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Dwight

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About Dwight

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  • Birthday 11/17/1944

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Central Ohio
  • Interests
    Church Pastor, Shooter, Leatherworking, Hunting, making most anything for the first time (yeah, I get bored easy)

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  • Leatherwork Specialty
    gun leather
  • Interested in learning about
    working with leather
  • How did you find leatherworker.net?
    from 1911.com

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  1. I've had .45ACP loops on a belt before . . . they were just made tight . . . never ever lost a bullet . . . Don't have any of mine move either that are 45 LC or .44 mag . . . or .357 mag. Where I put em they stay. It's all in doing it correctly the first time . . . May God bless, Dwight
  2. I'm glad you got the job . . . you did well May God bless, Dwight
  3. No . . . the leather goods I do . . . get line 24 snaps or a buckle . . . Never used line 20 snaps . . . even though I got a bunch of em one time in a trade . . . they gather dust in a little plastic holder. Hanging on to em just in case May God bless, Dwight
  4. Nate . . . I'm 79 yrs old . . . have neuropathy in my hands and feet . . . along with a tad of arthritis. Snaps were an absolute pain for me the last couple of years . . . UNTIL . . . I was in an Amish fabric shop up near Mansfield, Ohio . . . saw these snap pliers . . . bought em . . . HAVE NEVER LOOKED BACK . . . I actually only bought one set the first time up there . . . but I got sick and tired of swapping out the male setting set for the female setting set . . . so I bought another set of the pliers . . . now I just grab one . . . then the other . . . then hang them back up. They have never done a bad job on my snaps since I got them almost 2 yrs ago. I think I saw them also in Hobby Lobby . . . Anyway . . . they work great . . . and while I didn't do it . . . they are fixed up so you can drill a hole in your work bench . . . run a wire down to a pedal . . . and you can hold the piece with both hands while you step on the pedal . . . setting the snap. Each set of pliers was about 40 bucks . . . and the set of line 24 snaps setters . . . was 20 bucks. You have to buy the setters separate. May God bless, Dwight
  5. Now if it were saddle tan . . . full basket weave . . . with maple leaves . . . antiqued . . . Just kidding . . . it's great the way it is . . . and I'm much more into practical leather anyway . . . and that certainly will meet that requirement. May God bless, Dwight
  6. I would love to have a true pattern for those you see on the westerns on TV . . . These are beautiful that you made . . . but I'm looking for the style that a typical cowpoke would have had . . . May God bless, Dwight
  7. Yessir . . . good looking . . . May God bless, Dwight
  8. Last saddle soap I used . . . Bought it at Tandy's . . . Works pretty good . . . best I remember . . . have not used it in a while. May God bless, Dwight
  9. I messed with light burn a while . . . finally gave up . . . went back to LaserGRBL and it does everything I need. Maybe I'm just not fasisteecaited enough to use lightburn . . . May God bless, Dwight
  10. I'm not sure what you mean by creasing . . . of you are making nose pieces . . . collars . . . etc . . . they are made to be round or rounded . . . they are not made to be straightened. The whole function of the technique I told you about it to make sure the pieces fit . . . it stays rounded . . . and it does not wrinkle on the inside most piece. May God bless, Dwight
  11. You can play the math game . . . or you can do it the easy way . . . Determine what would be the smallest you would probably make . . . cut out yellow pine circles that size. Measure and cut the bottom layer . . . then use a dress makers cloth tape measure to measure the outside of that piece. Cut the filler . . . lay it around the piece . . . measure it . . . cut the top piece . . . glue em together around your circle. You don't have to make one of every possible size . . . you could make say a 7 in dia . . . 8 in dia . . . 10 inch dia . . . 12 inch dia . . . and the 12 could be used for anythng between 10 and 12. Easy peasy. May God bless, Dwight
  12. Click the envelope in the top right hand corner . . . then click "compose new" Just like addressing an email. May God bless, Dwight
  13. Move the telephone . . . you can put it on your nightstand . . . lol You'll have fun with that roller unit . . . my son and DIL love the glasses I did for them for Christmas Put their names and an image of their house on them . . . May God bless, Dwight
  14. Well . . . here is the setup . . . Laser 3 is my low powered unit . . . laser 2 is the 10 watt unit . . . and laser 1 shows both in the box I built for them. In the bottom of laser 1 you can see a hole in the box . . . there is a corresponding hole and fan at the other end. I tested it tonight . . . wondering if the fan was powerful enough . . . it runs off a USB port . . . and works great . . . is quiet. I was burning leather . . . and none of the "aroma" slipped out where I was. Anyway . . . that's the setup. May God bless, Dwight
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