DIY dirk frog pattern

[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