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DAY-um! OK, thanks Sheldon, another question cleared up in an instant.
The sheath making process was always been something of a mystery... because Randall is a knife business, not sheath business. The amount of discussion about Heiser or Johnson or Sullivan sheaths that has taken place on the Randall boards through the years is truly amazing considering no one knew how the sheaths were ordered, made, shipped, stored, or what Randall paid for them, etc. Even Mr Gaddis told me that he really didn't pay much attention to researching sheaths because Mr. Randall didn't focus on them much. Your book with the pictorial sequence at Sullivan's is the only place I've found that addressed the steps of mass production. Johnson and Heiser probably made sheaths much the same way.
Randall did install the keeper snap on the sheath and I guess inserted the stone prior to shipping to customer. So the shop people were expending time and effort on the sheath and ordering and storing stones too.
Makes sense now... thanks.
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