Any good Leather Sheath makers in Los Angeles?

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outlier1089

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I've got a few fixed blades that I'd love to carry more often, but between some Kydex with bad eyelet placement, and some crummy leather sheaths I just can't really bring myself to rock them reliably.

I've ordered some stuff off of Etsy or Instagram before, but I'd really love to find someone local I can actually sit down with and brainstorm the design with a bit. I prefer scout carry, but have some ideas and questions I'd love to be able to ask along the way.

Anyone come to mind?
 
sheathmaker said:
If you are serious about top quality CUSTOM sheaths you would be proud to carry, then that drive up north to Dave's shop would
be well worth your time and trouble.
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Thanks Paul missed this somehow.

duramax said:
I’ll second the above :)

I own one of Dave’s knives and sheath, couldn’t be happier :)
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Thanks for the kind words.
 
For leather, have you tried going to the leather shops in the Fashion District? They probably know a lot of good, experienced, leather craftsmen that can put a sheath together. If you have a rough idea of what kind of sheath, they should be able to cook up a good design with you. If you're starting from scratch then yeah, probably have to drive up north to who the other users suggested.
 
For a 2 hour drive I would go visit Dave, no doubt lots of neat stuff to see.
On the other hand, I have mailed blades to Paul and had a variety of pictures emailed to me showing examples of various options, settled on a design, and then received a deluxe sheath to my specs all in about 1 week...
 
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Horsewright said:
Couple hours north but I do have customers that make that drive. DM if interested.
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Looking for a custom sheath maker in Los Angeles area. I see this post from a few years back. Getting knife in hand late next week. Wasn’t aware it wouldn’t come with a sheath when i placed the order. It’s a big 17 inch overall 12 inch blade recurve fighter/chopper kinda knife. Have been very unlucky trying to find anyone local ish. I really don’t wanna ship it back out. Would rather hand to a sheath maker
 
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