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    Nice work
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    I like my pockets wider so it could hide the money. Especially in the grocery line at Walmart or some one needs to borrow some cash.
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    Ladies purse with 16 card slots.
    You should show us how you make those inside pockets. I usually make rectangle pockets or square pockets. Then sew them down.
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    Eddie Collins commented on BWL's gallery image in Our Leatherwork Galleries

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    Nice work for the first try at this coin purse. I seen this pattern in a Al Stholman book.
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    I have a lot of USA Craftool stamps, they are bulletproof. The B200 beveler, I changed to a steeper angle and polished the face with jewelers rouge. I works great, the heel part does not touch the other swivel knife cuts, it is good for deep tooling. The cover of the Leathercrafters and Saddlers Journal 2012, I used this beveler on this cover carving.
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    Yeah, Barry King makes blades for the Tandy swivel knives also. They work pretty good. I have a LW also, it is really smooth. I found some old swivel knife blades in a pawn shop, look like the ones from the 60's and 70's, they have a ring in the middle of the blade, similar to the Osborne swivel knife blade, so I used a small grinding sanding wheel and grind it to a hollow ground blade, sharpen the blade with a Tandy jig, buffed it with a felt wheel with some green rouge, it works very good. It looks pretty crude, but it sure carves good.
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    I love the design. A legend leather carver. The design is used as a border, good idea.
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    sizer/beveler
    I've seen some lace skivers on YouTube. Some homemade ones.
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    A5 Diary cover.
    F.O.Baird pattern from Leather Secrets. I remember this carving, because back in the late 70's, I made the same picture, It brought a lot of attention. Memories.
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    Whatever type of stone you want to use Mike. I got mine from a grave yard supplier. The supplier at the grave yard broke a 3-4 inch thick piece by 18x36, I got 2 pieces free around 18x18 in size, but they are at least 100 lb. each. So I had to built a sturdy table with 4x4 legs and 2x4 cross braces and a plywood top surface, to this day I still use the table, but the granite is outside getting ready for an outside table, so I could tool outside when the weather is nice. I just have a 12x12, I gotten from the Hidecrafter supplier when they where just 20 dollars. It is nice, I can move it around when I tool, remove it when I dye the leather. But use the 12x18 inch rubber mat they sell for punching hole under the marble, it dampens the noice. So when I'm really ready to do my swivel knive work, I just remove the 12x12 in. marble from the table and carve on the rubber mat, this prevents the swivel knife blade from getting in contact with the marble. A nick on the tip of the swivel knife blade sure would make a difference. So you need to bring out the Swivel Knife Sharpening Jig and work out the nick on the blade. I think these are the materials you need to really start. 1. Swivel Knife Sharpening Jig 2. Micro Fine Rouge from the Woodcrafters web site and business cards to rub the green rouge on for stropping your blade. 3. A sharpening stone and sharpening oil. And practice your swivel knive cuts.
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    Bob, I saw your beautiful rope bag in the LeatherCrafters and Saddler's Journal, the one in Albuquerque. Did you see the cover I carved that cover. I'm still learning. Yeah, I have some more drawings stored away. One is better than that carving. Happy New Year.

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    I use a belt sander to thin large pieces of leather for purses. Best to do it outside of your shop, because of all the leather dust. I thinned out a Saddle Skirting down to 6-7 oz. I nailed down the leather on a clean piece of plywood and got out the sawhorse and laid some 2 x 6's for support. I used the small belt sander from Sears. Use a coarse grit. Make sure to have some coveralls on and paper face respirator, because it will cover you up with leather dust. I really want to sand some Tioga Oak Leather that I purchased a long time ago. This leather carves good and it burnishes good. It has a golden color. I tried to get in contact with this supplier, but I think they went out of business. I think they are a German. But it is some good leather to carve on. It is heavy in weight compared to other leathers it's size.
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    I would not want to smoke any crazy weed with anyone. It is not worth the trouble, if a person is caught. I would rather spend my money on a Herman Oak or Wickett and Craig leather side.
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    I just use a Old Tandy barrel. It has a lot of grip on the barrel for the tight corners and scrolls. Just put a sharp blade on it and strop with a Micro Green Rouge. Save your cash for that big tooling side you want to purchase.
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    Go to the Jeremiah Watt Saddle website and he sells Head Knives and some fancy stamping tools for sale.
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    I was at the Kings Saddlery booth at a High School National Finals Rodeo in Farmington, New Mexico a few years ago. I seen a very small border stamp with a small basketweave on some belt or breast collar, but after talking to the fellow that was taking care of the booth, which had to be a guy named Ryan King, he told me that Barry King made this small border stamp. It was a beautiful border stamp.
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    I never have used a Ceramic blade. I use steel blades. I have old Tandy blades, Hackbarth, Barry King, and Chuck Smith blades. They used to drag alot. But since, I've been using the Micro-Green Rouge from some Woodcrafters or Woodcarvers web site, I have not had any drag. I use this green stuff for stropping. I hardly need to sharpen my steel blades as often anymore. I just get a business card with some green rouge and strop. I bend the business card in half and use it on my edgers, I also use this on my utility knife also. Maybe your Ceramic blade needs to be sharpened with a DMT diamond stone. Then use the green rouge on a polishing buffing wheel. I use a Dremel Tool with a small polishing wheel a slow speed. It works for me. Make sure you use Safety Glasses when using the Dremel Tool.
