Fantastic! You are inspiring me to try something like this.

Awesome chape! The whole scabbard ended up absolutely beautiful! I am about to make some scabbards to replace the ones for my windlass swords. This will be a great help.

VERY nice :). edrigol (especially) - I love the back stitching on the scabbard. But a comment? A double needle "X" stitch will allow you to flatten the seam, get as much (or more) strength, and waste less leather.

I have some data on this on this FREE pdf:

http://findlithui.deanandsandy.dyndns.org:808...ore1.1.pdf

.... a typical double needle "X" stitch on one of mine:

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hi

all the original scabbard i have seen or read about have a seam like this and not a x seam.
and i want to make them as historical as possible.