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thank you yes i love old steel too. I collect knives somewhat, never the new ones they just don't interest me. The black knife the 70+ customer has had since a kid, won it a carnival. I cleaned it up and polished the brass and handle a bit. When he pulled it out of sheath and saw it he about teared up on me. lol you could just see how much he loved that old carnival knife, to anyone else it wouldn't be worth a new sheath. That's why i do these for people because these old knives become a very personal and cherished item. What we do as craftsmen means more than making a buck sometimes.

the roux is about the first thing i taught my kids to make. It will make everything from breakfast to dessert lol. Speaking of sweets yesterday my wife picked our rhubarb and made an awesome sauce to go over ice cream, it is definitely spring here now. My little town is on Interstate 80 which is one of the main roads across our nation. So we get many different car clubs ,cross country races, and the liek coming thru, i have seen everything from Miss budweiser racing boat to a reenactment of the first motorized military trip across the nation in vehicles. Also many private planes stop here for fuel on thier way to air shows, all the bikers going to sturgis etc. We have an annual tractor get together just south of here, they go over the continental divide through the mountains check out this link my family settled in this area of the world. https://www.facebook.com/Littlesnakerivermuseum/posts/3272071576351243

beautiful work indeed!!

i ve made one book for my daughter much larger but still. I have a book on it somewhere lol. The paper is usually folded and sewn together at the seam in bunches of about three to 5 full sheets making six pages to ten. the stitch holes being about 1/2 " apart. I made my inner liner out of wood and binded it like they did years ago with leather straps & leather cover and the whole bit. But that was many years ago! on something that small i would sew the pages together along with an outer piece of thin ( liner) leather then glue that thin liner leather to the inside of the outer cover piece and sew the edges.

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.