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looks like a round punch was used and a cut under it to relieve the wrinkling isssue with wet forming these small pockets. Use some scrap leather and quit with the almost-as-good stuff to work this out. just do one pocket first and pin you leather down along the sides, then measure about where you want your punched hole at the base punch it out cut a slit to the end and then wet it and form around the end and pin it down until dry. there will be over lap on the slitt you cut when dry cut straight down through both overlapped tag ends to get that straight clean cut at the bottom. use thin leather! The hole and slot thing is a really good way to solve that wet froming problem, very cool indeed. If you can't figure it out, then later today I might do one and show the pics i have a trap door on the wall and could use a good cartridge belt for it.

here is what works for me. I take a regular 5-gallon food-grade plastic bucket with a tight lid. Drill a hole to fit 1/4" tubing tight, then get a pint mason jar with a lid, drill a hole in that lid to fit the other end of the tubing into push it to the bottom of the jar fill the half full of water and you have your air lock and airtight fermenting barrel. you do your fermenting in this until it's complete. Then when its done press your mash and put the wine into the carboy with your clarifier. You're basically done now except for time. When it's clear, re-bottle it into your smaller vessels and enjoy it. you want your barrel and carboy as full as possible so there is little to no air, A hydrometer is what you needed for your water issue. You create your chosen alcohol content by the amount of sugar in your mash, if you want less alcohol more water type thing. You can add sugar to make stronger wine also. You do this at the start of your mash. And yes fix it!!!!

that small slot in the side port is for air flow the wood goes in above it, and the burn happens at the junction of the two. Then the gases/smoke burns also inside the flue part. Very efficient and hot.

piping always. There is a reason you use it in light leather goods, actually more than one lol.

Have you seen a rocket stove? It's the great-grandson of you BBQ lol? its on my bucket list of things to build.

I like it!! The expanded metal may be a trifle newer than medieval lol. heck yeah clean it up and season with oil.

Just my two cents, but here's how I see it. I've shot a lot of bp and been around bp folks. They are particular about their sport, they do it for a reason. You say this fellow is a collector and real bp buff. Well then i would scratch a big no about fixing this with plastic of any kind. I can tell you now he probably wouldnt like it. His double barrel is probably worth about 3 grand or so and he hunts and uses it specifically because it is a reminder of the past, he can buy cheap crap on the net, but he chooses not to for a reason. My advice is still thicker veg tan around the nozzle. I think it will actually be easier than plastic in the long run and will retain its shape if you seal it well. Taking the easy way out may shoot you in the foot on this one. Collectors are picky folk. Bp folk and their accouterments are in an era that didn't include plastic lol. Either way small shot and black powder will build up between the funnel and the leather if you don't glue it or get a really good tight fit and good luck on your project!!!

Beautiful work indeed!!!!!

That's some nice workmanship. Yeah, I like the color contrast too!!!

From what little I understand, I have braided exactly one hat band. it's a chapter on braiding two different braids or knots together in different ways. i think you need a pretty good idea of how to braid each separate knot before you can understand the diagrams or how they would fit together. If I wanted to finger it out, I would start with the easiest one, maybe joining two turks heads as i did a turks head for my hat band.

very cool !!!!!! and a very cool ride my friend, back in the day only the rich kids rode Schwinns and no one sold them around here, so there were only a couple in the whole town lol.

There is a guy here who has two of the wagoneers, both in perfect shape. man i would love to get my hands on one of them. I built this little 68 cj5 years ago, before i adopted my grandkids. I had to get a bigger truck lol. It had the Buick Odd Fire V6, and i added lockers in the front and rear end so all four wheels had traction. 4" lift and 35" monster mudder tires./ This little sucker was bad ass!!!! I even painted it lol.

many air soft guns are exact fits but you need to measure them to make sure.

I've lengthened plain belts with this method, but not belts with names centered in the back. Won't this throw that off a bit, or does it matter? You did a great job of itt!!

dope it up with Resolene or acrylic sealer, lol it'll be plenty stiff.

thicker veg tan, wet mold it to shape. for that 2 " piece you have sewn in. tool it too lol.

oh yeah, the Dixon club bar on a Saturday night would test your endurance for sure lol. It's very cool I love the look, color, and excellent work but probably not something you could wear here without some feedback.

