Making A Custom Tooled Leather Sheath For An Estwing Sportsman’s Axe - Leather Craft

In this leather craft video, I replace the generic sheath that came with my Estwing Sportsman’s Axe with a new custom tooled leather sheath. The sheath is intricately tooled all around and features a steel belt clip on the backside that allows the sheath to be taken on and off without belt removal. I tried to match the color scheme of the axe handle by applying a combination of walnut and chocolate color dyes and by stitching the sheath together using white Tiger thread. I hope you enjoy this axe sheath making video and can pick up a few tips and techniques for creating your own.

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TOOLS & MATERIALS:
Axe:
• Estwing Sportsman’s Axe

Leather:
• Natural Vegetable Tanned Leather 8-9 oz (3.4mm)
• Chrome Free Black Pigskin Lining (Screw Head Patch)

Patterns/Marking
• Cereal box (for the cardboard pattern)
• Steel cork backed rulers
• TechTools brand T-square
• Scratch Awl (for marking)
• Ink Pen (for marking)
• Craftool Wing Dividers (for laying out the stitching lines)
• Multi circle drawing template (for making template)
• Craftool English point drawing template (for the keeper strap end)
• Staedtler brand arch drawing template. (For marking the curves on the template)
• Tow ball hitch (for weight to hold down the template)

Cutting:
• Kobalt brand box cutter
• Weaver Master Tool Round Knife
• X-Acto knife
• Steel half round punch (for cutting inside corners)
• Steel quarter round punch (for rounding corners)
• ¾” oblong die cutter (for the steel clip installation)
• Steel hole punches (for rivets and Sam Browne closure)
• Weaver #1 edge beveler
• Swivel knife with 3/8” straight edge blade
• Leather strop with green polishing compound
• Nail pullers (for clipping off rivets)
• Barry King #5 French skiver (for removing leather for the steel clip)
• Glass plate (for skiving)
• Craftool snips (for cutting thread)
• Craftool slotted punch for Sam Browne Stud (5.0)

Tooling:
- Water (for casing the leather)
- Foam brush (for applying water)
- Painter’s Tape (for backing the leather while tooling)
- Beveler stamp (#PB013)
- Circle stamp (#Z-S706)
- Craftool camouflage stamp (#F933)
- Modeling tool
- Barry King push beveler
- Camouflage stamp (#PD011)
- Craftool three-way basket weave stamp (#X502S)
- Craftool cross stamp
- Diamond stamp, top & bottom of cross (#F916)

Gluing / Sanding
• EcoWeld Contact Adhesive (for gluing keeper strap)
• Plastic bottle (for applying EcoWeld)
• Cotton swabs (for applying EcoWeld)
• Weldwood Contact Cement (for gluing on the welt)
• Craftool Detail Rougher
• 1200 grit sandpaper (for detail sanding of edges)
• Bone folder

Machines:
• Craftool drum sander/burnishing machine
• 1 Ton arbor press
• Mini Bench Drill (1/16” bit for stitching -3/16” bit for rivets)
• Drill Master brand rotary tool (For small drum sanding)
• Central Pneumatic airbrush machine & airbrush

Stitching:
• 6mm steel pricking irons
• 3” (75mm) Needles
• Lighter
• 0.8mm White Ritza Tiger Thread
• Wooden stitching pony

Hammers:
• 1.5lb Barry King tapered maul (for punching holes & tooling)
• C.S. Osborne & Co Leather Working Hammer (For tamping down stitches and glue)
• Ball peen hammer (for peening rivets)
• Anvil (for peening rivets)

Hardware
• #14 Brass rivets and burrs (with #14 setter & peening tool set)
• Steel belt clip
• Antique brass Sam browne button (5.0)
• Flat head screwdriver (for fastening the Sam Browne stud)

Finish:
• Fiebing’s Pro Dye Walnut
• Fiebing’s Pro Dye Chocolate
• Fiebing’s Medium Brown Antique Finish
• Gum Tragacanth (for burnishing the backside)
• Tokonole (for edge burnishing)
• Small needle bottle (for applying Tokonole)
• Central Pneumatic airbrush (for applying dye)
• Small paint brushes (for applying dye)
• Wool dauber (for applying dye, antique finish & Gum Trag.)
• Paper towels
• Flat and round wooden slickers (for burnishing)
• RTC Sheridan Resist and Finish (for final top coat)
• Round cotton pads (for applying top coat)