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thanks for your help its a good looking hat.

Thats a nice hat, Is it all 3mm? what leather did you use? is there wire in the brim?

kinda vague question. Like asking whats the best leather for shoes? What are your chaps going to be used for work, show, do you live in the cold North or hot south? Motorcycles or horses? Are you making historically correct reproduction's?

Thank you!

nice indeed awesome double stitching looks great.

definitely getting the hang of it those are all very nice looking.

Awesome !! Beautiful birds, cant wait till spring when our Hawks come back to nest.

Very nice work indeed.

ahh overengineering I see. lol bend em in the direction opposite of spin so they don't getcha.

That is a good first bag! Those handles are tough to do.

maybe its upside down? Looks like it if its for right handed people.

Steam punk got its start in redneck engineering. I dont see no duct tape lol.

Thank you all !! I agree there is no better book to cover, good reading also!!

Thanks Bob i resisted it then taped it off and airbrushed the dyes canyon tan and bison brown on the edge.

i like them because i can hold them straighter and still see what I'm doing.

Darnit new tires got in my way. But sooner or later i will be tinkering also. Po folk got po ways!

Thanks Walter! she sure did.

It doesn't take many more than about ten hand cut straps before you realize how well it does work. lol

and sharpen the blade! finishing takes time more money and some more products that cost more to you. Of course you know that. It cuts straps then gets thrown in a bin, box, or drawer how pretty does it need to be?

a guy can can always make it more complicated heck maybe even figure out a way to tie to your i phone LOL. Make it so it needs an update weekly to run it. then quit providing service for those and sell em a new program and start all over again next year.

lets see what cha got! I'm always up for a better mousetrap.

Thanks guys.

that is looking really good, i use a my belt sander or sandpaper to clean up curves and edges, careful with a belt sander or you can burn your leather. I like the sheath it reminds me of the one Burt Reynolds wore on Gunsmoke.

nope you can strop your kitchen knives if you want. wash them after ward. Steels are used for a couple of reasons one being because they wont get wet greasy etc and get ruined in the kitchen or butcher shop. A strop was originally used for razors, they are super hard and brittle steel, they were used to remove, straighten and polish the minute steel edge that forms when sharpening. A steel was used for the less hard knife steels, both do similar jobs on different types of steel. You can polish an edge on a number of things, i have several glass rods that i use also for the same purpose. Sharpening is what you do to get the edge, stropping or honing polishes and keeps the edge sharp until it wears to the point of having to re-sharpen again.

Thank you all!!!!