Very good work. I love to see videos of folks just starting. with basic tools, and holding everything by hand instead of in a vise. That is how i started also over 40 years ago. So many folks think today that you need lots of tools that they see others using on videos. when the tool they most need is the one between there ears:) and some elbow grease. and some actual drive to complete what they have started. Great job. Would love to see more carving if you get around to it. and would love to see another Sami knife build in the future. A tip. Use a process called Skiving. or thinning the leather along the edge to make it thinner for the area were it fits the nub on the sheath. This skiving is useful in conjunction with a little contact cement for fancier carved nubs. and on the top part of the sheath it is also used to roll the top edge of the leather to inside to make a top bead. A couple of bigger alligator clamps or squeeze clamps will hold the leather tight at the seam around the sheath for marking the stitching holes. a 1/16in. drill bit in the Dremel will make really nice holes for stitching. Keep up the great work. and see you on the next one.
You did great old buddy what band of native are you buddy I'm half Cherokee and German choctow and yes I know everybody caimes Cherokee but I really am got proof of it to lol
I made them by carving a small groove straight down into the antler, and then going back across the line, but at a slight angle to cut off one side to angle it, making kind of a "v shaped groove, but with one of the walls being straight up instead of slanted.
