Got the first knife sheath finished.
It came out real nice.
I did a Kydex sheath with a quick release belt clip.
Just slide that up and put your belt in there then slide it down and lock it closed.
The paracord is on there just for decoration.
The lanyard a from a leather boot lace.
It is good and snug.
The Kydex is pretty amazing material.
This is my first sheath on my first knife and the Kydex has been really fun to use.
I heated it up with a heat gun.
Then pressed it between two pieces of plastic foam without the clip on the back.
I put a board on top and camped it to the table with a couple of Irwin quick grip clamps.
I left is clamped about 60 seconds then let it up and it was all set.
It has good retention.
It is solid it does not shake does not rattle.
The knife has Osage Orange wood scales with black linen micarta and mosaic pins.
Let's check the sharpness.
Cutting some thin Christmas wrapping paper.
I put the cutting edge on with a Lanski Deluxe all the way through to Saphire grit then leather
strop.
Stropped it on my leather boot like this.
I don't have a strop yet.
I could probably get an od leather belt from the thrift store and make one.
My boot also works pretty well.
Not too bad for my first knife.
I used A2 tool steel.
I heat treated it myself.
It has a full flat grind.
A small choil and finger guard.
For the heat treatment I just heated it up to cherry
red then let it air cool in still air.
It came out pretty hard.
Hard enough that you can not drill a hole in it with a HSS drill bit.
I did not temper it on purpose.
This knife is not for prying or batoning it is a dedicated cutting knife.
If you want to do those other things then this is not the knife to use.
The mosaic pins add a nice element to the handle.
I drilled the lanyard hole in the blade blank before heat treating it to 7/32" diameter.
After I heat treated it I realized that the lanyard tube I had was actually 1/4" diameter.
So I put it on the drill press to drill the hole from 7/32" up to 1/4" diameter which
should not have been a big deal.
That is when I discovered how hard my simple method of heat treating had gotten the knife.
I was not even able to remove this small amount of material from the hole.
It completely fried the HSS drill bit.
I had to put the bit on the sharpener and reprofile it so I could use it again for other
projects.
I decided I would just live with the 7/32" hole in the blade and did a two piece lanyard
tube with one piece in the scale on either side of the blade.
I worked out good enough.