Leather Redefined.
*** Announcements ***
As of December 2020 my new order books are closed. I am keeping a waiting list to contact once they open back up. You are welcome to email me to get added to it. I am currently anticipating them to open late winter or early spring.
I am scheduled to be at the Spirit of the Blade Knife Show in Troy Ohio, March 5th & 6th 2021. I will also be at Blade Show in Atlanta June 4-6 2021, Table 6-I.
I’m proud to announce the launch of my new E-Commerce site for real-time stock availability and ordering. While I am continuing to work on my order backlog I will also occasionally be releasing small batch runs of sheaths for newly released and popular Busse Combat and Carothers Performance Knives blades. There may also be various PirtleMade accessories posted as well as knife/sheath packages that will all be ready to ship. Be sure to sign up for the notification email list so you are informed when new products are added.
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Thank you,
Chad Pirtle & Family
Email: Chad@PirtleMade.com or CLICK HERE
While I promise a reply to all emails it may take me some time to get back to you. I am a one man operation and am usually focused on sheath production. Thanks for understanding.
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Bio
Although I have been a gun, knife and outdoor enthusiast/tinkerer all of my life, around 2000 I started making Kydex sheaths for resale when people were just finding out what Kydex was capable of. That hobby business expanded into leather working, knife making, blacksmithing and holster making, all passions I still try to indulge as frequently as possible. After the 2008 election I spent the vast majority of my time making leather pistol holsters for the booming firearms market, and at times I was receiving 50+ new order requests a week forcing me to turn business away. This was after all still a hobby..
In October 2013 after 18 years of marriage my wife and I adopted a newborn baby girl. We had about 5 weeks notice from the time we found out we had been selected until she was born. I immediately stopped taking new orders and put my business on hold so I could focus on building our new family. I have never regretted that decision! Those of you who make things for a living or hobby know it’s never out of your blood. I kept making leather gear, the occasional knife or tool for friends or personal use, and had plenty of honey-do’s to keep me busy in the shop, but wanted to get back to making quality gear for others as well.
Once our daughter was a little older and we’d settled into our routine, I had a little more time on my hands and decided to get back to working leather. It was still tough to work out in the shop be separated from the family, impossible when my wife travels, so I moved my leather working studio from the shop to the house.
I’m proud to say that as of 2019 after a nearly 30 year career in Corporate IT, I am now a full time sheath maker.
While I make sheaths for just about anything, I try to stock all models from Busse Combat, Zu Bladeworx & Carothers Performance Knives to have on hand for fitting. I also own many popular fixed blades from other companies that are not listed here. I can fit sheaths for well over 350 different models without the need for you to send yours in. If you are looking for a sheath/knife package from popular manufacturers I can provide competitive pricing for Tops, Esee, Bark River, Spyderco, Fallkniven & many other brands, please email me with details on what you are looking for. Finally, if you are working with a custom maker many of them will ship the knife directly to me for fitting a sheath.
Thanks!
Construction Quality
I believe that a sheath should be as good as the knife it carries. With that in mind all of my sheaths are made to the same exacting quality. They are hand cut from the finest American harvested and tanned English Bridle hides that are vastly superior to Veg Tanned leather. The glove leather I use is the best quality you can get out of Italy, and my exotic skins come from only reputable certified importers, in many cases with serial numbers that can be traced back to their origin when required.
PirtleMade sheaths are custom fit directly to the knives they are intended to carry, then wet molded and embossed for a perfect fit and safety. All of my edges are hand boned and polished in a 3 part process and only colored with professional oil & alcohol based dye. I never use paint-on edge coating products that eventually chip and wear away. My final top coat finish is a proprietary blend and the sheaths are fully soaked for approximately ten minutes as one of the final steps. My process is physical and time consuming but the edges of my sheaths will look great for many years to come with minimal maintenance.
Whenever possible each sheath is stamped with the model information of the knife it’s meant to carry, so there’s never a doubt if you grab the right sheath. Very few of my customers only have one knife and you should never store the knife in its sheath, so most of us have a drawer full of them.
All steps of my construction process are taken with the intent of creating the best handmade product I can for your knife and the process is never rushed. Each sheath takes about 7-10 days of bench time from start to finish.
If you buy one of my sheaths and are not satisfied with it for any reason you can return it for a full refund.
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