wolvenstien

Go to the for sale area, pick a forum and list everything in the one.... if you put it where an admin or a mod thinks it shouldnt be, they will move it.... most people here will hit the VIEW NEW POSTS up at the top right of the page... so we will see the post no matter where you put it....

a group permission, LEATHERWORKER doesnt have permission, but MEMBER does?

Drill them out from the back side... be careful and use a drill press if one is available to you. Hopefully you have a leather supply close to you. Take the "rig" with you to the supply before you drill out the rivets, and match up the head size with the "brass" rivets they have then match the length of the rivet stud to the thickness of the rig... you might need more than one size... you do not want the studs to stick more than 1/16 of an inch out of the leather or it will "fold" on you are you set them.... I dont know about your local supply, but I use Tandy here, and they did away with the single setter and you have to buy the setter with the anvil every time... so if you have to get several setters for different sized heads, you will have an anvil for each.... I do not have my 2008 Tandy catalog in front of me... so I cant give you part numbers, but the folks who work there should be able to show you exactly what you need and how to set it if you are like me and need to be shown more than told....

Hell... my guns were taken away from me for being too itchy on the trigger.... Love to both ya.... This place would not be here without Johanna.... Dont let her fool ya... she is just too modest is all....

Jim, what you say about them putting their energies into productive things is mind boggeling.... Several years ago, I worked for a pizza joint delivering pizzas to the rural side of Chattanooga... I came into work one day to open and the Manager was there and a bunch of police.... I found the manager to find out what happened and he waled me back to the bathroom... someone spent a good portion of the night busting through the foot and a half block and concrete wall to gain entry into the store from the rear of the building.... he then lead me out the hole and across the black top to a fence dividing the property from a school playground and pointed to the store safe..... Who ever busted through the wall went and removed the 400 pound 3 foot tall safe from the store, carried it out through the hole they made (never mind the rear exit door did not have an alarm on it and was only dead bolted {no key required to unlock}) carried it a minimum of 75 feet, over a 4 foot high fence, and another 30+ feet into the playground, and then spend who knows how much time trying to bust the safe open to get to the $200 in bills that is left in the store over night to open with, and then after giving up after busting the digital combination lock on the front, apparently shook it upside down to shake out the coins which totaled about $50. We gathered it up and it took myself and the manager to get it to the curm and onto a dough dolly to wheel it back to the store and it weighed enough to break the dolly... How is that for putting your energies into something? Imagine what these people could be capable of if they directed it in a positive direction.....

I might be wrong in this and if so i will be corrected... but the waxes should be Bees wax.... from the period and is good to water repel....... what i have done is slather the wax onto me leather item... without a finish of course... and then use a heat gun to melt the wax and the leather absorbs the melted wax. you have to reapply the wax periodically, depending on exposure...

Thank you Oscar, but i am looking for original art to put on my seats and backrests that all go together, a kind of theme type thing... not several pieces that are jumbled together.... the one on my bib will be replaced as well...

LOL, least the assmunches had the curacy to put it on blocks.... had a guy years back they stole his wheels three times and every time they did it, they put his car on the ground.... you know how hard it is to get a jack under a car that is sitting flat on the ground? Thanks, I needed that... sorry for you... sorry for me....

I woke up this morning and got cleaned up ready to take my son to the doctors office to get a flu shot.... When we got back this morning I noticed a bottle of Ideal wire pull slime in the bed of my truck.... How did that get there... thats supposed to be in the tool box.... then I notice my Greenlee fiberglass fishtape in the bed too.... I knew what happened.... Sometime between 2am and 7am this morning someone decided it would be a great idea to help themselves to the tools I had in the toolbox on the bed of my truck.... C**ks**kers wiped me out.... Would not be so bad if I worked for someone else and I didnt depend on these tools for my living.... and it wouldnt be so bad if I had full coverage insurance to cover it... but I dont... I work for myself, everyone in the neighborhood knows this... saddens me and pisses me off at the same time.... sorry sonabitches.... I swear, if I had caught someone out there last night... I would happily be sitting in county waiting for the judge to say it was justifiable.... Any one can ask me for anything and if I have it and it will not hurt me in any way to part with it... it is yours... dont steal from me... I hate a thief. Thief's are as bad as pedophiles. Kill them all and dont even bother sorting em out....

Welcome!

