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Small Of The Back Holster
Thor replied to horseplay's topic in Gun Holsters, Rifle Slings and Knife Sheathes
You mean like so http://glock.pro/attachments/carry-issues/4127d1365422601-small-back-holster-full-size-glock-but-different-wp_000099-large-.jpg? Well lets answer this by self-testing. Grab behind your back and tell me which way is more comfortable and in which way you can grab the pistol better. In other words, sliding your fingers between your back and the grip, eventually get your fingers caught in the t-shirt... or just place your hand over the handle, grab it and pull. Get what I mean? -
A Couple Of New Wallets
Thor replied to jayjay's topic in Purses, Wallets, Belts and Miscellaneous Pocket Items
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Is This Correct? Chrome Vs Vegetable Tanning
Thor replied to Sarden's topic in Leatherwork Conversation
He/They are based in Europe and our regulations are quite strict. So no, there's no chemical involved in veg tanning in Europe. What they say is what the customer gets. If not... well I wouldn't want to be in their place. Dyeing and finishing is a separate step and has little to do with the tanning process. Actually Mike did explain why and what he claimed. I'm sorry, but I have to agree with Mike (TwinOaks) that there seems to be quite a lack of knowledge about leather on your (Sarden) end. Mike is absolutely right that there are various reasons for certain types of leather. For instance shoes, for which one could use veg tan leather but box calf leather is a lot better. At least for men's shoes. And for as long as one prefers not to have their feet wet in a hurry if it rains. Than again, one would want to have veg tan leather for a rifle scabbard, cause chrome tan would not be so great for the gun... NStar.. brought up a thread recently with an explanation for genuine leather, in which the person simply proofed he doesn't know leather even though he's selling his products like hot buns. If you prefer veg tan over chrome tan, that's fine, but to an honest sales person would say so in his article and just state the reasons without putting the other down. Don't you think? BTW. the tone isn't aggressive at all. It's just being honest. I prefer an honest word over a million sweet little lies... On this note, I'd say back to the drawing board. Besides re-read the headline of this thread. You asked if this is correct. If you're not ready to get flaked, don't ask.- 26 replies
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How Can I Go From Tracing Or Vellum Paper To Leather?
Thor replied to Jack55's topic in How Do I Do That?
First, welcome to the forum! Second it really depends what you're trying to do. What kind of leather are you talking about? Veg tanned, chrome tanned, garment leather... In case you are talking about carving, please refer to the individual section on this board. The leather has to be cased and you transfer the design with a stylus pen or such. There are silver pens as well for transferring. Are we talking about some sort of garment leather, then a pricking wheel would be the tool of choice... So you see, you should tell us what you are actually planning to do. -
Seriously??? How about using the search feature in the pattern section which may lead you to a cordovan wallet and you just modify it. All you need is just the outer dimensions and go from there. Wouldn't even take the time to think about this wallet a lot as it's just rectangles and some stitching. Okay, I may have to apologize, or not. This is your first post to the forum at all. So without intro you are looking for help... Usually people introduce themselves first and ask a question then.
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I'd just leave it and call it character.
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I Am Fairly New To Leatherwork And Will Post A Few Photos
Thor replied to Queenslander2's topic in Member Gallery
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Looks good and it's a good start. Actually I think this would fit in well with this thread http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=63332 and believe you should post it there as well. You may have to connect some dots as you seem to have issues with the display of pictures.
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If it's based on Wikipedia's software it has a discussion page for each article as well.
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Monarch Butterfly Stuff
Thor replied to kaerkes's topic in Purses, Wallets, Belts and Miscellaneous Pocket Items
Nice bag kaerkes. But more than that I thing you've done a great job on the tooling, literally no walking marks. Thumbs up! Hey since you're living in northern Spain which should be well visited by the nearby French and all the Germans, you could target a bit towards the richer tourists. The Spaniards really aren't paying for your efforts. BTW. Are you getting your leather from the tannery in Andalusia? I'm looking for a contact into there. They have some really nice veg tan leather. -
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Just 2 cents here as everything else has been said already. We're using brass hardware on horse halters and lead snaps. Never had one break and that's an awful large pet with up to 18 hands and up to 1,700 lbs for a draft horse. Don't think you'll run into strength issues with a smaller animal, just don't buy the Chinese crap.
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Very nice idea. The only thing that puts me off right from the start is that one has to register to even read and I will never do this.
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If you take a very close look at this rose https://www.flickr.com/photos/gildbookbinders/4976392214/in/photostream/ you can actually see the spray pattern, cause the person screwed on 3 different spots Looking at this one https://www.flickr.com/photos/23916720@N08/2268644205 where the artist states that is acrylic and airbrush I would think that the airbrush isn't too far off.
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Is This Correct? Chrome Vs Vegetable Tanning
Thor replied to Sarden's topic in Leatherwork Conversation
All of these 3 points are false statements. If a person heard of red rot before it's obvious that this would not be true. If one really scratches leather it doesn't matter whether it's veg or chrome tanned. That scratch is to stay. Minor scratches may be buffed out, but that's no concern. I'm just thinking of box calf leather, which is a chrome tanned leather and if you add some finish cote there's no difference in smell at all. This statement would only be true in regards of untreated leather. In that case we would be talking about unfinished leather. For the chrome, this is again not true if reviewing box calf leather. It really depends on the tannery. There are on the other hand veg tanned leathers which will not really show any fibers. Please review anilin, semi-anilin leathers and so on. I agree with Mike that more sources should be participating in this. A simple Google search will help already and you'll find articles like this one http://maxwellscottlm.hubpages.com/hub/chrome-versus-vegetable-tanned-leather https://www.google.de/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&client=ubuntu&q=chrome%20vs%20vegetable%20tanned%20leather&oq=chrome%20vs.%20veg&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.8865j0j7- 26 replies
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Is This Correct? Chrome Vs Vegetable Tanning
Thor replied to Sarden's topic in Leatherwork Conversation
Besides the fact that tanning and dyeing are two different things and we differentiate at the least between coloring or dyeing the surface or dyeing through the whole and the processes for each are different I find the intro too long as well as the first sentence would put me off already. It may sound funny at first, but what it truly is, is telling the reader to be dumb. It's common knowledge that leather has been tanned. The few people that don't know that are probably not even interested in that fact already. Mike, isn't Horween using veg-chrome tanned leather (I don't know). That would mean it's chrome tanned an re-tanned using vegetable tanning.- 26 replies
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zuludog, he's suggesting that someone writes or collects all the stuff and he'll be happy to pin that post or thread.
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Looks like airbrushing to me.
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Now I'm missing the voting feature again. I'm all for that suggestion.
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