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Sharp & Fiery said:
Thank you. :)

Just for claritys sake (not sure if you are under the impression I made the knife), but the pointy one is from a guy who goes by Scorpion 6. I picked it up from Bladeshow this year. :)
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Actually I did make that assumption without really looking. Still very nice job on a sheath for a difficult knife to work with. The last one I made for a knife like that was years ago when I was just learning leatherwork and made a knife and sheath for my father. Yours is much more practical and cleaner than mine. It was interesting but a lousy design.
Randy
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Robber58 said:
Actually I did make that assumption without really looking. Still very nice job on a sheath for a difficult knife to work with. The last one I made for a knife like that was years ago when I was just learning leatherwork and made a knife and sheath for my father. Yours is much more practical and cleaner than mine. It was interesting but a lousy design.
Randy
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Did ya inlay some ironwood in that sheath Randy?
 
First two taco style sheaths for some updated puukkos, orange thread to accent the orange G10 lanyard tubes. bought a tub of Aussie waterproofing wax finish, and I like it! Also experimenting with different stitch spacing, these are 2mm.

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navman said:
First two taco style sheaths for some updated puukkos, orange thread to accent the orange G10 lanyard tubes. bought a tub of Aussie waterproofing wax finish, and I like it! Also experimenting with different stitch spacing, these are 2mm.

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I prefer the tighter stitch spacing on these. The others seemed a lil long. These are more pleasing to the eye. Mine anyways.
 
3mm is pretty dang close, I think that size is more suited for wallets and the like. here's an excerpt from a post that I showed a sheath that I instantly regretted using 3mm, it was by accident but once started...had to complete


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I have a few but seem to always fall back on my quite old but still serviceable Craftool 8042 which is a 3/32" prong, it provides enough room for me to use the saddle stitch with the two needle method that I am growing to like a lot.

I picked up some 3mm and 4mm and have used both, the 3mm by mistake and boy that seemed really really tight stitching, here's a photo showing a spacing comparison, the sheath at the top used the Craftool and 1.2mm tiger thread

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Doubling back at the beginning and ending of the stitching to keep those points tied down tightly

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

This sheath I started to hammer in the stitching holes and "Thought" I was using the 4mm but after I hammered in two sets I thought wow, that seems really close together! and examined the tool closer and saw it was the 3mm :( but...I had already put so much time into this sheath I had to continue and it was a LOT of sewing through some very thick leather!

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

BOTH boxes had the same photo of 4mm set on them...of course lol

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

So, depends on what brand I think you pick, but the ones I had that said 3mm were too close for me to use.

G2
 
Interesting. The last two were spaced using 2mm Craftool brand from Tandy...the 3mm is also craftool, but ordered from Springfield Leather. I will do a test stitch to check and compare.
 
It could very well be how they are measuring that distance, some might be center to center or could be the space between the tines
G2
 
Just got the alleged 3mm in the mail..oh yeah, they are WAY closer together than the 2mm from Tandy..also not marked as Craftool, so...will probably not be using them for sheaths.

Is what it is.
 
Gary W. Graley said:
3mm is pretty dang close, I think that size is more suited for wallets and the like. here's an excerpt from a post that I showed a sheath that I instantly regretted using 3mm, it was by accident but once started...had to complete


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I have a few but seem to always fall back on my quite old but still serviceable Craftool 8042 which is a 3/32" prong, it provides enough room for me to use the saddle stitch with the two needle method that I am growing to like a lot.

I picked up some 3mm and 4mm and have used both, the 3mm by mistake and boy that seemed really really tight stitching, here's a photo showing a spacing comparison, the sheath at the top used the Craftool and 1.2mm tiger thread

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Doubling back at the beginning and ending of the stitching to keep those points tied down tightly

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

This sheath I started to hammer in the stitching holes and "Thought" I was using the 4mm but after I hammered in two sets I thought wow, that seems really close together! and examined the tool closer and saw it was the 3mm :( but...I had already put so much time into this sheath I had to continue and it was a LOT of sewing through some very thick leather!

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

BOTH boxes had the same photo of 4mm set on them...of course lol

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

So, depends on what brand I think you pick, but the ones I had that said 3mm were too close for me to use.

G2
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I have those same forks here 🙂 Now I need to go see what size they are lol
 
Gary W. Graley said:
3mm is pretty dang close, I think that size is more suited for wallets and the like. here's an excerpt from a post that I showed a sheath that I instantly regretted using 3mm, it was by accident but once started...had to complete


****************************************************

I have a few but seem to always fall back on my quite old but still serviceable Craftool 8042 which is a 3/32" prong, it provides enough room for me to use the saddle stitch with the two needle method that I am growing to like a lot.

I picked up some 3mm and 4mm and have used both, the 3mm by mistake and boy that seemed really really tight stitching, here's a photo showing a spacing comparison, the sheath at the top used the Craftool and 1.2mm tiger thread

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Doubling back at the beginning and ending of the stitching to keep those points tied down tightly

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

This sheath I started to hammer in the stitching holes and "Thought" I was using the 4mm but after I hammered in two sets I thought wow, that seems really close together! and examined the tool closer and saw it was the 3mm :( but...I had already put so much time into this sheath I had to continue and it was a LOT of sewing through some very thick leather!

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

BOTH boxes had the same photo of 4mm set on them...of course lol

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr

So, depends on what brand I think you pick, but the ones I had that said 3mm were too close for me to use.

G2
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I use a lot of different spacing and agree with Gary that the really tight spacing is better for smaller articles. I make some watch bands and card wallets and almost always use 3 mm spacing. The trick to make it look correct is to use smaller thread. On watch bands I use .6mm and wallets usually .8. Larger thread does not look good with tight spacing. The watch band below was done with 3mm and .6 thread. I know all black is hard to see.
Randy
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Robber58 said:
I use a lot of different spacing and agree with Gary that the really tight spacing is better for smaller articles. I make some watch bands and card wallets and almost always use 3 mm spacing. The trick to make it look correct is to use smaller thread. On watch bands I use .6mm and wallets usually .8. Larger thread does not look good with tight spacing. The watch band below was done with 3mm and .6 thread. I know all black is hard to see.
Randy
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I do the same. .8 on wallets and ornamental secondary designs on sheaths too.
 
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