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i think you are getting better every time you make one and if you use the same color thread the edges wont show so bad. if you can sell them make them. I quit smoking gars this is hard stuff for me lol.

"My wife was surprised on how nice it came out. Now she thinks I can build anything out of wood but I’m no woodworker. So be careful if you decide to tackle one of these on as you’ll also be expected to remodel a kitchen." whaaaat......... you made it to 50 before the wife found out you could do something constructive? how the heck did you pull that one off?

I live to repurpose, 63 and never bought a new car in my life. Been there for sure the wife thinks i can do about anything after 40 + years lol.!! Most of my good hard wood comes from old furniture or a friend who does hardwood floors lol. I made my kitchen cabinets out of Cherry tongue and groove cutoffs that he gave me. Right now i have a really nice solid oak twin bed frame that's going to be my tool box or something. Good luck in you new home improvement career lol.

My little one room garage is a combo blacksmith, welding, woodworking and auto repair, and whatever else i need room for. Half my time is spent moving crap around. let your son borrow them they will be gone in a month LOL. my son is now in his 30s and guess what he has to hide his tools from me lol. If i walk by and see one i take it especially anything 1/2" and 9/16" i'll bet i bought a dozen each of those two in his short time as a teen with a truck.

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definitely very nice!!!! Love the looks of the natural woods contrast and your design is awesome. My feeble attempt has gotten to small i may have to borrow your inspiration and make a new one lol. Been torn between a real type tool box or a stand such as yours.

You can dye your stuff anywhere in the process you want. when depends on what your making, a stamped or tooled wallet for example has to be tooled first or you don't know whereto put the colors but an untooled wallet could be dyed first or last. Then there are different ways to dye your piece also, dip dying, block dying, air brush to name a few and all can be done at different times. On the shrinkage i have not really noticed it because when i wet form i shape the leather the way i want it usually over a form or mold. I use an air brush to dye it so it doesn't really get wet enough to shrink, Your leather will stretch also when tooled most folks glue it to some heavy paper to minimize that. softening can be done with any number of products depending somewhat on the end use of the leather piece. Neats foot oil in small quantities is one of the traditional methods.

sooooo... Happy day folks!!!!! Corned beast & cabbage & potatoes with lotsa butter , Soda bread with raisins and lotsa butter, Lotsa Guinness stout in a clean glass no butter. Oh and the wife and kids gotta make shamrock shakes also with no butter lol. I love this holiday, Beer and food and fun.

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i use weldwood also mainly because its the best stuff that i have found readily available here in my town. I don't think i would switch unless i found something was just as good and cheaper.

heres my issue with sending it back , they will just resell it to some other poor sap who probably wont know any better and possibly he will even think they did him a favor. plus I will waste a week of my life and 20 more dollars. then shipping and more time on another piece I cant afford throwing good money after bad and telling them that made no deference to them. MLC wont get any more of my money that is all i can do.

glue the pieces of welt together chisel or make your holes then skive into a wedge.

You are lucky , I wish i had that option i would use it nearest tandy is 150 miles over two mountain ranges. Funny thing is i have ordered from tandy and gotten better Brazilian tanned leather cheaper.

yup you can use two or three pieces of welt whatever adds up to the thickness glue the pieces together then skive them down into a wedge shape. That is a good pattern the takeaway from that video = he made it a half inch bigger at least than his pattern. What he didn't show = checking the pattern against the blade to make sure it was big enough.

there is also a woman doing some of the steps, i see a few different hands in there. I would think he moistened the inner veg tan sometime before putting in the molds and between that and running the bone folder around the stitch lines set the shape.

Thanks my ggrand dad came over in the 1800s but went back to visit then and my g grand mother took the photos i managed to retrieve this off of her original glass negatives. the man in the white shirt i believe would be a g g uncle.

yum! it all sounds good!! I love soda bread, we have it every year. And champ every week or so with sausage usually. Never heard of Colcannon but it sounds good too we have cabbage fried in butter often.

for the antique and dyes i use cotton balls they work well and are cheap. I also use natural sponge for dyes it makes a mottled effect real well.

here the city built a nice water park over $100,000 for the kids then figured out we dont have enough water to run it. we were on water rationing all last summer lol.

you can add the variable thickness with a wedge shaped welt also. with welt or without the width of the blade has to be added to the pattern even with a two piece pattern, if the blade is 1/2" thick you need to add 1/4" on both pieces, what i would do on this is leave even extra leather along the bottom or edge you can trim off and dry fit test the sheath, always test fit as close as possible before gluing it up and leave some trimming room as well. Most times a paper pattern will work to test the size especially on semi flat patterns

i took off the name of the company, I'll be glad to tell anyone who wants to know on a private message but beware, is the middleman. And they don't have a review section for customers to check their service. They say that midgrade leather is C or d seems to me out of 4 grades it would be B or c. I can read and did know it may have scratches and bug bites and a brand, that is what i wanted but this piece has machine cuts and gouges completely through the top layers almost half unusable imo. Now what does it have to do with shipping? It cost me 20 bucks +3 days to get it, to send it back for refund another 20 bucks +3days then to re order from someone else 20 bucks +X days then maybe i get a decent piece with just scratches and bug bites. LOL OR eat the 100 bucks i throw away in bad leather and save four or five days of aggravation and forget it.

Happy St Paddys day to everyone a bit early. Was wondering today what the Irish really eat on the holiday? I'm going to have a corned elk roast But i as i peruse the net it is becoming apparent the Irish don't eat corned beef. What do they eat? Bangers and mash or is that British? The last time my family was in Ireland was right after the titanic sank lol.

i got good shipping just crap product Herman oak midgrade almost half ruined with machine gouges and scrapes.

lol just 4 times. I would have had to practice a couple of times on scrap also.