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I spent a while putting an edge on this knife and I'm not finished yet but this knife is educating me each time i use it. The reason I wanted to try this shape is becauswe I don't like the high hand hold of almost all of the other in this thread. I don't feel comfortable with a high wrist position plus I find it difficult to see the line that way. I know there are so many people liking head/round knives so I know it must be me but I've learned two things. Firstly I'ved never used a push knife and with the low wrist hold I'm liking it a lot. Secondly, it cuts like a bitch in that low position using the portion of the blade that's just at the center of the curve and along the long edge. And I won't be doing it but I guess you could even put an edge on the inside curve and use as a pulling knife like a cobblers sole knife. Quite a versatile piece of kit.

Take a chill pill Fred. You know we luvs ya! Go lay down in a darkened room for half an hour. This lockdown and uncertainty has us all jumpy.

Great work Yin as per, but I think I'm suffering from Sheridan/scroll/flower fatigue.

You gotta love smarts.

Not gonna go through em all but there might be something here, https://www.youtube.com/c/StartEducation/search?query=Fireworks

Of course! I'd forgotten it was a subscription. God knows what they're selling on Ebay then. Fireworks MX 2004 I think cant be too far behind. It has layers and brushes, bezier curves and far more than I've ever used. If you watch some of the old Fireworks tutorials it's amazing the things it can do and I think it was hurting Adobe sales so they bought out Macromedia. I use it for the basic stuff like cropping, merging pics, loads of different fonts, slimming a pic down from megabytes to kilobytes in a couple of clicks. And of course there's no subscription. If you can find a copy it'll probably be cheap as chips. There I go, teaching Grandma to suck eggs.

I've noticed a lot of people use Illustrator for patterns. I use an older version of Adobe (Was Macromedoa then) Fireworks MX 2004 which is aso a vector program. I've used it for years but never for patterns. Can anyone tell me if Illustrator is so much better than Fireworks that I should buy a copy? Thanks.

Has anyone tried a dilute glue like PVA with a pigment in it? Wouldn't it at least seal the edge for a finish on top?

Maybe re-wet the holster side, and stretch the leather by wrapping the gun A LOT and letting it dry completely. You can't overdo it cos of the keeper strap.

It helps a helluva lot when punching stitch holes through a pattern also. Helps stop the punch from getting clogged up.

It also helps if you run some sort of wax or even soap along the stitch line.

This!

Can't help with electrics Sofie but that looks like a nice piece of kit. Hope you get it sorted.

Well it clearly works Christine. Did you buy it?

Wet the ply, put a small nut or something under the center and clamp/weigh down the edges. Leave to dry completely or put it in the oven. Go easy when screwing to the wall. You could do this with that one.

Really nice! Is that a programmable drill press/tapping machine?

The chrome tan may not take a burnish. Experiment on some scrap and see what works for you. A sharpie? Dye? Paint? Coffee dregs? Just have fun trying.

Oooh! I like that a lot. That backgrounder adds so much it's almost like a skin. If I could tool like that I'd do some. Well done indeed.

Good job. I'm liking the leather but I'm not familiar with that closure. It's not a Sam Browne is it? What keeps the flap closed?

Your choice of course but I would have the turn on the inside.

This place is not far from you and they welcome visitors. Says min order 1 skin but it's certainly worth a call. They all have scraps. http://www.schallandson.com/

That's a great look apart from the strap being the wrong way round and you've got the photography almost perfect. Well done.

Look at my post on this thread. It includes the cost and the company is in Kent. You can be up and running in a week.

I don't want to teach my Grandmother to suck eggs and I hope I'm teaching somebody something. Especially for large pieces of leather. Just remember 3-4-5 Scribe a line along the longest side and measure 4 of whatever you want to work with, it doesn't matter. We'll say 4 feet. Put a mark. Then, using string or a couple of straight edges, mark one at 3 feet and one at 5 feet. When you have a triangle where every mark is touch the other marks you will have a perfect line that is absolutely square to start your measurements from. Try it on a piece of papert in front of you. It doesn't matter if you use inches, millimeters or cubits as the Egyptians did when they built the pyramids.

Have you thought about changing the handwheel Chris? Depends on the machine of course but I've done it twice and it works fine and the difference in time and cost is stupendous.