What have I done to my Aegis Legend?

The original. I hoped the leather-ette insert was easily removed since I already knew from a review they included spare screws.

It is. Just a sticker. Carefully removed it becomes the pattern.

First run was a simple test to make sure it could be done. 4-5oz leather and a basketweave stamp.

It will match the leather accessories of any cop vapers.

Simple again but I had to buy some stamps for this. 4-5oz leather again.

Plenty of left/right options in this line at Tandy.

Now it's getting difficult. 6-7oz leather and carving much too small for my swivel knife.

I'm not overly impressed with a facial carving, but it's Bacchus, on an Aegis, with a Themis. What's not to love about pagan drunkenness?
Being thick this one needed some wet molding and a lot of sanding.

I have another blank cut of 6-7oz and one I think is 8-9oz. What to make next?

If you want some of your own you can get cheap leather tools and small leather sheets from Amazon. The 4-5oz seemed OK for stamping and wasn't bad to fit. You could probably get a bag of scrap leather which would be cheaper but a gamble if you'd get any thin stuff. All of this came out of my scrap box.
A little drum sander and a dremel can take the edges down to the 1-2oz needed to fit.
For fancier stamps like the eagles you'll have to go to Tandy but Amazon's cheap general leather stamps are very serviceable.

Now get to work!

 

I used an exacto knife and turned the leather like with engraving. I could probably set up a graver block to be a turn table if I want to do something that small again.
An angled blade might help too. That's what I remember using in high school but if I did I can't find it.

I'm thinking of a dead tree. That should be easy to do with my cheap swivel knife. Smaller than I want on a possibles bag but I used my swivel knife for oak leaf stems smaller than what I'd have for a centered tree.

 

This is the 8-9oz piece for more pillow effect. A lot of skiving around the edges. I might need to remake this, I didn't expect it to take up that much width, the ends may end up popping out. Smaller basketweave stamp. New black Legend too, for when I'm on black ops stealth vaping hiding in the fog.

 

Black basketweave is why I decided on the black one. It will probably stay basketweave unless I come up with a great black design. My shoulder holster is the smaller stamp and other than the wet molded holster part the design is holding up to flexing better than the large stamp did with the insert so I wanted to try it.

Shaving the 8/9oz down to fit was very leatherworky, I don't recommend it for someone starting out just wanting to make an insert for their Legend.

I've thought that. But fitting them for any volume would probably wear out my mods. So I'd need more mods (hmm). It's probably a tobacco product anyway so I'd have to register with the FDA
I'd be happy to tell people where to get cheap leather and the tools. Other than the rope stamp with the eagles most stamping is easy to pick up on.

 

I didn't take it that way, I knew what you meant. I was just saying the pillow effect with that thickness is all hidden work on the back. Thankful I bought that cheap skiver on Amazon.

 

I tried the new one without updating it this time. It did have the backlight issue.

Does your husband do leatherwork? If he ever has it should be easy with some youtube videos to refresh memories. I hadn't picked it up for 30 years until I needed a wallet. I'm thinking I need an oak leaf insert.

 

Thanks. While simple the black on black smaller basketweave has become a favorite. It feels good with the thicker leather.

 

Thanks. The ends haven't popped out so I'm guessing they won't. It has surely shrank as much as it will by now. I could see Bacchus' border pulling in for a few days before it stopped.