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Using iron hammer destroys the tools with the time. You also need a hammer - the best would be wooden, rubber or special plastic leathercraft maul. To stamping leather you need solid base - I am using marble plate. Stamping is optional, but I really like basketweave pattern on my leather stuff.Īt the beginning I am putting my logo stamp on the belt loops. You should also draw the belt loop, of any kind you like. Width of the insert should be about 3/8". Take your prepared pattern, copy half of it on a paper, and draw line that will be touching the edge of the knife. Now you need to prepare your stitch protecting spacer. Fold your piece of paper along sheath axis, cut it out and your pattern is ready! Smooth your outline, make it look naturally, no sharp edges, just smooth weaves :). Thanks to that you get rough outline of half of your sheath. Divide all messured lenghts by 2 and mark them on your draw, in "special places" they belong (mark them perpendicularly to the axis!). (Remember that your sheath has extra leather spacer to protect the stitch!) Draw a straight line, close as possible to the back on your knife - it will be axis of your sheath. Measure length of the strap perimeter - this is the minimum lenght of the sheath in this part of the knife. After that take your strap of leather and wrap it around the knife in all marked places. Mark all "special places" - places where width of the knife is changing (it will be: butt, beginning, middle, and end of a handle, bolster/guard, and a blade in 3 or 4 places). If you need pattern for a knife sheath start from drawing shape of your knife on a piece of paper. I will try to describe making it in a simple way. This is the beginning and is already a tricky part! Making the pattern is material for whole another instructable. Leather I recommand for knife sheath project is about 7-8 oz (2.8 - 3.2 mm). Veg tanned is important because this kind of leather allows you to stamp it.

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I am using veg-tanned full grain cow hide leather. When we are talking about leather you may ask what kind of leather you should use? Very helpfull addition can be small strap of leather (10-15" x 1/2" will be just enough) that you will use to make your sheath and a scale. What you need in this step is piece of paper, scissors and a pencil. Now, make yourself a cup of tea, it is going to take you a while untill you reach to the end :).

I recommend to check out all pictures, they are presenting whole process step by step, and have some extra comments pinned to them. There is no group picture of all tools, but each of them is presented and described it their own time. Important info: during making photo material for this Instructable, I will introduce all tools one by one, when I will use them (each tool has decription on the picture when it appears for the first time). But it only depends on you if you want to try it or just have some fun taking little DIY adventure with basic tools. All hardweare addisions: chicago screws, rivets, D-rings, buckles etc Īuxilliary tools will be necessary to achive effect I presented in this Instructable.Leather chemistry: gum tragacanth, neatsfoot oil, tan kote, super shene, acrylic resolene etc.

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leather stamps, wooden or rubber hammer for them (or professional leathercraft maul), marble plate to stamping on it.

More professional leather tools like: edge beveler, creaser, groover, edge slickers.

This is it - with this you are ready to make your first leather sheath. Some of them are essentials, and some are just for convenience. In this Instructable I am using many tools. Please forgive me my language troubles, I will do my best to make this instructable as understandable as possible :). What is more I will tell you what is optional (tools, materials, steps in the Instructable if you want it simpler) and with what, and how you can replace it.

I will call difficulty level of this Instructable as Intermediate but it can also be very usefull for beginners, because I am explaining almost every thing what I am doing, and I am describing all tools I am using. But generel concept is always the same and I will present it for you. You can do many things differently, in another order and with different tools. I would like to point out that I am a craftsman with my own ways of doing many things, that works for me, but it is not one official way to do it. I will guide you through my process of sheathmaking with all the details. This is why one day I thought, that it would be a good idea to make a step by step story of making my sheaths.

I tried it with dozens of knives - from budget swedish work-horses scandi knives with plastic handle, to art knives with amazing stabilized woods on the handles. I called it "universal" because it is designed to carry almost every kind of medium size, fixed blade, knife. I would like to introduce you to my concept of universal leather knife sheath.