bladegrinder

Nice looking work Chuck!

I use to carry my credit cards in a RFID protected wallet but recently read where the newer cards can't be read by someone passing near by, a reader would need to be within inches. true? i don't know but the person that wrote it works for a major credit card company.

It’s funny, after he brought that over and I handled it with the lazer I liked it so much I ordered one for my Sig. The one on the Sig is made by them and really fit nice, looking like an integral part of the gun, and has a lifetime warranty. It’s also a green lazer I like green better, his is red.

I never touched a sewing machine in my life till I got my Cowboy 4500. man, did I stitch up a pile of scrap practicing. Under and around my machine looked like a barbers chair at the end of a busy day, except it was cut up pieces of thread

I can’t help you with your project but I hope you find someone that can. I lived around you about 40 years ago in Ridley Park. Good luck!

For avoiding skipped stitches, when your needle is coming up you’ll see the thread above the needle go taut- your hooks got it then and you won’t loose the next stitch.

That looks great, the minor stitching hiccup going around the end is a learning experience. Your dog will never notice!

I wrap some of my stamps with blue painters tape, a lot to build it up. What resist were you using? I use tan kote, but even with that I don’t let any antique sit for long. I usually wipe it off right away.

Thanks Chuck!

Thanks folks!

A sawsall blade with the top of the blade ground down to fit in the hole will work as a broach.

Believe it or not, they both have Fiebings British Tan. the top pictures were taken in a light box, so the lighting was diffused, the bottom one was taken outdoors. they both actually look more like the top one in person.

If you use that Coco Bolo be careful, some folks are allergic to it. I won't go into what it did to me a couple times but I stopped using it around twenty years ago.

My neighbor asked me to make him a holster for his Ruger LCP with a Crimson Trace lazer so I made this for him...the two top photos. then I made another one for my Sig 365X after I put a Sig Lima lazer on it to fit for the added lazer. I've been wearing this one the last few days before photos so it shows a little wear. bottom photos.

It’s always nice to wake up in the morning and still be on the green side of the grass, on the other hand sometimes there’s things worse then death.

Those are some nice looking scabbards.

I also have a 8500 Kw portable I bought years ago to run my well in the woods when I just had a camper there. Then I converted it to run on natural gas and had a hose connected to my meter at the house in the city, to the back yard where my electrical panal was and back fed the panal thru a 50 amp breaker. One time it ran for two days non stop

Ok, I forgot you were in Canada so the price would be higher. I also didn’t take into account the propane tank or piping, at the time of my install I worked for a natural gas utility that also did LP and I got the tank, piping and fittings from there at a good price. I did all the installation of the tank, underground piping and final connections myself so I saved a lot there.

My machine is the Cowboy 4500 with a servo motor. taking off the back cover you can see the brake shoe and bracket it's attached to. I just removed that nut and took the bracket and shoe out and readjusted my foot petal. now with the machine at rest I can turn the flywheel. and there's no foot play, when you hit the go pedal...it goes.

$20,000 wow, how big of a generator were you looking to get?

Yep, one of the first things I did when I moved here was install a Generac 2200 KW whole house generator and a 250 gallon LP tank. when hurricane Michael came thru my area didn't have electric for over two weeks. my line comes thru my woods about 1500 ft. with 100' pines on both sides of it. Haven't had any of them fall on it since the hurricane but when it come thru I had about a dozen and it took over two weeks to clear the downed trees and string new wire, only about 300' is under ground going from the last pole to the house. but honestly, I lost power during storms living in the city more often then I do living in the woods.

I know nothing is of that machine, but man does it look awesome!

Like Uwe said, I use the flywheel by hand, slightly raising the foot then drive the needle home by hand with the wheel. but like JL said if your to close to the edge it's going to stand out.

Retiring from the gas utility trade I can't tell you haw many cables I've seen cut. most times their marked but bad things happen, even a fallen tree can uproot and break cable. fibers always in conduit but that's no match for a back hoe. but then satellites fall from the sky too, ha, ha. Right now I feel the less I'm attached in anyway with anything past my driveway I'm better off.

I'm in the same boat, moved to the deep woods three years ago. my cell phone service is good but for internet I use a Verizon hot spot. it actually works great for internet, can watch Netflix with computor's running with no interruption''s and it's cheap, connected to my phone plan BUT...it's not on 24hrs. and even with the plan I'm on if I hacked it to work 24hrs a day I think I'd run out data on occasion. Probably next year I'm going with Starlink, it just became available in my area a couple months ago. a little over a hundred bucks a month and six hundred for the equipment that you buy....that you set up yourself. my locale cable company wanted $9000.00 to run to my house, then two weeks later they were nice enough to give me the friend price of $7,500.00, no thanks. After researching the satellite services available, Starlink came way out on top compared to Hughsnet.