Viking Sword Scabbard

I decided to finally make a scabbard for my old trusted Binns blade. This is my first try at a wooden core scabbard and I think it turned out ok.

The wooden core is made of elm tree. I used vegetably tanned cow leather and made a scabbard slider from linden. I decided to give the scabbard slider and leather covering some color (which turned out a bit more red in the pic than it is in reality). The scabbard chape is bought from Mercia Sveiter and is based on a find from Novgorod.

Full size for details.

Let me know what you think

/Ville

PS: If you guys are interested I might put up a tutorial some day