Sword Scabbard #2

[LRB]

All hand made, 9oz. vege-tan leather, sewn with linen thread. Brass throat and chape/tip formed from .040 brass sheet. Frog hook sawn, ground, and filed from 1/2" x 1/2" x 2" brass bar. Brass mounts are glued and pinned to the leather. Top plate is 1/8" brass with entry filed out to blade shape. Sword is 1811 French or German going by the engraved writing on the spine. Main throat body, two piece chape/tip, and frog are silver brazed. Top plate is soldered in place with Brownell's 600° Hi Force 44 cadmium solder. Hope you enjoy a look.

[davec2]

LRB,

Beautifully made scabbard !!!!  I know it is a lot of work and a lot to ask, but if you are inspired, at some point, to write a tutorial on making this type of scabbard, I would personally greatly appreciate it.  Beautiful sword as well.

Dave C

[brobb]

That is outstanding!  Thank you for sharing.  I would also love to see some in process photos.

Bruce Robb

[Ahtuwisae]

Outstanding piece of work...top notch...thanks for sharing.  Love the sword as well..nice piece of weaponry.

[LRB]

  Thanks guys. Dave, at this point I don't know how much of the outcome was skill, or how much was luck. Throats are not terribly hard to make, but forming a chape is pretty new to me, and more involved. It is two pieces hammered around a steel form, then dressed to the wanted dimesions and silver brazed together.  Oddly enough, most of the seam is basicly invisible. It had a few hair line spots where the seam did not quite meet dead on at the surface, but I was able to burnish them and make them unnoticable. Here is a tute on making an all metal knife sheath which I used with modifications to make the chape.
http://beknivessite2.homestead.com/nssheath.html
  The leather work uses the same basics I use to make center seam sheaths. Just much bigger.
http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/24616/t/MAKING-A-CENTER-SEAM-SHEATH.html

[davec2]

LRB,

Results like that are never luck !

DC

[Tim Crosby]

 WOW!

  Tim C.