crook knife sheath question

[mazeman]

Has anyone a bright way to sheathe a crook knife? Or, even better, a way to sheathe a crook knife and a Frosts Classic together?

 

[Mungo]

I saw a post somewhere describing how they mimicked the curve of the blade using a piece of coat hanger wire. Then they heated it up in a flame, and rested it on a small block of light coloured wood, which made a scorch mark. They then cut out where the scorch mark was, fashioned a matching 'lid' and there you have it... not sure where I saw it, either on this forum, or in a blog somewhere... hope that is of some help...

Mungo

 

[Toddy]

I think jon r did the tutorial that you're remembering.

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21907

cheers,
Toddy

 

[JohnC]

I used a hot wire bent into the blade shape, and a small block of dense wall foam, the blue or pink stuff. I cut it to size after that, and stitched a leather wrap round it.

 

[shep]

I made mine like this. A spiral of leather follows the shape of the blade.

 

[JohnC]

I like that a lot, the spoon detail on the toggle is a nice touch..

 

[Treeclipper]

I normally just wrap mine in a rectangular bit of leather, spiralled up the blade and tied with piece of leather thong.

But that leather case looks really nice, you should do a tutorial for that (hint, hint)

Tree

 

[Tiley]

I normally just wrap mine in a rectangular bit of leather, spiralled up the blade and tied with piece of leather thong.

I do likewise but just stick the free end through one of the turns on the blade. I use leather made from pigskin because someone (I can't remember who ) said that it was more resistant to cutting. I don't know if that's true; all I can say is that it's a simple system that seems to work!

 

[DoctorSpoon]

Our solution is not very pretty, but exceedingly functional as we have a whole bunch of them we use for teaching. We use short lengths of pipe insulation foam wrapped with a few bands of electrical tape - if you wrap it just tight enough you get a good push fit and they are nicely padded against knocks whilst in the tool bag!

 

[mazeman]

Thanks a lot guys, there's some really handy ideas here. jon r's tutorial pictures won't open for me but I think I get the drift, and thick leather's neat.
Ta, again.:You_Rock_

 

[JonBaker]

I would be interested to see what these are like......

http://www.woodsmithstore.co.uk/sho...ion/Product/Individual+case+for+crook+knives/

good price if they are any good.

 

[rancid badger]

I used to just wrap a bit of scrap leather around the blade as well, then came up with this:

it still just wraps around but doesn't come loose as easily.

It'll depend somewhat on how curved the blade is of course.

as I say; just a variation on a theme.

regards
R.B.