treatment for sheaths

[badgering]

hi everyone here! i have been looking at various articles placed here for some time and finally got around to joining up.
Im sure a lot of my questions may have been dealt with by you long timers several times before so please bear with me :rolleyes:

Firstly i have made a couple of knife sheaths for blades and handles i purchased in a norweigen knife fair (the name of which eludes me and probably isnt important) i have made these up (although both blades are not quite true in their handles, the spine is not quite straight in the stock. slapped wrist there.. unforgivable .. :C
still the sheaths are nice and i wish to treat them with a leather die to give more rigidity as the leather is not all that thick, 2mm i think and the edge cote finish i have used previously gave a plasticky glossy look which i didnt really like.
Secondly i would like some advice on making sami and scandinavian sheaths (with the stitching at the back/middle of the blade), i have a nice book, but being in norweigen it doesnt make life easy for me!

Hmm.. what else.. oh yeah uk suppliers, surely there must be a listing in here somewhere .. right guys?
finally; ive made a shaped handle from silver birch (for the lady) and suspect that it will be to soft a wood to really last, have i really wasted all that time, and what oils are best to soak handles in? (linseed?)

Ok just that for now then :D
thanks to you all for now!

Tim

[ggfh666]

Welcome, mate.

That's a lot of questions for a first post...
I think you will find all the answers here already present, but you'll need to use the search function;-)

- for the handles look in the members projects and scandinavian sections. For sheathmaking the sheaths section. For a scandi sheath also have a look at www.brisa.fi, I know they have the tutorial there. Over here there is one by noggin Trond.


Good luck

[Underhay]

Hello :)

I use Danish oil for handles. It works well and is easily obtainable (Robert Dyas).

For the sheath, I'm no expert, but if it's vegetable tanned leather a short soak in water will allow you to mould it and when dry it will be quite hard. I then apply dye (from shoe repair shops) and then Nikwax boot water proofing. Tvildirs excellent tutorial on sheaths is here.

http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8266&highlight=sheath+making+tutorial

Hope this is of help.

[Basemetal]

Hi Badgering (why that name I wonder? :rolleyes: ) Welcome to BB :)
A tip on using the search engine is to use it ineach forum rather just on the main menu. As ggfh666 says, your questions have been specifically answered, and at some length, so happy searching :cool20:

By replying to the relevant threads, they'll resurface and you might get fresh input once you've done a litttle homework.

Danny

[badgering]

Thank you all muchly! Responses are always appreciated, and as im sure you might come to realise i might be present for brief flurishes of excitement and then not heard of for a long while (mainly my job) while i have no internet! :-(
badgering the name.. well theres not so much of a story a all that to it, simply that i am an ecologist by trade and my initial area of interest was in badger surveys.... kinda spoils the mystery now dont it?

:-)