Leather sheath Final

Wet forming the front part of the sheath

Measuring the backing piece of the sheath

Gluing both parts of the sheath together before stitching, helps hold both parts steady for drilling of holes

This is my second leather sheath, I think it turned out 10 time better than the first. Thank goodness I did a test sheath, was really a good learning time. I got a feel for moulding leather, like when it was a good moisture level to mould 90 degree sides and to do minor tooling. I preferred a natural finish for now, so I applied some dubbin. I will get some light brown leather dye at some point.

Practice sheath

                                                      Casing my piece of leather

                                                        Molding it while it's damp

                                                     Stitching using a lock stitch

Over all I am happy with the actual stitching and the aluminum eyelet, the colour however turned out to shocking. I thought it would be a nice idea but evidently I was clearly wrong, I don't think I'll be doing that again in a hurry. I used an old table spoon as my bone folder, that was what I used to make the the crisp line close to the knife to give it shape. I used screws to tack the leather down, because as the leather dries it shrinks fractionally. The screws help to hold it in a flat position

My leatther

 I fetched my leather order from LEATHER FROM HART, on Thursday afternoon. I thought I would order what in my mind was the smaller cheaper cut, just so I could see how it is to work with leather. It turns out cows are bigger than I remember. So now I'm just busy with making my three basic tools for leather stitching