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chuck123wapati

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  1. your woodworking skills are amazing. your eye for detail and perfection will no doubt follow over into leather. And the good the good thing is Leather and wood go together in a lot of projects. as well so do some of the tools and skills .
  2. you can get a fluer de lis stamp from tandy then just bevel around it. i can measure mine to see if it fits your design.
  3. beautiful work and an awesome subject. god bless!!!
  4. i wish i did i use the one on my computer but i cant figure out what it is? I open the pic then right click and use resize option best for emails and messages. its just called microsoft photos on windows 10
  5. they can be any of the four things a thumb rest usually rounded to fit the thumb, They can be really sharop and used for sawing lioke the ones on survival knives or as fred says there are knives made with the purpose of catching the blade and on some just decorations. on these i would have to say thumb rests. they can be any of the four things a thumb rest usually rounded to fit the thumb, They can be really sharop and used for sawing lioke the ones on survival knives or as fred says there are knives made with the purpose of catching the blade and on some just decorations like these on mine. on these i would have to say thumb rests.
  6. Those and other mini flowers rule the desert for a few weeks in places they are so thick they look like snow. Most folks drive thru Wyoming and never really see it. even the ones coming here for vacation. my beer of choice is PBR lol. guiness is really expensive but i sneak some once in a while. I tried brewing my own beer one time but found i was brewing almost non stop lol.
  7. i bought some 1/8th inch stainless all thread and made a super small beveler for just a couple bucks to get in those tiny spots. plus some lifters and a sculpting tip.
  8. beer battered and deep fried! lol nice indeed!!!
  9. ok i made a new thread , i figured Fred is getting tired of his thread being stomped on. Sorry Fred!!! First of the year the desert here is literally covered in flowers but you have to get close to see them lol. i will get some more as time allows.
  10. ok i will get a piece sanded down and stained so you can see the grain
  11. man that sounds good!! we had chicken fried elk steaks last night with champ and homemade gravy.
  12. thats some nice steel and nice leather glad you are getting healed up.
  13. awesome indeed lets see that steel!! I just went out and picked up some sage brush, cut it up for scales it makes some pretty stuff.
  14. yeesh thats a quandary alright i think it depends a lot on the thickness of inner liner if your using very thin i dont see much problem at all doing it either way. But the question is how thick of a liner can you get away with before wrinkling inside I would tool a bit of scrap and run some quick tests to see if forming after gluing would cause wrinkling. you may also want to think about skiving you outer piece along the bend before gluing in the liner , that may help reduce the problem with liner wrinkles and softening of the tooling impressions both are caused by the leather bunching up and or stretching out. I would also love to find out your progress i have a slim Jim to make for my dads old shooter also but I've never lined them shh don't tell the guns they think they are nice and comfy living in the rough. anyway i tool very deep then form my unlined holsters because you lose some impression when forming around the bend, i expect it and tell my customers to expect it as well.
  15. Thank you lol yes i do the black knife wasnt bad all i had to do was put a new edge on it but the metal detector find was a bit of a chore. thank you Pastor a lot of folks like plain old leather, sure makes it easy to please them.
  16. i could see a hat carved on the flap lol Its very cool project. You did a great job.
  17. thank you thank you . something to do with all my old carburetors lol. those are awesome knives, one of my favorite knife styles. i am going to have to fire up the forge it looks like lol, a friend gave me a couple thousand rounds of old brass too i think i'll melt it down. thank you.
  18. Thanks i love antler to work with you never quite know how they will end up looking the pictures dont do them justice they are more polished then they look.
  19. a couple knives a fellow wanted fixed up. The black knife he has had since a kid, he is 70, his son chipped the blade so I repaired it a bit cleaned it up and made a new sheath. the other was a metal detector find he had. it had no scales and was solid rust so i made elk antler scales cleaned it up and made the sheath. I wish i had done some before pics.
  20. your a pro at color combos!! they are beautiful works.
  21. lol thats what art does it pulls out emotion from those who view it. When that happens you are successful. I see a guy stopped and thinking with some apprehension. should i ride in or turn around.
  22. i can get hammer heads by the buckets at garage sales seems like. To re-handle a head costs more than the cheapo china junk so people just don't do it anymore. plus there is an old guy, like me lol, that has an ongoing yard sale so the old timers get him to clean out their garages and man he has some cool stuff sometimes.
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