Gremlin

171 pics and still going ..... WOW!! I'll say it again, great tutorial Ken. The applique on the back looks great. I've done a number of appliques and they can be tricky/confusing for someone that has never done them. Very satisfying once completed tho.

Thanks Marlon, that's it. On the bottom of page 33 to be exact for anyone else that may be looking.

I've seen a set of insturctions for a diy push beveler somewhere and be darned if I can find it again. Does anyone have a link to info of this type?

uhhh ..... damn .... never had a belt give me wood before

The aussie strander is my lace cutter of choice. I've tried other types (plastic stick type things, razor knife, jeri stripper, etc) but always come back to the strander. If I may, I suggest you practice on some scrap vegtan leather first. It is stiff enough to allow the user to get accustomed to handling the tool.

Wish I'd seen this before I started building my new vest. Well done Ken, very well done!!

Awesome find, thank you!!

Mine arrived and I've had the chance to use it. I like it. Makes quick and easy work of stubborn screws. I can highly recommend it for any bench. I have to go along with the previous suggestions tho. I would like to see a metal one as well as a model with a deeper throat so the user could reach further with it. Equinetacktool, if you are planning to do a metal one and one with a deeper throat, put me on the list of those that would buy them.

Having a bit of arthritis in my hands and using a lot of chicago screws, I thought this might be a very helpful tool so I ordered one from the website a couple weeks ago. It has not arrived yet so I can't give my opinion but will as soon as it arrives and I get to use it for awhile.

I can recommend Jeff at Grey Ghost Graphics as well. I just received my maker stamps today and they are excellent quality as well as the best pricing I could find.

Ken, lemme think ..... ummmm .... .... thinking ..... .... still pondering...... ..... even a head scratch thrown in ....... ........ NO!! Roger, here's a picture of the backside. Not all that difficult to make, just need an understanding of pneumatic power and it's application.

Here's what I use. A customer/friend made this for me when he heard my hands are arthritic and cause me problems when I start punching holes by hand. Especially on bag sets that have over 2000 holes. Works like a charm.

Don't see why not.

Beautiful work!

I use a rubber pad that I got at Tandy Leather Factory. They are the ones they call "poundo board". These things just happen to be inconsistant in the density of the rubber. I have gone thru a few of them and found one of the softer ones works best. A mirrored image would be more for the tap-offs that you make by cutting your pattern into leather and then laquering them. This way when you tap the image into the leather it leaves the image on the leather the way it is meant to be for carving.

That's what I asked for when I went to the counter.

No, I got it at a local plastics supplier. http://www.johnstonplastics.com/con_winnipeg.htm This is the stuff I got - http://www.johnstonplastics.com/mech_ldp.htm the .020 roll stock

I have a cheapo oscillating one that I used at work engraving computers. I picked it up, unpackaged, at a local electronics store for about $25.00. I don't know the brand name but it wasn't expensive. The low density poly ethelene (LDPE) was also quite inexpensive.

I've had the opportunity to make quite a number of fork/toolbags and gotta tell ya, I like the direction this one is going in. Nicely done.

Yes, you can. I was looking into this recently and some informaton from this very board that appears to have been lost. Google had the info cached and I plucked it from there. I quote: The plastic that Verlane uses is LDPE. Which stands for either, "low density poly ethelene" or "low density poly eurathane" can't remember which just at the moment. Verlane kindly gave me a sample of it. It works realy great! Just place it over a drawing (mirror imaged) of your patern and then engrave the lines with an oscillating engraver (not a rotary engraver). These engravers are less than $20 at hardware store. Scourcing the plastic can be a bit tricky. It is used by the people who make prosthetics. So find a medical supply company. I've been told that you can also heat it with a hair dryer and then shape/mould it around the swell of a saddle fork for transfering tooling paterns onto swell covers. Have not actualy tried that yet, but given time I will. I have taken this information and obtained a piece of .020 LDPE (low density poly ethelene), tried it, and it works great. I cannot take credit for this information because, as I mentioned, it is information that this board lost which I was able to gather from Google's cache so thank you to the original posters of this information. Also, as I discovered on this search, if you search Google for something that did not reappear here on the board, you might still be able to see it in Google by selecting the cached link that appears below the individual search results.

Marlon, you hit it right on the head. If you take a tape measure and check the width of the blade on some screwdrivers, they *are* 1/4 inch wide. Just sharpen the blade and you are good to go. Works like a charm.

Somehow I missed this post and didn't respond. Yes to your question and that Gremlin at the JJ is me.

Ken, what you do in those pics reminds me of the applique patterns I do on day planners and binder/journals.

What Ken has demonstrated in these photos is exactly what I was talking about by butting them up edge to edge. Just be sure not to let them overlap during the lacing, which the use of the pigskin should help control. Ken, thanks for posting the pics - saved me taking and posting them - exactly what was needed to describe what should work.

I hope they do stick around. I placed an order Jan 4/08 and was told it would be about a week before the tools arrived in their shop because they were out of stock. However, I was told the same thing mid Dec/07 when I started making enquires. I'm in the process of improving the quality of my tools and they are the only other place I know of besides Tandy and Ebay.