Whisky flask sheath

[TomSwede]

This is a project I've been doing on and off the past two months. It will do duty as a water reserv during my clubs (GMWS =Gefle Malt whisky Society) next big public whisky event. We will have 175 people during two days but the flask remains safe at our clubtable with 10 people. After that it will contain my "whisky of the house"...hm seems like it will be empty most times then;-)

Constructed out of tooled panels that has some 800 holes that was laced together with a really tight Mexican basketweave (just to keep it simple;-). The flask is not secured any more than the folded tops that keep it tight in place and the bottom also is a formed piece of leather that is mex laced.

Handle. The attachment seems/sewing (?) were tricky and came out not so nice but luckily this doesn't show so much in everyday use and hopefully with less critical eyes than in here.

It's made of one piece of mystery braid (4 strand) thick leather that were sheathed with a thinnest veg tan and water molded/shrunken. I left a long piece of the sheathing and made a 4 strand diamond braid that loops back as a carrying handle, inside there is a wire that keeps it in shape. The wire is what made it very difficult for me to get the sewing alright at the top attachment.

Had I known from the beginning that I would make that carrying handle I would have made the mystery braid piece a little bigger to ease up the sewing.

Estimated time in making this is about 50-60hrs.

Any constructive critic is welcome!

[TomSwede]

Pile of workingmaterial.

[wolvenstien]

Awesomely cool. Dude...

Now you gonna do it in black?

LOL

[TomSwede]

With white lacing....hmm why not...another project could be born here...

Thanks alot man!

Tom

[Alexblow]

Man,i just love it...especially your "mistery 4 braid".It's an internationnal piece of art ( eau de vie ).

Now you must fill the botlle with water .

Serious,that's very nice.

Just a question:how much time for the braid?

[TomSwede]

Thank you for your kind words Alex!!

I answer your question first: I'd say roughly about 23 hours for the braidng alone but that is with one eye on the tv aswell as ascoffee and smoke pause 5-10 minutes per hour.

Uisge beata is Gaelic for water of life, aswell as eau de vi is French and aqua vitae off course is Latin.

Whisky is the modern pronounciation of Uisge.

Best regards!

Tom

[Kevin King]

...............uh....ummm......eh....er...HOLY !@#$. That is incredibly cool brutha!....wow. Don't know what else to sa...

KK

[Beaverslayer]

Tom, that is absolutely amazing, I just love it. Great work there, and thanks for sharing.

Ken

[TomSwede]

Hey Kevin and Ken!

You rock my world!

Coming home tired from work I have to say your comments really made my day!

Thank you guys!

BTW: I forgot to mention in the first post that the flask is round and not squareshaped inside the sheath, also the widest part of the flask is the bottom so the bottom panels are wet molded to accomodate the form of the flask.

Tom

[TomSwede]

Since pictures are appreciated so much here I just add a few more of this flask at it's first duty of service. Here we have it as a waterbottle on one of our public whiskyruns/test/seminar.

We have about 175 people during 2 nights so theres was alot of interest and appreciation in this flask and I just soaked it up like a sponge.

The gentleman posing with the flask is an official ambassador of whisky and has taken the oath by the official scottish council of whisky.

Tom

Photographer of Gefle Malt Whisky Society (because I can shoot whilst beeing drunk)

Edited January 20, 2008 by TomSwede

[Beaverslayer]

Very cool looking flask Tom. Love the lacing.

So if I'm correct, you guys get together and sit around all night tasting different types of whisky, until your drunk...all for free?

Ken

[TomSwede]

Very cool looking flask Tom. Love the lacing.

So if I'm correct, you guys get together and sit around all night tasting different types of whisky, until your drunk...all for free?

Ken

Hey Ken!

Well not for free really.

Our society is restricted to 10 hardcore whisky fanatics that refuse to spit out the testobject;-) and prefer heavy metal music to the delicate analysis..hahaha..other than that we take this serious.

So the society buys in alot of whisky wich will then be covered by an entrance fee that is about the cost of a fairly cheap bottle of scotch. For this you get to taste whiskys that you need to be a detective to even get a hold on and then you off course would have to ransac your conscious and see if you can really afford that bottle.

We had five types of whisky + a special rare type to buy on the side this time.

The special one and the top one of the fives were limited editions and the cost is about 320 USD per bottle if I just recalculate from Swedish crowns. I have no idea what the bottles would cost in US or Canada.

We have five of each sort so some simple math shows that we are dealing with quite alot of money to get all this together and that is why we have member restriction in the club.

I think it's a real treat to get to try theese ones and man do we have alot of fun.

In may we will go to the scottish island Isle of Islay (our mecca) and have a blast and all expenses are paid by the society.

We sell alot of beer and snacks and some more regular whiskys on the side aswell at those events so the society brings in some good money even though we have very low prices compared to what you pay on a pub or bar.

Check out this bottles serial no.

Told you we were all metal folks;-) Thats the special on the side whisky.

Best regards and thank you for shown interest Ken!

Tom

[Tina]

I Love the flask Tom,

and so like to see the pictures when in use, makes it more real.

Gefle, gissar att du bor i Gävle med omnejd?:-)

3Have a great evening//T

[Beaverslayer]

Tom, that's the Devil Whisky I see, DO NOT DRINK IT...LOL

Sounds like a very good time, makes a guy want to take up drinking again just to be able to taste something that cost that much.

Ken

[TomSwede]

I Love the flask Tom,

and so like to see the pictures when in use, makes it more real.

Gefle, gissar att du bor i Gävle med omnejd?:-)

3Have a great evening//T

Jajjemen Gävle är min hemvist för det mesta, har även ett litet hus upp i Finnskogarna väster om Ockelbo- My little gettaway from the big big noisy city!!

Thanks for loving the flask.

I decided to find another glass top for it, the present one is not fitting very well and I don't like the look of it either.

Tom

[TomSwede]

Tom, that's the Devil Whisky I see, DO NOT DRINK IT...LOL

Sounds like a very good time, makes a guy want to take up drinking again just to be able to taste something that cost that much.

Ken

With the pricetags on theese bottles you actually have to convince yourself to take a little dram on saturdaynight rather than the usual opposite situation, lol!

[Froghunter]

Beautiful work!

Edited January 21, 2008 by Froghunter

[TomSwede]

Thank you Frog!

Much appreciated!!

Tom