Knife and beaded sheath

[nc_cooter]

This one was forged from 1084 and has a 5" blade with a poured pewter ferrel. Pouch sheath is made from veggie tan leather, wrapped in deer rawhide. The cuff is brain tan deer, with bead work,tin cones and a pewter turtle.
Thanks for looking and all comments are welcome.

Mike Broach

 

[JayDee Flohr]

Very Nice! :thumbsup:

 

[Chilidog]

WOW! That shines for sure. Really nice work. :hatsoff:

 

[anvil1231]

Thats a beauty :thumbsup:

 

[Tomcat1066]

Very nice! :thumbsup:

 

[RickD]

Had to be a bear doing the bead work around the turtle

 

[Arrowhead]

That is very nice. Is the beadwork as tedious to do as it looks to be? I have kind of lost the urge to do modern knives and have done one old looking one from scratch and restored an old blade also. I have been thinking about doing another with a beaded pouch but haven't made up mind to try the bead work yet.

 

[deanscamaro]

Okay, I know my newbie lack of experience is going to draw some barbs, but you say veggie tan leather, covered by rawhide.....can you help me understand that? I thought you usually used rawhide as a tougher case on the inside and the better/softer leather on the outside.
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[davy]

The ability of you guys just amazes me ... :surrender: What chance do us mere mortals have? :hmm: :idunno: :grin:

Davy

 

[Claude Mathis]

I thought you usually used rawhide as a tougher case on the inside and the better/softer leather on the outside.

That's what I've always thought. I use rawhide covered with brain tanned (or something similar).

 

[chance]

Very nice!!

 

[deanscamaro]

A newbie has a question that the Administrator, with 13000+ posts agrees with?!?!
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[deanscamaro]

Okay, below is a direct quote from MR. (Capped for reasons of experience in knife making) Wick Ellerbe in an older post:

You can do it either way. Most NA sheaths were rawhide inner, or often bark, then covered with brain tan, which was often quilled, or beaded. When I do a rawhide inner sheath, after wet forming, I sew it with thin brass wire. A rawhide outer sheath can be simple or very complicated. Knifemans wife, Ms Toody, is very skilled with this. I am pretty good, but don't do too many of them. Go to Knifemans website and take a look, and also Daniel Winklers site. Karen Shook does Daniels sheath work, and is probably the best in the country at it, but Ms Toody is not far behind. I will post a photo of mine, but, at least for me, these are very time consuming, and get pretty expensive. The RH has to be worked wet, and the stitching itself takes a lot of time when you are feeding in fringe and rolling the edge at the same time. I make the inner sheath of vege-tan, then cover with the rawhide.

It seems you and me, Mr. Claude, don't know everything.
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[J herald]

Great looking knife. Should carry nicely.
Chasing Crow

 

[nc_cooter]

Thanks for the complements. The bead work is tedious, but It's something I have always wanted to do. I got a lot of help from Chuck Burrows as to materials and general how to.
Rawhide inside or outside? I guess it's a personal preference. I prefer the veggie tan on the inside because it is a bit friendler to the blade, ie scratches.
When I make the core sheath, I water proof it with old fasioned oil based spar varnish before covering with the wet rawhide. I use the same varnish to water proof the rawhide after it drys.
I do all the bead work on a braintan cuff. Haven't got good enough to try it on rawhide yet.
Mike Broach

 

[deanscamaro]

Well, I learned something with your post. I am to the point of starting a sheath for a knife I am making and I now have two options I need to consider. Rawhide: inside or outside. I still like yours, no matter which way I go. Please provide some more pictures of your knives/sheaths, whenever possible, as I like your work.
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