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Tomahawk Sheath
Sep 25^th, 2011 at 1:45pm

I recently bought a tomahawk from an event in my area. It wasn't exactly a Renaissance fair, but more of a colonial times kind of thing. There was no sheath that came with it, and nobody was selling a sheath for a tomahawk. I bought some deer hide scraps that I plan on turning into a sheath, but I need to take the hair off of them first. Does anyone have any good suggestions for doing this? Also, suggestions on how to make the sheath would be welcome.

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Jabames Interfector Viris Spurii Offline :3 Posts: 1888 Alaska Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #1 - Sep 26^th, 2011 at 5:06am pretty easy, juss make an outline of the head and make the cut a lil bigger than the head, then stitch it, ill show pics of mine when I can, juss look at a hatchet sheath and ull see how to make one, dont have buttons but i used a cheap carabiner and cord to attach sheath to handle
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Samurismallz Junior Member Offline Why am I wasting slinging time on this forum? Posts: 97 Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #2 - Sep 26^th, 2011 at 6:22am ok, i thought it would be that simple, but I wasn't sure. I'm still a novice (in the extreme) at this kind of thing.
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Jabames Interfector Viris Spurii Offline :3 Posts: 1888 Alaska Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #3 - Sep 26^th, 2011 at 7:42am simply like thisss http://www.buybrownholsters.com/images/axe_covers.jpg
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Re: Tomahawk Sheath
Reply #4 - Sep 26^th, 2011 at 8:34am

I wanted to try somthing a little more different (and more primitive). So what I did for my CS trail hawk was I took a piece of paper and cut it out around the hawk in the shape I wanted then I took a piece of deer rawhide and traced the shape of the paper on to the rawhide, cut out the rawhide, soaked the rawhide till it was nice and soft and clamped it on to the hawk. When it was done dryin I glued the top of the sheath together and drilled a hole in the top corner closest to the handle and pulled piece of twisted hemp about 10in long through the hole, this way I could tie the hemp below the hammer on the back and it would make the sheath even more secure.

In the end it worked out kind of like primitive kydex.

I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.

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Reply #5 - Sep 28^th, 2011 at 10:11pm

If you want to keep it simple, take a square piece of leather slightly longer than the sharp edge of the tomahawk. Fold it in half with the blade of the tomahawk resting along the fold. Fasten a leather thong to each end of the leather square and tie the thong behind the handle side of the tomahawk head. This will protect the blade and you yet it is easy and fast to get on and off.

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Samurismallz Junior Member Offline Why am I wasting slinging time on this forum? Posts: 97 Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #6 - Sep 29^th, 2011 at 9:39pm alright, these are good ideas for sheath design, but what about de-hairing the hides?
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Bill Skinner Forum Moderation Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3292	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #7 - Sep 29^th, 2011 at 9:56pm Are the scraps already tanned or are they raw hide? Bill
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Samurismallz Junior Member Offline Why am I wasting slinging time on this forum? Posts: 97 Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #8 - Sep 29^th, 2011 at 9:57pm I'm not exactly sure. They're fairly flexible, and they're the scraps from tanned hides, so I'm guessing they're already tanned.
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Re: Tomahawk Sheath
Reply #9 - Sep 30^th, 2011 at 8:46am

Well if you normally know how to tan a hide, soak it in water and roll it up for awhile (this makes the hair lose) then soak it again and scrap the hair and epidurmis off the same way you scraped the inside. This is a very simple way of saying a small portion of tanning, if you are actually doing some legit tanning look it up and learn exactly how to do it really well before you start.

If you want to just make it softer tie a 1/2-1in rope veritcaly (on a tree or what have you) and pull the hide back and forth, pulling with one arm, then the other, all the while keeping very hard tension on the hide, the longer you do this the softer the hide will be. But you really don't need to do this for too long if you are just making a sheath.

I was pretty good at slinging like 10 years ago.

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Samurismallz Junior Member Offline Why am I wasting slinging time on this forum? Posts: 97 Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #10 - Sep 30^th, 2011 at 5:44pm alright, I'll try that.
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fattybones Descens Offline That's not hail! Posts: 144 Halifax NS Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #11 - Oct 2^nd, 2011 at 4:24am You could leave the hair on the inside, it'll polish the blade.
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #12 - Oct 2^nd, 2011 at 6:43am Or...... leave the hair on the outside for a really primitive look.
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Mauro Fiorentini Forum Moderation Offline Forge your future with the hammer of your mind! Posts: 3444 Ancona, Italy. Gender:	Re: Tomahawk Sheath Reply #13 - Oct 5^th, 2011 at 7:16pm Keep them inside, they'll prevent the blade from getting rusty! Otherwise, always remember to put some (little) pork grase inside the sheath. Greetings, Mauro.
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