Hi everyone, I'm making a sheath for a knife and I want to make one of those that folds over the blade with the stitching only on the one side, kinda molded to the blade and up past the bolsters, maybe a bit higher. I understand I have to wet the leather to form it around the blade and handle but I also want to stamp a basket weave pattern on it that would go past the fold a bit. I've been reading on the posts that some sew the sheath, then wet it to form around the sheath. Would I stamp it after? Then I probably shouldn't stitch it. What do you think? Any suggestions? Thanks
Check out this tutorial. It is for the type of sheath you are looking to make and he did an excellent job putting together the sheath and tutorial. http://beebeknives.com/html/make_a_sheath_tutorial.html
