Book "MAKING LEATHER KNIFE SHEATHS" - Create your leather knife sheaths - Volume 3

GUIDE TO KNIFE CASES - VOLUME 3

Create your own leather knife sheaths to protect them!
Make your own cases using this book which will guide you through the steps to follow.

This book will walk you through basic leatherworking techniques as well as professional-level advice. It will guide you through the different steps to produce your own knife sheath. Every step, from the first sketch to the final leather processing, is explained in an understandable way with high quality words and pictures.

This book shows how a soft leather sheath for a fixed blade is designed and constructed. This volume teaches a welded sheath design with both a separate Mexican loop and snap closure.

The book has been designed so that it stays open when you put it down. The size of images and fonts large enough to be visible and readable when the book is next to you while you work.

The text is in English but the many photos of step-by-step tutorials allow you to understand the creations and reproduce them easily.

152 pages
Volume 3
Dimensions of the book: 15 x 23 cm
Authors: David Hölter
Editions: Schiffer

There are other volumes, on sale in store:
- Book "MAKING LEATHER KNIFE SHEATHS" - Create your leather knife sheaths - Volume 1: David Hölter & Peter Fronteddu
- Book "MAKING LEATHER KNIFE SHEATHS" - Create your leather knife sheaths - Volume 2: Welded sheaths step by step

SUMMARY :
- A few words to start
- Preface
- Introduction
1. Project 1: Mexican and design buckle case
- Planning and designing the leather case
- Creation of the model
- Preparing parts for construction
- The sewing of the case
- Fixing the protective strap
- The dyeing of the case
- Seal the cut edges and impregnate the leather
2. Project 2: The welded case with snap closure
- The planning and design of the leather case
- Creation of the model
- Preparation of parts for construction
- Gluing and sewing
- Cleaning cut edges
- Make the flap
- Seal the cut edges and impregnate the leather
- Basic notions
- Choose the material
- The tools
- Glossary