bladegrinder

I've watched the first one, scary but funny too! that looks like ol Chucky! nice work!

Puddle monkey? Ha, Ha....what the heck is that?

Thanks folks!

I just finished four knife sheaths, they were all going to be a little different but I kind of got carried away with the dragon skin stamp from Sergie. I'm really liking the pattern now that I've had some practice with it. I'm dragon skinned out now so the next ones will be different in some way. I got carried away a little with the hunter orange G10 for handles too, I only used it once years ago and people liked it so I figured I'd make a few with it, I'm on the fence with using it on the Damascus blade but hey...had to try it, it only takes one person besides me to like it! Thanks for looking!

That looks awesome! Great work!

That's a beautiful holster! nice iron too, I'm a big fan of Ruger's.

I'm with you on the black powder, I have several black powder guns and love that smell in the air when I'm shooting them. I worked the leak response truck for a natural gas distributor for over 20 years, I've got a really good sniffer when it come's to smelling things!

There's a lot of different chain repair links on the market, stainless too. you might find one that wouldn't look too out of place or kind of hide it in your work piece.

Here's what I learned here on this forum and it works for me, I measure 1/2 the thickness of whatever your encasing, in this case a phone so 1/2 on both sides and add that to your width. The phone pictured here has an Otter case which makes it pretty thick and easier to measure. excuse the carvings on front, I'm still learning that end. after it's stitched up I dipped it in water for a few seconds and slid in a piece of wood that was the same dimensions as the phone, let it sit in there for about 15 min. pulled it out, let it dry and the phone fits nice and snug.

May have been a spice holder, pepper or what have you.

That's what I was thinking, some of those that look like checkering tools might be used for fine lines in clay like hair.

I wonder if there for modeling clay like making busts or statues.

Yep, first one's always a mind bender, worrying the whole time your stitching if it's going to work out or not.

Another thing about tread mill motors is they can be used as DC generators. The first one I got years ago I was going to make a windmill with a voltage regulator to charge an RV battery. That didn’t happen though, I built a homemade solar panel instead. I’ve got a 75’ ham radio tower I need to put up first. Connecting a drill to the shaft of the motor I was getting 19 volts for as fast as that drill would go. Also, anyone messing with these you’ll see two blue wires coming out, they can be cut and capped, they go to an over temperature sensor inside the motor.

I have to throw you a "good job" too! man those leaves look great!!

While it's out in left field, I think it's a pretty good comparison. I think it kind of applies to what were talking about here... He could have bought-built one like the guy on National Geographic that's made a bunch of dives with no implosions, but he obviously had lots of extra time and I'm pretty sure saving money was on the top of his mind verses producing a proven design. I'm retired and have a lot of electrical and mechanical background and have a lot going on and not much free time and a lot of folks have one or two jobs, kids and little free time to monkey around with tread mill motors, let alone not knowing which way to turn a left hand screw driver. I just posted a tread mill motor project I did here so I'm not trying to put a negative light on using them but like I said I'm still waiting to see someone do it to a sewing machine. Like Quade said, you can pretty much plug and play a servo motor in 15 min. and be done without going in the poor house there's lots of fun ways to save money but there not all for everyone.

The guy that built the submersible that went down to the Titanic saved a lot of money too by doing a lot of his own engineering and building that thing himself, although I don’t know if he used old tread mill motors or not, but he obviously had time on his hands to do it…and saved lots of money.

That's beautiful! great work!

That would depend on a persons capabilities to first get the free treadmill motor then install it in a way that works and doesn't look or work like a rube goldberg job.

Thanks, the second knife is stabilized Black Palm, the first is Desert Ironwood.

I have one similar to the Badger at top with a water separator on the hose end that connects to my pancake compressor which is big and loud but I use it out in my shop. I run about #40-#60 thru mine but those pressures could be way off, it's just what that regulator says. I have a small glass jar that connects to the bottom of the brush verse's the open container, I can see making a huge mess with an open container. I use mine mostly for applying resolene but I also use it for shading around borders of sheaths and holsters. when I do shading the piece has already been traditionally dyed then brushed with a darker color. just brushing with dye will take A LOT of coats because it goes on so thin, sometimes just brushing then scratching the leather will show un-dyed leather. for maintenance I only use denatured alcohol and run it thru with air after using, sometimes I'll take the front sections off to clean the front of the needle and the mixing ports coming from the jar. be careful if you take it completely apart they can be tricky getting the needle back in right. these have really small O rings in them and if their really old you may have some leaks, hook er up and give it a run, it takes some practice to get comfortable with it. the other bigger one's you have pictured I have no experience with.

Here's a couple knife sheaths I just finished with dragon scale stamping. first a pic of the knife, then the sheaths. One is done in natural Herman Oak, and one with Fiebings light brown. Thanks for looking!

Nice little holster, no matter what I'm carrying I also always have a .380 in my front pocket.

For starters I’d try a few good rubbings with saddle soap.

When those stainless steel pins came out for tumbling brass I jumped right in, wow was that a good move. Pricey getting into them but no comparison to corncob.