Couple of standard knife sheaths...

[bladegrinder]

Here's a couple of standard style knife sheaths I make. this is actually the first time I ever used antique. I used a base coat of Fiebing's tan kote, then Fiebings light brown antique paste then another coat of tan kote, the next day I put on one light coat of resolene. I think they came out ok for my first try with this stuff and am pretty happy with the finished results so far.  Thanks for looking!

 

[DieselTech]

Beautiful work on the tooling & beautiful knives.

You do awesome work. 

What blade steel are you working with? & what brand is your dragon scale stamp. 

Nice work. Love the pine cone scales also. Them dang things are expensive but, stunning. 

Thanks. 

[MarshalWill]

Very nice. That antique finish really makes the stamping stand out.

[bladegrinder]

58 minutes ago, DieselTech said:

Beautiful work on the tooling & beautiful knives.

You do awesome work. 

What blade steel are you working with? & what brand is your dragon scale stamp. 

Nice work. Love the pine cone scales also. Them dang things are expensive but, stunning. 

Thanks. 

Thanks, the Damascus steel is from Brad Vice, Alabama Damascus and the other knife is CPM154 stainless. the stamp came from Sergey, yea have to be selective due to the price but they really stamp nice and he has some patterns you can't find anywhere else.

18 minutes ago, MarshalWill said:

Very nice. That antique finish really makes the stamping stand out.

Thanks Marshall, I actually wish I started using it on some things a long time ago, I'm sure I'll be using it more often now on certain pieces.

[DieselTech]

15 minutes ago, bladegrinder said:

Thanks, the Damascus steel is from Brad Vice, Alabama Damascus and the other knife is CPM154 stainless. the stamp came from Sergey, yea have to be selective due to the price but they really stamp nice and he has some patterns you can't find anywhere else.

Thanks Marshall, I actually wish I started using it on some things a long time ago, I'm sure I'll be using it more often now on certain pieces.

Thanks I appreciate it. Is your scales on the cpm154 knife, what they call or refer to as tortoise shell?

Thanks. Nice work on it all. 

[rleather]

Very nice work on the dragon scales. Perfect fit for that knife, you really nailed it!

[bladegrinder]

33 minutes ago, DieselTech said:

Thanks I appreciate it. Is your scales on the cpm154 knife, what they call or refer to as tortoise shell?

Thanks. Nice work on it all. 

That handle material is called Raffir, it's an epoxy based resin with what the manufacturer says are plant fibers inside. it kind of looks like corn husks to me. I like it, it's some really different stuff for sure. I use black G10 liners between it and the tang to highlight the yellow in it.

37 minutes ago, rleather said:

Very nice work on the dragon scales. Perfect fit for that knife, you really nailed it!

Thanks rleather!

[Hags]

Very nice work. I'm still on the fence about antiquing. 

[bladegrinder]

13 hours ago, Hags said:

Very nice work. I'm still on the fence about antiquing. 

Thanks Hags, I was on the fence with it too that’s why I never used it, but just recently I was thinking there’s got to be a way to make the stamping pop a little more and after reading up about antiquing and watching some YouTube videos about how to properly apply it I thought I’d try it. It seems like I pulled it off ok and it sealed up good so I’ll keep on trying it where it seems applicable.

[Cattleman]

Very nice work @bladegrinder! Once you start antiqueing you never go back. And I think you really nailed it.

[bladegrinder]

15 hours ago, Cattleman said:

Very nice work @bladegrinder! Once you start antiqueing you never go back. And I think you really nailed it.

Thanks Cattleman, I’ve got a holster I’m going to try it on soon, I’m looking forward to trying it again and getting some good results