Outfitr
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Really nice work. Love the green and black color.
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Nice work. Very heavy duty for sure. Did you leave the liner off the bend portion? I know it can get difficult to make that bend with thicker belts. Machine sewn?
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I just pull the last half stitch to the back of the project snip the two threads and melt them with my battery thread burner. Never had anything even loosen. I pretty much use tiger thread exclusively. I also try to size the holes and thread size together depending on the project so it's a tight fit and very hard to back stitch.
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Have you tried the little needle head bottles? They are cheap and seem to work pretty well. I use them also for aquilium glue on small projects.
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That is a very cool design and very well done. I really like it! May have to try and copy it.
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Nice holster! I almost always use a strap and snap on my holsters. Maybe a slightly shorter length of strap from the snap to the end.....easy fix.
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QuoteThat is one mighty fine looking belt. Is it hand tooled as well? If so, how many hours to make the entire belt, start to finish? I also really like the colours that you used. It's beautiful!
Hey thanks a lot. Sorry didn't answer sooner. Yes all hand tooled. Total hrs., man I'm not sure really. Floral tooling ones definitely take me the longest although I'm getting faster on the tooling part. I also really liked how the colors came out on that one.
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On 7/24/2023 at 8:31 PM, Dwight said:You did good my friend . . . better than I for sure . . .
If I had to hand sew belts . . . I'd go back to concrete work . . . never did one that way . . . don't plan on it.
May God bless,
Dwight
That's funny, I hand sew all my belts (4 hrs).....and I just retired two years ago...concrete finisher. Ha. However I am now considering a machine after sustaining a fairly serious thumb injury.
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Nice work. I like the color. Very clean, great stitching!
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I've only used barge thinner and try to get it to about a honey consistency. Always seems to take quite a bit of thinner.
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I've tried quite a few knives and a lot of them don't get much use. Most used is a snap off blade box cutter. Then the 2 sizes of xacto knives.
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4 hours ago, YinTx said:Yes, I didn't pay as much attention to detail as I normally do to space the stitches out, I just used a single stitch marking punch that fit and went from there. I was under a time crunch to get it done, and figured it was on the back behind a belt, so not very visible.
As I mentioned, it was a gift, so probably won't hear any complaints!
I painted the Angelus with a small brush. Used 5 coats of white, and about 3 coats of red on a standard letter stamp.
Oh cool, I actually thought the letter was cut/tooled. Didn't mean to criticize your project it's very well done and looks great for sure you won't get any complaints. I turmoil over little stuff all the time on my projects so I notice little things that don't matter.
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I like it, clean, good colors, nice stitching. How'd you get the 2 color letter? Whenever I have a square corner to stitch I punch a very small round hole in the corner instead of the pricking iron and try to make sure it's on the outside edge of the corner. (just noticed one stitch on back lower corner).
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I don't do a lot of belts. If I did I'd certainly get a good machine. I try to incorporate stitching in all my projects because I love the look of good hand stitching...just a personal thing. Fortunately I'm more of a hobbyist, if takes me longer I'm ok with that. Here's another one I just completed.
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1 hour ago, kgg said:That is a really nice belt anyone would be proud of. If it takes you 4 hours at say $20 (pick a number) an hour to hand-stitch that alone in itself would be an extra $80 you would have to charge where as with a proper machine you could cut that part down to say 1 hour or less ?? with similar results and a lot less stress on your hands. My opinion is hand stitching is really nice but most people wouldn't / couldn't appreciate the effort it takes to hand-stitch the belt and might not want to pay the extra.
kgg
Completely agree!
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This is what I usually use, .8 tiger thread, 4mm hole spacing. All hand done...about 4 hrs of stitching per belt. I think it looks better than machine stitch but is it worth the time?? Not sure.
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Beautiful sheath for any amount of time. Impressive for 5 hours of work.
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Nice belt. I've been using 6oz./6oz. lately and I like the weight and flexibility.
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It's actually a really cool idea but I also don't think they'd hold up. Also I wouldn't want to wear them during hunting season..ha ha.
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Huge improvement! Nice work. I've actually thrown out some of my own projects that I was pretty happy with at some time.
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Looks good. I hand stitch all my belts, around 4hrs for the stitching. Machine stitch is fine but doesn't look as good. The belt holes seem like the easiest part but it's taken me some time to develop a system that gets them perfect. Even though you don't really see them or notice a little variation, it is my pet peeve and because I do high end belts they must be near perfect for me to be happy.
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Nice work. I like your lettering!
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Barge stinks but it works. I tried aquilium, no odor and it seemed to work fine but using it in a glue pot it would start to mold before I could use it all. Back to barge and barge thinner.
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I know you said you wanted to sew them but a real time saver for something that is completely hidden are the little staples that Tandy sells. No skiving either just butt the leather together and staple. They're tough little staples and I use two, can't imagine they'd ever fail. I poke holes for them first with my stitching awl which matches the staples perfectly.
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That looks nice! Tried one myself. It's a pretty cool pattern. I used my flower center tool after beveling. Several places I didn't tip in enough and you can see the toe of the tool. Next one will be better.