St8LineGunsmith

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Hey Guys here is a sketch of the new clamp I am making it uses 2X6 for a wider clamp area.

well we have no shortage of stitching clamp designs in the forums folks can choose to build for themselves. building your own is a big money saver compaired to buying one like the pro stitching pony that sells for $99.00 from TLF

Ran do you have a local Tandy store if so see if they have Saturday leather working classes. The local TLF has free leatherworking classes every Saturday Morning at 9:30. You can also go to youtube and type in leather working or leather crafts and it will have tutorials how to tool leather. It is really not all that hard just time consuming. there will be a learning curve with the swivel knife.

that is how i was making cuts my major malfunction is i am about 25 years out of practice LOL IIRC i was partial to a tapered blade for making curved,sweeping, wavy and circular cuts but all i have at the moment is the straight blade so i will have to make due with what i have for the time being..

Ya I have been practicing my cuts by making circles and leaves  with some improvement actually I am tracing out the circles and leaves with a stylus then going over the tracing with my knife. I think this way I can retain muscle memory of how I need to manipulate the swivel knife. I think until I get my knife skills back up to par I should probably draw out my accent lines with a stylus first then cut the lines in with the knife. as far as my stitching and lacing goes I have been able to retain those skills pretty well but there is a big difference of skill sets between stitching leather and tooling it I think by slowing down a little also helped the thing that bugs me so bad is I was once trusted enough to do tooling on high end saddles and handled a swivel knife and stamps like a pro but now it looks like I have never done it before but it is slowly getting better. I will get there in time it will just take a lot of practice. I suppose I can always stamp basket weave and borders LOL

that walnut body and burl birdseye maple neck will be a sweet looking combination with a leather pick guard I think walnut carries the right tone for the telecaster Just last year I made a Tele for a customer.

harbor freight has 1 ton arbor presses for $50.00 for a one shot stamp here is how I use 3D stamps case the leather and let the water soak in and the surface dry then use a ram foot on the stamp handle and hit the stamp one good blow to set the impression then make sure the stamp is firmly seated into the impression and hit the stamp four more times by applying slight pressure to each side of the stamp. check to make sure the stamp is properly seated into the impression before every strike to keep from getting a double impression it is essential to have a marble or granite slab to get a good deep tool impression. I always get good results with this method.

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I am thinking i could incorperate some of the pouches into the strap that goes around the waist would also be easy access I would just have to make everything then position everything to get the best fit to the rig I suppose.

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this is ironic that I found this post just after replying to Drac just yesterday I never realized I was trying to communicate with someone who has passed on into eternity until I saw this post. I saw some of his works and he was a very gifted person, it is disturbing to me when I hear when someone decides to cut their own life short seems like such a permanent solution for temporary circumstances I pray he found the peace he was looking for.

Nice work there welcome to the forum and to the addiction.

well Iwas doing a little practice piece after being away from carving for over 25 years and found out real quick working a swivel knife is nothing like riding a bike, it is more like if you dont use it you loose it I would post a pic but it is a little embarrassing. I am going way out of the boundaries of the traced pattern, I can't even make an accent line any more good thing I went by TLF last week to pick up some scraps for practice before attempting to put the knife to any projects. pretty needless to say I will be spending a lot of time practicing and attending some classes at TLF to get back to the level I once was. my stamping technique is not up to par either but not nearly as in need of improvement as my knife work what is really bad I was trying to give horrik some pointers the other day on tooling and using the knife when his skill level far exceeds mine right now I am sure with a lot of practice and a lot more scrap than I currently have supply of I will eventually get my skill level back to where it once was so much for wishful thinking I can pick right back up up where I laid it down has any one else who has been out of leather working for a while experience the dilemma I an having with the swivel knife when coming back to the craft or am I the only one?

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man you racked up on that deal I need to hit the pawn shops!

Before I became disabled I was a Master Pipe Welder/fitter Boilermaker and owned my own dragster and motorcycle chassis shop before I became a welder I worked as a saddlemakers apprentice that is where I learned how to do leather work from one of the best saddle makers in the state of Tennessee.

Cyberthrasher beat me to it I would suggest getting a 4 in one hole punch and some lacing chissels I would recomend straight and angled 8 into one and a single for rounding corners and a single and 4 into 1 diamond chisel you will need some lacing needles and lace if you use leather lace dont pull it too tight because it will snap it is best to condition leather lace before using kangaroo is good stuff and dont break nearly as easy but nothing beats the looks of leather lacing to crown off a project. especially a nice double loop. if you buy on line springfield has better pricing on their tools. i usually buy from my local tandy leather factory to help the local economy out and i usually get better deals by shopping locally.

I like the holster for the ruger that would be similar to the design I would be looking at making for my 1858 Remington army model I would like to also try to incorporate a spare cylinder pouch, a bullet pouch, a cap pouch and a flask pouch on it some way.

Hello can a mod please help with my problem I cannot use the quick reply and when i make a post i have to use the toggle editing to type in text and anytime i try to quote a post to my reply it disappears when the text text box opens Is anyone else experiencing these kind of glitches? this dont happen at any of the other forums I go to

it would take a tremendous amount of spring pressure to hold the jaws tight enough to keep the work from moving around while you are stitching and I like to keep my work from moving around while I am stitching. If I were to incorporate a spring I would use a spring between the jaws to apply reverse pressure to open the jaws. the simplest solution for keeping constant heavy pressure on the jaws without using your leg weight would be to make a tension bar like a stitching horse has since the lever on this model I built works exactly like a lever on a stitching horse does minus the tension bar. However as I mentioned earlier there is already enough tension on the jaws without putting pressure on the project to hold it in the jaws while away. I think the biggest improvement to this clamp would to make wider clamp jaws... YMMV it would be much comfortable to keep your feet on the base while stitching rather than trying to straddle your legs over the base or trying to tuck them in front of the base plus using your feet gives you total control of the angle of the clamp when you are stitching and holds the clamp steady and if you need more pressure just press the lever to the desired tension so why try to reinvent something that is working exactly as it was intended to be used already? it is basically a stitching horse minus the seat which makes it a lot easier to store in the corner than a stitching horse while not in use Not to mention stitching horses tend to be a bit uncomfortable after some time at sitting on one. don't ask me how I know this. in all I think this model works ideally for me other than I need one just a bit taller for using it when I am in my wheelchair and I want wider jaws I can put this one in the house that way i can use it in the dining room or while sitting at the foot of my bed

LOL I keep drinks open containers and other liquids way far away from my projects Found that out the hard way. too much sloshing around for a cup holder on a stitching clamp might spill on my foot I will show off the next one I build however I did give this one a try this morning and it works really good I am happy with how the design works however the use of wider jaw would be an improvement just because you would have more clamping area that will hold the project to be stitched ot laced to have a longer span of rigidity and don't have to reposition as often when stitching. I guess the reason i want a wider jaw is the stitching horse I used when I was making saddles has a 6" wide jaw I might fool around with a bar that holds the jaw clamped tightwhich would be a really easy solution but really how the design is made your feet are always sitting on the base which i really dont see much benefit to a tension bar unless I put a spring between the jaws to open them when the tension is let off. another aspect I like about the foot lever it facilitates hands free operation of opening the jaws to move the work piece which is a big plus for me another plus is having both feet on the base you can move the clamp around to where the jaws are at the desired angle and insures that the clamp is not going to move except if you want it to