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Before crowbars were invented crows had to drink at home boom boom!

I regularly receive emails from dieselpunk with 'pattern of the week' He always has new or interesting or new interesting patterns for sale. All are cheap, from about $2.99 upwards. Plus his usual youtube video tutorial for each pattern. I've been tempted to buy some patterns but I'm holding out from temptation yet Just thot I'd mention it

Don't know what other term to use for this I keep two windows open; 1 for Unread Posts and 1 for All Activity I have set Unread Posts for the last 4 weeks but it often only goes to 12 or 16 hours past. If I go and choose 4 weeks again only then will it show the older posts. This affects All Activity and restricts it to only the last day, until I choose 4 weeks on Unread again

Tobacy burns better when it has certain level of moisture in it. Pipe & cigar smokers can buy humidors for their baccy stock in big jars. You add water to the humidor and put it with the baccy/cigars and it keeps the baccy very, very ever so slightly moist so it burns better. Dry baccy doesn't burn well. Thus a waterproof lining in a pouch helps the baccy not drying out as well as keeping water out I made a belt ouch for my vape*. The place I got the vape and oils from took my card(s) and was giving them out to people who complained they couldn't get a pouch or anything to carry their vape in 18 months only one call and that was a different shop asking if they could basically promote me and hand-made leather vape pouches We're now into 36 months and nary a dickie bird * which reminds me; I must make a new one

Don't bake a hat in an oven. Thats a sure way of destroying it. You can use the hat from an oven to speed up drying; leave the hat outside the oven with the door open or down, turn the hat frequently so it gets dried evenly

I always wet the leather before dyeing, Almost as wet for casing. I find the dye spreads thru the leather better when its wet For sealing the seams I use stuff called 'Nikwax'

Unfortunately black is real stainer. You suggested one solution that might work; punch holes after staining, but also buffing the heck out of it and using a couple of coats of a sealer Another idea that sometimes works; use about 4 or 5 times the length of thread you use. The first sections pick up the stain leaving the tail end of the thread to come thru clean

If I remember, I'll look at their website on a public library computer. They have very good fire-walls and will soon tell me if its sus. I'd like to help anyone who wants to help leatherworking continue existing

Nearly casing wet That should have been long enuf but not so if the leather was really dry Dyeing soon after NFO, about 2 hours or so, might help

When I was much younger and lived at home we had a beagle who liked to roll in cow pats, the fresher the better. Then come home and hide under furniture. It was hard to find him as he crawled from area to area. I swear he was having a laugh at us. He also 'lost' his collar about every 7 to 10 days

Are you wetting the leather before dyeing? I always do and its removed any uneven dyeing. Some others also prefer to use NFO on the leather before dyeing. And did you leave the holster in the dye for long enuf for the dye to really saturate thru the leather?

It was just a 'throw-away' thought

mmm, one type of 'oil' we didn't try is linseed oil or boiled linseed oil (BLO) Now, where can I get some??

Try WD40; sprayed on a bit of rag and scrubbed into the leather just on the areas that need it

Wipe some vaseline on the screw threads, a fairly heavy coat. That'll stop the cap sticking

I only use waxed polyester thread for hand sewing. Even though it is waxed I constantly re-wax whilst sewing. I use it in 1mm, 0.8mm and 0.6mm. Its a 'flat' thread. And it comes in different colours so I can choose a colour to suit a project

As chuck says, dye the piece black first. Some like to dye it dark blue then black to give a deep black. I don't use Angelus paints. I use hobby paints meant for plastic models. There's a greater range and they work dead on as well as being cheaper. Johnston's Mop and Glo or whatever its called now, is a water-thin acrylic varnish. A couple of coats of that should give good protection This was a knife sheath I made and painted, it received no over-coating protective layer. It was painted with afore mentioned model paints after several years of use, about 10, it was returned to me for re-painting

Pardon my ignorant behavior; I've not commented on the leatherwork Tis a nice bit of functional leather work.

In the UK; illegal to carry openly without a good reason, concealed is generally alright, but it needs to be secured

Not totally banned in UK yet. In the UK its the weapon of choice for gangs. To be killing other gangs or often innocents (yes, real innocent people). We don't have any real wild areas where a machete is needed but a few groundsmen and gardeners have them in their tool boxes

I use a contact adhesive all the time For small areas or seams I use a tube glue called UHU. For larger areas I use a brand none of youse would have heard of. I work straight from the 1 litre tin. Sometimes I pour in a wee bit of Evostick adhesive cleaner which acts as a thinner too and it stops the glue going 'off' I rarely wait for the glue to go tacky. One generous coat of glue on one of the item parts then I stick the items together and clamp up. After a couple of hours I remove the clamps and tap down with a small rubber-head mallet Never had a problem doing it this way and 99.9999% of the time I get a good glue bond

Your branch of the SCA is the bestest resource. I used to use archaeologists reports for ideas and draw my own patterns from them. I also used to use Olaf Goubitz book 'Purses in Pieces', 'Shoes and Pattens' by Grew, 'Scabbards' by Cameroon, 'Knives and Scabbards' by Cowgill, and an SCA publication on making shoes The SCA used to have hundreds of patterns for items on a website. All free to down-load. I've been out of it all for 20 years so I don't know if it still exists. Ask at your local branch

those deserve a double *groan*

I'm declaring that my part in this experiment is at an end 2 years and nothing bad to report

sheeesh! deer in your front yard! I'm very jealous All I get are seagulls