Hello!
Yep i work at LePrevo... If ye want advice on leather (or leatherworking of any sort) feel free to call or email us...
If ye do call, you can always ask for me if ye want, and i will always try and get back to ye as quick as possible to ye, although we sometimes get swamped with shop customers or crazy big mail order stuff (film orders and the like) so it may take a bit of time! Everyone who works there is a leatherworker though so whoever ye get on the phone should be able to help ye!
Wish we did send an order out on the day it came in... unfortunately we get 30 - 40 orders a day (and we only have 4 full time and 1 part time staff memebers including me) so it takes a bit of time to get the orders together, invoice, pack and post them but we always send them out as quick as we can. Quickest way to get an order out to ye is if ye place it by email or the (confusing) online order form, then give us a call with ye card details. We'll try n get it off within 7 working days, phone orders can be 10 days so send ye order in a written form. To be honest they normally go out pretty soon after they come in, but ye know what its like!
That said you can call with any queries at all, and then pop an email order in after!
We're always happy to send out samples too!
That said, generally any NATURAL VEG TAN leather over 2mm (3mm) is best for knife sheaths... out of our standard line stuff 026 and 028 is good, but not cheapest leather. 049 and 090 are both pretty good and cheaper, but are a grade 2 so ye have to work around imperfections and holes...
On the SPECIAL OFFER LIST at the mo there are some Sego shoulders (dont recall the codenumber) and they are really good for the price, they are a veg tan that the fat of the animal has been forced back into the skin (really old tanning method) resulting in a leather thats great for tooling and wet moulding, and the fat acts as a bit of a resist for dying it so its much more even... its a great leather!
If ye only need a small ammount we can always cut a wide strap ( code B004) of whatever width ye need... at least 44 inches long too, so ye can get 3 or so sheaths out of that!
Hope thats of some help!