You got it right on the button there rooikat, theres no comparison between a hand stitched sheath and those stitched by machine. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> About 80% of my sheaths are hand stitched, the only ones we use the BOSS with are the production sheaths that we want to put a lot out in a little bit of time for much less money. I much prefer to stitch by hand, but sometimes its just not the best way to do things unfortunately.