dirtclod

I see now your machine has a different type of bobbin than I was thinking about.

On my machine when i am sewing all the way around i don't lock the first few stitches. When i get to the end i come around where i started and sew 3 or 4 stiches and they hold good. Oh i never burn the ends it leaves bumps where the thread was melted. I don't know what size 20 metric thread is but your needle maybe to big for that size thread. On my flat bed machine i ground the toes back on the inner foot and the outer foot because they were to long and it messed me up as far as judgeing on how close i was getting to the edge / end.

Uwe doesn't your machine have a built in bobbin winder ? I do wind some bobbins off of my machine when i do i use a cordless drill with a piece of dowel rod to stick the bobbin on. Not theirs anything wrong with your winder.

I didn't say anything about being a old timer. What i said was i was old enough to know that i don't everything. Figured that out about 20 or so years ago. Sense you still haven't answered that question i guess you still have some time to go.

No cowboys here just a poor man with a dog. Sense you put it in bold letters. Are you old enough to know that you don't know everything ? Or do you have a few years to go before you know that ?

Maybe somebody else will have a better ideal that has made a purse or purses, but that's the only way i see of doing it.

Boy do i feel lucky !! I have been pulled over by the Grammer Police. You bet i am old enough to know that i don't know everything ! Are you old enough to know that you don't know everything ? Of do you have a few years to go before you get there ?

I'm pretty slow I guess, but what does that mean ?

Turning it wrong side out and sewing after the zipper is in should work. Never tried it though.

IMHO a Artist is what a lot of people think they are !! But very few are really a Artist or ever will be. To me it's just the people that become Master leather workers ( in their minds ) in less than a year and they sure will tell you they are a Master leather worker !! It amazes me the number of people that become Masters ( in their mind ) within a year or less !! Then theirs the Master leather workers ( year or less ) that are all the time asking how do i make this or how do i do this. Everytime i read something like that i think to myself YOUR THE MASTER FIGURE IT OUT !!!! After all your a Master !!! No i'm not a Master leather worker not even close, and i have sense enough to know it !!

I've done a couple of holsters that used a scope. One i made like Al Stholman did the rifle scabbard where it covered the scope and one where the scope was in the open. On the one where the scope was in the open i stopped the slot cut out at the base of the scope mount. In your picture i see that one goes on down father. I'm guessing they want to be able to fit a lot of different scope mounts. On both of them i put a starp on the holster like in your picture.As far as i know neither one of them ever had any problems with the pistol staying in the holster with the strap undone. But the strap shouldn't be undone unless their going to shoot. In your picture it looks like they may have something under the top piece where it doubles by the scope.

I generally edge what ever then spray a little water on the edge burnish with a piece of deer antler. Then edge again ( if and it needs it and it will probely will be rolled over some ) the spay a little water on the edge again and finish burnishing with a piece of cardboard from a cracker box, cold drink box anything like that and 99.9% of the time get a nice smooth straight edge with a nice burnish. If it's going to be dyed black i burnish before i dye the edge and put a little extra black dye on the edge and buff it the best you can before the finish. That works a lot better for me than trying to burnish a black dyed edge.

Thank you !

I use the same dye except I use denatured alcohol. You need to keep adding alcohol to get the lighter color. I don't care what anybody else says I never got rubbing alcohol to work ! You will need to keep up with how much alcohol to the amount of dye incase you need more of that color you have just made.

