fishguy

Is there any concern of catching the bowstring if you have a buckle on the strap of a back quiver?

Up to now I have just been tying a knot to end a baseball stitch. Is there a way to backstitch like in saddle stitching?

can you show how to do rounded corners?

Thanks

I am making my first set of rough side out slim jim holsters and have been faced with a bit of a problem. After applying dye and oiling the leather it has taken on a kind of slicked down appearance. As I understand it, the appeal of rough side out is the suede-like nap. Should I go over it with a brush or something to try to restore the nap?

Interesting that it was apparently coated with gesso before painting. Gesso is basically white primer that is laid down on surfaces to prepare them for painting, it was used under pretty much all the historical paintings you have seen. Old style was rabbit hide glue with chalk in it, the new stuff is mostly acrylic (though you can get the old stuff). That would be one way to get strong colors, especially white, on leather.

Been toying with the idea of picking up a sewing machine to speed up my leatherwork a bit. I started looking on craig's list and have seen quite a few Pfaff machines. It would probably be used on 5-7 oz or lighter leather. Don't really mind hand sewing holsters and sheaths but long stitching on bags, belts etc. takes forever by hand.

On a nerdish note the reason carving the horns with a dremel tool stinks like burned hair is that horn is basically made from the same stuff as hair. Won't make it smell any better but now you know As for sealing drinking horns typically people use beeswax and or brewer's pitch (not good for high alcohol or hot drinks), or varnish that is approved for use with salad bowls. Actually one of the reasons that horn was used for cups and spoons and the like, besides being easy to work, was that it would not react with other things.

When I have applied neatsfoot oil after dying I have noticed some white crud on the surface. Ususally it can be buffed away, but now I have a belt where it just keeps coming back. What is the solution? More oil? wipe down with water? Is this something coming out of the leather or the dry surface of the leather itself?

http://www.whitechapel-ltd.com/ganti.html describes ammonia fuming

So what ever happened to this project? Did the 2/3 ounce leather work?

Um, I don't want to be a wet blanket, but there may be some legal issues with these things.

Not mercenary, mercantile.....ain't nothin' wrong with that.

I have done all sorts of different themes with tooling, stamping and embossing. Send me an email blaneb at verizon.net (use the usual @-I used the at because I am hoping to avoid spam) and we can discuss the particulars. I can do one for a tanto if you can send me a cross section so I know how big to make the hole.

Here is a pair of tsuba, gaurds or hilts used on Japanese style wooden swords for martial arts training. Typically these days people use plastic ones, or tsuba made from a single thickness of really thick water buffalo rawhide (hard to find)