Well... I will say this... it is your money... spend it how you like... I went through all the business name and liscense crap years ago, I was required to be liscensed in the county by a company I was sub-contracting for, and I took it a step farther and got a state tax ID and all.... Nothing but a headache... as you know, Tennessee does not have an income tax. I had all the paperwork to run a business but I was not making any money other than a wage. Well, that didnt matter to the state IRS... they expected me to pay them quarterly and at the end of the year at tax time when i had not sent them and money they got real nast telling me that by default I owed then X amount of money and what not.... took about a month of phone calls and letters to get it straightened out. I think I finially had to mail in the Tax ID form they gave me with "This business has done ZERO dollars business for tax year XXXX and had desolved" written on it.... I still use the business name... I just dont worry about the paper work... if for some reason i start making money in my own business, I might go and do everything again, and get a good accountant to handle the crap side of things... but I do not see that happening....

I am still your friend..... LOL Hey mike... if I had the money or the leather I would have me some python skin..... I sold my baby about a year ago... she was 12 foot long... I was planning on letting her get to about 20 feet long and then turn her into a nice pair of boots.... but i didnt want to go through the tanning process with her, so i sold her.....

Ok, I have over 400 carving tools, and I want to make the most practical and useful caddy/caddies to hold and store these tools in. I have a caddy that I made but am now looking to replace it from ideas I get from you all... Please post pix of the caddies you have, the ones you use and the ones you use for storage, and please describe the way you have your tools situated, whether it be by catalog (ABCDE......) or how ever you have them and anything else that feeds into how you have them. Thanks Mike

Ok, I am totally finished with the tools.... Along with the above mentioned method of cleaning the tooling heads of the tools, I then took everything over to the work bench and put the "brass" colored 8" wire wheel onto the grinder along with the cardboard buffing wheel I have been using from my buffing/sharpening kit. I used the wire wheel to clean all the shafts of the tools... on several there was a minute speck of rust on the shaft and when i hit it with the wire wheel it removed it along with the plating showing allot of rust beneath the plating. I was able to clean all this up and put then on the buffer using white compound and buffed the metal to a nice shine.... some of them (more vainers' than anything else) had under the plating rust all the way to the tip of the tooling head so I knocked it all off.... the metal was in good shape and buffed up nicely.... on a few the tools had been banged around where the tooling pattern was slightly messed up and I buffed them as well as I could and left them... I will keep them as they.... give them character I hope... all in all I only lost one tool in this whole thing and it was the very small pear shader that I tested the 8" wire wheel on and the wheel tool the tooling pattern off the head.... I smoothed it out and buffed it to a shine so i can use it as a smooth pear shader instead of a patterned one... I will get pix as soon as I remember to get the camera back from the wife..... Now to start another thread asking for pix of tool boards... I have over 400 tools and need ideas on how to make tool caddies to hold em all in....

LOL, no doubt....

Either Lips, Horns, or a mustache.....

Here is the the pic that was posted that I already have on my tank bib. And here is a pic of it on my Bib....

very nice bro....

Your first problem is that you are running IE.... you need to go to either Firefox.com or Opera.com and download and install the browser they provide free of charge and use it instead.... I hate IE... Let Johanna check into this to verify it isnt the site before I start telling you all to delete parts of IE to make it run better.... LOL

Ok, maybe this is something that Johanna or Monkey need to address.....

What browser are you running? Sounds like a cookie thing.... cookies keep you logged in... if your settings are set to delete cookies when you close the browser that might be it....

You gotta burn it man.... someone done snuck into your shop and defaced it..... other wise it looks good...

Well... LOL. Too cool. I have been playing big time myself but not taking pix.... I went and found a 6 inch brass wheel for my grinder.... it ground the tooling pattern right off the small pear shader i tried to clean up with it... now I have a nice smooth pear shader. I figured i needed something smaller and not as fast to use on it... I found a Dremel kit that had a small wire wheel (not brass) and used it in conjunction with the red compound and it worked great but the little wires kept flying off and sticking me in the arms, forehead, hair, and all over the floor, making it not a good idea to walk in here with bare feet.... I then went to Home depot and found a couple of brass wire wheels for the Dremel and a friend gave me his old 4.8 volt cordless Dremel so i use the brass well on the 4.8volt and a buffing wheel on the corded one... along with white compound and it was working ok.... Then I looked up on the shelve and saw a 3 inch grinder I bought years ago and thought... Hey... it has a buffing wheel and it will go slow... So i got it down and have went through half the tools already with it. Using white compound with it, and when I cant get deep into the patterns I use the 4.8 volt with the brass wire wheel. The tools are getting cleaned up real well. Some of them have damage on the patterns but I think it will add character... We will see....

All pix are above...

Yeah, something like that Jim. I am cursed with the lack of creative thought when it comes to stuff like this... I cannot imagine it until I see it... But that is kind of what I am looking for, not a bunch of pix put together, but a few that all go together....