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you need a stitching chisel or pricking chisel for use with sewing awls. believe Tsunkasapa. Also consider this, using a one prong stitching chisel wont be any different than just using an awl in the first place except it will take you twice as long.

thank you

is this some kind of secret project? short answer yes you can stretch leather. If your doing a seat cover for example it may stay or it may just compress the foam underneath. If you are making something that wont have tension applied then it may stay stretched or it may go back to original. if its for clothing of some such then it will stretch to form and function to a point. No one can tell you if that piece will stretch to do what you want because we don't know what you want to do with it.

your video rocks!!! i finally found it. i think it works on the same logic, its adds some room for the leather to flex instead of compressing against the blade. I'm an old guy with flip phone so I don't do videos lol. maybe i can get my son to help me out. you know i was just thinking if a guy were o cut a piece of 4" pvc in half and slide it under his leather so he was cutting on top of a convex surface it would work pretty good for long straight cuts, i'm gonna try it .

Always have it behind the blade not in front lol. Leather laying on a flat surface compresses the fibers into the blade, my guess is because cows are round not flat, causing drag when one side is lifted or even let hang over a table edge for example abates the issue.

I've found lifting the leather off the work surface makes it very easy to cut, i draw the lines pattern then as much as possible i hold the leather up off the table with one hand and cut.

has the edit button been taken away?

weird the link doesn't open to the buckle and for some reason there is no edit button anymore? but Weaver is having a 10% discount on hardware so have a look.

i use buckles from Weaver leather haven't had one fail.https://www.weaverleathersupply.com/c/product/_z40_buckle_nickel_plated_1__00040_np_1/00040-np-1?cat_id=shop_now&node=roller_buckles

you do beautiful work friend!

the tandy roller buckle. I doubt there is much difference they all come from china now.

leather washers for leather handles for leather tools

something tells me after this weekend you will be making some more!

beautiful work!!! Thems some fancy spenders lol and just in time for October fest.

i agree they need some refining. They look to perfect or computer generated to me maybe its the flat edges lol. Do you or can you do logos? I'm interested in one.

wrap them in leather?

i think anything you do will only make it worse. But look at it this way your sap would have darkened naturally anyway.

i think for your first one its outstanding, especially considering you had to make the tools and roon also .

need more info friend. what kind , how tanned, how thick, how big?

wow! seems if a company is going to sell something supposed to better made then it should be dontcha think. its sure purdy an high tech lookin though.

usps sucks!!!! if i mail a letter to an address across my 8000 population town it goes 120 miles to Cheyenne and then back. ten year ago they sorted in town now its all done in Cheyenne .

i feel your pain friend fedex does that to me all the time. goes right thru town on I 80 to salt lake then back again to Casper then back here. friggin nuts!!!

from what i read only endangered in Virginia

some folks just lay the belt along the edge of a table and place/clamp/hold a length of wood on top so it doesnt slip then burnish away.

those rock man!!!!!