Buffalo Knife Sheath/ Cover

[Crewdawg445]

I recently acquired a half hide of buffalo leather from an event participant. Traded a few items and became an excited owner with a burning creativity to get sewing.

I've never worked with buffalo and I can say... love it.

I've been meaning to construct a sheath cover for some time to protect my center seam liner. What better material than buffalo? Very basic construction utilizing a simple double whip stitch with heavy waxed linen. Once finished the piece was waterproofed with true mink tallow. Very happy with the efforts.

 

[NeilMacleod]

Nice job

 

[LRB]

Looks good.

 

[SacramentoJohnson]

Howdy!
I'd like to see what the knife looks like!

 

[MSW]

Way cool!

 

[Crewdawg445]

Thanks Wick!

 

[Crewdawg445]

This particular blade is actually an Old Hickory slicer. Being it's good steel I decided to remove the ugliness from the stampings and the factory scales and rivets.

I removed the stampings by a combination of forge work and heavy filing. Re-profiled the blade to my liking and halfted the tang into a piece of elk antler retained by two iron pins. I also added some deer sinew to cover up the transition between were the tang and antler meet, strictly a cosmetic move for my liking. I also inlayed a pewter medallion in the heel end of the handle that was a piece from my great grandmother.

 

[Claude Mathis]

This particular blade is actually an Old Hickory slicer. Being it's good steel I decided to remove the ugliness from the stampings and the factory scales and rivets.

I've done the same thing with Old Hickory, but then they started making the blades much thinner. By the time you ground off the stamping, the blade was way too thin.

These are what I would use now. Much easier to "clean up".
https://www.smkw.com/slicin-knife-carbon-larry-cable-guy-kit

 

[bubba.50]

just to clear it up for my feeble old head, the way it reads to me is you made a 'sheath' for your sheath?

 

[Black Hand]

just to clear it up for my feeble old head, the way it reads to me is you made a 'sheath' for your sheath?

Made a sheath for a liner (inner sheath).

 

[LRB]

Your blade profile has a similar shape like one style of the 18th c. William Parker English trade scalpers, having has a slight hump nearing the grip. The English import knives usually had three pin rivets.

 

[Crewdawg445]

I copied it off a few examples I found. That may possibly be one out of the multiple examples I was able to uncover.

Looks like another project blade, thanks for the link Claude. :thumbsup:

 

[Claude Mathis]

Looks like another project blade, thanks for the link Claude. :thumbsup:

They make both a stainless and a carbon version.