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me too, i make them to hold the magazine and match the holster. Easy and quick to make and from scrap pieces usually.

Yes, we had our first frost the other day; had to scrape the windshield, lol. Took the camper up to the mountains the other day, we're going hunting on the 15th. i cant wait to hear some quiet, smell some campfire, and have a cold beer doing it.

Are you saying you are going to duplicate someone else's techniques and clothing to make your own line? Copying that exactly may not be legal. Seems kind of unethical to me at the least. Good luck.

Your doing great man! Keep up the practice. Learning to tool isn't easy by any means, and it will get better with every project. One thing I will say is I appreciate the effort of hand tooling over computer-generated images any day, no matter how well it's done. You're putting yourself out there, and that is hard to do. One thing that helped me was practicing multiple times on pieces of scrap before committing to the final project. Here's one of my old practice pieces lol, its also good to save your stuff to document how you have progressed over the years.

waaay off topic but not adult, yet. Window lickers was/is a term used for the prisoners who were on Thorazine and such heavy drugs. A very sad thing to see humans that doped up really, even though they would be very violent off of it. anyway, back on topic I've not seen a mention of proper preparation!! Preparation should be foremost in a person's thoughts, as that is the precursor for a good burnish no matter what solution is used. Good, sharp edge tools, decent sanding, and a little water make for a darn good burnish if you ask me. It's all in the prep work, and the elbow grease is cheap.

It's more than accepted; some folks will argue you to the death that it's just not happening. And now they have added misinformation ( blatent lies), and simple confusion to their playbook. I agree it's the prime motivator to public division currently. Wexit is a good example; we hear absolutely nothing about the movement in Canada and its six or seven years old and going strong, but they won't connect it to Trump's remarks about "taking over Canada"; they want the world to believe it's all about the orange-haired bad guy, not about the Canadian people's wishes for change. Or the protests in Europe over Immigration and especially the European governments destroying the farming industry as they have tried here. Nothing on the world news. I can only imagine what the world has not heard about our country. It all became very obvious after the stolen election here that mainstream media is actually the working arm of control for bad governments. And yea, we have all seen the governmental and economic collusion globally to rewrite human culture ( dilute the racial gene pool into nonexistence), whether we admit it or not. Don't get me wrong, I know the US is probably the worst.

Sure is I've worked in a prison, seen 'em in person.

She was a beautiful Dog!!! But remind me not to go canoeing with you, lol. Sometimes I get jumpy, too. lol We had a Siberian that would put that pile of hair to shame lol she was a nightmare to brush out. We would have to do it outside or there would be dog hair dust bunnies in and on everything in the house. loved her though; she ran off a dozen times i think, once for three years.

almost everyone is south of you, aren't they lol. yup its that censorship thing no one believes is happening lol. Only the news Google thinks you need is what you get. The real craziness is the amount of bots and Ai"s ability to act human enough that there are "people" on every social media platform, even on this forum, that just aren't real, and we can't tell the difference anymore because it so advanced. I dropped out of the social media thing a long time ago, this forum being the only site i am on. Even here, I don't trust all the accounts to be real, and I think the other day i had one contacting me I had to report and block. Anyway, the post was just food for thought.

Just askin for a friend lol

I'll never tell lol.

I told you not to tell me that lol.

wow, your dog is really old. lol I looked up the acronym in a search because I didn't know it off hand, the only two that fit the sentence was either a German Shepherd dog or gender and sexual diversity lol Just funnin', don't take me seriously, i know whatcha meant.

Tobacco is now the biggest drug problem in prisons because they have gone tobacco-free; it costs more inside than pot or hard drugs.

What Fred said, plus clean the leftover stain, buff it out really well until there is no rub off and as you said punch your holes after staining.

now for the dirty lil secret no one tells, sometimes we just use spit lol. and don't tell me you haven't licked an edge or two when you're in a hurry.

you can burnish with plain water.

Absolutly!!

On grooving, Be groovy when groovy is cool!! Here are a couple of pics of my dogs collar, it was made by me in 2020. I grooved the stitch lines and you can see the diference between the inside and outside , The outside is great with really no need for grooves. The inside, on the other hand, shows that only the embedded threads remain and needed a groove, or the thread would be completly gone. A couple of points, dogs wear collars pretty much 24/7, unlike bridles, halters and such on horses that get a couple of hours once a week, so needs are quite a bit diferent. You can cut a collar completely through lengthwise and the two pieces will still have the same strength as the single piece, so running a groove lengthwise is of no consequence, while cutting or stitching across the collar at any point can ruin its strength when done improperly. Third, if you feel removing that half mil of leather with a groover is doing terrible things, you can create a groove deep enough without removing leather very easily, just with a wing divider, just dampen the leather as for stamping, which is how I make them. So to not do it when it's needed is just bad workmanship IMO.

It means they want to make it a plausible enough reason so they can write grants. Surveys are easily slanted for just that purpose. The way i see it, the problem was solved about 5000 years ago, they are called books lol, and ya keep 'em in a public library. Remember way back when people used to read them before their brains were turned to mush by technology and instant ten-second answers. A simple Google search and a guy can find dozens of these NPOs for leather already, all doing and saying the same thing.

No responses back? Just my opinion, of course, but if it's a college program, it's about writing grants for a made-up problem, which this is. Surveys are shady at best because they are always slanted to prove the need. Approximately 30% of U.S. nonprofits receive government grants, translating to over 100,000 organizations that collectively receive around $303 billion annually.

People who know absolutely nothing about the craft want your knowledge so they can make money tax-free. And it's a Mission. lol.

My dogs do the same. Deer crap is their favorite rub. They've also been sprayed by a skunk, and their leather collars have held up great so far. As for water, they have a pool and sprinkler they drench themselves with daily in the summer, leather will work just fine; it has for thousands of years on dogs, cows, horses........i built two of these for my Bullies in 2021 and they are still going strong,

i'll bet it evens out with time. I intentionally put on dye with a sponge to get a mottled effect, and most of it disappears after a month or so. Plus, the sun will darken it further,

That sounds like work!! I love to hike; however, Nothing like being alone with your thoughts on a beautiful morning. That is a nice harness setup; it shouldn't be too hard to duplicate. I have some American Bullies that I made leather pinch collars for, and I had to make the hardware for them also.