SilverBear

Can you post a picture of the tops of the two awls? I would like to see how it is finished.

Thank you Knothead. I will look at this once I am home. I still miss KHWW

I am trying to expand Bruce Grant's Herringbone Knot from an over two, eight bight ten part to an over three twelve bight fifteen part. An advice/suggestions will be appreciated, mean while I will continue to try and finger it out. Thank you Silverbear

I just came across this today http://www.oarsmanmarinetallow.com/store/p4/OARSMAN_MARINE_TALLOW.html and was wondering if anyone here could give me any more information about it? Is there any real difference between this and other tallow beeswax products you have tried?

Here are to videos on how to do them they are in Spanish but easy to follow what he is doing. I hope these help.

Thank you for the lead on Allo Allo I have been enjoying it on YouTube.

Terry Prattchet, Dr. Who, Red Dwarf, the Vicker of Dimby, Keeping up Apperances, and I am listening to Monty Python right now. Anything I don't get will be worth having explained.

After thinking about this for a while I would guess that the arms had slots instead of holes with an extended rivet from the center of the piece over where the three arms come together allowing them to slide around. By varying the length of the slot in different parts you should be able to control the amount of flexibility in all three directions, and having them ride on a rivet attached to the center of the plate that covers them would also tie the layers together. I am looking forward to your next update.

Any idea where to get a pig bladder?

Hide the ends by tucking them under the body of the knot finish tightening pull the slack out under the knot and cut it off flush. This knot is not something created since plastics rope Bruce Grant talks about using the same technique as fish scale braid on page 36 of the Encyclopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding. I believe that ABOK has something similar used for pointing ropes. I will check in the morning and see if I can find a page number.

So if my company sends me to Houston can I claim to be an occupier? Since I am from the northwest. ;-))

I went by an Oregon Leather yesterday here in Eugene and I think there is more than one.

As a new leather worker I just finished a pair of moccasins for my youngest so made from two pieces of a bag of scraps. I suspect that you have already covered the cost of the leather so to sell the scrap you need to cover your time to package, post and ship the scrap. Please think of it as getting paid to dump it on others. Even a small pieces would be good for laminar armor. Also scout groups would likely be willing to trade sorting work for some of the leather. If you decide to sell please let me know right now two square feet seems like a lot.

Ok I am just guessing but to me it looks like a four stand braid folded in half with a couple of Turks heads to hold the loop in place and both ends of the braid brought together to make a button knot. I think that the diagonal on the outside is laced on afterwards. Go to Knot Heads World Wide and you will find more help there than I can give.

http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=9099&view=&hl=&fromsearch=1 this thread has a lot of good info and links. Also search cure boilled not spelled right but I can get it past auto correct there are a lot of threads about it everything from armor to mugs and flasks.