MarlinDave

I use a box cutter and steel ruler on file folders usually. I should use my homemade walnut drafting table I built back when I tried woodworking. Got another left hand drafting machine somewhere.

Wearing these in high school would have got me beat up. And I do like Dan Post boots.

Sorry. Thought I said they were Laredo western style boots. Style 7411. I had intended to post a pic, but can’t. Sustainability series. Says Laredo/Dan Post on the tag. I used to wear a lot of Laredo boots when I was a teenager, Dan Post when I got a job. Got married in a pair of Dan Post boots. I could not find them on the Laredo web site. Maybe close out/ discontinued.

I am just thankful someone named Klara agreed with me. I have a sister by that name and we haven’t agreed in years.

For me the point is that it is not leather, very poor quality workmanship for a company that always did better, materials look obviously synthetic and shoddy, as did stitching. When this open fabric hits the cow manure your socks are gonna turn brown. This is a leatherworking forum and I am for use of leather. I’m not gonna get political but like organic food, etc these claims are rarely true. Leather is very sustainable, grow more grass and grain, feed more cattle, get more hides.

Router worked good on the sink hole in kitchen cabinets.

I was in a French's boot store today. Saw these "Sustainbility Series EcoBoots" which they say is their part to save the planet. Money (some) goes to national parks. Tag said veg tanned lather, jute, natural rubber, organic cotton. Only leather I saw was in heel, maybe a layer in the sole. Some kind of synthetic looking fabric. Was discounted. Wonder why. Can't post photo because this fine new phone captured as 3.8 mb. David

Here is an online calculator when you get the reducer installed. Need the center to center and the diameter of the 2 pulleys. You also have some adjustment in the system. However, I still made 3 parts store trips to match mine. It will get you in the ballpark. Buy a couple, return one. Parts guy asked me if that was the last swap. https://sudenga.com/resources/figuring-belt-lengths-and-distance-between-pulleys/

I could copy the paper pattern and us mail it Frodo.

I’ve got an old Italian Colt copy 22 long rifle single action. Swapped a welding job for it maybe. Used to fan it all the time. Ever so often a bunch of parts fall out in the driveway and I order more from Numrich Arms. It is fun.

Here is an ankle job I did for a Bond Arms that laces over my boot, left hand. Not sure how to send pattern.

You can miss really fast fanning. Barrel goes everywhere. The cylinder locks up with a half moon bolt that extends from the lower frame into a slot milled in the cylinder. Normal speed, it comes up, locks, cylinder stops. Fanning, it slams to a stop with the bolt barely in. Chips the cylinder and or bolt. Bob Munden used to build revolvers with hardened inserts milled into the cylinder.

Arbo Ajoala is the guy who James Arness guns down every night in the opening of Gunsmoke. And few things are harder on a single action than fanning.

If your belt has gotten slippery or your pulleys glazed wth oxidation, use some Bon Ami (or Ajax powder) on the pulleys and run them a little. Will take the glaze off.

Hers is a 206RB manual. Not sure if it’s close. https://www.supsew.com/download/Consew/Consew 206RB Operating Instructions.pdf

I’ve only got one dozer so I can’t stretch a glued strap hitch to hitch to test.

You talking about this stuff? I assume it’s for furniture considering the boards on the front. Used it to put laminate top on something for my wife. When I started leatherworkng I grabbed it and did some project. Stuck ok. Just too difficult container for small jobs.

Your topic is off topic in the Leatherwork Conversation forum. Not sure where it goes, but it’s not conversation about leatherwork. But I guess we can all chime in. Specifically who did you want to chime in?

I think if a topic starts one place and gets moved it is still visible, but some stuff does not seem to follow that logic.

I felt similar a few months back and posted that the political stuff bothered me. I got good advice- follow what interests you, leave the other alone. Since then some discussions have drawn me in and I appreciated the chance to discuss some topics important to me. When the discussion gets stale I look at something else. I do have to skip out when people attack or cuss me personally. I cuss lots of things, not people. Nothing is more futile than an online argument with someone you will never meet, or may not even exist. I have been on a lot of online forums and they all have an off topic or adult area to look at or leave alone. Your choice. My wife does not like violent movies, so we don’t watch them. Our choice to avoid that channel. This forum is by far the most civil and sensible one I have ever looked at. The best way to avoid disputes is distance from the disputer. If a post angers you, it’s also good to wait till tomorrow to reply. Most things look a lot better the next day.

I use it on edge. I thought you meant on the surfaces. It is rugged on edges, very stiff. Nasty if it gets on the wrong place.

Be too stiff, wont bend.

You know, I did a valet tray last week and got carried away with the mop and Glo sealer, 50 % with water. I put it on an old fridge rack to dry and got grill marks like a charted steak. I bet that was it.

Thanks. I’ll ditch the dye.

Really don’t have any predyed available, but that’s a good idea. Well, I had some predyed chrome tan, but it’s mighty soft for this. Good leather is hard to get these days.