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Nice work!! high and tight holster.

You can buy a couple of harness needles and some tiger thread, or you can use a speedy stitcher. If the sheath is machine sewn, the speedy stitch will work fine. personally, if you're doing these repairs a lot then go with some john James harness needles an awl, both diamond and round, some tiger thread in various colors and sizes. also some contact cement to reglue, then of course the cleaning,conditioning and buffing supplies to make it shine.

That's the problem with unknown steels. it depends on what type of steel you have so its hit and miss if you get a good temper. Most can be though with some experimentation on some scraps. you have to re-harden the blade, then temper it. you can get by with map gas on small blades if you can keep the steel at temp throughout the whole length of the cutting edge. P.S. I made this at home, does it count lol. and my putty knife skiver was the inspiration.

i like the conchos if i did anything to this, which i wouldn't, I would make the tail on the holster strap a little shorter. Oh damn, no tassels, this ain't no peep show yer dancin in.

That is one of the nicest for sure my friend!! It is excellent IMO, matches the revolver perfectly.

Maybe make pancakes for folders. a few sizes will fit most knives and dont need to be formed. Straight blade knife sheaths can also be made by making them for certain blade lengths and shapes. Knives usually have 3" 4" 6" blade length and certain blade shapes clip point and drop point come to mind and are most common. you can make a sheath easilly for any knife if you have the length, shape and thickness of the blade. Don't fret the handles they are all within certain parameters that have to fit the average human hand so most are very close in diameter and length. A decent picture is all you need and the blade measurments.

very nice !! i need that too.

i sure have my share of experience scars lol dont need many more but you know things need to be figured out once in a while lol. Oh yeah Kilns and wheels are crazy expensive, i have a really really old electric kiln but no 220 in my shop anymore to run it. soooo... a new propane burner is needed to be built for my project. I'll post pics lol sooo..... one time, again not thinking all the way through, i had this great idea to buy a small can of potted meat, don't know if you have it over yon but it looks just like cat food and as we have a cat the wife sent me to buy cat food lol. Soo anyway potted meat looks just like cat food even on a cracker so dont make one right after you buy cat food and take a bite in front of your wife or she will go into a craze you've never before witnessed lol. I've come to love this semi stifled growl she makes sometimes under her breath.

At least I lived long enough to grow out of it lol, but it takes so much of the excitement out of experimenting

What an honor my friend, it sounds like a great time indeed. Is anyone videoing it? It would be nice to see the work. It will also be a nice change of pace for you I'll bet. I had to laugh at myself, my tim the tool man brain said hey you have a treadmill motor it would make a great pottery wheel motor. So I get it out and get it wired back up, and I'm sitting there watching it turn slowly on setting 1 whicjh would be a good speed i imagine, i really have no idea lol, But it looks like i could keep up anyway i turn it up a notch still not bad so i kicks it into high 10 on the setting man that thing took off a good 1800 rpm and i got this image of clay flying around the room at lightning speed, kids and dogs runnign for cover, the wife yelling . LOL It was then i realizesd i have gotten to the point and age that i can kind of think through my decisions and see a bad outcome before it happens. So now i'm making a simple kickwheel with no motor... i still dont know what to do with the motor??? Life is good!!

lol Trial and error, and a book was all we had when I was first learning this stuff. But nowadays I do peruse YouTube just like everyone else. I've always studied art and creating things so this is just a part of that. If that makes sense?

yes, go to Walmart, they have a bunch hanging on the rack.

Those are looking good, my friend. I haven't done many human portraits in leather, but I did do my Beagle. I used pyrography and less modeling. But i'll bet they could go well together.

Working on a potter's wheel and a propane-fired Raku kiln. Basically a 50 gallon drum with 2" of ceramic wool inside, lol, and one of my burners. I have a lot to do before snow flies so all my projects get a few minutes here and there. My daughter has given me another suburban the same year and make as mine so I'll be swapping some parts around, then fixing both up before hunting season and winter it will be nice to have a backup the kids can drive. I'm starting to get back on my feet after my ailment last spring, It was darn hard to get my muscle strength back, I guess old age is the culprit, I feel great now again and am back up at 4am every day starting out the day watching the hummingbirds have breakfast at dawn lol. Take care, my friend, summer is on its way to you now lol.

heres a pic of mine lol they work!!!

Well said Fred.

This is the reality, and i agree completely. The sewing machine is one of the greatest inventions man has ever made IMO and the lock stitch has worked for a long time too.

That's just it a saddle stitch doesnt create a knot while a lockstitch is basicly a series of knots. Visualize your threads. Saddle stitching is basically using two threads spiraling them together with leather in between with no tension built by the threads pulling against each ohter. while lockstitch is two pieces of thread wrapped around each other in every hole, pulling against each the oposing thread on the other side of the leather

take one piece of thread and try and break it then, take two pieces of the same thread and try and break them. I will add saddle stitching into drilled round holes defeats the thread's ability to lock together, the leather slit and the tension it provides is part of the process that makes saddle stitching a stronger and better choice IMO.

Someone knew you needed a vacation!! Go have a good time while you have the excuse, er chance.

If you didn't think of this already. Call him and buy his machines if you can.

Life is good, my friend 🍺 On both sides of the planet. It's been a ride, though, and not one I care to repeat for a while. I am slowly catching up to my chores and starting to relax a bit. Went shooting the other day just for kicks and picked up some more clay. Ive processed about 30 lbs so now i have enough to play with if my kids don't use it all up. A great thing is taking place here now, folks are buying more and more US-made products and more and more small family businesses are making a comeback, finally. I can see my kids actually being able to work for themselves and make a living if they want to go that route in the future. Anyway have a great day and say hi to pops for me!!

Some parts of the hide, like the belly, are softer on the flesh side and beveling just won't work well but then its not needed due to the softness.

IT depends on the look you want or the construction. If you are gluing two pieces together, then only the outside edges gets beveled so that it glues up flush. A welt doesn't get beveled at all. A one-piece belt gets both sides beveled. You can bevel the edges round or more square, also, depending on the use or the look of the product you are making. Nothing is really written in stone about how you make the edges.