Recent content by NoahL

I was glad to see you win, Tobin. Congratulations!

If it feels like a leather couch it's probably chrome tanned.

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Hello everyone, I've been busy with both leatherwork and life in general lately, so there are been a distinct lack of apocalyptic postings! Here is an EDC sheath I finished and shipped last week that holds a JK Handmade Knives "Mentor EDC" and a BIC pen (or ceramic rod/firesteel of the same...

Are you cutting a stitching groove first?

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This is a sheath I just made for a JK Knatchet. I just need the stupid buckle and clips I ordered to make the shoulder strap for it and it's done. This is an open-spine design with an integral belt loop/retention strap/baldric anchor setup, and there is a leather wedge reinforced by...

When I contacted them the ONLY had the oil re-tanned stuff, haha. It would be coming from the Horween Tannery in Chicago, but they want you to order 100lbs or more from them directly. I would say you should just go with some oil re-tanned cowhide, or some sort of veg-tan or brain-tan that's...

Are you asking about Shell Cordovan or horse butt strips? Shell Cordovan is very high end and expensive, horse butt strips come from just above where they take the Shell Cordovan from on the horse and is generally just really dense veg-tan. You can get oil re-tanned horse butt strips from...

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If your knife has a finger guard or choil of some kind then this can be done. The kydex just gets pressed around it and you have to loosen it up a bit so you can get the knife in and out, but it still snaps. The kydex melters in the forum will have more detailed instructions, I imagine

I totally forgot about this thread! Here are a couple non-knife-sheath things I've made lately:

Check out the forum over on Leatherworker.net, they have all sorts of interesting stuff you can learn from :)

After you sand your edges, dampen them a bit and rub back and forth along them vigorously with a scrap of canvas (I use a piece of old jeans) until it starts to feel like tennis shoes sticking to a linoleum floor, then keep going for a few seconds. That should burnish your edges. As far as...

Really I think you did pretty well. Has the one on the right had a finish coat put on it yet? Also, have you burnished the edges?