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beware of following the masses, sometimes the m is missing.

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Your opinion means nothing here friend go somewhere else like face book to spoils peoples day.

i have elk tallow that is over ten years old and still not rancid. leather shoes wo socks/ sandals will smell like the feet that wear them in just a few weeks more or less. They take up human oil s from the body as well

How exactly does quality and faux even go together in a sentence? You can buy embossed leather that simulates the hide from other critters if that's what you mean. Tandy sells it.

they are fantastic as well. beautiful rendition of a civil war era bowie.

excellent job of it!

ewwwwww! expensive ones will do that too. if its a double action air brush start with air only then slowly pull back on the trigger to atomize the Dye. Plus if it sets a minute between sprays shoot it at some paper towel first to get rid of the blobs before shooting at your leather. i also start a little off project and sweep my airbrush across the whole piece covering half the previous spray pattern every time .

Hi neighbor and welcome from a couple hours farther west.

that is cool as heck man I love it!!

https://www.amazon.com/Fiebings-Golden-Mink-Leather-Preserver/dp/B000HHQ42Y

nothing would happen to s30v if you etched it unless maybe you clay tempered it the Hamon might show up. I've done one blade with that technique and it didn't appear very well. the difference is one is a lost art done by master craftsmen who spent a life time learning how. the other is done by just about anyone who can weld, buy a forge and power hammer and can get high carbon steel they have no idea where or how it was made lol. A lot of modern "Damascus" is simply steel cable forge welded so not a lot of learning involved in the process. Get it the right color, hammer , repeat. I love the look of the blades made from whatever you want to call it and have a couple myself but i also cant tell any difference in how they perform over a regular blade forged and tempered to the same hardness. Its use is a matter of looks now days not so much for flex and strength. here is some interesting info along these lines.https://knifewear.com/blogs/articles/the-truth-about-damascus-steel

you nailed it. Where did you find that picture? its awesome lol.,

i make a few knives and your right about most of it. Damascus knives stay sharp longer but require much more work when they get dull. the reason for this is that they temper it to be very hard steel. There are dozens of new age ways to make Damascus but not many compare to the original technique. The process originally came about to make not so good steel into really good steel that was both flexible and strong. We don't have to do that now we have good steel and other ways to do that. For a round knife it isn't needed at all but it does look cool, it wont make your work better but you can lay it next to your projects in photos for interest and folks will think your an expert or somethin. What you want in a good round knife IMO is a straight grind blade in 1095, d2 or something tempered easy to sharpen but still hold a good edge. Its not so much the steel type but the temper and grind that makes a good knife. Last variable of all is some folks like a hard blade that wears a long time some folks like an easy to sharpen blade so you will get different answers.

Its nice to see your work again and its as good as ever. Wonderful looking tooling and construction I would have hard time using them for the first time. lol.

I prefer to believe you underestimate your abilities. start with something easy like a ottoman footstool for example find one that just needs to be recovered so not much wood work to do.

you made out like a bandit. leather works for furniture also, Restore some old chairs or make some new ones.

lol i worked with both too but in a prison setting, they were all sober and clean by then but some were still vipers. By grip i meant stuff or belongings, lol, like the leather bags and pouches and such that folks of that era would have used. Brain tanning is a different way of tanning leather using the brains of the animal as the tanning agent. Native Americans used the process. The leather is much softer and flexible than veg tanned leather.

so I'm dinking around today making this doodad and am trying to find a way to harden the tip a bit. I decided to try some of my floor wax ( pledge future) full strength i just used my finger and wiped it across the leather hoping to do a few good coats. It dried almost as fast as it was applied with almost zero soaking into the leather. SO that is why it is diluted!!!! I tried another piece of scrap with a 50/50 mix to prove my theory lol. and yup the dilluted took longer to dry and so it soaked in about twice as far. Next test was with super sheen which I could tell is thinner and has much more water added than the 50/50 mix. The sheen soaked in about twice that of the 50/50 mix. So an even more diluted mix would be better imo than 50/50 to get the sealer into the leather more efficiently. Another thing I realize is if the first coat dries then your done anything else is only topical and could chip or peel. As before always test before using your leather may take it differently. My doodad lol.

oh yea you could sleep outside on the ground in a snow storm and stay warm. I would love one on my bed but the cost stops me lol and my dogs would probably try to eat it.

if they are tanned correctly yes they are pretty soft what is hard to get used to is the weight of it.

Thanks for the link i look forward to reading it. lol in the last 50,000 years or so of people using leather I'll bet almost every thing has been tried once or twice times a hundred thousand. Conditioning leather isn't a new science, its a forgotten science maybe for sake of a better definition. Done by every race and society on earth each with their own ways of tanning, their own oils and their own greases and their own environments that the leather has to survive. Here is how you reduce the smell of your tallow, its good for making soap also so dont just throw it out.https://www.faithfulcarnivore.com/post/howtorenderandpurifyodorlessbeeftallow I don't usually make my own conditioners for the above reason unless it for my black powder grip which I use fats and greases that a fur trapper may have access to. There is nothing I could make any better or unique enough to waste the time and most of my clients don't care either. I don't use it as an advertising ploy which seems to be the norm lately after all its gotta have those "new age" buzz words to sell to some groups. I really don't think Monks would be that petty would they? lol. I apply neets foot oil then use a product from feibings called golden mink oil. I can tell it has a base of petroleum jelly, smells great and works great i have no idea what ratios it is made from. then a sealer if needed a good deal of the time I use clear shoe polish. It is highly used and has been around for many many years, used personally by me so I know it works, pretty well for at least 30 years. If were to make my own i would do just as you are doing and find an old recipe to start with. Now that is for veg tanned leather. I also brain tan my deer and Elk hides and i use an emulsion of ivory hand soap neets foot oil and water to help tan and condition the hides before smoking them.

buffalo/ bison comes to mind hair on they are very nice and soft. Folks used them for thousands of years.

and the last, darn good looking holsters, of the year!!! happy New year!

beautiful!! i used to ride a skateboard but it was a looooong time ago lol. Where do you get the buckles?