I would give Bob a call. http://www.tolindsewmach.com/cb227r.html

I don't buy thousands of dollars of supplies at a time like some (heck maybe a lot) of your customers do. I am a small one man one dog shop that cares about each and every customer i have and i do my best make sure they come back and buy more items plus tell their friends that they will get get a nice product and not get ripped off on the product or shipping. If i sell more than one item i guestamate the shipping and return the extra money. I do that that because a lot of the time becuase i'm not sure what the weight will be. Several years ago i tried to buy a few sides from a tannery and was told they wouldn't sell me less than 5 sides at a time. I told them i couldn't buy five sides at a time but that over a year i would buy 40 to 50 sides. They told me real that they only wanted the bigger customers. My answer to them was theirs a lot more small customers than their are big customers and if 100 small customers went out of business they might feel it a little but if a 100 of the bigger customers went broke they were going to be hurting. They laughed at me and hung up the phone. A couple of years later they were out of business. My point is their are a lot more small customers than their are big ones and if the small customers have to keep paying HIGH shipping for a low weight package their going to do just like me and take their business someplace else. Yes i know i can take all of the shipping off my taxes at the end of the year but i still have all that money tied up that i could be using to buy something else from Weaver or another company. I don't need a box that says WEAVER LEATHER on it, get a cheaper box and slap a WEAVER LEATHER sticker on it. I'm guessing that would be cheaper than paying for it to be printed on the box. It seems the crazy shipping didn't start till Weaver was bought into or bought by the other company i'm not real sure how that went down. My guess is and i maybe a 100% wrong on this. But my thinking the other company big shots though hey were leaveing X amount of dollars on the table and if we do Flat Rate Shipping we can make X amount of basicly free dollars a year on shipping. I bought a lot my leather and supplies from Mast Harness till Weaver bought them out. Siegel Leather paid the shipping if your order was over 75.00. 1 side or 20 sides or several boxes of hardware it didn't matter and they got a lot of money over a year just because of that. I will come back to Weaver if they get off of their high horse on the shipping. make a post on here letting folks know and i'll come back. Oh the funny thing is when i got that 15.00 shipping, i called and complained and it suddeny went down to a one time adjustment of 7.50 for shipping. If it had of been 7.50 to start with i still be buying from Weaver. I'm not dumb enough to think that the 1000.00 2000.00 dollars a year i spent with Weaver, made or will make any difference in Weavers bottom line but if enough of the small 1000.00 2000.00 a year customers bow their backs up IT WILL affect the bottome line !!

If their all going to be one size, you can make your pattern and mark out the patterns on a paper that same size and get close to how many pairs i would guess. Something you haven't listed is tools, thread, soles, your time, laces, heels, tacks, glue / cement, someplace to work if don't have a place at least one pair of last if you just make one size. Good luck i hope it works out good for you.

Chrstn.. i WAS a wholesale customer for 20 years and it really makes me mad to get ripped off on shipping !! If i buy a bunch of hardware i expect to pay more for shipping. But when i order a few edgers that weigh less then a pound 15.00 shipping is a rip off plain and simple !! That order could of been sent in a Priority Mail box for 6.00 even if they added a 1.00 for their people to package it i wouldn't of said anything. But 15.00 is a rip off !! The last order i made with Weaver was around 2 years ago now and unless they have something that i can't find any where else i won't buy from them till they change back to weight = shipping, not price = shipping. It's just like the sellers on Ebay where you can buy a item for a 1.00 but they want 99.00 to send it.

How much do you want for it ?

I have a question for you. Are you chargeing shipping by the weight of the order ? Or you still doing the 1.00 to 100.00 shipping is so much ? I quit buying from Weaver after 20 years of doing business with Weaver after i was charged 15.00 shipping for a package that weighted less than a pound. I send things all over the US and part of the world so i know how it much cost to mail things and i also know that companies that ship a lot get price breaks form UPS, Fed X and more than likely the post office. If you have went back to what the package weighs i'll come back, if not i'll keep buying from other places.

No picture no drawing, i mean their couldn't be more than a couple hundered million ways of making a mask. I would of tried mind reading but i didn't get a chance to take that class, so i had to work in the dark and think what would i do to keep from messing up the shape. Oh well i couldn't of helped even with a picture or a drawing i'm pretty dumb.

Well excuse me for trying to help !!!

Clear saftey glasses ?

Thing is a person isn't going to carry it on their shoulder all the time. Part of the time their going to walk with the rifle in their hand. If he's going to use it in Arizona i'm not real sure what kind of bushes they have around there, but it dosen't matter woods or desert their are going to be dead leaves, bushes, pieces of tree bark and anything sticky that depends on seeding the next generation a lot of the plants have seeds that stick to anything that comes along and most of the are a PITA to get off of whatever they stick to. Make one and try it, it's gonna happen if your out in the woods, fields or desert. Back a few years ago the big thing was a fleece lined guirt strap for horses after one ride through saw briars, begger lice or any kind of cucker burrs they were usless. To get the stuff out you had to cut it out and do it all over the next time you went riding.

I think he's going to have a problem with the fleece picking up every little thing it touches when he's out hunting. Think a long haired dog and trying to get begger lice, couckaburros and all the other things they pick up and needs to be cut out or picked out. A pice of thin neoprene with suede over it would work better i think. But it does look really nice.