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  1. After reading this post and watching the video I went on line and found a 25% off coupon for harbor freight printed it and then made a bee line to the nearest store. Bought the 1 ton for $41.oo and change and brought it home yesterday. Then proceded to look for more youtube videos of use of the arbor press for leather work. Tallbald thanks so much for the post and I hope you continue to use and enjoy your press just like the many of us that thanks to you will be doing the same. Johnny Dingus
  2. Thank you for offering all these patterns for free to the leather working community. You show a lot of class and I for one really appreciate it. It is hard enough to learn and make your own patterns but it is so great when you can get a helping hand to start making quality holsters. Thank you very much Jeff you are a Class Act! Johnny Dingus
  3. Here are a couple of links that might give you some direction. http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,47701.0.html http://www.cascity.com/forumhall/index.php/topic,9631.0.html Good information on that site also. Johnny Dingus
  4. Looking at those Tandy Paterns it suggests 8 - 9 oz leather. I think that is what I would use. Johnny Dingus
  5. I guess I am a little slow in the head. I just don't see how forgiving everyones debt is going to solve the financial crisis. I just don't see the rich and powerful giving up that easy. Nor do I see China saying hey lets just reset what you owe us to zero. Well I guess the first sentance says it all....... vince
  6. Brings back memories of when I had some horses a while back. Living in So California some do and some don't grow up with them. I didn't. Around age 35 I was living in an area that had horses and was given a real good quarter horse. Well with kids and a wife you need more than one so I bought another. Being a little short of a deck I never worried about riding and willing to try most things I decided to go watch team penning. As the cowboy's would cut across the arena sometimes they would loose their hat. Well when the penning was done they'd ride over to their hat and hang off their horse and pick up their hat without getting off. Wow I thought. I'd like to try that. So later while riding my Morgan I would drop my hat in our small arena and get where I could pick it up. Well after a while I had no trouble picking up the hat stones or other items that were on the ground. That morgan trusted me and I him. Well if you can do it on one horse how about another. I was riding a neighbors horse on a trail ride with some freinds one day and they happened to be talking about the cowboys at the penning picking up stuff off the ground. Well being the big mouth that I am I mentioned to them that I had done it too. Well back to cowboys braggin and stuff you know you should just keep that mouth shut some times. Well the freinds wanted to see me pick something up so I agreed to. The horse I was on didn't. I was reaching down to pick up this baseball sized rock and everything was fine. I was doing a great impression of all the cowboys before me hanging off the saddle picking that rock up. Everything was going just fine....untill I tried to pull myself back up into the seat. That grey neighbors horse thought this would be a fine moment to make a quick fake to the right and he left me in mid air between ground and sky. Now mind you 250lbs of cowboy about 3 1/2 feet off of the ground still falls hard. That horse galloped away started grazing and would let me get to about 10 feet of him and gallop away again. He did that for about 2 miles to teach me a lesson. Lesson learned. Now if you want to hear a motorcyle story that will be another day. vince
  7. Nice work Cowboy, twotone color is nice did you use and antique to achevie this or two differnt shades of stain? Johnny Dingus
  8. Ed, Your work is fantastic as always. You do quality work on your tools and are a man of his word. It is great that you do this for your fellow leatherworkers. vince
  9. I've been known to jump a few posters in other forums too, but don't you think we should give people a chance when they have so few posts. They might be new to this world of computers and high tech. I know it took me a while to figure this out...when I was in school we still had typewriters. Just my .02 vince
  10. Jim, It is a beautiful holster nice classic design, very well executed. Sorry to hear about your hand. Glad you are still around you have much to offer us. vince
  11. After reading the post about the Granite slab Bree got me to thinking about how I am doing my tooling. I am wondering if I should tool my leather directly on a marble or granite slab....or have a poundo board underneath between the slab and the leather? Does it matter what type of tooling your doing ie basketweave, border, occasional stamping? Is it crisper if you stamp against the slab without the poundo board? I know everyone is going to have their own way of doing things but I would like to know what most of you do. I have only been doing this a short time and need a whole lot of improvement. Johnny Dingus
  12. I think he meant to repost these pictures with this tutorial. http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?s...mp;#entry102400 Johnny Dingus
