I made a sheath for my home made knife by gluing together pieces of heavy leather that I cut out of scraps. I took the glued together sheath to a local shoe repair shop and paid a couple bucks to have them stitch the edges on their large sewing machine.

It’s been quite a while. The holster maker that gave me the scraps is long gone. I want to make a sheath for a stag handle German knife that I recently bought with out a sheath in a pawn shop. The hold up has been finding the leather. Ordering one of Ace Hardware’s farmer’s repair scrap bags sounds risky without being able to look at the specific bag. I’ll be patient and eventually find appropriate scraps inexpensively. In the mean time I can carry it in a too large sheath from another knife.