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Hi, this is Eric Sterns, with Expert Village. We're talking about some traditional styled
leather work, and we're, right now, going over the construction of a knife sheath. So
what I'm going to talk about now is actually clamping the sheath down after the blade has
been fitted to it. We've got our blade that is fitted into our knife sheath, which is
still wet and kind of soggy. There are a couple of different ways to do this, you can use
wood. I tend to use, oddly enough, books. The reason why I do this is, it sounds like
kind of a random strange tool to use, but what I've discovered is that books are oddly,
in a strange way, a little more flexible because they're made of paper, even though they are
rather dense. And by adjusting the knife sheath in the book, covering it with the other book,
and getting it right where I want it, I can then adjust my clamps out a little bit, put my
clamps over the book,
and then secure it by screwing it in and tightening it. And the interesting thing happens is I
tighten it because the books are flexible, because they're comprised of paper, they actually
conform to the size of the sheath, which is rather interesting, kind of odd. I discovered
this by accident because I had no wood when I was making a sheath, and this allowed me
to get kind of a better take on the actual clamping process in the form fitting to the
knife. So that's it, and basically what happens now is the sheath dries.