bladegrinder

Looks good!

Here's a sheath I just finished. belt loops on both sides so it can be worn left, right, forward or backward. it's a small knife with a little over 3" blade.

Thanks Chuck, I thought about doing that after the fact but kind of scared I'd mess something up. I'm still not real good with that machine and I figured I'd be best to leave this where it is, still learning from mistakes but thankfully I'm a quick learner...I'm hoping. Thanks doubleh.

Thanks Frau, yes the finish is air brushing resolene cut 50% with water. the bottom is open but when I wet formed it in a vacuum bag it kind of pulled the leather at the bottom inwards,

Here's a pic of the filework, it's hard to get a good picture of it, it looks better in person.

Thanks everyone!, I’ll get a pic of the filework.

That gun belt looks awesome Bob!

Here are two knife sheaths I just finished for a couple of American style tanto knives, nothing real fancy but they came out nice. thanks for looking!

I'd never be making stuff like this without learning on this forum and the help I've gotten from you folks...Thanks everyone!

Dang it, I knew someone would pick up on that! ha, ha. somehow I didn't pick up on that until I was air brushing the resolene on it. I did do the double line stitch around the gun without messing that up though so I'm getting there!

That looks great, she's going to love that.

Here's a two tone 1911 pancake holster I just finished, I think I finally have the 1911 pattern down. Thanks for looking...

That holster looks beautiful, great work!

This is your company right?

I use an air brush too, works great, no streaks or runs. also when I buy a small bottle of Resolene I pour the whole bottle into a small mason jar and cut it 50% with distilled water then it's always ready to go...50-50.

Those are some awesome looking sheaths for sure! well done!

Thanks Grampa!

Looks good!

I think it looks good but those stitch holes do stand out.

Nice! nothing like a nice new big shop.

Those look great Hags, I'll bet that was a great wedding too.

Thanks Hags, double stitch on the next one! Thanks Gezzer!, where at in North Florida are you?

Still new to designing and drawing gun holsters, this one the I should have brought the leather up higher around the trigger guard. this one is for me so lessen learned, it fits tight and I like it. it has Elephant hide overlay on the front. thanks for looking!

X2...I've had my CB4500 I got from Bob in Toledo for 6 months or so and I'm super happy with it. like you PastorBob I never used a sewing machine in my life so initially there was a somewhat nervous learning curve as to how do I get his thing to do what I want it too. mine came from Bob set up the way I intended to use it, #25 needle-277 thread so it was just a matter of gluing up some samples and start practicing...a lot of samples and a lot of practicing ha ha. Today I feel pretty confident getting on it and stitching up holsters and sheaths. I think my blunders are in the past. I'm a knifemaker by trade so I don't use it everyday but last week I stitched up six sheaths one after the other, set them out, and looking at them I thought about if I had to hand stitch those, my eyes and hands would hurt and I'd probably still be on the first one. I hand stitched for over 30 years and it was past due I got a machine. I would say glue up a bunch of scrap different thicknesses and practice a lot getting to know your new machine, you'll never look back. Congratulations and good luck!

I bought a used 3 phase surface grinder a couple years ago and while looking at the controls and wiring I discovered the oil pump was 110 single phase then found a transformer inside wired with a few other things. I connected a VFD to the motor but ran a dedicated 110 single phase line to the oil pump. VFDs don't put out a clean 3 phase like you would get from your utility, as mentioned by 480volt the motors connected should be inverter rated. mines not, so researching what that meant I learned a non inverter rated motor on a VFD can actually get bearing damage over a very long time of operation, something about the way the VFD feeds it. throw in a computer board and your asking that machine to throw an error code. you may be able to isolate the motor to the VFD but from what I found is you can't have any controls or switches between the VFD and the motor, which would eliminate any use of other electronics on your machine. they simply cannot have any sort of function on the motor after the VFD. I could me mistaken about this but I knew what I was getting into with this surface grinder, just stumped a while about the oil pump. I wish you luck with your machine, if nothing else, you'll still have a great machine but without all the bells and whistles.