My Newest Knife Sheath Pattern Request...

[a kind texan]

I am going to be making a knife sheath for an old WWII knife, and I was going to tool a Combat Medic Badge

and a Combat Infantry Badge

on it. The man who earned these saved my father's life in Afghanistan, and this is one of the few things I can do for him.

The knife is a Kabar

(I think) and so I should have some room to tool.

Any thoughts?

[DCKNIVES]

The way I do stuff like that is to copy the picture to Photoadobe or Photoshop and size to the sheath, then print out.Lightly dampen your carving area, and trace the pattern on to the leather, and carve away.Dave

[Crystal]

If you are looking for a little more carving room you could try a Mexican Loop style sheath. I haven't done any holsters like that but this is similar to that style:

Here's a link to a LW post with a holster in that style:

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=17121&st=0&p=110151&hl="mexican%20loop"&fromsearch=1entry110151

If you do a site search for "Mexican Loop" you can see some other styles and applications.

Good luck!

CrystaL