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.

I think it is an 8 strand braid check on YouTube there are several guides on it this one looks like an over one under one drain.

I am not sure what you mean by "I want to use an 8 string or 4 string round braid edge." Do you want it to look like an 8 strand square plait or a 4 strand round plait? Or do you mean a Round Braid/Mexican Basket Weave perhaps changed to an over two under two pattern? A common Round Braid/Mexican Basket Weave would use nine times the perimeter of your project, and the Tandy book will answer the rest of your questions and this thread talks about how to do the corners http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=43868&hl=

I have looked at some of these in the store and all of them looked to me lime a leather belt covered with plating.

I would just make it in two strips wind one strip around a piece of wire twice then tuck the other over one under one in the opposite direction twice and hide the ends in the center.

Seems I remember Bruce Grant having a recipe for rawhide that called for salting the hide first. I will check when I get home from work.

Thank You

So how do you apply it just rub the lace across a block of paraffin on both sides? Melt the paraffin with some mineral oil to make a paste and rub it in?

Has anybody looked at these I am thinking about getting a pair. http://www.amazon.com/Leathercraft-Eyelet-Button-Pliers-Adjust/dp/B00GM5HNZW/ref=pd_sim_sbs_ac_26?ie=UTF8&refRID=17RKSS725942BS6JTEKR

Can you give some tips on how to use the paraffin and tell us why you use it? Is it just so you get less wear on the lace as you work or does it help the leather even after you are done with it?

Go to KHWW and look for the (OMG it is so Awesome) grid maker and use that to design the knot you want it might take a little practice to get it right but the grid maker will show you step by step where each strand goes as well as a complete over under top peg bottom peg guide then use Knotheades tut to add the ring around the outside.