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Which species of Mesquite did you use? Anyway it looks great. To me it seems like a forge finish or a forced patina are the hardest finishes to make look right but not having done one other than a quick ferric chloride patina on a wasted blade I really can't advise.
Doug __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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Much better pics and great recovery on the sheath.
Little tip to keep the sheath from looking bulky and blocky on the edge: skive the inside edge down (after tooling) tapering from about where the welt ends on the inside to the edge. Feather to about one half the leather's thickness then glue in the welt. Knock the hard corners off with an edger and follow up with some gum tag and burnish smooth. Gives a more "finished" look. Nice tooling job, by the way. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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Doug, not sure what species. I bought it off TKM a few years back. I was hoping it was stabilized, but it's not.
Thanks for the advice Carl! Never heard of that tool before. I will have to Google that. __________________ Zen R. ZCR Knives West Central Connecticut |
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Maybe using the incorrect terminology. I have heard them called bevelers as well. Basically it's a curved reversed "V" or "U" ground chisel. That is made for taking the hard corners off the edge of cut leather similar to beveling the corners/edges of wood.
I usually follow that up with an appropriately sized creaser that both burnishes the edge round and packs the leather back up tight against the stitches. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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Thanks Carl. Looked it up and have one on the way. Looks like it will work way better than a razor knife.
__________________ Zen R. ZCR Knives West Central Connecticut |
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