Rodw

Actually, I think it might be Barry King. The handle looks correct.

I just looked at Bearman's website. I don't think it was him. As I recall, my friend only paid about $50 for the maul. Bearman's are more and a little more elaborate. I'll see if my friend still has the receipt.

My other hobby is chainmaille (jewelry and fetishwear, not chain letters). I'll check out Bearman. That sounds vaguely familiar. Thanks!

Hi folks! Long time no see. I've been incredibly busy with shows for my other hobby that I haven't had time to devote here. I've finally started doing a few things in leather here and there. I do have a question. I asked a friend to buy a maul for me last year for my birthday. It came from someone here, but I don't remember who made it. Bob? Bill? Bert? I think his name starts with a B but I just can't remember. I wanted to send a thank you note, as I've finally been able to use it and I absolutely love it! I'll try to post a picture of the mess I made at the table today. The maul is shown in the photo. If anyone recognizes this maul, please let me know who made it. Thanks! Rod

Awesome

Very nice but I need a bigger murse for all the crap I carry in my backpack. LOL. It's beautiful though.

For some reason I thought that was part of the RSS Feed link. Thanks Kevin!

Is there a setting somewhere that I am missing that will let you go back to the forum list instead of back the post list of the same forum after you mark a forum read? This is normal behavior for most forums, so I'm surprised to not be able to find a setting here, or am I missing it? TIA

In 1975 my Mom went into a Singer Sewing Machine dealer with a fairly thick piece of leather. She found a machine that looked promising and told the Sales guy that if the machine could sew this piece of leather it was sold. The manager standing behind him cringed as the salesman ran the pieces of leather folded over through the machine without changing to a leather needle. But guess what? It sewed the leather without bogging down and with flying colors. That machine was almost $2000 back in 1975. Fast forward to today. I gave my Mom a Husqvarna Viking Platinum 770 (now discontinued, as Viking is constantly coming out with limited edition models). I know that it can sew leather, as I asked the dealer at the time I bought it. They said be sure to use a leather needle, yadda yadda yadda. My question is, does anyone have any experience sewing garment weight leather on a Viking? How did it work out? I'm not looking to make holsters or sheaths on Mom's sewing machine, but I don't see why I couldn't sew motorcycle chaps, a vest, or heck even gloves on her machine. I'll never do enough sewing to warrant a big leather sewing machine, and frankly, for most things, I'd rather do it by hand anyway, even if a machine can do it faster and more evenly. I just like to hand make stuff. But I don't fancy sewing yards of leather for a single project by hand if it's garment weight leather and it can done on Mom's machine. Thanks for the feedback.

It seems to be holding them.

Thanks Sylvia.

This is a rawhide maul from WRising. I'm grateful to have it. I've not worked with leather before so I never learned to use a mallet.

Well just for grins and giggles I decided to cut a small piece off that large chunk of leather I bought a while back. Ran it under some water for a minute to wet it (it sucked up a lot) waited a bit and then tried to stamp it. Guess what? It took the stampings. Mom says it doesn't appear to be chromium tanned. After it completely dries, we're going to try dying the little scrap and see how it takes the dye. I'll keep you posted.

Happy Birthday MMMike, secondcrk, leesaddle, and hilligan!

Exactly!

A friend got me a rawhide maul for my birthday. I got to try it out so Mom wanted to give it a whack. She hates it? LOL. She says she can't hit square because it's not flat. I had no problems.

Thanks Bruce.

Thanks Ken. That's exactly the info I needed.

Thanks Tree. That helped. The post part is what I need to be stainless. Ats the part that ends up touching the skin if I read the instructions for joining them correctly.

Every leather bracelet I have ever bought, the snap has eventually turned green. Yes, I can clean it, but it's a hassle. I want to make my own but do not want the snap turning green! The snaps I've seen are all "silver" colored, but must be some type of zinc plated copper or something to turn green, as I understand metal. Or brass with a high copper content. So my question is, what metal snaps can I get that I won't have this problem? Can I get stainless steel snaps? And can anyone recommend a supplier? Thanks!

I can't really find any info on the difference between Rubber Cement and Contact Cement and when it is appropriate to use which. From what little I can gather Rubber Cement has a longer working time (i.e. you can lift and move the pieces) than Contact Cement, but surely Contact Cement does not have an instant bond, does it? Thanks in advance!

How goes camp? Are you having as much fun as the kidlets?

Beautiful work, arablet!

I found a video of a VERY general overview of tools and tooling and stamping on iTunesU today. I found it helpful. Might be something good for new folks to see. To view it, you need to go on your computer and open iTunes. Click on iTunes Store on the left. Search "leather" in the search bar, then click on iTunesU. It's the one from Rhodes State College about Occupational Therapy Assistant, Leather topic. I think you can get to it here. It's about 40 minutes long. Like I said it's a good OVERVIEW. I'm sure there are lots of ways to do things that people might disagree about, and she's certainly no leather artist, but it will give you some ideas.

Harvey, I believe you are being unfair to Sylvia. She was using her economic situation to defend why something that seems inconsequential to Pete was not the case for everyone. Yes these are hard times and everyone is suffering, but some suffer more than others. Please show a little kindness you grumpy old goat! LOL And yes, I'm trying to be funny. This has gotten very serious and I hope there are no hurt feelings. We should all just move on. I had a thought last night about something that might help. Maybe we could pin a post somewhere that says something like: Basic steps to working with Leather: 1. Select the leather for your project. Info on this can be found in the (blank) forum. 2. Case your leather. Info on this can be found in the gallery under Bobby's Tips (I think that's where it was) 3. Tool your leather if you so desire. Info on this can be found in the (blank) forum. 4. Dye your project (optional). Info on this can be found (here). 5. Assemble your project. Info on sewing can be found (here) and info on riveting, snaps, and grommets can be found (here). 6. Finish your project. Info on painting, antiquing, etc. can be found (here). I'm totally making this up. I don't know what all the steps are or what order they would be in, but you get the idea. This would help a lot of us new folks and keep the Old Guard from having to answer the same questions over and over again. Of course this might lead to even more questions, but it's a starting place anyway. Just my $0.02