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Great looking design and craftsmanship @Rolandranch. That knife looks great too!

Impeccable work.

I just got my first HO and can't wait to try it. It even looks different than the Tandy stuff I've been using. I really hope its fine or I'll be sorely let down. Also, the side I bought was comparable in price to Tandy's.

Those are beautiful. Very pure looking.

That is not only nice but super cool. We bought one from the jewelry store for my son's watches and its crap if I'm being honest. This one you made is pretty amazing.

Beautiful roll Sir!

That looks great man and your coloring/antiquing is very well done.

Looks way better than the bland band and better than the interim. I'm going to have to try my hand at the arrowhead pattern, I think it looks really cool and your hat band wears it well!

I was certainly shooting for the waterdrain. It is still semi wetformed though but I didn't bake it. Over all, it was pretty easy with the sewing being the hardest part and that wasn't hard. Setting the snap was a PITA though, I think I used the line 20 setter and was too lazy to get up and find my line 24 setter after I realized I could still make it work.

Both look really cool. Round braiding is on my list of things to learn.

That is awesome!

Cool! I can see them selling easy!

Really nice bags!

Yeah, I think if you have anything of real value you want to keep nice and pristine, you store it elsewhere but can carry it in leather.

Here's the back and the bottom. I didn't intend for it to look camo, just something to break up the sea of green but it works. It is all one piece except for the belt loop. I almost made it a 3 piece (back, front, and belt loop) but got a little lazy and pressed for time.

I keep my knives in vegtan and they are fie. I mainly use carbon steel so they can rust but don't really. Brass and copper will if they contact the leather, like the bolsters on a Buck 110 are impossible to keep from going green unless you are using it often. As far as straight razors though, I'm a bit more picky. I currently keep them rolled in some anticorrosive paper and in one of those small tool boxes with a zerust pack in it just to be safe. My knives though, I don't have any collectibles so I can just take them out and knock any rust off of them if need be. Beat it through a log or carve something and the rust goes away too.

Here's my stab at a Kelly Green Leatherman sheath. I somehow messed my stitching all up on the backside.

@bikermutt07 turned me on to the picresizer app the other day. It's free, simple, and works.

Looks awesome man! I'm working on a Leatherman sheath myself and only hope it turns out as good as this.

Looks awesome and should last her long enough to understand that her daddy made it for her and it lasted and lasted. Fill that sucker full of Barbie heads, ladybugs, some pennies, nickles, and dimes and set her loose to conquer the backyard!

First off, your stitching is great for a 20th attempt, not to mention a first attempt. As far as welting goes, I kinda see that as a safety issue. If you bend over and aren't aware of what the knife is doing and you push it through the stitching, the blade can find a piece of meat to poke into. A welt give you a lot more difficult thing to push through along with providing stitch protection. A few extra mm in thickness beats a trip to the hospital in my estimation. Also, I have a few sheathes that I have excellent knife retention on with no other means of retaining the knife other than the forming of the leather; it can be done but as you've learned, you have to have your dimensions right.

Bingo. I just made it yesterday. I have a bit of tweaking I need to do but the little bit of test running I've done with it (stitched about 2-3 inches) it has already paid for itself.

lol, I didn't mention the spiders did I?

Wow! That is super nice work! I'd be afraid to hurt it!

Yes to all. Those tooling racks are actually some of the meanest cardboard I've ever seen...packing parts for some bowflex equipment. The stuff is hard as wood so I drilled holes in it and drop stamps in them. Works ok but a temporary solution until I get off my butt and make a proper stamp rack. We go a new set of knives after 22 years so I repurposed the old block. I have an Old Hickory in there I'm going to reprofile and rehandle but that is totally for leather sharps. The bikes are just out of the way in the shed. The respirator is also out of the way there bu still handy when I fire up the airbrush. The rainbow swiffer....it was there when we moved in and I haven't touched it since. Guess I could toss it and use the nail to hang something. The drying racks are usually for leather but I have some cloth I dyed using leather dye ( black and red) that I'm going to make some knife handles out of. I should've tidied up..... I love this thread too @Rolandranch. 'Twas a great idea @Mjolnir.