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Bruce, I gotta say it again and in public. Thats the pretty'st blade I've ever looked at. 2thumbs2thumbs:)

Scalphunter, looked at your album. Really like the beadwork, do you line the sheaths with rawhide?

Doug, I think I've made every mistake you can possible make on leather. You have to get pretty inventive trying to make a mistake look like you did it on purpose:D

Five minutes in a snake den will give your heart a better workout than a hr long gym workout:D Only a broken computer will keepme from checking in often. I'm not sure I can build build a sheath worthy of your blades now Bruce.2thumbs

Wow Bruce. Thanks so much for telling me about this place. It took me about a week to catch up on this thread. Don't quite know what to say, never thought I'd see anything like this as a WIP. I thought the first blade of yours I held was the pretty'st I'd ever see (the one with the small...

Glad I could help PJ, hope it works for you. I made my first one out of Iron wood. It was about half the size of the ones in the picture. I used it on belts and a few sheaths. Most of the heavy dense woods will work. The woods with natural oils work the best as the leather is wet. You probably...

P J I don't use the slicker on big peices like saddle seats, but use it on most all small projects and especialy on things that have to fit exactly. Stamping will swell the leather and slicking it will cut down on that. Special projects that require the best grade of stamping will get slicker...

Wow, thanks for the welcome guys. Denton, who was the saddlemaker. I most likely know him.

I'm gonna have to force myself to drink plenty of fluids to combat all the drooling. I'm a rank greenhorn building blades so I'm gonna spend a lot of time looking at all the talent here and hope a small amount rubs off. My main interest is hunting blades and being able to build sharp well made...

Doug, I was hoping it would show in the picture, the leather is a hair darker on the slicked side. I did give it a light coat of neatsfoot oil hoping it would show up better.

I slicked the right side of this scrap of 12 oz skirting, then stamped both sides. The right side is compressed to about 10oz after the slicking. It is firmer than the left side and the stamping a hair sharper. The leather is outta the butt, so both sides are pretty crisp. I didn't have a...

P J, I'll get a picture this afternoon and get it on tonigt. ( I hope)

One thing no one mentioned is to use a slicker on your leather before you lay out the sheath. It compresses the leather and it will move less during stamping and give you a cleaner more uniform impression. If you need pics of a couple types of slickers I can get one on photobucket maybe. (not to...