New Life For Friend's Knives

[Tramps Leatherworking]

Nice job! Personally, I like the rivets, everyone has different tastes...

[Fonzarellis]

That looks fantastic. Nice straight stitch lines. I like that two tone dye job.

One thing about the basketweave. I like to overlap my stamps, it tightens up the pattern and I think it looks a little neater.

For the smallish areas on this sheath, I have to agree. The "extended weave" looks better on larger areas but is much more difficult to tool and make it look right. I bought a sheath a couple of years ago with the "extended weave" and thought it looked great. In retrospect, it was a larger sheath and the weave covered the whole thing. Just finished up this scabbard for a spear point and used the tiny basket weave for the fill. I like the look a lot better.

Edited February 20, 2015 by Fonzarellis

[Peter Darby]

Beautiful work.<br /><br />Although I am not a big fan of rivets on knife sheaths either. What I do to eliminate the stress point at the top of the sheath is build up the gusset so it's pretty closely matches the width of the handle/guard where it meets the ricasso. I find this no only eliminates the stress but keeps the sheath from developing that little pouched look at that point.

[stu925]

I think the sheaths look great. I like the look of the rivets. I have had the same issue with rivets when using the cheap rapid rivet setter that comes with the rivets. Once I ditched that and picked up a snap-all/rivet setting kit. That pretty much eliminated my issues. I've had one rivet bend since I bought that kit and I attribute that to not holding the setter straight on the rivet. As for the knives, handles look fantastic and probably didn't look that good from the factory. I'd like to see the blade work too.

Stu

[Fonzarellis]

Sorry Stu, just went back and checked and I failed to take an "finished" blade pics. After mouse pad and 2000 grit then honing on my ceramic rods they polished up pretty well on the blade part but I was hesitant to do much other than remove the rust on the rest of the blade. the larger one had a coating on it and I just left it as is.