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I'll help you get started on that research. I started making leather sheaths a couple years ago. While Kydex sheaths certainly have their strengths, I really like the look and feel of leather sheaths. If you have questions about the
You'll need leather, good quality thread, some sharp knives at ...

Xplorer wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 18, 2022 1:03 pm

Who is the ebay seller you're getting your CF fabric from? I want to order some.

https://www.ebay.com/str/innovativecomp ... chnologies
This is who I use, they're in NC so it's like shopping local for me.

Thanks for the compliments everyone! Now I just gotta figure out the sheath situation. Thinking leather...so I need to do some research on that aspect now!

Love it! Great work. You've inspired me. I've made my own micarta and I stabilize my own wood but now you've inspired me to start making my own CF materials. My wife will not be happy with you...just sayin' ;)


Lmao! Do you need to get a whole bunch more stuff, or just CF fabrics? I started with ...

Wow. Inspiring work!

I'd love to try that out. I've done some rough mycarta and quite a lot of wood stabilizing, but that CF looks amazing.


Thanks!! I forgot to take a picture (since it's not new to me) but I use a cheap vacuum pump for compressing and curing. What do you use for wood ...

After months of intermittent working...I'm done! Mostly. There's a couple things I want to touch up. Now I need to figure out how to make a leather sheath... :woozy

But here are the scales I made!
https://imgur.com/rwofCJa.jpg


It started life as a couple sheets of Carbon Fiber 1x1 and ...

So I made some quick scales from the guy here...my tired dumb brain forgot about...heat. I went to form some kydex for a sheath...and that's when I realized how kydex is hot enough to squish my temporary pla+ scales