Field Expedient Replacements or Repairs:
Quite often the stitching holding the leather belt frog to the body of the sheath would disintegrate. This is one sound method of retaining the sheath by using a webbing frog. from a bayonet sheath. This owner even went so far as to install what appears to be a wrist watch band for a retaining strap.
Quite often the stitching holding the leather belt frog to the body of the sheath would disintegrate. This is one sound method of retaining the sheath by using a webbing frog. from a bayonet sheath. This owner even went so far as to install what appears to be a wrist watch band for a retaining strap.
The badly worn sheath below is web material on the front and thin leather backed. I cannot figure out how the leather straps wer used. There is no method of weapon retention. Perhaps the knife was held in by a thong oor cord of some sort.
The sheath shown below is a commercial variety reinforced with some sheet copper and simple paper fasteners.
The following sheath was made in India and is poorly tanned leaving the leather hard and brittle. The metal chape is also poorly formed and simply glued on. This sheath house a very nice beaded and ribbed knife.
The next sheath came with the OSS Stiletto shown. It is a modified-cut down British bayonet sheath.
Illustrated below is a leather lined canvas web sheath for a Polish Commando Knife.
Two sheaths, one commercial with reinforced chape at the tip, and the other field modified to reinforce/replace the frog.
BELOW: Sheath for an unkown knife but had a nickle plated P-2 stamped N.G.K. in it when I bought it. The frog is actually twice as long as it appears. It has been folded back and laced in place. The actual frog is as long as those on V-42 sheaths.
BELOW: A fine sheath handmade specifically for a Wilkinson Sword Co. Nickle plated P-2
BELOW: American sheath from a Johnson Bayonet. It came with a heavy bladed early P-3.
