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Chuck, Make Fred's like a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker with two brims..... :)) Derned fine piece of red necking. Fred, do you have a pipe??

https://www.hueycases.net/ I used to know Marv Huey, great product. Still the best in the USA. I'm sure they'll tell you the best method of salvaging the felt, if it is possible. I have my doubts that it is possible to remove and replace the same piece of felt.

Do you mean one of the oak boxes with French fit openings for the various parts and barrel sets? If so, see Huey cases, the might have some advice. God bless

And there we have......Weldwood for the win!! Thanks guys. It's in the local Farm and Fleet store. I've still got a bit of old rubber cement, good for now. God bless

It's too cold to ship Renia Aqualim contact cement. Is the Tandy Tanner's Bond decent stuff? What's a good rubber cement for holding before stitching? Barge any good yet? Haven't had a can of that in a loooong time. Thanks

Front side......Angora goat hair........then Angora goat skin........ two sides of same goat hide....then the lining is sewed on, only around the edges. Goat skin is more fragile than cow, the lining prevents undue wear and stress on the skin.

Yup........what he said. Mine were lined with pillow ticking/mattress ticking. My partner's were lined with light canvas, both were tough. Another pair that hung in the bunkhouse were pretty patched up woolen blanket, old Army blanket wool. An old North Dakota Swede had made them in 1923 (same year my mom was born). All of ours were dark Angora.

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You spelt Tex a$$ wrong!! Nice work!

I hadn't seen the news until last night. https://www.scribd.com/article/617332009/Dan-Preston-Passes RIP

"But I still need to solve this problem, I'm a perfectionist and this doesn't work long term." Ah yes......my whole engineering career in those few words... God bless

Can you just hit the cut out pattern with a bit of 220 grit paper and eliminate that little step? I can't even see it on the clear plastic pieces.

Are you talking the difference between a secant intersection and a tangent intersection?

I had mine jump one tooth on the rack and it caught a bit. Did NOT let needle pick up bobbin thread. I think it was Wiz that helped me out, or Bob Kovar. A Happy and Healthy New Year to all. God bless

That's a tapered pin. Notice one end is larger in diameter than the other. Drift out appropriately. Back up with a weighty chunk of steel, but NOT on the pin. You could heat it with a propane torch, not red heat, just heat. They come out fairly easily then.

10 ounces?? That's a very small Kangaroo!

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Duck, Duck, Go......small stainless steel rivets, 5mm head Turned up a bunch of sources, McMaster Carr always has quality.

Stewart, 'cool' as always!! Colder than penguin farts up here! Merry CHRISTmas to all.

Looks good, kind of agree with North Star..... Can anyone tell me what sizes were common for the oval shaped makers stamps on holsters and gunbelts, like in Packing Iron.... it's time to get a stamp. God bless

The Optivisor folks sell a light frame that goes right on over the lens set. Battery and switch on side of visor, works great. https://www.penntoolco.com/quasar-led-lighting-system-for-optivisor-qsl-6010/?msclkid=00cfc8e8887a1748b000ab484cc115ab&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=**LP Shopping (1.1) - <%2450&utm_term=4575686358867949&utm_content=166342 | Quasar LED Lighting System for Optivisor - QSL-6010 | %2429.95#mz-expanded-view-419269663073

I told you, it was rawhide. By wetting and steaming it swells. Stake it to the ground over a fire that you buried in wet soil, steam is generated under it. It shrinks in diameter and gets thicker as it dries. Some museum Indian shields were over an inch thick. That buffalo hump skin is damned thick to begin with. I got the hides in Custer State Park during the butcher there. The Mennonite butchers used air knives to skin the buffalo and thought what I was trying was cool. I think it is talked about in Mystic Warriors of the Plains....... I found more information at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska. I lived south of Keystone, where Mt. Rushmore is up on the hill. I lived on the Iron Mountain road.....fun times.

I mentioned the rawhide because I've made Indian shields up to 3/4" thick from Long Horn bulls and buffalo bull hump. It just gets steamed to a soft state and shrinks in radially as it drys and thickens quite a lot. You need a flexible hinge or something similar, so no joy with rawhide. Good luck. The tannery folks might be on the lookout for old range bulls for you, we skinned some out that would probably have filled the bill. They made good dog food!

Would rawhide work? What is your project goal??