DIY dirk frog pattern

[rolgiati]

Needing a dirk frog, I decided to try my hand at DIY; after looking at several pictures on this forum, this is what I came up with.

The imperatives I fixed for the work were:
- Single piece of leather, no stitching.
- Wide top, to help the dirk hang straight by itself.

Finally, my design is as per the pattern below (apologies for the quality of the picture, it is a scan of the pattern, stuck on the leather, after I had cut the frog)(for full size pattern, scale image to 4675x1084px, 300px/"),
- Total length of leather to suit dirk, so it hangs with the top stone slightly higher than the waist belt.
- Holes A and B are for two Chicago screws, that hold the frog together.
- Holes C and D, joined by a slit in the leather, are for the bridge on the scabbard; distance CD as needed.
- Width of the narrow end to fit inside the scabbard bridge.
- Distance between lines AB and CD fixed so that the Chicago screws are at the level of a neck on the dirk handle, and they don't rub on it.

As soon as I receive the Chicago screws, and some Devcon to repair the dirk handle that arrived broken, I'll post pictures of the finished frog.

[Mike S]

I need to make a few of these myself. I believe I will avail myself of your pattern too. Cheers for posting this!

[OC Richard]

I'm going to be undertaking this project myself, so this thread is very timely!

Not long ago I bought a genuine MOD pipers' dirk and it came with its original MOD dirk frog.

Trouble is, the frog is made of what they call "courlene" which is some sort of very thick vinyl, in white or black, that the British Army uses nowadays for its belts. I intensely dislike the look of it, so using the original frog as a pattern I'm going to make one out of black leather.

Here's the tracing I did of the MOD frog (EDIT: the first drawing was poor, so I replaced it with a better one, using a ruler to make everything straight and symmetrical). You can see the original courlene frog and the dirk in the photo too.

As you see there's a buckle stitched on. I'm going to use one of those screw-rivet things instead of stitches to hold on the buckle.

I hope this helps anyone who might want to do an MOD style frog.

BTW it's intended for the wide belts that Army pipers wear.

If you're not able to read the numbers (sorry for the bad pic) the whole thing is 16" long, the narrow ends are 1" wide, its 2 3/8" at the widest point, and it uses a 1" buckle. There's also a belt loop that I didn't do a separate diagram of. I labelled the ends "A" and "B" to make the construction clear.




Here's a large number of ugly army belts and straps made of courlene

https://www.google.com/search?q=cour...ed=0CAcQ_AUoAg

[NZ Marty]

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[Steve Ashton]

It seems that this thread has become more about the dirks than the frogs so I am going to move it to our weapons section.