Bevan

Well a good pair of specks and a 150 watt light helps me heaps !!! I use a Dean willams strand cutter /splitter ,, just the beez neez !! I use that in combo with my own lace resizer / beveler I dont know what you guys do for a work station but i use my old saddle and put that on my plaiting horse ,,, Cheers for now I will try and down load some pice soon Cheers Bevan

Gday Spence long time no talk !!! you are more than welcome for the push ,, I lost my hat band the other week in the river, and just needed one this weekend , so this was just a simply but nice set up. If you have a better head than me you might get a few wolf whistles ,,, !! cheers Bevan www.bwrwhips.com

1O minutes !!!! come on Joe ,,, how old do you think I am ????? It took me more than that to work out what I was going to do !! How was your show on the weekend , It was the weekend just gone you had your leather braiding class ??? I hope the cutter is working overtime for you now mate. Cheers Bevan www.bwrwhips.com

Nice work mate, Cheers Bevan

Here are a few pics I took of a hat band I made from the lace i cut from the video thats I posted on LWN Just a simply 4palit wraped twice finished of with a crown knot and a few 6bite turkheads holding it all together . Photos were taken on the phone , I have resized them but not quite enough ,,, for those that can not see them just go to zoom on your compute and cut it back to 50% !!!!!! Thanks for looking Cheers Bevan www.bwrwhips.com

Good point Joe I normally use drum stuffed hides !!but some times i have to use dry , this is the only time i will split the lace before resizing or beveling just to take the fluff off ,, with greasey hides you dont see too much fluff cheers Bevan www.bwrwhips.com

Hi..... The thick blade you are using in the first few images is not any good at all for the job, the finer one you have in the last is the one I use. I sent 2 fences one for thicker leather, bigger 'step' and one for thin, small 'step', I can't tell which you have in the image but for roo it should be the smaller 'step'. It also looks like the gap from the blade to the fence is too far, so take your fence so you are only cutting 1/2 a mm. about paper thin. - Dont try too much leather to start with, use scrap you have rejected. Position of thumb too needs to be looked at - mine is further back, take a look. One further point try to bevell just one side without taking off the width using one of the blades supplied. So steps, stretch leather, cut to 1mm over end size, so if you want end result to be 6mm start with 7mm lace. set beveller up with correct blade and bring bottom of fence up to beez dick from blade, with blade touching top of fence. I tend to want to know how you stretched it, there be could something in the above post that roo4u was onto. beez bits.bmp

You are more than welcome Joe , Its just a matter of tinker-n with it and i am glad it helped , I hope Annette finds it as easy as you did, Cheers Bevan

Gday mate your set up and technnique for the lace resizeing looks good Your fence on the bevelling set up looks way to high , have a look at this link I hope this will clear a few things up for you , Cheers Bevan www.bwrwhips.com

Gday Annette I have taken 5minutes or so of video tonight about setting the beveler up for beveling and will try and post it on youtube tomorrow night , if all goes well I will sent you and Joe a link When I rough cut my lace I normally end up with a piece about the size of a bike seat left over , when the turns get a bit tight , i just cut the tight curve out to make it abit smoother to go around , then with the bike seat size left over I use a Tandy lacemaker and get a heap more lace that has very littlle stretch in it because it is in the middle of the roos back Sorry you are having a hard time with the beveling side of the cutter , hopefully this video will help you sort it out Cheers Bevan www.wbrwhips.com

] My plans are to use 8 strands, the core for the reins is 7/8 inch and the romal core is 1 inch. I'm I correct that my strands should be 1/8 inch wide? [ Gday Annette Now just to be sure did you say and mean your core for the reins is 7/8 of an inch dia ???? that is about 22mm dia if so to cover a core that is that big you would have to have 32 strands at 3mm or 1/8 which ever you fancy !!! but if your core is about the 22mm mark and you want to use 8 strings to cover it you should be looking at 12,375 mm or about the 1/2 inch mark . Cheers for now will post you some stuff soon Bevan www.bwrwhips.com ps Bryan I made the cutter beveler that Bernie uses in the you tube post

That is some sweet work you have done there kid cheers www.bwrwhips.com

ROFLMHO. not to often i do mate , it must be your accent !!! LOL

SPOT ON as always mate , that will go well with a bit of red lippy on Cheers Bevan

Bevan, do me a favor, if you have no intention of being friendly in PM's do not offer me advice on the forum Now i am bee-n nice Here is a bit of advice you gave on braiding fourm ,,, stickes ,,, have a look in saddel and tack ,!!! All the answers are there !!! Cheers www.bwrwhips.com and please let me know how ya go ,,, well let us all know at LWN I am sure I am not the only one that has a hard time with your request for info and it just might help us understand where you are coming from THE HORSE I WOULD HOPE

Very well put entiendo & Alan It is not too often the horse ever gets a thought untill its finished and then the poor bugga has to be on his best behavour because it looks good ,,,, WHATS HIS PROB TODAY !!!!!!!!

Gday Brian nice work mate , Is it still from the roo hides you got awhile back or have you got some more ??? Either way it is still very nice I will have to look up LAF just to see what his work is like ,, going by yours it should be nice Cheers Bevan www.bwtrwhips.com

Well i thought that was a pretty good responce for what you were asking ,, So Tuff-n up princess

PS I could give you all my diamentions but then that would not be cheap !!

Well I recon if you can not picture what you want to make , you can not make it ????? You can ask all the Q but you need to know what you are making and what it should look like !! I am still making a gooses bridle, for my mum As for how much ?? depends on how long it takes you to make something you dont know what it looks like , then add a bit more for inconvenience!! Cheers mate www.bwrwhips.com

Gday Folks I just got home from Easter Holidays and went to the mail box YEAHA 2 swivel knives 1 brass 1 copper , man they look good !!!!! Now I need to get to town WITHOUT the cook so i can get some hide so I can give these well made craftmanship pieces a go. I was luckey enough to get 2 knives from Bryan both are 1/2 "barrells one brass the other copper,I am ( I was ) giving 1 to a mate!! . Now here comes the problem , which 1 do I part with ???? Hey Bryan any chance of making some more soon , just so my mate can get 1 ?? Cheers Bevan www.bwrwhips.com