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This is a serious blast from teh past for me. When I was little in teh seventies this was the style of seat to have. Years back a fellow dropped it off for my Dad to reupholster than never came back with a deposite. My Dad was smart enough to allways wait for a deposite before cutting into a job. Someday I hope to be as smart. LOL. Anyways after storing this seat for 15 years I felt it was safe to sel t a swap meet. A fellow come but and bought it for a ridged framed kidney shovel. I asked hit to check teh seat and make sure it fit before I recovered it. He said he did and he could make it fit. Wel,,, I ecovered it in black cowhide with a little pebble to teh grain and ued a blue vinal piping and buttons to keep with teh old school,,ooops I mean old skool look that is so popular. after completeing the seat,,,It didnt come cose to is frame. I beleive it will fit a sporty or triumph frame. So now we have tis nice king and queen seat for sale or to give away on ebay. LOL Hope you like.

I am back to doing a bit of leather braiding again. I use to make the odd whip from time to time but I have to admit I didnt know entirely what I was doing then. Not that I kmnow that much more know but wiht having the internet handy I have learned what some of my mistakes were in teh past. Anyhow here is stock whip with a bamboo handle. It has a nice crack to it Louder than a 22 but not as loud as a .32 pistol. The core is braided with brown suede from an 8 plait down to a 6, finishing off with a square 4 where teh follower and cracker is attached. The core and part of the handle are stiffened up with a 8 plait black leather. A nice 8 foot total leangth. I need more practice for accuracy but it is fairly live. This next one is a real neo tribal mix. No exact pattern or style. just using up some remenants. Not as nice of a pop. sounds like a .22 short I am not sure but I have a feeling teh flat braid took some of the life away from teh cracker but it looks neet hanging on the wall. Hope you like half as much as I enjoyed making them. I got a couple more on teh go right now but some knife making projects are calling me. Cheers for now.

I have also used tea. Sometimes mixing some strong herbal and regular cheap orange peckoe make some intersting stains. Another intersting story related to this. Years ago I read a story about Henry Ford. He didnt like smoking employeies at the car plant. But employeis that chewed tobbacco would work finishing wood. Much of the wood was stained with spit from chewing tobacco. It does bring out the grain in wood and I had tryed it in the past but didnt get as nice of results as I did from tea.

A very classy finnish on the soles. I would have never had time to do that when I was repairing boots.

Now the sheath is a new story for me. I wanted to try something differnt. So I sandwiched a slice of white pine with 2 slices aof padduk wood with the white pine allready carved to accept teh knife blade. After this was epoxied togather I Reinforced some garment leather with some stiff linning leather and formed it to the shape of the knife handle. Where the seams are I applique braded wiht some white artificial sinue thread to hold it togather. The only thing hoding the wrapped leather togather arround the handle is one jean button. The leather wrap was epoxied to the back of the wooden sheath then tacked with shoe repair tacks while the epoxie was still wet. To finnish it off a little leather cord which is also handy to have spare when in the wilderness hiking. http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/Nu...t=100_02262.jpg http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/Nu...nt=100_0229.jpg I hope you enjoy checking it out as I did making it.

I had an interesting commisson this fall to make a stout bushcraft knife. The lady who wanted me to make her one had a main request that the handle was orange. I had a knife in progress that I fudged up on sanding the handle. This was a perfect excuse to use some orange leather that I had in stock and finish the knife I started without making a complete new handle. The knife is made from an old file and the inside of the handle is birch http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/Nu...nt=100_0231.jpg http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/Nu...nt=100_0232.jpg http://s135.photobucket.com/albums/q136/Nu...nt=100_0233.jpg

Funny how the teenage years put so many things on hold. LOL Nice to meat you from canada

My dad use to go fishing at reindeer lake. I have never made it that far north yet. Anyways I still listen to some metal. Some of the newer stuff is cool to. I just dig the blues and souther rock now. Its all good.

Helo folks. I was kinda busy for awhile. Last weekend I was at a motorcycle swapmeet and managed to get a job recovering a seat in leather. It is for a ridged shovelhead harley. I will be posting pics of it soon. Before and after. Some of the scraps got cut into lace. Havent done that in awhile. The Lace I cut is covering a knife handle. Allmost done that job. It is looking cool. Cheers

Ok Kinda new here and I dont know who is who yet but I would like to put my two cents in. For a begining,see if you can find any tutorials on peg down soles. Some of the reasons I recomend this is teh nned for a curved needle stitcher or haveing to pay sombody else to stitch soles is not an issue. A very solid pair of boots and easy as pie to resole.

Well I just got my confirmation email and figured I sould introduce myself. Most forums I go by the name NuViking or knifemaker. I had started doing leathre kits in my early teens. You know moccasins and wallets from tandy. When my later teenage years kicked in I was a full blown heavy metal headbanger. Studded wristbands for all. I have allways been a biker and been arround motorcycles so it was only natural when I purchased my Harley sportster in the spring of 86 that making a rear seat and saddlebags where in order. A custom toolbag was needed to. The first set I made got sold before I could get them dirty. Hey I likes profit. So I started a small sideline biusness when I was 20. After working with cattle and teh odd horse here and there I would spend just about all my winter months making biker and cowboy goodies. Well I wasnt busy enough to justify a living of this so My Dad helped me go to a shoe repair school in Esterhazy Sask Canada. Along with learning how to fix shoes, boots and custom make canvass items I gained the confidence to repair sadles and harness. Shortly after finnishing the course I opened a shoe repair shop in a small town and later moved it to a small city. I made a living of this for years but need a change in the late 90s. My dad and I opened a differnt biusness but I was still repairing boots and leathr goods till 2000 when he had a stroke. For awhile I was managing 2 biusness, taking care of my father. I found myself falling asleep on the drive home late at night and one night while tooling a purse for a lady I decided I wasnt enjoying leather anymore. So I shut it down. Sold most of my machinery, tools and supplies. In the past few years I got into knifemaking and enjoy working with a new media. from time to time I have to make a sheath for a customer. I also got a partime job as a prepman at an autobody repair shop. Now the fellow I work with mentioned that there is a shortage of upholstery folks in our area. After investigating this I found yes there is so I decided to dust off dads Juki and get back into the trade again. Allmost done my life story here. I have doen some upholstery work with my dad as he opened an upholstery shop while I was doing shoe repair so I do have some experience and I dont intimidate easy but am allways looking for new thoughts and ideas. Cheers Dallas the NuViking