bladegrinder

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.

Those look great.

The threads I've bought came from Toledo Industrial and Superior Threads.

I got a cowboy 4500 last year and I’ll say this, it’s going to change your life! I wish I’d have bought mine 20 years ago. As for thread all I’ve used so far is 277 top and bottom. I just make sheaths and holsters, I haven’t done any inlays yet.

Nice, beautiful work right there!

Yea the one I got came with the PID and a solid state 40 amp relay, works great on my electric smoker too, that thing had some pretty big swings in temperature too.

The PID I got was around $35 I believe off Amazon, it worked so well on that little oven I bought another for my smoker. The toaster oven got a blanket of Kao wool packed in between the oven and the outer shell that I had around my shop

I just carefully measure my stitch spacing so I know where the first back stitch will end up, put a tiny start mark on the leather and drop the needle on it, then back two then forward.

I back stitch two stitches then switch to forward, continue to the end, then back stitch two stitches, there’s no triple stitch.

Nice! I like it.

That first one I think is a pre-tension disc, I don’t think the thread is supposed to go all the way around and back try the eyelet again.

The way I have mine threaded is it goes thru the eyelet-around the disc 3/4 of the way, straight down to the lower disc. It doesn’t go all the way around the first and back thru the elect again.

Thanks JL, I know I’ll be doing one soon so I’ll try the leather and maybe some thin kydex between it and the strap

I've thought about it over the years but never tried it. with all the available options to retain a knife in a sheath I think it actually has more negatives then positives it would provide. for one, it will attract anything metal it can collect which would scratch the blade, which may or may not matter to the owner of the knife. two, over time it's going to magnetize the blade over time. again, that may or may not matter to the owner. personally....I still think about it sometimes but I just can't bring myself to doing it with one of my knives. if you go ahead and do it, I'd recommend using rare earth magnets.

Never said there was a right way or wrong way, just the way I do it. A light box would probably work to, just take longer I suppose.

The one I have had a minimum 30 degree swing depending on the outside air temp before I wired it with a PID. I’m guessing any oven would do but this was set up primarily for tempering hardened knife blades, which require pretty accurate temperatures. When I gutted this thing out I found the temperature sensor wasn’t even in the oven, it was just behind the controls. frankly I have no idea how they thought that was going to regulate the temp at all, it was exposed to ambient air.

On mine I took the cover off the back of the motor, you can see the pedal linkage connected to it. It looks like a car brake of just tiny.

Remember what I said about the motor brake, if yours has it. I took the brake pad out of mine, you had to push the go pedal to turn the flywheel, I didn’t like that.

Those look great. Do you lose use of the bottom dog when you use a holster plate?

Nice! When I got my CB4500 I was a little nervous, never ran a sewing machine. Now I sit right down and get er done. I can count my time doing a knife sheath on it in seconds and holsters in a few minutes, and that’s just feathering the go pedal at a crawl. I’m really liking that machine.

Thanks Hags!