1St Axe Sheath

[Aurelie]

Hi guys!

Here my 1st try at Axe sheath

This is far from a saddle but the "challenge" appealed to me

and bottom line : i loved it !

A guy asked me to build for him a sheath for his competition axe (not a fancy one but something cool and that would work easy)

i said : ok might be possible ...and here is what came out of it!

1 trouble was the shape of the axe : curved on both side => boggled my mind a bit

i wanted something easy to manipulate and sturdy....

decoration really really simple : his initiales

made out of Hermann and Oak 12/130z - oiled with olive oil - finished with some skidmore's leather cream

now that gave me some ideas : when i see it, i feel like it would not have hurt to work a bit more on the deco

but was not for me so i did what was asked .....and i am not close to own an axe since i am enough dangerous with a baseball bat! :D

[immiketoo]

That's great. I particularly like the detail of the extra point on the bottom edge. I would have added more tooling to the leather but its simple and effective.

[David8386]

Looks good, nice, clean and functional. Thanks for posting it.

David

[Aurelie]

That's great. I particularly like the detail of the extra point on the bottom edge. I would have added more tooling to the leather but its simple and effective.

I totally agree with you!

If another "timberman" comes and ask for an axe sheath and if i can "sweat talk" him into full carve it..i will do it

Looks good, nice, clean and functional.

David

to be honest : that was the goal

always my goal :

1st : clean and functional

when this is ok => i go for the nice looking and the fancy stuff

anyone wants on with swarovski strass on it

Ahahaha

[bluesman1951]

Very nicely done ! Stitching stands out very sharp and clean . The eye just keeps making laps around the project not a single snag very smooth . I like this a lot ! This will give many years of good service . My compliments ! :thumbsup:

[Aurelie]

worked hard to erase the prints of the presser foot but after wetting, rubbing smoothly...i did it

i put a welt between the fold - glued it and then stitched everything with the sewing machine...i hope that won't tear easily

i always find wrong things on my jobs but this one (for a 1st one) turned out rather good

and bottom line : the harder in leatherworking? => making patterns that works

the rest : part luck, part imagination => you can work around almost all troubles

this is the way i see things

but i really had fun doing that one

[Beaverslayer]

Aurelie.

Very nice craftsmanship on this, I'm glad you decided to say "Yes I can do that". Now you have another happy customer that is going to tell people about you.

Great job.

[Aurelie]

Thank you Beaverslayer :D

now, i ve got to find a bit of time and courage ...and jump in the "shark pool" to try to build a fancy handbag

[Beaverslayer]

Jump on in Aurelie, the waters fine and the sharks have all gone South for the winter.....