Tom, the thong on the Zack is pretty variable in width from 3/16 to 5/16".

This knife has always been a favorite of mine. It's an earlier chain link fighter based on the thinner hilt and butt cap. The sheath is a V.L.&A. supplied pancake with some owner applied leather.

I love the butterfly weave on Dukes & Tune's knives, looks like Tune has some square weave as well. Nice look I may have to make some for mine.

Warren, great looking Model 11 from tip to butt and the rawhide lanyard is the icing on the cake.

Duke, your friend did a great job on the Uncle Henry lanyard and good memories to go with it. I like that everything in your photo has a story.

Rocky, what's the story on that knife?

Mitchell, I've said it before, that is one of the coolest lanyards EVER! I wish I could braid like that.

I've tried a straight edge and a razor knife and I can't get it to look like that.
So guess again Chief.

Tom did you clamp the leather down and then cut?

Tom,
My dad had that knife...it's been posted here a few times...nobody really knows....altered for sure, by who? who knows, not that it makes much difference at this point...the brown micarta is the only thing that makes it "special". It's been well used, by my dad, or the guy he got it from....no way to know.
:-)Rocky

I still have a very clear memory of him meticulously cutting each "V" in the leather with the tip of his CASE 6165L by campfire light, using a cut-butt oak stump for the table, as he talked of the Pacific at age 17 during '44-'45.......& only looking up to sip clear, cold, sweet "H2O"out of a pint Mason jar. And the wear, deer/gobbler/?? blood, sweat, mud & whatever else of 35+ years make it look like it does today. Pretty easy style to duplicate.......:-).....

Ronnie I usually clamp the straight edge down onto the leather.

Ok thanks.

Ronnie,

I just laid the leather on a wood cutting board and used a razor knife, steel ruler, and downward hand pressure. It was pretty easy to cut because the leather is only about 1/16" thick. For the most part, the razor cut through the leather on the first pass.