by Artemis » 23 Oct 2007 20:20
I was very very bored over this last summer, and decided to pick up a new hobby to compliment a couple others. When I went to Hobby Lobby one day looking for a shadowbox to put a few collectable knives in, I saw a big fat bag of scrap leather selling for about $4. After buying this, a couple rolls of leather "string", and a few leather punches, the total ended up being somewhere around $12. Since then, I've made quite a few leather sheaths for some of the knives I have laying around, and I've also made a wallet-sized pouch to carry my picks in.
It's basically just one long rectangular piece folded in half, and a smaller piece for a pocket on one of the sides. All you really have to do is punch holes about 3/4" apart all the way along the cover and the pocket, wrap the sting in a spiral manner through the holes all the way around the thing, which straps the pocket to the cover, and also gives it a decent look.
I'll try to get pictures in as soon as I can find my dinky little camera...