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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

an just a few diced jalapenos lol. gotta have my spice. oh yea the secret to good beans is day after!!!

i use artist grade acrylics for painting. Decent brushes or air brush depending on the project. headshot i would leave the body and face natural, background a light tan slightly darker than the body then the hair dark brown. resist real well anything you don't want stained with the antique. Magnifying glasses and a steady hand!! Acrylics over stain but you need to realize some acrylic colors are translucent while others are opaque. If you use a translucent color then you will need a white underlayment over the stain.

great info!!

for the brookies sometime in July when the snow is gone in the mountains lol. Those steaks, October for the freshest lol.

yes it takes some studying sometimes, i think it does too, early 1900s look.

thank you for the info. How long have you used them? Do they hold up?

Thanks that is where i cut the holster down,, i had to add some holes where i cut off part of the old stitch holes

i had a customer that wanted a holster modified a while back, he liked it so here's number two . changing the loop makes the holster ride higher, tighter to the body and has a cant

it still looks pretty darn good for a first try and it will look much better finished.... That's why i shade in my background with a pencil on the designs, it gives me the idea of how much negative space there is to tool. it also loses the thickness of the lines so you can see how thick or thin your carving will actually look to the eye. if you get tired shading it in then you have to much background to tool IMO and LOL.

i wish i could too. The lilacs are just starting to bloom here, almost every yard has a t least one so the whole town smells like lilacs for a couple weeks,

since its snowing again this morn here are a few pics from warm days past. A wild Rose and a potato

jalapeno tarter sauce will definitely be on my table next fish meal!!! that sounds just badass.

very cool old tractor!!! i love wrenchin on old iron i really wish i had the money to restore i would have a dozen projects lol. I just sold off my 75 mgb and a 68 jeep cj5 that i had way to much money and bloody knuckles in. If you make your own jellies or canned foods you gotta try jalapeno jelly or jalapeno bread and butter pickles. Those are my two additions to the pantry every year. Bread and butter jalapenos are the bees knees lol.

lol i could use a few nice days in a row. I have a transmission to install in my truck and a ton of yard work.

left over smoked meatloaf sammich today? Darn you Frodo lol.

its trying to warm up i think, over 70 f yesterday today rain with chances of snow. Life at 7000 feet above sea level lol.

used the charcoal grill last night for the first time this year. barbequed chicken. I would have taken pictures but they would have been almost obscene in how delicious they looked. I now believe one of my daughters ,19 , has perfected making barbeque sauce. It had to be as close to perfect as you can get and coupled with my wifes homemade potato salad made me eat waaaay to much lol.

thank you for that info.

yes they appear to be the same but using a metal snap on the outer part. please let us know.