  13. Nice looking cover Cowboy. That triweave looks good too, bet that took some doing. Johnny Dingus
  14. Good luck to you Jordan. Things somehow will work out for the best. vince
  15. Beautiful HP. Can't imagine how many carvings you must have done to get to this level of work. Wow! Thanks for the inspiration. Johnny Dingus
  16. Scott, Recieved my burnisher tonight. Man what a work of art! Tried it out and for me it did fantastic. I did this holster after sewing and staining so I know I am not doing things in the right order but will eventually get it worked out. Any way thanks so much for your hard work and beautiful product. vince
  17. Scott, Recieved my e-mail tonight with tracking number thanks. You also said in your e-mail you had used the new shaft, I will send you the difference in the price. I appreciate your desire to make a really great product for us. vince
  18. I don't have the experience that all of you do, so I am not comeing from the knowledge of this leather working that you have. I got started late in life doing leather work and do so want to learn. So far I am just making leather holsters for my cowboy action shooting, but eventually I would like to get good enough to sell some. I appreciate the knowledge that all of you have and the experience, but I also would like to know that I don't need a certain expensive glue if some other will work as well. For those of you that have to have ultra quiet leather goods for your customers safety I would be a little concerned and might try a test myself. But only if you thought you might want to change the way you make your holsters. For those out there like me we like to hear all this discussion from all of you experienced makers without the negative tones. I don't have the thousand of dollars in tools or equipment, and I haven't been through all the hides of leather that most of you have. I pick up thoughts on doing my holsters from all of you even if your doing a different style of holster. I thank all of you for a good discussion. Lobo thanks for posting this as I don't have axcess to a press to form my holsters and see if the type of glue I am using will hold when under that kind of pressure. I thank all of you for contributing your thoughts as it makes my learning curve shorter in my old age. vince
  19. Jordan, You ought to try their tripple and make it animal style. They have the best Fries out there. vince
  20. Sorry to hear you lost your job. It is not rare these days. But it doesn't make it any better unless you have something to replace it with you like better....It sounds like you do. Sometimes it turns out all for the better. Hope so for you. Johnny Dingus
  21. Personally I would still check out each machine and company as before these postings. I would want a few pertinant questions answered. But in the end I would have to make my decision by quality and use of equipment on my part and by who in my gut made the best machine for me. I do that no matter of price because in the end you have be happy with who you deal with and what you purchased. Good luck to you Steve, and I echo Jordan's coment about starting in this trying time. If you can make it now you will have it made. Johnny Dingus
  22. Just a small point about having trigger work done to a defense gun....don't. If you were to ever use it to defend your life a good lawyer would use that fact to tear you up if it ever came to trial. Most of the quality guns out there have good enough trigger pulls that you really don't need to modify. Just my .02 Johnny Dingus
  23. Great post, especially like the last paragraph. I too am biased for the semi autos. I am just as comfortable with the revolvers but I shoot cowboy action. Don't know too many that push revolvers just for the ladies. Thanks for the added insight and the link to the other forum/group. If it is alright I will recomend that to other lady shooters too. Johnny Dingus
  24. First off I recomend that your Mom go to a gun shop range combination if you can find one. One that lets you rent their guns so you can get a feel for the different types. If that is not possible do you have some friends and neighbors that would be willing to go with you so your mom could try out a few different types. If she hasn't shot before to get her comfortable with just shooting I recomend someone bring a .22cal pistol so she can get used to hitting the target and comfortable with sight alignment. Then and only then do I recomend she gradually increase in caliber and type of pistol to find out what she prefers. Just holding the gun does no good in finding out what she will be comfortable with shooting. She needs to practice practice practice. You might do all of this over a period of a couple of weeks. Deciding in one day what you like is applicable to new cars, puppies and food. But deciding on something that you are going to depend on to save your life if needed needs careful consideration. Just a old Marine's .02 Johnny Dingus edit: ps. a 357 will shoot 38spl. So in my opinion for a lady a 38, 357, or 9mm should be about minimum for protection, good rounds with plenty of stoping power.
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