Sheaths for Knives

Thursday, 19 January 2012

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It's been almost a year since my last update. I planned on launching a website, but this will take more time then I figured, so let's do this slow blog-thing once more.

People are still wondering about my finger, but that has healed fine. My e-mail is working again, and I'm taking orders. I'm still back on a couple of handfulls, but these will be made as I go along and will hopefully all be made before summer.

I received a lot of fieldreports by users, and small things in my basic sheathdesigns has changed for the better. The corners on the technical kydex sheaths are a bit more rounded, and the backpiece design has a different spacing for the eyelets in order to accomodate the teklok in more positions. I still have to picture all the setups possible with this sheath, but that's something for the next update that will, hopefully, be on my new website to be.

Here's some pics of recent sheaths I did.

ESEE Izula

Scrapyard Regulator Bowie

Cold Steel SRK Pancake Kydex

The Krebbekx Junior Sheath

(the guy is really talented)

it has 2 IWB loops screwed to the sheath to facilitate horizontal or IWB carry.

Swamprat M9LE + Dangler

Leatherlined Kydex for Swamprat M6

Fällkniven Kydex with DC-4 stonepouch

New Concept Pouch for a Leatherman

Kydex with integrated holes for loop or teklok

This sheath has a leather beltloop that can be attached high or low. Without the beltloop it carries horizontal on the 2 straps. Kydex inside.

Technical sheath for Bravo-1 with a leather strap instead of the kydex backplate.

Fällkniven NL-5 "Idun"

Jordan Big Chief

Pouch for a Leatherman. It has removable loops for a sharpening stick and firesteel loop.

Bert's Sheath for his homemade fishingknife.

Boy, does that wood stink!

Technical Kydex for Busse Boss Street. This one has a cordura beltloop.

The whole sheath is modular and can be taken apart if you prefer the minimalistic approach. a teklok will fit directly onto the sheath, or onto the backpiece.

Technical sheath following the bladeshape. The kydex liner is removable.

On the backpiece a teklok could be fitted. The retentionstrap folds away and can be fastened in 2 positions.

Extrema Ratio Shrapnell OG with a small teklok.

Technical sheath with retentionstrap and teklok.

The pouch fits a DC-3 stone by Fällkniven and the firesteel loop is sized for the Light my Fire Army steel.

Modular Kydex for a knife by A. Jordan.

The modified tactie's screw to sheath and offer a very strong attachement to molle gear.

Leather sheath for Rock Creek Sable.

The beltloop can be postioned in multiple positions and allows for high, mid and low carry.

Copy of the sheath used in LOST.

Leather only with tooled front.

a video of a Bravo-1 sheath that recently appeared

Fällkniven S-1 with teklok and Light my Fire Army II steel.

Basicaly the technical kydex without the backplate & leather beltloop

Fällkniven A-1 and Ontario's SK-5 Blackbird.

Basicaly a stripped techsheath with only the loops. These screw to the sheath so can be turned around to switch sides.

Technical leather for the Böker Fox

BRK&T Bravo-1

With the beltloop attached to the topstrap only it carries low.

Fällkniven NL-5 Idun & TK-2

Fällkniven NL-3

and many more here: http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/marrrtin/

Thank you for looking!

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

e-mail trouble again

Just a short message to let everybody know what is going on.

My finger has healed well, thanks for all the support. It ate away a lot of time though, and I'm still not taking new orders as my backlog still excists and progress is slow. My guess is that I'll be taking new orders again around July, untill then I'll be working through my backlog.

My e-mail trouble seemed solved in januari, but continued untill late april, where the server released over 1200 e-mails that were kept for months. I can't answer all of them, so please don't be offended if your e-mail, send between mid januari- late april, was left unanswered. But even then the pile is huge, as the numbers of requests are increasing up to 30 e-mails a day for the last 6 weeks. Please be patient if your message isn't replied to soon. All orders on my list will be filled or receive a refund if the wait has been too long.
I'm not sure how to cope with this increasing demand in the future, but I'm sure time will tell.

Further:
Fellow knifenut and graphic designer Wouter de Jong (http://sereknivesphotography.blogspot.com/) has designed a logo for Martinsheaths. I incorporated it in my new bussiness card and I'm quite happy with it. In the future my leatherwork will have this logo.

I hope you like it.

a few weeks ago the Dutch Knife Exhibition was held (http://www.dkeshow.nl/). If you are ever around, please pay a visit, as it is worth it very much. a very good atmosphere, and a wealth of custom and production knives and materials.
One of the knifemakers present is Erik Markman (get a website Erik!) and one of his knive's I had the honour of making sheaths for is the Taurus:

Kydex setup. a modular sheath with a removable dropplate. teklok compatible. can be carried in a wide variety of ways.

Halftanned leather with a removable kydex liner.

For more pics, check my photobucket album. click on the slideshow top left on the page..

Monday, 7 February 2011

short update and sitrep

Some of you already know, but last week I had a small accident, resulting in a severely cut indexfinger. This needs a couple of weeks to heal which means I can't do leatherwork during that time. I can't apply enough force, and working with water is not a good idea yet. Yesterday I started doing kydex again, and though progres is slow, I finished a sheath. So this week I'll be concentrating on kydex only.

To make up for lost time I'll stop taking new orders for the next 6 weeks or so.

I also still have problems with my provider, and not all e-mails reach me like they should. Sometimes only a few for days, and then the rest all at once. I try to answer them all, but I'm sure I missed some, so if I missed you, please send them again.

Shipping notice:
Since januari 1 all packages over 500 grams shipped to the USA will undergo extra security checks which mean delays in delivery up to 4 weeks.
I understood this is a temporary measure.
Most sheaths are under 500 grams, but with a knife included most are over.
Also shipping rates and rules have changed. The rates for "Signed for" shipping have doubled, but insurance up to € 500,- is included standard now.

Sheath Review:
another nice review appeared, this time from Down Under. Check it out here:

http://www.yakangler.com.au/docs/Review_swinkels_E4%202010.pdf

Keep an eye on this blog for updates.

Martin

Saturday, 1 January 2011

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H A P P Y N E W Y E A R !!!

I hope this will be a healthy and prosperous year for everyone!!

Most people who have sheaths on order have contacted me after "the crash" and I'm pretty much lined up again. I want to thank you guys so much for your patience, which is really incredible in some cases.

One problem that is occuring is that all the e-mails that come from @sbcglobal.net I reply to, bounce back to me. This is occuring since december and I don't know what to do. If this is you, please try another adress to contact me from.

Here's some recent sheaths I did.

The BullShark knife from Toni Oostendorp http://www.eastvillageknives.com/