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Hi Guys

Does anyone have experience of making a sheath for Austrian Scythe Blades ?

Any help greatly appreciated.

 

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Got a pic of the scythe? It should be like an axe mask but with a long beak if its like the scythe I'm thinking. Search for "axe mask" and then use that idea to feed the design. 

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Hi

Here is a photo of the blade.

 

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Hello! "Ferryman",  "Scythe".  Do you go around dressed in a big dark cloak with a large hood do you? And will I have to pay you at sometime in my life, - or death?

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Hey toxo

Yeah if you had seen the artwork on my HD done by a guy in Kent you would understand LOL I still have my leather with "The Ferryman" on it.

I only where the cloak on special occasions, but you will need 2 Obols to cross the river.

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I would lay it down on a piece of poster board trace the blade and work out the final project over on the poster board. 

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Hi Grumpyman

 

Yeah I have made a template out of poster board and I am thinking a double row of stitching along the front of the blade.

I cannot decide on whether to add a spacer piece to build up thickness at the rear and have it slide on like a sleeve or have the back open and secure with straps and snaps

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3 hours ago, Ferryman said:

 

Hey toxo

Yeah if you had seen the artwork on my HD done by a guy in Kent you would understand LOL I still have my leather with "The Ferryman" on it.

I only where the cloak on special occasions, but you will need 2 Obols to cross the river.

I'll be sure to save up for those two Obols.

Is this why the scythe in the first place?

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No toxo.

I grew up on farms and have a liking for all the vintage stuff.

I am fortunate in having somewhere I can enjoy my love of the traditional methods.

I always leave a margin around the field for wildlife, and the bracken is kept under control with a scythe.

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3 minutes ago, Ferryman said:

No toxo.

I grew up on farms and have a liking for all the vintage stuff.

I am fortunate in having somewhere I can enjoy my love of the traditional methods.

I always leave a margin around the field for wildlife, and the bracken is kept under control with a scythe.

Fortunate indeed. I'm in a two bed house in town :(

I know farmers used to get paid to leave a wild perimeter around their fields for the wildlife. Do they still do that?

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Yep instead of going on foreign holidays, when I retired, I bought a field LOL

I think they do, but I am not a farmer just someone who likes a little bit of paradise while it still exists. I have a 9 mile drive each way to get there but when I close and lock the gate behind me I am in a different world.

What part of Kent are you ? I was born in Wrotham Heath

 

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21 minutes ago, Ferryman said:

Yep instead of going on foreign holidays, when I retired, I bought a field LOL

I think they do, but I am not a farmer just someone who likes a little bit of paradise while it still exists. I have a 9 mile drive each way to get there but when I close and lock the gate behind me I am in a different world.

What part of Kent are you ? I was born in Wrotham Heath

 

Great stuff. That's what I should have done.. Just missed  some land with a stream once. Would've been in my element. Many years ago me and the wife and kids house sat for a cousin who was off to the Canaries for a holiday. He had a small stream running past the back of his garden. By the time he came home "his" bit wasn't so little any more/ I'd dug it a bit deeper and dammed both ends. Then I went upstream catching lots of wild trout and putting them in his bit. He was a baker and used to feed em any unsold bread or whatever and they got quite big. Well you gotta have a project haven't you.

I'm in Gillingham.

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First trick, from knife sheath makers. Leave about an inch sewing allowance on the cutting edge, and use some 3mm back hide in a fillet to protect the stitching from the edge.

Second trick, use an oil-retentive leather to protect the blade.

Third trick, use a 2" plumbing washer on each side of the rivet at the point. 

Don't forget a pocket for the whetstone.

Mine's in North London.

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Hi Rahere

 

Do you have a photo of yours ?

 

Thanks

Tony

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