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James, Not often do you see interests like: "leather, metal, wood.... art. painting furniture, motorcycles, pinstriping, tattoo's, Mastiffs, Morse Code!" Where in SW Va are you? What kind of bikes are you into? Bill Dublin, VA

Brian, I used to live in Chesapeake and VA Beach. I miss the ocean, 5 hours is too far away! What kind of knives do you make?

We might see this one on next seasons Ice Road Truckers!

Yeah, their website still looks like it did right after Al Gore invented the internet... I know business have to make their own decisions about their internet footprint but it is so easy now to make a website that their really is no excuse for this level of incompetence. A 4th grader could get a yahoo business site up and running in an hour that would blow theirs away. Hard to imagine how much money goes to other companies because they can't get a decent site up. Bill Virginia

How can you tell? Their website is so horrible, how can you even find the stitching pony? Bill Virginia

Semper Fi and welcome to the forum. I hope you get Quantico, its a nice place. I did Embassy school there and it is definately the cream of the crop as far as Marine Corps bases goes. Stay safe in the sand and get back stateside so you can work on leather. Bill Virginia

Thanks guys, The bird on my fist is a 9 lb male Golden eagle so I might be able to let him carry a small folder, but the hawks and falcons are much smaller and can't handle the extra weight so no blades for them! My sheaths are pretty basic "user" types. I sell mosty to local hunters, farmers, campers and some of the bigger Tracker knives and kukris to the 4 wheeler guys. I don't usually do much tooling unless someone wants it. I hand stitch everything and can't keep up even with basic sheaths. But when my new machine (Cobra) gets here and I get up to speed with it, I will have more time per sheath to make them look a bit nicer. I'm practicing my backet weave now.

Hi everyone, I have been making falconry equipment out of kangaroo and buffalo leather for many years but recently got into making knife sheaths for some Nepalese knives I import. So far I have been hand stiching but it is quickly getting impossible to keep up so I have been shopping around for a machine. I have been looking into a sewing machine for a while and noticed that this group argues over machines like falconers argue over training methods and dog trainers argue of techniques and so on and so on. So I will skip the "what machine/company is best" in my introduction post and just say hi! I mostly make sheaths for small/medium sized fixed blade knives with 6-7 oz leather and larger Bowie and kukri sheaths with 8-9 oz stock. The pic below shows two of the more popular knives and sheaths. Bill Virginia