Hickory n steel
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Yesterday I received in a very nice Moki Bird & Trout knife.
The sheath however seemed quite decent at first, but was not really put together very well.
First I had to resew it yesterday because the welt wasn't glued very well and the stitching was quite loose.
Then today I had to cut the stitches and take it back apart to resew the belt loop because it was not glued at all and the again quite loose stitching was just coming out.
I'm a lefty so I'll probably just be using it temporarily till I make something better, but it is kind of annoying that they made such a nice knife then half assed the sheath construction.
I ran into the same issue with an unused vintage Ichiro Hattori model 109, again a Japanese knife that's very nicely made with a sheath that was generally fairly nice all things considered but poorly glued and stitched requiring me to repair it.
The sheath however seemed quite decent at first, but was not really put together very well.
First I had to resew it yesterday because the welt wasn't glued very well and the stitching was quite loose.
Then today I had to cut the stitches and take it back apart to resew the belt loop because it was not glued at all and the again quite loose stitching was just coming out.
I'm a lefty so I'll probably just be using it temporarily till I make something better, but it is kind of annoying that they made such a nice knife then half assed the sheath construction.
I ran into the same issue with an unused vintage Ichiro Hattori model 109, again a Japanese knife that's very nicely made with a sheath that was generally fairly nice all things considered but poorly glued and stitched requiring me to repair it.
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