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I have not pulled it apart yet.

No longer being made.

It is actually very easy, almost identical to single color double loop. Tandy sells a lacing book with great pictures. I believe it is on page 17. they sell two books, it is the cheaper of the two. As to how to do it, you handle it just like double loop but when you start you use two laces, one color in the first hole, the other color in hole two. Proceed forward like double loop, but with every stitch you alternate which lace you are using.

Call Lisa Sorrell (ad at top of page). If she can not supply them she should be able to send you to a source.

Make a templet, keep trying till you get one right. Make it from leather. Clamp it on top of your strap. Punch through your templet into your strap. Perfect every time.

If the pliers you are looking for are what I think, the difference between sheet metal pliers and leather pliers is the store you buy them at.

Call the store (the Portland one) and ask to be put on the email list for classes. Once a month you will get an email saying what slashed wil happen that monts. There is one on most Saturday's. As a side, Ed LaBarre (Bearman) is going to do a class Sept 18-20. This is a rare chance to learn from one of the masters. We will be making a notebook with leaves on the front and curved basketweave on the back.

LOL Yes, jingle bells are always popular. I had someone ask me the other day if I was going to do them again.

Welcome. Come into Tandy tomorrow at 10:00, we are having a basic belt class. Other classes happen randomly (on Saturdays). Michael and I will both be there.

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Well you should have spoke up sooner. Besides, it is only sort out f free. She is now committed to doing a favor for someone else.

Kerryanne, pm me your address and I will send you round knife. Aaron

If you mean the edge, that is not uncommon. You are going to cut it off, so not an issue.

I use file folders, basically poster board. I get tons of it for free at work. But you also asked the best way. Draw them on a cad program and burn them with a laser. Perfect transfers.

For edging the best cheap answer is a sharpie.

If you are going to try I would suggest using epoxy to cast the gun. Far easier to work with. Sand casting aluminum is not horribly difficult, but is outside the reach of most craftspeople. One thing to also consider is that aluminum has a shrinkage factor, so you will need to make your pattern oversize and allow it to shrink to size as it cools. So, as an at home alternative. Take a plastic soda bottle, cut it so that you have a flat piece of plastic, warm in the oven till soft and pliable. Lay it over a handgun, put it inside a vacuum packer and suck it down. You now have a perfect form for the gun for free. Pour the mold full of epoxy, perfect copy. Best to do it on each side to get a true copy. It is a little more complicated than this, but not much.

Dikman, yes that is the prevailing logic. But people sew all the time with stitches laying on the surface. Car interiors, jackets, tents and the list goes on and on. Very few times does it even possibly matter about surface friction wear. It defies common sense and logic, but hand sewers keep doing it. What it does do it weaken the leather. You cut away about 15% of the leather, strongest part, in an attempt to make it stronger. The solution is to take a stylus and press a line into the surface to follow.

Bob Douglas. I have one, it is very nice, I almost never grove. Seems silly to cut off the strongest part of the leather to try to improve your sewing.

For the awl blade take a 1/2" hole punch and punch out a lot of dots. Punch s hole in the middle of each one that your awl has to push into. Glue the stack together. Perfect blade protector.

Interested but price would change my mind one way or the other.

Start around the corner, doubling up your lace for a few stitches. You should not have an unlaced gap like you have on your corners.

You want the repair about 2" long. Stay about an inch away from the corner. Side comment: You have issues on all of your corners where three points come together. Properly done, your lace should have started a few holes earlier and blended around the corner. At a glance you should not be able to tell which direction the lace continued and which way the new strand started. Praise: Your tension looks good throughout the lacing. Many people screw that part up.

Ok sorry, I misread the style you were making. The pictures camino ridge posted are how I would do it

You bend the backside of the leather into sort of an offset. The welt just needs to be as thick as the backbone of the blade.

Dye, oil, seal, antique, seal. How I would do it.