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    www. funny-western.co.jp/spirits/01-kubota-atsushi/gallery/works-gallery.html Bob here is the Youtube"Filagree Belt" website. Also, this might also be it: amelblo.jp/mijincokid/entry
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    Globe reminds me of the Isa Smelter at Miami, jackhammering the brick out, with all that heat and full face respirators. But, I love the little Mexican cafe, called Chalos, I usually stay at the El Ray Motel or Motel 6 when I work at those shutdowns at the Smelter. This is where I met an old saddlemaker and his son. They had some old geometric stamps, no name on the shaft of the tool, so I don't know who made it. Nice place to visit, alot of history there.
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    ST Leather out of St. Louis might have a cheaper price on Tracing Film. I usually use Freezer Paper, with a No.3 or No.4 pencil, No. 2 smudges. I use Tracing Films for names, animals, intricate patterns. I'm beginning to just draw on the leather with a stylist, using a drafting circle jig.
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    Use the Micro Green Rouge sold by the Woodcrafters. Cost around 23.00 dollars. Use on a Business Card for stropping. Get a Swivel Knive Sharpening Jig and oil stone, those Grey colored ones with a coarse and fine sides. Get a Dremal Tool drill with a small buffing wheel and use the Micro Green Rouge at slow speed to polish the swivel knive blade. Just a little bit. Be careful. First find out which way the wheel turns, then slowly place your blade on the wheel going with the direction of the wheel, or your Dremal will kick back. Go Slow. And wear Safety Glasses. Also the Dremal is good for drilling small stitching holes for handsewing. Good for cutting long rivets and long posts on durable snaps, to use on lighter weights of leather, I use Vice Grips to hold the hot durable snap post, those one's that cost a dollar at Lowes. Also good for sanding the edges on thick knife sheaths, where there is a welt involved. The Sears Company has their own type of Dremal tool. This Micro Green Rouge, really helped me in my swivel knife cuts, plus I noticed I don't really need to sharpen my swivel knife blade as much the Business Card sharpens the swivel knife blade as I strop the blade. Use Freezer Paper. Draw out your designs or names on the Freezer Paper and Trace onto the leather. A lot of drawing for 5-6 dollars at Walmart, a big roll. Use a no. 3 or 4 pencil, so it won't smudge as bad as a no. 2 pencil. Saves on that Tracing Film, for those special projects. Also I notice a cordless drill, a cheaper priced drill is good for drilling holes in leather, those small new ones that are coming out, you see them at Walmart, those Black n Decker. There is a lot of drill sizes out there in the world, it sure beats fighting a punch that is stuck in your leather. I use it on thick leathers when using rivets, just drill and reverse. EASY. I use a wide masking tape and duct tape to prevent stretching leather when tooling. I used to use rubber cement with a card board, but my boss did not like the sticky residue left behind after the tooling. So duct tape and masking tape sure helped me out. Peel off slow. Use that Acrylic Craft paint sold at Hobby Lobby for painting the flesh side of the leather. Use Water to thin out, and use a sponge, it spreads good, All kind of colors to choose from. Finish with Super Shene. Good stuff.
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    I ordered a 3/8 swivel knife blade from Barry King, for a Tandy Swivel Knife. His blades are longer than any other blades I have bought. So since I have a small hand, I used a old small short swivel knife from Tandy, I guess the little kid's swivel knife. But with the height of the Barry King blade, it works good for me. I changed the Angle of blade tip with the Tandy swivel knife sharpening jig, to a steeper angle, not very much, just a little bit more of an angle. After using a coarse oil stone with sharpening oil to get the all the steel off to achieve the angle that I want. Then after the shaping the new angle on the tip of the blade, I use a Dremel Rotary Tool with a small polishing felt wheel with the Green Micro Rouge from the Woodcrafters supply. Just polish the tip for a little bit, not much or your swivel knive blade will get a round tip, then you would have to resharpen the swivel knife blade again. Then after all that process, I have a business card with the Micro Green Rouge on it, then I strop. This process makes any swivel knife blade carve like it's cutting butter. Don't need to really sharpen your Swivel Knife blade as much. The Micro Green Rouge has really changed my carving.
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    I seen him at the Leather Fiesta show in Albuquerque, New Mexico in October. He had a bunch of his stamps with him and he was selling them black tools. I live about 10 miles away from him. He told me to visit him, after he saw some of my sample work. So I need to visit him.
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    I seen your work in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Leather Fiesta. That Rope Case is HUGE. It was amazing to see that purse in person. Bob if you ever check out YOUTUBE, type in Filagree Belt, you'll see some Asian leather carver. He bevels 3 belts all in some jig he has. He has 80+ videos on his Leathercarving.
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