Three custom scabbards, made in relatively quick succession within about a month-and-a-half:

* Saya for Japanese katana by Spanish manufacturer
Beech core, double-layer lacquer cover
The engraved symbol is Hikari - Japanese word for Light

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** Scabbard for Oakeshott Type XIV Sword by Peter Regenyei
Poplar core, leather cover
Herring-bone pattern seem
Leather belt with hand-made bronze buckle and plates
Steel chape

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*** Scabbard for Messer by Peter Regenyei
Poplar core, leather cover
Herring-bone pattern seem
Leather belt with hand-made bronze buckle and plates
Steel chape
My scabbard is heavily-influenced by Leo Todeschini's work

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Looking at the hilt construction, wouldn't the last sword be a falchion?

Well, strictly speaking the weapon itself is quite a strange mix of features from both messer and falchion.

Its author - Peter Regenyei - in his site, defines it as a "messer"; so this is the way I name it.