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About Johnny B
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- Birthday 11/17/1950
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Gender
Male
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Location
Fort Mill SC in the good ole USofA
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Interests
Guns, hunting, leather craft, long walks, purple flowers and did I mention guns?
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Leatherwork Specialty
knife sheaths, holsters, Black Powder items
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Interested in learning about
Life and why politicians feel they have to lie about everything.
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Gun Broker.com has a retailer on the auction side that sells them. You can buy just one as I do sometimes for knife handles. They also sell all sorts of horns, antlers, teeth pretty much anything you need.
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Never worked with Horse hide but I can say that if I want the thread to stay looking the same I simply glue up my holsters, sheaths,etc with contact cement. After I have completely finished dying, I then sew up the sheath or holster. After dying I have a crock pot with hot bee's wax/mink oil/neats foot oil mixture that I dip the item into. Once the item has soaked for about 30 seconds I put it into a toaster over on warm for about a minute. I then buff with a very soft buffing wheel, one I use strictly for buffing leather. This process waterproofs the item inside and out and gives a nice satin finish. The heat from the oven hardens the leather giving me a rigid holster or sheath.
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I have air brushed about every dye out there. Seems they all work fine for me.
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One Benefit Of Having A 4 Inch Thick Granite Slab For Tooling
Johnny B replied to azrider's topic in Leatherwork Conversation
LMAO thanks for the laugh! -
I make several knife sheaths for fillet knives and sometimes I will use a fish hook to brand the sheath with. I simply heat it up with a propane torch and brand where I need it. On vegi-tan I brand before dye. On other leathers I simply brand then apply a finish or not depending on the leather. I get the hook red hot then wait a few seconds before branding. It only takes a second to burn the brand in. Any longer and you will burn to deep. I branded a wallet once and burned all the way thru the thin leather. Practice on the leather you plan to brand first. Branding is a cool way to embellish leather. You are only limited by your imagination.
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Tandy leather has a discount club. I am, I think, am an Elite member. It pays for itself every time I walk into that store.
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Burnishing Edges Of Oil-Tanned Leather
Johnny B replied to ledercraftco's topic in How Do I Do That?
I have had some decent results using my drill press and the burnisher I made to go into it on the highest speed with bees wax/mink oil. I get the edge so hot I am basically burning it. -
U R truly an artist. Please post more of your work.
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Tree Saw Sheath
Johnny B replied to jeffroberts's topic in Gun Holsters, Rifle Slings and Knife Sheathes
Looking good. LOL you are like me me thinks. I make sheaths and cases for everything around the house. -
This post is no good without pics of someone wearing this costume. Great looking work especially for the first time.
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Frontier Style Knife Sheath
Johnny B replied to smudley's topic in Gun Holsters, Rifle Slings and Knife Sheathes
Looks 100 years old or more. Great work! -
Fido be pimping with one of these collars on. Nice look work!
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It is hell getting old. I think after I turned 55 everything started to go down hill from there. At 60 all hell broke lose. I turn 61 in November and I don't want to think about what will stop working then. I am already having to drink prune juice every night just so I can have a pleasant morning.