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Wow more than i thought! I now have to rethink my pricing lol.

lol kind of like ebay you have to look at how many they have sold at that price. A high end gun shop could pull that price maybe for your item, clientele has some spendable cash there. A gun show where you are surrounded with bargain prices and bargain sized spendable cash then not so much.

That is one nice rig for sure. I know a lot of folk love cartridge loops on their gun stuff, my personal experience with loop holders has been that i lose shells during some of my more physically demanding hunting expeditions. the stock covers are the worst for losing shells.

here in Wyoming i think about 30 / 35 bucks. more if its highly tooled or custom work. Your question makes me think? My daughter is a tattoo artist and she prices design by the square inch, its the common way. Does anyone here sell custom tooling by the square inch? Seems it may be a good way to estimate pricing for design work on leather also.

yw! great minds think alike i guess.

Those are awesome!! I love old iron !! Do they have tractor parades over there? we have one yearly. I made mac an cheese for my wife on mother day its her favorite. I start with a basic roux then milk, cheddar cheese, this time i used sweet Italian sausage, a taste of garlic, large size macaroni's, Topped with panko bread and parmesan cheese and baked golden brown. I even liked it. Once long long long ago i had this job that only paid monthly, well one time after getting my check i went to partying some at the local pub. Next day i only had enough for rent lol. Ate very cheap boxed mac and cheese and fried egg sandwichs for a month straight. I still like a good fried egg sandwich but boxed mac n cheese just doesn't sound good anymore lol.

here's how i lengthened one , should work for you as well.

i am glad you found your answer, some info ,those aren't Tandy methods. They are books on the subject sold by tandy. the Mexican basket weave is what the Bruce grant link shows or is very similar. the book "how to lace" has about 15 different lacing techniques. Good luck and post an awesome picture of your project.

Would love to see those pics!! tranny is on order I'll probably get to enjoy installing it fathers day with my two sons. I was born with a wrench in my hand i think. My dad was a master mechanic for Chrysler so i was taught at a very young age to have a "trade" to fall back on if needed. It has done me well in life, typing this i was just thinking the largest tranny/ gear box i ever worked on was on an oil rig lol. I and a couple other people could get completely inside. Any way tonight we are having awesome French dip sandwiches made with roasted elk and homemade and grown horseradish. Ever grind that stuff up? It is dangerous stuff!!!! And deep fried tater tots lol.

here is some good info. you may be able to find these free in an e book somewhere. I downloaded them off Tandy a while back when they were free. in the "how to lace" book there is a Mexican basket weave that may suit your project. https://tandyleather.com/products/lacing-stitching-for-leathercraft-book?_pos=2&_sid=041795035&_ss=r or https://tandyleather.com/products/how-to-lace-book?_pos=1&_sid=b3cce9f3b&_ss=r

very cool bow!!! My first choice would be to make a new one second choice i would attempt to paint it instead of dying it. . Reason you dont have any idea what type of leather and or what was used as a finish or oils already applied.

That looks great !!! I would be proud of that..

Very interesting I have to agree and add a lot of the damaged stitching i have repaired has been mainly due to rot or fatigue from stretching bending etc. Neither stitch method would matter those cases either. i have never seen a test but I'm sure some have been done on the actual strength of the stitch method itself. Safety companies here have tested stitching on load bearing equipment but i don't know what kind of stitch was ever tested.

heres my recipe Brauts Fire Take brauts put them on the fire cook till you wanta eat em .lol Oh and my daughter ramped up some pork an beans with her own special barbe que sauce. Simply delicious!!! And a cold PBR

ditto

On leather sewn to canvas i know they use them to enlarge the sewing area and they also add a gusset on the back side to help with strength on leather to leather just aesthetics mainly i guess there may be a logical reason or even the same reason as circumstance dictates. i use square ones quite often, actually more often than not lol sometimes even slanted ones. I figure the leather doesn't know the dif and here's why. You use an awl to make slits in your leather instead of punching holes. Punching holes actually removes leather which weakens the seam and makes it like a postage stamp as everyone says. An awl removes no leather so no actual or minimal strength is lost and that is why awls are used to sew leather. So basically IMO you can just about sew the end of a strap or loop in any direction or configuration if you use an awl and it wont effect the strength in any noticeable way. If you punch an 1/8th inch hole in a 1/2" strap to insert a rivet you have in essence made the breaking strength of your strap that of a 3/8" inch strap.

beautiful work on both, they compliment each other very well.

a couple stitches down the side then across the bottom, Most folks as previously said cut the loop with a rounded or belt shaped end and sew along the edge.

Maybe you should tell those who buy your stuff that very thing I'm sure they would appreciate the fact that you don't give crap about the quality of your work. If you want to be an ass in your comments who really cares why you make them sorry i put you out."I just thought it would help those we are trying to help."

start a new thread someone will help you out i'm sure.

"Extremely unrealistic" is pretty absolute don't you think? In real life people who steal purses and their victims test them often, daily in fact here in the states, as well so do people who people who catch them on door knobs getting out of vehicles etc. But i can tell you from experience the stitches do hold better no need for you to show anyone if you don't want to I just thought it would help those we are trying to help.

so now would you finish your demonstration and sew the two straps together and see how easy it is to tear them out. i think most all of us would love to know.

Exactly why they failed!!!! yup or use the slot method that Fred suggested, it works because it shifts the load on the rivets to the stem.

simple answer = often they don't use them in places where rivets should be used. the strength and your perfect example shows this, rivets are best used for shear loads, loads perpendicular to the axis of the shaft, like you showed pulling on the shaft of the rivet. when folks use them in an area where the pressure of the load is on the head then the head pulls off or the leather stretches around the head and gives way. To me most folks are just ignorant about the technical aspect of fastening systems and don't realize they play out even in the smallest places like the leather world