Sheath for Backpacking Knife

I made a sheath for the backpacking knife that I posted earlier this week. The sheath is a fold-over or pouch style sheath that is hand stitched with waxed nylon thread. The sheath was cemented with Pliobond contact cement before I stitched it up. The sheath is finished with Dark Brown Fiebing's dye and sealed with Acrylic Resolene. I tried to just seal it with Bick 4 after dyeing it to achieve more of a matte finish but some of the dye from the sheath loop rubbed off on my pants so I went for the Acrylic Resolene to avoid this in the future.

Leather Coasters

I have been working on these for the last week or so and have 1 more to finish out the set of four. This project has been good practice on my tool techniques. The tooling on these were based on a floral design that I took from a section of a saddle that I think was tooled by Chan Geer. The leather was sealed with Fiebing's Acrylic Resolene, then with Fiebing's Antique finish in Sheridan Brown and then sealed again with a couple of coats of Acrylic Resolene.

Leather Bracelet

Until recently, all of my jewelry has been made from metal. I made this bracelet from leather and tooled the design from an old Craftool belt pattern. The design was sealed with Fiebing's Acrylic Resolene, then antiqued with Fiebing's Antique Finish in Sheridan Brown, hand buffed and then sealed again with Acrylic Resolene.  The bracelet closes with a Sam Browne stud made of brass.

If interested in a bracelet like this, email me or visit my Etsy store and inquire via the "conversation" tool.