MarlinDave

My one inch circle was $62. I had a 3 inch one done for $152 maybe. To me it’s a nostalgic touch like the old makers added.

I have worn Herman Survivor boots for years. Nobody has called me Herman. The makers mark has helped me because in a small town I know a lot of people but they don’t know I do leather. I made something for a neighbor. I know his wife really well and she could not believe I made that. I told her to look at the makers mark. Also shows it is locally made. I have the Leatherstsmpmaker.com stamps. With the heater they work on wood items as well. I have a one inch circle. It’s a bit small but so is my talent. A lot of the oval makers marks are 1 inch by 1 1/2.

That’s the start of your brand of products. I imagine when Monet and Rembrandt started out somebody said “why did they sign that”? I make stuff for people and they sometimes are surprised that I have a makers mark as they know me from another career. Just now got some stuff good enough to put a mark on.

On thick leather I sometimes use a thumb tack on the back side. Also painters tape on the back but this messes up the knap.

Don’t use this style of valve. I ordered it off Amazon a year or so back. Would not seal well in my homemade bag. I made an inner tube gasket, put Vaseline on it, no luck. I cut up a commercial sweater vacuum bag and put the valve in it. It sucked down good one time, then wrung off. I have a smaller brass one but I need to drill some bigger washers to make it work. At least I know my new pump is OK. Even Snoopy Santa was disappointed.

Sew or glue 2, 10 oz together.

Donate some stuff to charity auctions. Christmas is a good time for his.

Try an airbrush or a mini paint gun.

I buy things from Ohio Travel Bag that nobody else has. Weaver is one of those who don’t.

Here is one over on Bunkhouse tools. Not hardly that big. https://www.shop.bunkhousetools.com/Fleur-de-Lis-P0453.htm

Got too many leaks in my homemade vacuum bag, mostly around the valve. Gotta find an inner tube to cut a gasket.

That is a very beautiful and well executed holster. More importantly very solid and usable. A lot of what leatherwork means to the user is their fantasy, nostalgia, etc. The customer is always right in their historical mind and let them have this. Lots of quick draw western holsters for those who don’t rob stagecoaches. I put a CS Confederate oval on a cell phone case for a friend last week. Nothing like the original Civil War issue cell phone pouches.

Bought this big ol Robinair vacuum pump off Craigslist today. Hope it can handle some vacuum wetforming.

I use upholstery vinyl. Only thing it is probably thinner than the leather you use and when you make it out of thicker leather it will be too small.

I punch a bunch of my larger holes with fired .223, .243 and 30 cal. cartridge cases. So as these are disposable I don’t guess I need a soft punching area for these.

Thanks everybody. Eventually I will get a permanent HDPE sheet for the table. I think in the meantime I will get a small hard plastic food cutting board for punching and ask my wife for the big cutting mat for Christmas. She makes the Joann’s/Hobby Lobby circuit and can find one on sale. Got plenty of wood scrap too but I seem to punch twice on the same slot.

Good idea. What’s the best base for punching?

I wonder if this Uline product is the same stuff. No grid lines! But I don’t use that much anyway. https://www.uline.com/BL_2820/Workbench-Mats

Not sure if this a tool or an accessory. My sewing-type green cutting mat is shot. Punched through it too many times. Is there a permanent building material type cutting surfacev I can use? The table has a 2 x 6 top and I take the cutting mat to another table sometimes to cut.

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.