Hello From San Tan Valley, Arizona

[pmieras2000]

What started out as a simple project is now transforming into it's own animal... First project was a leather wrapped handle using a scrap pieces from a remnant bag. Just a simple herring bone stitch I ran across on a youtube video. I bought a deluxe kit from Tandy just cause it seemed like a good starting point to get some tools rather than piecing it together, besides, it was on sale. From there it sat for a while, until I borrowed a rifle from a neighbor for my daughter to use on a deer hunting trip this last season. Inside the case was his old hunting knife in a sheath that really needed to be retired. To show my thanks, I decided to make him a new sheath. Also made it match him for being left handed. The lead to another sheath for another friend after they saw the pictures. This one can mount horizontally in the small of the back or vertically... This lead to Christmas presents for this year as a suggestion from my wife. Since I already had a belt blank as part of the kit... Made a folding knife sheath for my son (made from scratch), a wallet for my middle daughter (tandy kit) and a belt for the oldest... Will have to upload the belt separate... Pics are too big... It's addicting though that's for sure. I'm really enjoying the whole process. and I get to use to drawing skills I haven't used in a long time...

Edited December 6, 2015 by pmieras2000

[pmieras2000]

Each project has progressively gotten more detailed...

[Northmount]

Hey, pretty nice!

Welcome to the forum and the addiction.

Tom

[rickdroid]

Its too late for you now, you're hooked. Doing really nice work too.

[pmieras2000]

Thanks for the kinds words of encouragement... and yes... I'm hooked

[Colt W Knight]

I have that same knife that my great grand dad left me when he died. I almost lost it when the sheath rotted and it fell out in the woods. A four year old kid found it.

[pmieras2000]

The original sheath didn't have a welt in it so it was just a matter of time before the blade cut through the stitching. For the replacement sheath I added a welt.

[catstamp]

Nice work. It's amazing how quickly one gets hooked.

[Eze Mathias]

That is a nice one! Please can you teach me?

[Boriqua]

Those damned kits!! I bought my deluxe tandy kit sometime around 1990. Been playing with leather since. Crack has nothing on them. Tandy kits have a way of creating an addiction.

Alex