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yes it could i was thinking snake skin though and there aint much to skive or even be a problem lol. but again I don't know if snake could take the wear and i know nothing about the thickness of the other options.

interesting project, he has some nice grips alright, i would roll the skin edge under and maybe cut/ router a slight channel into the underside of the wood to hold the roll and allow the wood to still tighten down to the frame.

thank you it got me work for two holsters and a knife and sheath so far at elk camp.

i watch the marshal almost every day i just noticed his belt loops the other day, they used two rivets on each end. Gotta love the holsters shown on the series not to mention the surprise actors that came on. there was a really cool one on the other day a double rig and the holsters were put on smaller curved straps that hung down from the main belt if i remember they were hung by rings. Wish i could remember the episode.

wouldn't it be the diameter of the case plus the leather thickness x2 at the least, you could probably make them wider if wanted.

lol yea i hate my brain sometimes it coulda been dreaming of hunting, fishing or just about anything else in the world instead of thinking. try it on a piece of lace if you can.

those are awesome. homemade tools created this craft and are as much a part of its history as any other. If you have a drill press you could make your handles by inserting a straight rod first then chucking it up and turning/shaping the wood with files.

wow really nice! almost to nice to set on lol.

that will look great when finished. my only suggestion is to try a smooth beveller between the letter and floral. practice makes perfect.

woke up from a dead sleep last night 2.00 am my brain said maybe its for burnishing lace. making round laces from square. four different sizes of round leather laces?

i glue sand paper of various grits to them to sharpen my awls and such and to spread glue on larger pieces. I also use them in my other hobbies as well. in the US you can buy them at craft stores if you are some kind of ice-cream hater. Me i like to get them the hard way. i also use them to shim door hinges lol. There is a way to put them together to form a star shape and as kids we would throw them like frisbees, they explode/ come apart when they hit something.

check these out they are for wood turning, similar to pen making but i think you could cover them with leather also they are pretty cool i would try one but i gave up the gars a while back. https://www.woodturnerscatalog.com/p/55/6539/artisan-Cigar-Case-with-Cutter-Punch-Tip-Kit?term=cigar+case&term=cigar case

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Antique-Wooden-Burnishers-Shoe-Leather-Working-Tools-Edge-Slickers-/123718775610

They would certainly be a custom, money up front order. But he did a great job and someone will have the money in that hobby. when my kids were enrolled in the arts i used to call it takemoredough instead of taekwondo lol, everything they did cost me. Its an amazing piece of work CapnCohen

lol i was in no way correcting you friend just adding a bit because it is a good idea. Lollipops here usually have round sticks and popsicles , ice-cream bars and the like have flat sticks so i just didn't know which you were talking about.

i use the sticks from popcicles the same way and sharpen my awls also with them. i imagine they are the same thing they can also be purchased unused at craft stores

A good book title = How to Ruin Your Bracelets by Rusty Rivets you can paint them with nail polish or you can cover them with leather by adding a liner. do both is even better. Sweat makes em rust no getting around that.

if your resist worked then it shouldn't have gotten darker did you let it dry well before the antique? . i just made a sheath with bison brown, i left the floral natural and then used a resist on the floral then dyed the outside bison brown, then antiqued it with a dark brown and the contrast remained. if you are trying to add light dye over dark it wont work. You have to use an opaque acrylic paint over it. Are you trying to completely dye your belt blue then lighten the tooling? if so you will have to use acrylic paints, a couple of coats of white just to just to hide the blue, the dye may stain the acrylic also so you may need a resist in between those al well. then you will have to color your tooling with acrylics as well. remember though the acrylic paints may flake off. Your best bet is to color and resist your light work then hand dye your dark background with a brush, then resist everything, then antique. IMO.

Ever meet a roughneck? scientists studied one. They gave him three solid steel balls and a board with three round holes and locked him in a tiny room for two hours to see what he would do with them. when they opened the door they found him asleep in the corner. One ball was smashed to pieces one ball was gone and the last one in his lunchbox. i once saw a 60" rigid pipe wrench broken.

plug it in and try it on a piece of leather. the slots could knock off some particles that wouldn't smell very good in a hot motor. It cant be so clean that some evidence of what ever are left from its original owner can it?

LOL come to think of it that's the look i have before my first cup in the morning. Thanks she is a very sweet girl.

if you can ever find the book i reference its amazing how they made their clothing to keep them warm in subzero weather.

I don't know the Inuit made kayaks, btw without modern tools also, not bicycles so they prolly didn't need them lol. But I imagine they would have sewn them on as they didn't have chicago screws.. its very easy to replace sewn on straps.

interesting conversation about a process that dates back thousands of years and was being accomplished successfully before iron was invented. Sometimes i wonder how we will ever evolve further. Was given a very good book about the process of making footwear and clothing called "Our Boots" an Inuit woman's art. Its a wonderful book that shows above all else the real genius of people, which is the ability to make do and adapt what is at hand. You people know that the intuits made all of their clothing keeping them alive in the worst environment on earth without modern tools. Yea not even a ruler!

i am fascinated with the historical knowledge in them, might try some of the older techniques this winter, but have to make a few tools it looks like.