Merry Christmas to me!! After 14 years of having to clean the knife shop up really good to make sheaths, I now have a proper leather shop. Its like a small house! Nice and insulated. Its toasty warm right now. And will be cool in the summer. Highlights include a nice long tooling bench with ...
New little tactical for me. Never much been into tactical stuff before, but I love this little thing! Let me know what you guys think. ATS-34 flathead screwdiver tip. Nice little sheath
Here's a nice little push dagger I recently completed. Random Damascus and Mammoth ivory scales. 3 sets of highly etched bolsters , brass pins and stainless spacers. Thanks for looking.
GOD BLESS!
Michael
PS I could not get the pic to come up on the post, but please click on the file to open...
A sheath with a welt is just too thick to do a cordovan knot on. Try stitching as normal but doing a tight lace on the throat of the sheath. It looks great that way. Lacing is traditionally done with 2 layers. But ya gotta use a welt, so I'm not saying to do it without one.
GOD BLESS!
Michael
Spent a hot day teaching a good friend " Jim Coffee" how to forge a knife. What a blast! He took to it like a duck to water. First one all hand forged, then he got ahold of my power hammer. It was all over but the shoutin then. Took to that like he had been doin it all his life. So watch out...
hey guys on the road to the boston art knife invitational right now so i cant put a pic on. but i make a sheathclip for just this application. it can be seen on my site www.omachearleycustomknives.com feel free to look $10 bucks plus shipping