A couple of additional thoughts: When you're using drive tools in leather, punches, stitch or lacing cutters, tooling stamps - any of the tools you strike to use - don't use a metal hammer on them. You'll mushroom the tops of those tools in short order. Wooden maul, rawhide faced mallet, plastic or rubber faced - just not a metal hammer. You won't have those tools for decades if you hit them with metal hammers. Second: when you're setting rapid rivets/ two piece rivets like the ones in the kit, you can just hit them with a hammer on an anvil, but take it easy ;) They're really pretty flimsy little things and you can smash them easily. There's a tool for setting them with a little anvil and a setting drive tool, both with slightly concave faces, that allow you to set the rivets just about perfectly every time, and keep that little bit of doming to the caps. The hammer and anvil work to make the rivets hold, but adding the rivet setter produces a more finished look and makes the task easier to do well.

@StutleyConstable

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to make the same point about the punch. I am glad I scrolled down. Another handy tool on a project like this is binder clips. Those are the small, usually black spring clips normally used to hold loose leaf reports together. I use them the same way as I use straight pins when sewing cloth. Really helps when fitting the parts together.

@funkingitup1805

2 жыл бұрын

Seems like a brass hammer would be alright.

@kd5nrh

Жыл бұрын

And if you've got an axe, and some well seasoned hardwood, making a simple but excellent mallet is a handy bit of bushcraft practice.

Might I add, for anyone planning to undertake this project. Add a strip of leather between the two main layers of leather where they are riveted together along the cutting edge of the bit. This will protect the sharp edge of your axe from dulling on the rivets as it is carried in the sheath.

Definitely a project I'll tackle with my son one day. He's only 6 months old now, so it might be a while.

Tip from a leather worker, strop your knife often on a leather scrap with some jewelers rouge or some other type of polishing compound. Your tools will cut so much better

@bashkillszombies

3 жыл бұрын

Tip from a non-leather worker. Do not perform these projects without pants. I am now Jewish.

I was at a friends house and spotted her hatchet. Handle was broken and it was a rusty little mess. I took it home (without her knowledge). worked over the metal, polished it up some, and sharpened it. Then I made a sheath. I tooled a vine and leaf pattern. When I gave it to her she was REALLY surprised to see it because she thought it had been stolen...and I guess that is what I did...but all in good intention. She loved the look of the sheath and was glad for it to come home. All in all, a fun project!

When measuring leather that's going to wrap around something, you must take into account the thickness of the leather. You can see this by measuring around a coffee can with a piece of paper, cutting it to the exact fit, cutting an old thick belt to the length of the paper, and then wrapping the leather around the can.

@jphickory522

3 жыл бұрын

That’s a difficult concept for me to understand. Can anybody explain why this is the case?

@johnwildermuth3136

3 жыл бұрын

@@jphickory522 The grain side (smooth side, side that the hair came off) doesn't stretch much. The flesh side (rough side, where the fat and muscle was scraped off) compresses a bit. This adds twice the thickness of the leather to the c̶i̶r̶c̶u̶m̶f̶e̶r̶e̶n̶c̶e̶ diameter of what it's going around. It isn't really noticeable with the thinnest garment leather, but when you get up to 11/12 oz (one ounce is one sixty-fourth of an inch) or thicker saddle skirting, it makes a big difference.

@jphickory522

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks John. I still don’t understand but appreciate your effort of trying to explain it. In my simple mind... if two strips of different materials are cut to the same length they will have the same circumference when wrapped around something regardless of thickness.

@jphickory522

3 жыл бұрын

On second thought..... I think I do get it now. A thicker material will have a larger outside circumference than inside circumference due to the thickness. Thanks

My brother from another mother was the first to buy this kit, and he gave it to me for Christmas. I've been cleaning up and rehafting old axe heads for a bit, but this will be my first time making a sheath for one. I've got this German made 3lb single bit axe (my favorite and rarest of weights) that is going to win the prize. Thank you for all you do. I might not be a kid, but I think I'll feel like one when I put this together. What a great present.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army!

If you don't have a rubber pad to punch the holes on, an end grain piece of four by four will be easier on the tool.

Cool! Who doesn’t like the look, feel and especially the smell of leather. I used to live near a shop that made all kinds of custom stuff out of leather. The smell of that shop is unforgettable, 30 years later. Still have a custom leather duffle I bought there. *Happy Thanksgiving to All! 🦃

As a leatherworker, with almost 25 years experience, there are so many things I would have done differently, but that comes with experience. Great job. So glad you enjoyed it. Great introduction to leather. My usual advice with leather: it's skin, just like your own skin. What's good for your skin is good for leather. What hurts your skin, will damage the leather.

I love it! I've been restoring old axes lately and I've thought about beginning to make sheaths for them. Thanks for the encouragement! Have a great Thanksgiving!

A friend of mine showed me how to make a holster and I have been making leather sheaths and. Holsters for a while now I really enjoy it.

