[edit]No longer a WIP[/edit]
So my kind girlfriend gave me my birthday present early!
I had been on about wanting leather working tools for a while. I really wanted to make leather sheaths for my Mora Clipper and Laplander Saw. As I started to try and come up with a template using cardboard for my mora I realised I should really start on something a little more basic to practice the essentials before I use a too bigger portion of my leather. The scapel I had bought for fine detail came without any sort of sheath meaning I was bound to stab myself if I just placed it loose in a drawer, and after seeing the way it cut leather like a hot knife though butter I felt it appropriate to make a sheath for that as my starter project.
I decided on a basic 'sandwich' design which I could practice grooving, stitchmarking, oiling, stitching, etc.
[edit]Thanks for the reply Dreadhead, i've done exactly that. Bevelled the edges and slicked them with some spit and my thumbnail (Ugg! Man go make fire now). then I re-neatsfoot'd it with a new tin of neatsfoot oil (which was much nicer than the old thick gloopy stuff I found in the cupboard before!) and here is the final product
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I was very careful trying to make sure I measured the pieces out right and ran the overstich wheel in the same place to make sure the stitches lined up! However, I still ended up with 2 extra holes on one side!!! Rather than skipping them I ran the thread through, looped it inbetween the 2 leather pieces and back out through the same hole so you wouldn't even know unless you counted the stitches on each side. I am very very chuffed
The best thing about it is that as my first ever bit of leather work, whenever I work leather again I will always be reminded of my first as it's the sheath that holds my scapel
So my kind girlfriend gave me my birthday present early!
I had been on about wanting leather working tools for a while. I really wanted to make leather sheaths for my Mora Clipper and Laplander Saw. As I started to try and come up with a template using cardboard for my mora I realised I should really start on something a little more basic to practice the essentials before I use a too bigger portion of my leather. The scapel I had bought for fine detail came without any sort of sheath meaning I was bound to stab myself if I just placed it loose in a drawer, and after seeing the way it cut leather like a hot knife though butter I felt it appropriate to make a sheath for that as my starter project.
I decided on a basic 'sandwich' design which I could practice grooving, stitchmarking, oiling, stitching, etc.
[edit]Thanks for the reply Dreadhead, i've done exactly that. Bevelled the edges and slicked them with some spit and my thumbnail (Ugg! Man go make fire now). then I re-neatsfoot'd it with a new tin of neatsfoot oil (which was much nicer than the old thick gloopy stuff I found in the cupboard before!) and here is the final product
[/edit]I was very careful trying to make sure I measured the pieces out right and ran the overstich wheel in the same place to make sure the stitches lined up! However, I still ended up with 2 extra holes on one side!!! Rather than skipping them I ran the thread through, looped it inbetween the 2 leather pieces and back out through the same hole so you wouldn't even know unless you counted the stitches on each side. I am very very chuffed
The best thing about it is that as my first ever bit of leather work, whenever I work leather again I will always be reminded of my first as it's the sheath that holds my scapel
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and instead of an overstitch wheel i find stitching prongs/forks are better for consistency but harder for rounded edges. keep up the good work
