There are a couple more pictures to add on the making of the template, but this is pretty much the lot.
Supplies and tools that can be used are;
1X piece of 5mm thick leather A4 sized.
1X piece of 2.5mm thick leather 10cm square.
One heavy duty press stud.
Waxed thread.
PVA glue.
Awl / Punch or a drill and the relevant bits.
Overstitch Wheel.
2 Needles.
A sharp knife (craft or stanley type).
A sanding block and sand paper.
Leather dye (only if the leather is natural colour).
Resolene.
Hammer or vice.
Clamps of one form or another.
Firstly you will require to make a template for the sheath and lay it onto the required thickness of leather (5mm).
Mark the template onto the leather so that you have three peices including the two inserts for the ends. The inserts will need to be about 10-15mm in depth along thier total length.
Cut the pieces out place three grooves in the top of the sheath running its length and then dye them. At this point you will need to cut a triangle out of the 2.5mm thick leather and dye that as well (this will form the flap).
Chamfer the edge that the flap will be attached to and glue the flap to the inside.
The flap once glued and stitched is then marked for the placement of the press stud.
I drilled a hole for the stud and and countersunk the stud on the 5mm thickness of leather due to the thickness of leather that the stud was capable of fitting.
I then used a vice to crimp the stud in place on both the flap and the main body of the sheath itself.
I then glued the inserts for the ends in place
And clamped the whole thing together using welding clamps.
I grooved the area to be stitched at the edges edges using a stitch groover and marked the holes to be drilled with the overstitch wheel.
I drilled the holes using a 0.75mm drill bit in a pillar drill (if you are going to drill the holes by hand I would suggest a larger drill bit of around 1-1.5mm).
After drilling I grooved the reverse side of the axe sheath so the stitching would not be proud of the leather and then saddle stitched it all in place.
To finish the stitching off I use a surgeon not and melt the braided waxed thread in on itself.
Once you have finished stitching you will want to finish the edges/end you can do this using a sanding block and some paper. This is a picture of the first time the axe was placed in the sheath, before I dyed the ends and resolened the sheath to make it water resistant.
This is the Axe sheath after having been re-dyed and edged.
This is the finished article showing the Edge end of the sheath and the Poll end in the first picture and then a final picture of the side view.
So that is the finished article.
