This story actually begins with a happy-hour much earlier last week. I met up with my friend, Greg – one of the minds behind Antler&Co., to chat about projects we had going on, and to see the new A&Co headquarters. (Which is very cool, btw.) Before leaving, I found myself coming home with a couple more of his creations. If you’ve seen pictures of my place, you know I might have a thing for antlers… but still, I’ve been wanting a small hanger for my stove tools. Then I got to thinking about how I could display another cool piece,one of my vintage Stanley camp-axes, and figured I should get TWO hangers!
So then, over this weekend I devised a way to hang my axe using some scrap leather to make a sheath. I’d sketched out some designs and made a few paper templates, and finally came up with something I liked and that fit pretty well. I thought about dying it, maybe burning something into it… but I can experiment with that later. Right now, I wanted to share it with you, and even give the template in PDF form in case any of you wanted to make your own.
This fits a vintage Stanley, but you could mod it to fit whatever you might have. Let me know what you think, and if you make one – feel free to post it in the W&F flickr group!
I had that calendar!
Beautiful work yet again, Matt.
Despite not having any use whatsoever for a camp axe, I am suddenly overwhelmed by the need to (a) acquire one, (b) make a sheath for it—which would also involve buying a riveter, naturally, and (c) hang axe in sheath on an antler hook over my non-existent wood stove.
In other words…nice work, Matt!
You have a fireplace though… that requires something more like a felling axe hanging above it!
This is great, thanks! I’ve had an old camping hatchet I’ve used while…well, camping, that I received from my great-grandfather, and have never had a good sheath for it…it’s been wrapped in an old sock with rubber-bands for too long.
Yeah, that makes me a little sad… time for a sheath upgrade!
Seeing that in writing is really depressing. You definitely need to add this project to your ever-expanding list.
Strong work.
Beautiful work, Matt! Is there anything you *can’t* do???
Ha ha… of course! But no way am I making a blog of all my failures!
Amazing, Matt!
awesome! also love the old box housing your firewood…overall a very pleasing scenario…
As a fellow leather lover, I have to say, nice work! It looks great and my guess is that it works just as well!
Very cool man. That looks so good! I really admire your leather work.
Great work! I really love the “ol-skool” look of your sheath! Good job.
Jesper Vox
I have a feeling you might be making another ReadyMade appearance?
Beautiful work and great website! Stan from the Netherlands
You do really great work. All your posts are super inspiring.
Nicely done sir!! I have been looking for a good sheath for my Estwing; looks like the search is over.
Best DIY I’ve seen in a long time.
Really nice work here….I am especially curious about your woodstove…Can you provide the manufacturer?
thanks…
Thanks Gerhard. The stove is a Morso.
Q: is it a morso 1410 or 1440? with the squirrel relief on the side?
It’s a Morso 1410, yes.
This is the most manly image I have ever seen.
Ever? I feel like there should be a Grizzly bear in there or something then…
Beautiful. So making one of these. Excuse my ignorance though, but what type of rivet is that?
Hi Ben, they are called speed rivets… just hit them with a mallet and they crush together.