Custom Handmade Scabbards

Sneak peak photos

Impressive!... That is fine craftsmanship if i have ever seen it indeed...

I'm excited to see what Mike comes up with. I'm even more excited to see another cutting video from Mike wearing one of these fine scabbards.

Really impressive. I think once I have a job and a good amount of money, I should get a sword with one of your scabbards.

While not entirely my work, I still wanted to post these for all to look at. I received this scabbard/sword from Steven and he requested new leather on the suspension. Upon completing the suspension and showing him pictures, he requested that I come up with a way to make the scabbard tie in better with the suspension. So I suggested using up the space between the rain guard and first suspension loop as a place to utilize some decorative ideas. This is what I came up with:

I thought I would bump this up with my latest effort.

Albion Knight

450$ seems like a bit much, tho I tend to be extremely conservative, but considering many if not all Albion made scabbards are even more money than the swords they are made for, 450$ seems like a really good deal.

I don't know if this has been asked before as 7 pages is a bit much to sift through. But have you ever consider selling do it yourself kits? Basically what I was thinking is that you could make a kit of basic materials for a customer based on what they choose from a materials list, those things being:

Roughly shaped scabbard blanks - cut and categorized according to the type of sword the customer wishes to use the scabbard for.

Leather cutouts - belts, wrappings, etc.

Metal peaces - buckles, ornaments, fittings for different types of suspension systems.

any other materials that might be needed.

it would also be nice if you did this kind of thing for sword grips.

along with this I think it would be nice if you offered individual parts to replace ones that might wear out or become damaged.

this might sound like a lot, but people like me who probably wouldn't buy a scabbard but are handy men/women would most definitely jump at the importunity to have all the base materials provided to assemble one ourselves, as a do it your self scabbard kit would definitely be worth the money to simply not have to assemble the material list your self(not to mention cut it all out )

Brian: that is A.W.E.S.O.M.E! I love the design work in the belt.

Borathian, that is a good idea. People wouldn't even just choose that option to try to be cheap necessarily, but rather because of the pride of acomplishment in DIY Obviously the tricky bit is the channel. But if you are charging a healthy fee, maybe some instructions could come with. I mean a remote control car kit can run up close to a thousand dollars, and people love spending the hours assembling themselves. I don't see why the kits couldn't run around $300. You could include a couple of chosen stamps and buckles etc.

I'm still wondering at how you manage to keep getting better, way to go Brian, a real piece of art !