I love that it is hand written and hand drawn

The values that are embraced on this channel fall inline with those that Mike Rowe has with his organization. I love it. Thanks guys and....keep up the good work 😊

And Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. This channel - Scott and Nate and family AND the open-minded, generous commentators - has been a reliable bright spot this year. Bless you all.

When I was about eight years old, Uncle Eric (who also taught me how to braze with oxy-acetylin) drove a ten-penny nail and the tip of his sheath knife into the surface of his work bench, a 1/8" apart. He then drew a leather scrap between the nail and blade. As we pulled, I was amazed as the scrap revolved, changing from a sheet to a thong. They make great winter boot laces. They never get waterlogged and freeze, unlike woven laces. That was my first leather project.

Thanks for giving.

Morning Scott, happy Thanksgiving and thanks for sharing this new adventure in leather work. 👍

Thank you for sharing. I always enjoy your content. I made my first sheath this year and it was a great learning experience I wanted to share with my kids.

Happy Thanksgiving, EC family, and team. Thanks for the projects!

nothing more relaxing to me then setting down and working with leather ! learned from and old friend thats passed on !! your family and you have a great thanks giving !!! thanks for the video !!!

Making patterns was one of the most important things my mom taught me. Once I make something from a homemade pattern that I am happy with it I sign and date it and save it. Keep files, patterns for leather, copper , woodworking , flower petals for blacksmiths make them once and save them. Also if I am starting a big leather project I buy a new pair of good quality fiscars scissors only use them for leather they stay sharp and you have good cut control. Nothing beats a fine piece of leather. I use Hide House for quality leather and supplies. Enjoy

Thanks for this video. I have a old Pulaski a friend gave me to restore for next fire season. I was planning on just restoring the the tool but now i plan on making a sheath for it. Wish me luck.

The production and planing gone into these videos are terrific! Keep it up.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU ALL

@Lengsel7

3 жыл бұрын

NO! HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU!!! I MEAN IT!!!

Thank you for your content EC. I found this channel a few months ago and have consistently observed many good things, above all to me though, those that keep me coming back include that your content is wholesome, inspiring and balanced with wisdom. I appreciate that workmanship is obviously a high priority of yours which overflows to your video production quality... and I'd be willing to bet, is a way of life for you. Being a young tradesman myself the nuggets of wisdom and acquired trade knowledge you posess are invaluable to life and work - and will never get old. Thanks for passing them on in this way. I am learning more than I'd hoped! Blessings from Adelaide, Australia.

Great job. Thanks for sharing

Hope you & your family had a great Thanksgiving.

My hands always seems to have a wound of some sort on them. My grandkids love to go into my shop and explore with me. When I show them my 'owies', they pay very close attention. Nothing better than teaching to never be bored.

Very cool! Share the knowledge and experiences!

You never fail to inspire whatever the subject. The feeling you get when you first make something by hand is indescribable and watching you make this leather sheath brought back those same feelings and emotions. Thanks again for another great video.

I'm grateful for the essential craftsman and this content on KZread. Educational, uplifting, and enjoyable. Thank you for what you do. Keep up the good work!

Just recently bought a new axe, in our new home! This is amazing can't wait to make it 😊

Thanks for sharing (as always!) and for your splendid enthusiasm. All my best to you and the family

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

Make several copy's of that pattern. So when you screw it up like would you can start over. And or make more cases.

Nothing else to say but “Thanks” Keep up the good work!

Oh lord, I’m pretty thankful there wasn’t a camera nearby the first time I did a great many things.

Looks great! Happy Thanksgiving Scott and family!!

Happy Thanksgiving Scott to you and your family. Thank you for all of the great content.

The video is just starting and I'm looking forward to watching Scott climb the learning curve on something I actually have experience with 😊

Nice to see the process, and the music too!

Iv found cheap welding aprons are a good source of leather. Iv made loads of odds n ends from old aprons over the years.

Fantastic video and idea, as a woodshop teacher love the idea of drawing more people into making and craftsmanship. Thank you

nate, I noticed you shot from a couple different angles. thank you for taking the time to make the shots look good! it makes a difference

Nice to hear some pipes!

You can get a set of dies for those speedy rivets that give you a little cleaner result. Keeps the top domed and looking nice too.

Thank you!

Mr. EC - you have a level of awareness that I can only aspire to!

You're like a "Bob Ross" of skilled craftsmanship. Love the videos. Thanks for all you do! Jim.

Your so right the skills translate across most production Trades. When patterning thicker leather cardboard folds about as well as cased 5 oz. so you don’t have to do as much work with seam allowances. I would make a much more rigid mask ( axe blade cover). That soft and they can fold in front of the blade and be cut easily.

Gotta love that EC logo on it, something to be proud of! Had to add, happy holidays to you and your family

6:40 With that type of Stanley knife and blade, you will just replace the worn out/dull blade with a fresh one. A sharp knife is essential in any cutting, 100% agreed.

Hope you and your family have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

Awesome Video! Very informative !

Loved the bagpipes!

Happy Thanksgiving you guys.

