Rawhide sheaths

[GYJ]

Finished these last year. Rawhide sheath on top of a quick & dirty blackpowder bag I made the year before. Mostly antique French and Venetian beads with tin cones and horse hair. Braintan fringe.

Don't remember where the knife came from. Maybe Dixie Gun Works but it's not my work.

Rawhide sheath for a big Hudson Bay camp knife from ML Knives. Modern brass and Czech beads along with antique French pound beads and padres. Some really old chevrons in there as well. Braintan fringe.

Didn't take any pics of just the bag but here's the inside detail. My first time doing a cloth lining and bound edge. The knife is an Old Hickory I found at the local flea market. All I had to do is stain the handle and add the rawhide wrap.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Very nice work.

 

[Rod Man]

Awesome! Very Nice!!!

Like I said, "There are a lot of Talented People on this Forum."

RM

 

[user 48679]

Can I say WOW ?

Those are among the nicest, and most original-looking accessories I've ever seen.

CONGRATS !

 

[zerosprk]

Very nice!

 

[Terry Lightle]

Really like it

 

[SOLANCO]

Sweet!

 

[Kev308]

That is beautiful work!!

 

[Blaze]

Very impressive work, very talented you are!

 

[GYJ]

Thank you!

 

[sawyer04]

Looks old school, nice thanks for sharing

 

[ColoradoMuleman]

I know this post is a few months old but I want to ask if you did anything to the rawhide to get that color? They are very nice

 

[LRB]

Leather dye will work on the rawhide. As nice as the rest is, the knives should really have iron pins. Depending on how correct you want to be. They still look good anyway.

 

[GYJ]

I do quite a bit to get the color on the rawhide. If you want it dark, you have to dye the inner liner as well, before you start putting it together. It also helps the dye the rawhide on both sides. It takes on some color but not a lot. Then I further darken it with Fiebings antiquing paste before coating the whole thing in satin polyurethane.

 

[GYJ]

I did a couple more for a customer that wanted them similar to the above two.

 

[Red Owl]

I've mentioned this before but Crazy Crow sells rawhide shields that are painted white on one side and THICK rawhide. You scrap off the paint and you can get two large knife sheaths.

 

[GYJ]

You don't have to do that, just buy rawhide. I'd suggest deer rawhide over cow for doing this style of sheath. Cow is just too thick.

https://www.crazycrow.com/rawhide-leather/deer-rawhide-bleached-10-12-sf

 

[Red Owl]

You're right there, stiff as a wood board. I thought I wanted rawhide but leather is flexible and sort of conforms to the knife. Does anyone know if beaver tails were used for sheaths by mountain men. The later cowboys had them but not sure about pre-1840.

 

[BozoMiller]

You do some very fine work. Make your own patterns? This will be a really great project for me in the near future.Thanks for sharing.

 

[ZUG]

I also will say that you do some very nice work. Those rawhide sheathes are AWSUM