Thanks Dave, worked just a little with them today, just to see how they handle, I'm betting the cutting board you use has a big influence on how well it does, used the round knife to cut some leather, at first I wasn't quite getting it, that learning curve as they say, but then I started to get the hang of it and I can see it being a useful tool.
The sheath or rather case that Dave made for the round knife is just that, it slips over the knife but there isn't any retention, not really needed as you wouldn't wear it. But I asked him if I would be allowed to add to it so it would help keep the two things together and not have the one thing...with the razor edge on it...sliding out and cutting me or something I may not care to have cut at the time. And he said sure! always the polite guy
I had made a couple sheaths YEARS and YEARS ago for a fellow named John Zembko, his knives he made were for a bounty hunter, similar shape, half moon but the blade was big serration in there with pointy points and kind of like a brass knuckles grip, so needless to say, it presented a challenge to make a sheath for this guy, TWO no less as he wanted one on either side of his body!
I came up with an idea to have inside the sheath a welt so you had to rock the knife into the sheath, one end's tip going underneath the welt and once into the sheath, a snap closure to keep it secure. Worked great, John liked it, his customer liked it, which was good, wouldn't want to be on the bad side of that guy!
So I figured I would do something similar on this sheath, a little harder since it was already made and I didn't want to mess up the outside as it was, very nice Dave! So I glued in a layer of leather, it was made so it had a cut out in it the knife's blade would just slide into, and then once into the sheath, you take the end tab of the small 'strap' and push that into the sheath so it hits the back of the blade, the strap wraps around and snaps on the back. You still wouldn't wear this, or throw it, but it keeps it secure in travel and on the table nicely, or in a suit coat pocket even.
here you can see the end of the strap inserted into the sheath, if I had more of this size leather, I'd have made the part going into the sheath wider so as to help stabilize the strap, gluing one side down would help but didn't want to mar his sheath.
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