As much as I’ve been loving the spec house videos, I have to say I love the shop videos more. Love the detail, advice and instruction. I don’t think I’ll ever work leather but it was great to watch.

You inspired me to start forging! Might as well give leather a try. I think my dad has some leather laying around. Keep up the great videos!

I love the Bagpipes in the background....... another great video!

Love watching this guy, been watching for awhile. He inspired me to start working with wood again. Glad I found the channel.

13:46 never throw away the extras

Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍

I have talked with many people about your videos. I especially loved the video about how to be more productive, which I shared with all of my sons who are 26, 24, 22, and 17. All who agree it is great advice. Not just about carpentry, but in life in general. I also loved the poetry reference. This video fills me with anticipation to get my gaming 17 year old who is currently Covid stuck in front of his computer all day into doing something real and productive. Thank you for the quality content you provide. You are the Grandad I wish my sons had.

Hello from Easton Maryland. I admire you work. I am carpenter and for me is really interesting to put always something new in my mind. In my free time I work in leather. Not for business. Just for fun. I’m really surprised that you never tried. God bless you, your family, your best friend and your beautiful house.

This guy is a great teacher and person. The way he talks and approaches situations make this video more than just about any craft he is doing. You can apply what he teaches to almost all aspects of life. In a way, he is a Mr. Miyagi type of teacher. Love the content and keep the videos coming!

Happy Thanksgiving from NE Ohio,really enjoy your content.

Awesome! Glad I got mine ordered early, I bet you sell out of these.

I recently picked up an old welder figured out good enough how to get to pieces of metal to stick together with it and promptly made a lumber/ladder rack for my work trailer. It is always a good idea to make something instead of ordering off the internet.

Great video. I just wanted to thank you for your expertise and advice about carpentry. I am a new apprintace carpenter and I remember all of your helpful videos and I'll be going back to those for reference.

I liked that you try something new you have never done. I restore vintage Estwing leather gripped tools, and many other tools I've gotten from the dump. Why? Mostly curiosity, but also to bring them back to the fine tools they once were. A labor of love!

I start doing leather Craft 2 years ago one of my most obsessed upon Hobbies at this point

Love all these axe vids!

I restore axes often, but never made a sheeth. Something I’d consider.

Happy Thanksgiving wadsworth n family

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone

This is amazing!!!

Those bagpipes speak to my Scots Irish soul!!!

Hey Scott. Great job guys. I'm a vehicle interior guy from Australia with 30 years experience and I still get a buzz from others encouraging people to try something new Take care guys

Love the video, idea and the subtle Next Level Carpentry nod. Thank you for sharing and Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hi Scott and Nate. You could use some of the leftover leather to restore the eswing hammer handle. Love the video's.

Matthias Wandel is making huge, big and complicate wood projects with paper templates. He also develop BigPrint program so you can print pages and then tape them with scale 1:1

You're a great man.

A good rule of thumb is to make copy's of the paper patterns. I learned the hard way on patterns and had more tape on it then ink.

Thank you for your time and effort in making and sharing these videos! I could listen to you narrate a dish soap commercial. God bless!

i thinking of the best things in life is learning new things and this looks like a fun way to learn

Very nice!💜

For me figuring out the hard way means better retention

I restored an old axe after watching your previous video. I would love to purchase your kit, but sadly I live in Canada. God speed you lucky Americans!

I ordered one of the kits and have never done any leather work sooo wish me luck.

Thanks for this. I admire you stepping out and up to do something different. You and I are of an age and your doings are inspirational. I do admire your table and slab on top that you work on but I would like to see you working on a proper Roubo style workbench. I think it would be fun to watch you build a proper bench. It would also be more satisfying for me to see you utilizing the proper work holding techniques the bench would provide.

I would recommend a strip of leather between the two sides on the blade end. That will protect the blade from the rivets. I like my axes sharp and i don't want them dulled by a sheath...I do the same with knife sheaths.

I love your no fuss way of keeping leather from moving around when you want to make a straight cut... just nail it down! :-) PS Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family & crew,

Wonderful content this episode. I've made dozens of axe scabbards. I have a Tippmann Boss sewing machine. Every down stroke makes a stitch. Happy Thanksgiving. 😀

Good luck Wadsworth!

This is eerie, because I currently need a sheath myself. Like, I just picked up a single-bit Michigan when the chainsaw at my mom's house wasn't working two weeks ago ("the axe always starts," right?) and it didn't come with a sheath. Needless to say, I've been pondering finding one online (and gambling on the fit) or making one out of old firehose or leather, whatever I have lying around when I get a spare moment

Loved seeing that cross peen hammer. My grandfather was a blacksmith/ornamental iron man who earned his living running his own business. His favorite hammer was a cross peen that could be a clone to your hammer in this video. I still have that hammer and it's my favorite go to hammer as well!!

Nice sheath. I need to find an axe worthy of this project. 👍

Always a great video. If you continue to make these please consider puting a welt I guess they call it, to keep the sharp edge of the axe away from the rivets or any stitching. On that note try hand stitching it brings hole different feel to the project