Finished Sheath for Customer!

[YinTx]

Finally after 2 months of cogitation and prototyping, finished this guy up.  As I don't do sheaths very often, open to critiques as well!  And yes, as always, it has the inadvertent requisite Spirit Stitch.

YinTx

 

Edited February 22, 2019 by YinTx
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[SickMick]

Sweet! Very unique knife to work with....

[Retswerb]

Wow, Yin. That turned out great - nice work.

[Dave Richardson]

Nice job on that one Yin ! Browning logo, stitching,color, sam brown button all just right. Really nice. You did however break the rule by not showing the blade....just sayin

[YinTx]

9 hours ago, SickMick said:

Sweet! Very unique knife to work with....

Thank you.  Unique shape and the most challenging aspect.  Pretty thick at 0.22" as well.  Every single piece of the 7 layers was cut, fit, cut, fit ad nauseam.

But, it does now sit pretty snugly, no wobbling about.

4 hours ago, Retswerb said:

Wow, Yin. That turned out great - nice work.

Thanks!  I was reasonably happy with it.  Some things I might do different in the future, but I think the customer will be happy.

3 hours ago, Dave Richardson said:

Nice job on that one Yin ! Browning logo, stitching,color, sam brown button all just right. Really nice. You did however break the rule by not showing the blade....just sayin

Appreciate it.  Knife is in there, so maybe only bent the rule?  Here's the overall look for you...

 

YinTx

[Instinctive]

Great job on the sheath.

Your client is so going to hate that handle design. It's a real pain to put the flap through the hole in the handle in a real world carry situation. I just built a new sheath pouch sheath for a guy who had a similar concept.

[Reegesc]

YinTX, I've watched your progress over the past five years and must say you've more than demonstrated that you've rightfully earned Journeyman status and might I add your chops suggest Master Level.  

Beautiful work.  Just lovely.

[alpha2]

Excellent sheath!!! Interesting blade, too.

Jeff

[YinTx]

3 hours ago, Instinctive said:

Great job on the sheath.

Your client is so going to hate that handle design. It's a real pain to put the flap through the hole in the handle in a real world carry situation. I just built a new sheath pouch sheath for a guy who had a similar concept.

Thank you, and yes, I suspected it would be difficult, and I discussed this with him before I started on the design.  Due to the knife shape, I also feared it would require a bit of finesse to insert and remove it from the sheath. It goes in and out better than I expected, and sits snugly.  Interestingly, the tab kind of pops out of the hole on its own, you can kind of see that in one of the photos.  I discussed with him that it would be in the way as you try to insert the knife as well, but in practice does not  seem as bad as I told him it would be.  Only time will tell how it works out for him.

3 hours ago, cseeger said:

YinTX, I've watched your progress over the past five years and must say you've more than demonstrated that you've rightfully earned Journeyman status and might I add your chops suggest Master Level.  

Beautiful work.  Just lovely.

Wow, thanks!  Journeyman maybe, only apprenticing I have done is via this site.  Master level is a bit away for me though.. you should see the pile of bits and prototypes that stacked up as I made this one!  I am glad you think so highly of it.  We'll see this evening when I deliver it to the intended recipient how he likes it!

2 hours ago, alpha2 said:

Excellent sheath!!! Interesting blade, too.

Jeff

Jeff,  many thanks.  It was an interesting blade for sure.

YinTx

[hawgrider]

Nice "Browning"  deer head.  Sheath looks good!