New knives and new designs WIP - Canadian Belt Knife ( 3/?)

Times are busy, but there's still always time for knife making! The scales and knives have been glued together and I've completed the first knife of the batch. There isn't too much that I have done differently from previous knives, so I'll let the pictures speak for themselves - enjoy! 

Front of  scale shaped for gluing. From left to right - black canvas micarta, African blackwood, chatke viga, osage orange, natural canvas / black paper micarta.

Attaching scales

The first knife that I completed was the Canadian belt knife that a colleague of mine requested for a fathers day present. Below are some shots documenting the process.

Handle shaping on the 2x72" grinder. The wood is osage orange 

Finishing and sealing scales.

Starting the sheath - this is the first one piece sheath that I've done. 

Stitching the belt loop - extra care needs to be taken in sinking the stitching into the leather prevent the knife from cutting the thread.

Attaching the welt - in this case the welt needed to be built up near the handle to accommodate the handle thickness.

Alignment with finishing nails prior to gluing and stitching.

The whole package done! 

Backside of the completed sheath  sealed with leather conditioner and hot wax.

First Commissioned Knives (4/4)

Finally all done my first batch of knives! I'm happy to say that this one probably has the best stitching on the sheath, so practice makes perfect! After much trial and error from past projects, I found using a stitching chisel to layout the spacing followed by drilling the holes on the drill press does help greatly with aligning the alignment. From here on out I'm going to be fulfilling some custom orders but  I'll try to work in personal projects when I can. Don't have too much else to say about it, so on with the pics!