Another mahagany scabbard

This one has a peg on one side that the thong slips over to help prevent the knife from coming out.

[jdlange]

Oo, that is pretty, I love wood (carpenter), I have never made a sheath from wood before but that looks sweet!

[NedFig]

Hey Tai, I did the pitch sealant yesterday. Worked nice. Except I didn't have any isoprop alchohol, so I used acetone. Came out nice I think. Where did you get the big size hemp cord? This is the small stuff for making necklaces and stuff.

[jdlange]

That is a cool lookin knife nedfig!

[NedFig]

Thanks JD,

Can't wait to see your's.

My works firewall won't let me go to the freepic hosting site you used. Darnit. Got the evil red hand.

[jdlange]

Nedfig,

You can go to jldesign.netfirms.com and have a look, I have all the same pics posted there, I just use the freepics site because I cant directly link to picture files on my site for posting on the board or on ebay.

Ned, cool knife. I get the large hemp cord in town at a bead shop. I've seen it on the internet. Try doing a search over a Google for hemp cordage. If you can't find any let me know. I might still have some links. I've never tried acetone, but other solvents like turpentine don't work near as well as rubbing alcohol. Other solvents "may" change the chemistry of the pitch. All the experts say alcohol.

Here's this little socketed gouge I made for carving out the scabbard.

[NedFig]

I'll get some rubbing alc for next time.

Was mahogany the wood the natives used or is that what you have in the sizes you need?

[Jamey Saunders]

That's a beautiful wood, Tai. My grandfather left me all his woodworking stuff, and in it was a stash of old Brazilian mahogany. Darker than what you have, but still beautiful.

And that's a really interesting design for a sheath. I'd have never thought of that.

It's Honduran mahogany. It's good because it is very stable with a nice homgenous grain and it carves easy. These types of sheaths have been made by many cultures with many types of wood. It' likely at some point mahogany was used.

I did some more reading and it turns out that mahogany was a popular wood used by the native Philipinos for this type of scabbard.

[Chuck Burrows]

Mahogany is a broad spectrum of wood. One type of Philipine mahogany is called luan and is fairly easy to find. It's not as pretty as Honduran or Brazilian though, sort of a straw color usually. A lot of wall paneling has a luan back.

Here's another "hikot" type scabbard I'm working on for that last bush.

[Phillip Jones]

Tai,

How are you secureing the small piece that you wrap the hemp around? Is that what the hemp is for or are you using glue?

[J.Arthur Loose]

Gee Tai, if you're using hemp I guess that's O.K., but I really hope you're not using glue.

That stuff really kills your brain cells....