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which video was that in?

As per Halitech's tip, the back piece should be as high as the upper end of the knife, to protect your shirt, skin etc.. Other than that, it looks pretty good to me! A marlinspike knife is heavy for it's size, with the wide blade and marlinspike, so it should fit fairly tight to keep it from bouncing out. When is the last time you actually used a marlinspike? It's been a few decades for me! I used to have that knife, but haven't seen it for...well, decades.

Are you sure it's for leather? Looks like a sheet metal bending device.

If I didn't live close to three Tandy stores, I might not be that excited about the discounts. But I do like to just pop in when I need something. If I had to order everything online I'd likely go elsewhere. Also, as a veteran I get the military discount at no charge, so it's a pretty good deal for me.

It's not hard Bob, if you watch the video! I had to go over it again and again. Sometimes I think I watch them just for his Scottish accent.

Thanks, Dave! I enjoyed it enough to do some more of them.

It occurs to me, that I have, due to this forum, a lot of friends in the world, that I've never met! Life is good.

So far...age and decrepancy is looming.

Let me pass on an unintended consequence... If you don't ALWAYS carry in the sheath...you will put it in your pocket when you have the sheath on...and when you next go to your sheath, freak out when your favorite knife isn't there! Ask me how I know. I've done it often enough now that I only gasp for a second, before realizing I put it in my pocket, again.

It's all the rage, now everyone will be doing one!

Great job, looks like some serious retention, too!

Thought I'd try the dog lead from UKSADDLERY. Interesting, I had fun doing it.

Top notch work, as per usual! Nice colors, too. JLS instructions have really made it easy for me. I just need instructions now for 80/20 dimensions.

I don't have exactly what you are looking for, but you can trace any motorcycle scene from a picture that will fit the cover and use that. Keep the trace simple, you don't have to include all the fine detail of the pic, better to keep it simple for the leather image. This way you aren't searching endlessly for an actual leather trace. I just googled "motorcycle line art" and found a wealth of images.

I just watched that video last weekend! Nicely done.

I was kinda lost, until the last picture! I get it now!

Now, see what you've done, Dwight!?

If it's a tooling pattern, yes you would transfer it to the plastic tracing paper, then onto the leather with a small scriber. A pencil would work if it was sufficiently dull. If it's for cutting layout, I like the overstitch wheel. If you use a wide spaced wheel, it will mark the leather, but save the pattern.

I always assumed that everyone that did the decorative stitching used a machine, now that I know your method, I think I'll try one. I handstitch only, so haven't taken the plunge. The edge stitching has always been more than enough for me! Thanks for the tip.

The checkbook covers I've done so far, I've used the very thin pigskin, like in the above photo. The wallets I've left unlined. To get the thinnest wallet linings, I'd use fabric, but haven't needed one that thin yet!

It's a T-bar. I'm sure of it.

I was going to suggest arbalet12, he has a lot of unusual stamps, his site has pics of all of them.

I think most people would use a thin fabric for that, not leather. Pig skin can be really thin, though, so should work. There are different thicknesses, though, pic the thinnest one, so it doesn't buckle when folded.

Never mind, I just looked again. it's too dark.

If you applied one to the flesh side and the other to the grain side, you have described exactly what one would expect. Take a piece of leather, cut in half, apply the two dyes to the same side of the leather, I think you'll find that they are much closer, if not the same. Same thing if you apply the Fiebings to both sides of one piece. The flesh side will always be more gray and splotchy. Having said all that, I also prefer Fiebings.