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  1. Tree Reaper
    If you get on the Springfield site and search for wallet kits you'll see plenty. They come with a pattern to follow but just use your own. The leather is a blank canvas ready to carve.
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    You can use the tip of the emery on an angle to to touch up the inside, emery paper or a smaller diamond bit but you really need to get the burr off that develops on the inside from sharpening the outside. The dremel emery will put a nice polish on it.
  3. Tree Reaper
    My take on it is, it is stampable latigo. You can use it for anything.
  4. Tree Reaper
    That was a success, almost antiqish looking. Looks great, thanks for sharing your results.
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    It will sharpen, I've sharpened my fair share of Osborne punches. One of those little emery bits from dremel will speed up the process. Touch up the inside as well as the outside of the punch. Once I get them sharp I use a buffing wheel to keep them that way. You'll be forever trying to get an edge on them with a stone. For a base I use poly board on top of granite.
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    Look at buying a 10 ton shop press, you can use it for clicking or embossing. This is what I use, they come on sale once a year so you just have to keep an eye out for a deal. http://images.palcdn.com/hlr-system/WebPhotos/83/838/8382/8382756.jpg?_v=2cb8ebcc-e8e3-46c3-a847-f059c66ccd76
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    Osborne is last on my list of tool manufacturers, they don't sharpen anything they sell and they don't have any customer support when you have a problem with their product. Not saying I wouldn't purchase another Osborne tool but only if I can't find another supplier for it first.
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    It's going from 8 oz. to 4 oz. then back to 8 oz. I was stitching 7 oz. leather nicely and then tried sewing the 4 oz. on the wallet and the tension wasn't even close. After trying that three times I removed the thread and used the needle for an awl and will hand stitch this one but I'll have to play around with it for the next one.
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    Burning the edge doesn't work, I just tried it. Where the white stitching changes to red there is a difference in thickness which can mess with the thread tension. On inlays you wouldn't have that as it stays constant.
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    When sewing a wallet with the machine do you have to compensate for the thickness between the wallet interiors and the 1 inch space on the wallet back? The difference between the layered interior and the thin wallet back in the center is 1/8 of an inch on the interior compared to 1/16 of an inch on the wallet back. I have an iron so I'll check the edging out on some scrap stingray.
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    It will burnish but not that even. I'm wondering if they used an iron on it. Are you hand stitching or machine stitching?
  12. Tree Reaper
    Any ideas on how they get this edge on stingray? It looks too even to be burnished. Thanks. Kevin
  13. Tree Reaper
    Deglaze it and start over. Did you dilute the tan kote? Did you let the oil soak in for a couple of days prior to adding the dye and tan kote?
  14. Tree Reaper
    If you put sno-seal on the boot and heat it in with a hair dryer then store them in a cool place you should see the wax appear on the surface. I've had this happen on black work boots.
  15. Tree Reaper
    No it's pounds, two and a half.
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    I want to make a correction on the thread tension. Today I measured the tension using a trigger gauge which is relatively accurate and these are the measurements. Combined leather thickness is 7 oz. Top thread tension out of the needle is 8 oz. Bobbin thread tension is 2.5 lbs. This is with 138 thread.
  17. Tree Reaper
    The needle also looks slightly turned to the right too far.
  18. Tree Reaper
    This is a chart from Bob's site. http://www.tolindsewmach.com/thread-chart.html
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    Neatsfoot oil will do that. Gets darker with multiple coats.
  20. Tree Reaper
    Try pulling on your bobbin thread, if it pulls at roughly five or six pounds of pull you should be in the ball park so you can match your top tension to that and then adjust the top tension from there.
  21. Tree Reaper
    Is it green or tanned?
  22. Tree Reaper
    If the knot is on top there's too much top tension on my machine. I'll pull the top and bottom threads by hand and I have a little more bottom (bobbin)tension than top tension but they're pretty close to being the same. I leave the bobbin tension alone and just adjust the top tension when I have a problem like you are experiencing. Knot on the bottom, tighten the top tension, knot on the top, decrease top tension.
  23. Tree Reaper
    The neatsfoot will help rejuvenate the properties lost when soaking, the sno will protect it from moisture.
  24. Tree Reaper
    The problem I see with that design is the elastic is still fixed until it gets stretched so you will require a certain number of cards to keep the elastic stretched. You might want to consider something like chicago screws that will give you a better range of adjustment.
  25. Tree Reaper
    Ok, thanks Wiz. I'll give him a call tomorrow.
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