening up the fit. I marked the stitching with a dinner fork and stitched it using the inner strands from paracord.

I eventually ended up making more sheaths from the same leather bought in 8”x8” pieces. Progressively they got a bit better until I dove headfirst into the craft and bought some better tools and materials. Then I started seeing more professional results. I bought a leather awl, better needles, veg tanned leather, edgers and groovers, dyes and finishes as well as edge kote and finally stamps.  I also watched a lot of the artisans on youtube and followed their lead. Sometimes taking my iPad to the shop to follow along. Every one I make gets a bit better I think and honestly it is because I am now taking my time and not rushing the project as well as paying better attention to the details and planning out my project instead of just winging it. And I still botch that. Evidence is the screwed up basket weave on the Sharpfinger sheath.

 

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[Tinner]

Sheath for Marbles Woodcraft

 

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[pfrsantos]

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Just took a closer lookk at these ones. How did you secure the bottom? I see no stitching...