Its a suburban lol Its my nickname for this thing I drive out in the boonies (offroad). There is still plenty of nowhere out here to get lost, stuck, or broke down in. 6" lift, 37"deep lug tires, 10,000 lb winch gets me through the shit and back home. i would look great driving her to elk camp with that red hat of yours, which is really cool btw, but i doubt i would make it out of the Dixon Bar safe with it on LOL.

Don't order your rabbit food from Amazon, it's a scam. The other day I put in an order and almost as soon as I got it, they sent me an email wanting my feedback.

just the right size for two !! Dang that looks good. All ive been cooking is mud lol, but that is kinda fun too. I've been wrenchin on the Burb, getting it ready for the hunt and winter. It was missing and running like crap so i decided to give her a tune-up. The plugs were pretty worn so i replaced them but he darn distributor cap i dont think was ever replaced lol. The rotor button was completely worn down and the terminals had big gobs of carbon burnt to them. So i figured it solved the problem, it ran better but still was not right so i rebuilt the throttle body next and found a vacuum port completely plugged with mud and someone had tried to set the idle by drilling out the idle screw, which is factory sealed, that throws off the ECM which controls air gas mix and was the biggest problem with the way she ran and the hardest to find as that shouldnt happen. Adjusted that back to the original reset the downshift cable which was also set to short and not allowing full throtle or proper shifting. I also threw on a new muffler, when i cut it off i found the one on it was to small it had just been shoved inside the exhaust pipe and welded on 2 1/2" muffler on a 3" exhaust so it had too much back pressure. Damn thing runs like new now. My son bought this thing used then traded it to us It was running well then, or so i thought, so i just drove it for a few years lol. Now for the hard stuff, My daughter gave us another burb, same year so I'm switching out the radiator supports, then fixing the other burb for my son to drive as well as having an unlifted unmodded truck for the road and town driving. The days are getting short and the mornings brisk It won't be long until snow flies here. Take care my friend!! Chuck

Those are friggin awesome lol. My oldest daughter just bought a pair, no spikes but as tall and covered in chains, she would wear those for sure.

I make wine every year, and have done so for most of my life. It's a great hobby if you like wine. We make ours from wild Chokecherries and Service Berrries that we pick, sometimes apples, and grapes. I've even made wine from our canned jellies that we had after quitting sugary food. The absolute most important part is your yeast selection, and clean equipment. Good luck and have fun with it!!

That is a nice-looking belt, worth the effort for sure.

His point is that Flea markets don't work and may be a waste of your time if you are trying to make a living doing this. Check out the vendor parking lot for Lamberginis lol. But here's the deal, there are literally MIllions of things you can make with leather, and millions of people from hundreds of countries so no one here can tell you how to be successful selling your stuff. It has to be top quality or at least look better than something you can buy at Walmart. You have to be a salesman and a living example of what you peddle, showing pride in yourself and your product or people will not even look at your stuff. The best place to start is by walking a few flea markets in your area, hang around , see what sells, ask vendors what is selling. Get a feel of what it is you are attempting to do. Don't ask us if it's worth it, ask the vendors at the flea markets. If they are all new vendors, why aren't there any old vendors? There may be no money to keep vendors coming back so location may affect your outcome even with a good product.!! I live in Wyoming, have never been to Florida, and haven't the foggiest idea what anyone would buy at a flea market in Florida, but it probably wouldn't be my Elk hunting gear. My guess is going to be sandals, flip flops and such. maybe straps to hold your sunglasses or sunscreen lotion, card wallets for your swimsuits. Whatever it is make it look good so if you're a beginner, then make it very simple until you gain the experience to expand your leather work to more complicated and pricier stuff.. Good luck to you my friend!!!!!! Oh, just food for thought, a leather card wallet with a stamped image of a bug at the Ugly Bug Fly Shop in Casper, Wyoming, sells for 79 dollars; they won't sell for 10 at a flea market.

Trash!! looks like someone rolled it up backwards a few dozen times. Yea I had a similar problem. You know what, i didn't call them out until I called them back and was given a sorry, ship it back on your dime, and we will re-sell it to some other shmuck conversation. Those middleman suppliers need to learn to send the crap back to the tanners when they receive it, not pass it on. However, so many folks now just don't know what 'good' leather is supposed to look like that they take the easy way out.