Custom Knife Sheaths

Sheaths here are made to fit a specific knife, from fixed blades to well-known hunting and utility models. Leather sheaths come hand-tooled, hand-dyed or hand-painted, in pocket and slip styles, for vertical or horizontal belt carry, or with leg straps. Some combine a Kydex liner with a leather shell and a sheepskin lining for extra protection. Makers also build sheaths for machetes and axe heads, and frog sheaths that mount to a horse saddle.

What sets the price

A listing's price is usually a starting point. Half of the listings here are priced between about $80 and $165, with a median near $110, and one in ten is priced above $330. Size, material, tooling or painted work, and extras such as a liner, snaps or a leg strap set the price of a commission.

Before you start

• The knife: its make and model if it has one, or detailed photos with the blade and handle measured.
• How you'll wear it: on a belt, vertical or horizontal, in a pocket, on a leg strap, or on a saddle.
• Your belt width, and which side you wear it on.
• Leather color, tooling, initials or artwork, or Kydex.
• Whether the maker needs the knife itself to fit the sheath.

For the knives themselves, see Collectible Knives.

Describe the sheath with the materials, size, budget and date you have in mind, and makers who do this work send proposals. You pay a 50% deposit on the one you approve, see the finished sheath by photos, video call or studio visit, and pay the balance once you approve it; Maker Marketplace holds that payment while it ships.