Making a Leather Knife Sheath

At the Rattlesnake Rendezvous (a primitive skills campout), I met a fellow by the name of Ken Peek. Ken was wearing a really nice looking knife case. He was kind enough to let me have a close look at it. The thing that really caught my eye was the simplicity of the design. The sheath required absolutely NO STITCHING. It was made of a single strip of leather, cut to fold over onto itself once on the blade and then again on the handle. Then it was woven in and out of the slits to hold the whole thing together. About a month ago I was mounting a deer bone handle to a knife blade and decided to try my own version of the sheath. This is what I came up with (see photo). It took about an hour to do, and most of that time was cutting the slits to just the right size. The dimensions in the photo are for a 4 inch blade. The handle length of the sheath should be doubled, since it will fold over. If desired, add a leather thong to hang the sheath around your neck.