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I lined the inside of a sword sheath with goat hair.I glued the the goatskin on with rabbit skin glue which is non-corrosive. Oil the blade well and stick it in the scabbard a few times to oil the inside.

Certainly burnishing is not an option here. Your best bet is to use an edgepaint or fold your edges.

@John (Egyptian), how will the thread come exactly? On a spool, a card, etc? Does it depend on the amount? Thanks.

Remake the outside. Sorry.

I have a couple of questions about this bag. 1. The shoulder strap attaches to the bag at the back. Is there a reason for this? how would things be different if the strap were to attach at the sides? 2. What is the purpose of the side straps? 3 The sides (the gusset) seems to bulge out from the bag. Maybe this is only when empty. Would it make sense if the flap were a bit wider so that is could cover this space?

Wow! Thanks for sharing! This is great. And, you did a super job.

If you dye a larger piece of leather and then cut out your pieces, it will likely turn out more even.

Simple and interesting. What is the purpose of the top flap? Looks like it's not needed.

Sometimes stuff get sent by ship by accident. I've had stuff take 6 and 8 weeks from Japan before. Years ago, while I was living there my mother sent be stuff for Christmas. She paid for first class shipping, but something got messed up and it ended up on a ship. At least there was tracking though.

Some of the Japanese brands refer to the teeth with for sizing. like 1.5mm. That's not the stitch length; it's the width of the tines (teeth). That doesn't look like the case here though. 5/32 would be a massive hole

1/8 would be 8 spi. yes, 9 holes. If SLC says that 1/8 does not give 8 spi, then they should not label it such.

The proline are different than the one tugadude posted. I just have one. The 5mm one. I never use it. They aren't the best quality so I wouldn't recommend. The new ones (that tugadude posted) are much better quality but I don't like the design that much. I'd take a look at the japanese brands if I were you.

Ordered a bunch of stuff from leathercrafttools.com today. will let you know how it turns out.

Wow. Some awesome stuff on there.

That's way too thick. Each vertical section has four layers of leather. so that's 12 layers when folded up. In that thread, someone tries 1-2 oz leather and it was quick thick.

Looks nice. Is it linen, polyester or nylon. I have some natural unwaxed linen. It looks really nice on some items as it is, and its great because you can dye it yourself.

Yeah just wax it yourself. No problem.

I'll have to experiment. I stitch the same way regardless of which way my holes go and I have't noticed a difference.

How many stitches per inch where you planning on?

I see no difference in the methods. Left needle first, right needle goes over, then thread on the left is cast over the needle.

I purchased a double shoulder or the warrior when it was on sale av few months ago. I had had my eye on it. The thing is that not all of them are the same. I gad to pick through them but there were a few that were stiffer and had really fine pebble grain pattern. Lots of wax in it and it burnishes wonderfully. Looks like black plastic. And it does tool.I didd just a tiny bit with some stamps. I had talked about how there seemed to be two different leathers and he agreed that the newer stuff was different and that he much prefered the previous stuff. I'm not sure if this is permanent change or just the one batch, but I imagine they changed the supplier and thus the product. Looking at the sides thete seems to also be the older waxy awesome stuff and the newer less impressive stuff. For all I know, it's just an inconsistent product. One piece of leather ends up in one place in the drm/pile/whatever and gets more or less of a tanning/dyeing/conditioning agent and comes out different.

Yes south america is what I understand.

Nice! Where do you get your watch strap buckles? Nice! Where do you get your watch strap buckles?

Teach me!

Interesting. I recently bought a tandy splitter. I just used it a few time playing around with it. I was looking at the cowboy, but the tandy one was on sale so I got that. I must say though, the design looks identical to me. but for plastic knobs and a different paint job, I think they're the same... Anyway, the tandy splitter worked fine out of the box. I split some 8oz and 5 oz veg down to 3oz and then I split that even further. I then grabbed a 3 inch wide piece of 2-3oz chrome tanned calf and split that in half or better. I was impressed. Sorry to hear about the cowboy. Maybe I dodged the bullet.