Dwight

Pictures and drawings do a lot to explain the chatter I read above . . . and could not decipher . . . May God bless, Dwight

Take a sponge . . . lightly dampen the flesh side . . . LIGHTLY . . . and use a wide putty knife . . . or something similar to flatten the fibers . . . then a light coat of resolene . . . cut 50/50 with water. Makes a nice finish . . . May God bless, Dwight

I didn't see where you considered a Tippmann Boss or one of it's clones . . . totally manual machine. I have used one since 2000 . . . picked up a Cowboy 4500 a year ago . . . that old one armed bandit made a lot of money for me . . . as well as made a lot of products. Looking at your list . . . it would fit very well for all of them . . . provided you are not sewing a lot of belts . . . then it becomes a bit of a pain. The rest are easy peasy for it. Tippmann is right down the road from you in Ft. Wayne . . . and they'll treat you like family . . . May God bless, Dwight

Actually . . . you didn't "yup" . . . so to speak. The pattern I sent you was for shooting an M1, and M14 or an M1A (or many other rifles) with iron sights . . . or could be adapted to a scope . . . depending on the scope's height. The cheek piece you made is from the pattern Littlef showed . . . and it was specifically created for the latter end of WW2 and the Korean war for our snipers who were using a scope on the M1 Garand. The cheek piece was made not to get your face in line with the iron sights . . . but was meant specifically to offset your face so you could make out the image in the offset scope that was used on the Garand. Just a little bit of history there. My cheek piece looks like this . . . May God bless, Dwight

Looks good . . . May God bless, Dwight

Beautiful . . . better than any I do . . . May God bless, Dwight

You said you are interested in harness making. Assuming you want to dress and make your harness water resistant. Use 1 part (by weight) of neatsfoot oil to 1 part (by weight) of pure beeswax . . . heat in a double boiler type container. I use a glass jar set in water in an old small crock pot. It works wonders on all sorts of leather . . . belts, shoes, purses, harness, billfolds . . . the list is truly great. AND . . . it will not harm your leather. May God bless, Dwight

Welcome Wolfago . . . Agostino . . . glad to have you as part of the group . . . enjoy yourself while you are here. May God bless, Dwight

How soon would you like to have one there Chuck . . . ??? May God bless, Dwight

Nice . . . check with Toledo Sewing Machines . . . got my servo motors both from there . . . They're one of the advertisers up at the top of the page. May God bless, Dwight

I was in your searching idea a couple years ago . . . saw this sander . . . bought it . . . brought it home. It was about 150 dollars US then . . . 160 now My advice would be don't buy this. The drum oscillates up and down while rotating . . . which is great for doing wood projects . . . useless for leather . . . or at least what I do in leather. I have a little noisy 30 inch belt sander that works the very best for me. May God bless, Dwight

Having all my electrician tools handy . . . a flat sided pair of side cutters works . . . I do my best to pull the two pieces apart just enough to get the nose of the cutters between the leather pieces . . . squeeze . . . push in . . . squeeze . . . slowly work in until I cut the rivet or pull the head off it. Never harms the surface or the back that way. May God bless, Dwight

That definitely is a process what will deserve and receive some "experimentation". Thank you Klara for posting this . . . it made an otherwise hum drum day . . . a little more exciting. May God bless, Dwight

Good job . . . I'm going to sometime later this spring do something similar for my Cowboy 4500 . . . I'm buried though right now. May God bless, Dwight

I did all I could do to try to work out with the Sig . . . but I have neuropathy in my hands and feet. Both the Sig . . . and my Taurus G3C . . . the roughness of their frames was just too much for my hands. Sounds crazy . . . but it hurt my hands to shoot either one even with target loads . . . much less anything that was serious. Traded the G3C for an old slick Ruger . . . so between the drone and the Ruger . . . I'm OK now. But you seriously do have a good weapon there . . . if you can use it. May God bless, Dwight

Don't know what happened to post I put up earlier . . . maybe didn't hit the right button. Anyway . . . am not a fan of the gun itself . . . sold mine to buy a drone with the proceeds . . . But you did one heck of a good job on the holster for it. I have one very close to that design in which I carry my Shield. Not really sure which NFL team would be tickled with your color choice . . . but whichever . . . the red and black would no doubt make em smile. Have fun with that vac bag system . . . it'll do you well. May God bless, Dwight

Well . . . I guess I see it from the other side of the tracks . . . Nobody is going to grab my gun . . . unless they take it out of my hand. Reason?? I keep it securely and seriously out of sight to any and all who may be looking. I carry concealed . . . as do virtually all of my customers . . . and the only time a perp should even know we have a gun is when he is looking at the hole in the end of the barrel and wondering if it is a 9, a 40, a 10mm, a 45 . . . or one of them .50 cal sodbuster guns. I do fully appreciate the fact that there are people who would grab one any time they got the chance . . . and some of those folks are downright ugly, dirty, mean, and nasty. I truly believe the odds are in the favor of the guy who keeps his cool . . . like the dude down in Tx (?) last week . . . in the taco joint . . . dude comes in and robs all the patrons . . . including our hero. Our hero allows him to do what he wants until he seems to really threaten this other customer . . . hero pulls out the pistola and pops him 8 or 9 times . . . including a head buster on the ground. Perp had no clue if hero's gun was in a holster . . . on a clip . . . or what . . . until it was too late . . . lead was flying and he was doing a serious internal bleeding program. That is the scenario I make my customer's holsters for . . . keeping the peace thru effectively applied violence. May God bless, Dwight

I guess I've been fortunate . . . never had anyone truly bust a gut going against my advice. But also . . . I only use these clips for smaller guns . . . and only if it is an IWB . . . like say a Shield . . . would not use it for a 1911 or a Python or anything similar in size and weight. May God bless, Dwight

I found a really nice US Navy leather jacket . . . bought it . . . didn't notice the cigarette smell until I got home with it. Anyone got a foolproof way to clean it without hurting it?? Lady said it was her dad's but he did not wear it hardly at all . . . then when he lost a bunch of weight . . . never wore it again. Just need a bit of help on this one . . . thanks. May God bless, Dwight

I don't get a lot of holster requests for clips . . . but this is the one I try my best to steer peopl to using. It's strong . . . but can be manipulated a tad looser . . . fits perfect over my CCW belts I make that generally are .200 inch thick . . . or thereabouts.. The little bump at the bottom of it keeps the holster from coming out of your pants if the draw is a little tight for one reason or another. . . and it won't "jump" out of your pants running or something else. You rivet it at the bottom . . . cut a little slot for that steel bump at the bottom . . . and let it come out of the holster leather about 3/8 of an inch from the top. I sell them mostly for single mag holders . . . they work great. I get em from Tandy. May God bless, Dwight

Hello . . . Half a world away . . . under the North star . . . and the big dipper . . . But we say welcome . . . glad to have ya aboard. May God bless, Dwight

I would rivet it to the front decorative piece on the holster . . . which in turn would be sewn on. But I would not buy that type of clip . . . they don't work very well for holsters. May God bless, Dwight

DJI Phantom 4 . . . an expensive toy . . . working on getting my FAA license so I can use it commercially. Don't plan on doing any real "money" work . . . but their rule is hard, fast, and serious . . . have to have it . . . or else. Do you have one?? May God bless, Dwight

Nice holster for a lousy gun. Sold my 365 and bought a drone with the proceeds. Drone is much better . . . Good job . . . keep up the good work May God bless, Dwight

Since you are our brother in the leather business . . . That makes her our niece . . . And we're proud of her as well . . . You certainly are blessed . . . May God bless, Dwight