Not sure if these are any interest to folk?
Hilariously my mate said he hated his plastic sheath thing that comes with the Mora knives and would I mind doing him a nice leather friction sheath for his scandi cutter. They are a bit of a faff but I have had some lovely chestnut veg tan (not poorly dyed stuff) in a thicker weight sat in the corner for a while and I did keep meaning to do something with it. So we penned out a template for him and his gnarly old HD Companion (which I sharpened for him, god knows how he ever cut anything with it before) and this is the finished item.
It has turned out alright with lovely contrast through the welt after burnishing. I am not a huge fan of edge painting. It hides the natural beauty of the different layers in full grain leather and I quite like all the imperfections from whatever animal the material came from.
I am considering making a few of these to order but unsure whether it would be viable from a cost point of view. If it was for a Mora companion type knife with a fairly uniform handle without fat guards or without oversize bolsters etc, then I could do one from stuff I have hanging about but if it was for a specific knife, I would need the knife as a template and that would then leave you without a knife for a week or two. Then there is the shipping it back and paying the higher postage costs to potentially insure what could be expensive pieces of steel. I guess people would like nice sheaths for nice knives and potentially people would not want to pay more for a sheath than the cost of the actual knife. I don't know. I guess a Mora is like a tenner or twenty quid or whatever they cost these days. Clearly I cannot make these for a tenner. So not sure if there is a market for it but if anyone has a request, by all means PM me with some details, a picture of your knife etc and we can discuss whether it is something that is viable for you.
Hilariously my mate said he hated his plastic sheath thing that comes with the Mora knives and would I mind doing him a nice leather friction sheath for his scandi cutter. They are a bit of a faff but I have had some lovely chestnut veg tan (not poorly dyed stuff) in a thicker weight sat in the corner for a while and I did keep meaning to do something with it. So we penned out a template for him and his gnarly old HD Companion (which I sharpened for him, god knows how he ever cut anything with it before) and this is the finished item.
It has turned out alright with lovely contrast through the welt after burnishing. I am not a huge fan of edge painting. It hides the natural beauty of the different layers in full grain leather and I quite like all the imperfections from whatever animal the material came from.
I am considering making a few of these to order but unsure whether it would be viable from a cost point of view. If it was for a Mora companion type knife with a fairly uniform handle without fat guards or without oversize bolsters etc, then I could do one from stuff I have hanging about but if it was for a specific knife, I would need the knife as a template and that would then leave you without a knife for a week or two. Then there is the shipping it back and paying the higher postage costs to potentially insure what could be expensive pieces of steel. I guess people would like nice sheaths for nice knives and potentially people would not want to pay more for a sheath than the cost of the actual knife. I don't know. I guess a Mora is like a tenner or twenty quid or whatever they cost these days. Clearly I cannot make these for a tenner. So not sure if there is a market for it but if anyone has a request, by all means PM me with some details, a picture of your knife etc and we can discuss whether it is something that is viable for you.
