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That is a nice rig!!

Tandy sells edge coat in black and brown maybe some others, i just use the two. its thicker so wont run or bleed and it covers any uneven dye problems on the edges. I let the customer decide on lined or unlined for dog collars but the edge coat goes on both anyway. Liners can be any leather you want ,with a lot depending on the dog breed heck i made collars for my Bullies out of two 10oz layers, but they are big dogs.

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both the awl blade and knife are 1095 i buy it soft in 2 inch flats. after shaping i heat it to an orange red hot non magnetic, then oil quench. i do that twice ,I then temper it at 400 for a couple hours and let it cool slowly down. it usually comes out about 56 rockwell. The awl was quite tricky as it cools and heats really fast lol so getting it into the oil before cooling was fun. This skiving knife is chisel ground.

Thank you Pastor. I make a lot of my own tools lol.

i once asked an old carpenter what the difference was between an apprentice and a master carpenter. He laughed and said the master knows how to hide his screwups. the way i see it is you have three choices . 1. an apprentice = keep trying to dye the edges perfectly and throw all your screwups in a bin and lose money. 2. Journeyman =Dye the whole thing and sell it for the same price and hope the dye doesn't bleed. 3. Master= cover it with a liner and sell it as the high QUALITY leather work you want to sell, and you can do it for more money. Just my opinion but you commented on another post that you wanted to sell high quality leather work, well an unlined collar isn't high quality work. How ever if you are intent on selling unlined collars then I use an edge paint and apply it with the wooden end of a small brush, simply dip about an inch of it in the paint wipe the extra drip off on the container and run it along the edge using the side of the handle

Simple but effective lol, they are going with the holsters i posted the other day.

LOL brings to mind an old west saying. They couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.

i read the reviews, they made me laugh a bit. they aren't really that hard to figure out how to use are they? I mean without instructions lol. God bless you as well friend!

So i was thinking i might make one of these for the wife, i have a question. What if a guy was to sew a thin leather book mark to the inside front cover so you could put it between pages when you close it. Do you think that would work? or would it tear up the pages? I need to think on this a bit.

That rough out does look nice indeed.

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very cool i may have to check that out. Suffice it to say he has a couple options to cure his problem.

beautiful again!!! man you stuck that border.

are the posts to long for the material? if so they will bend offset every time

that inspires the soul friend. beautiful work.

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looks nice and tight you did some good forming

If you cant find it basically i used wet paper and formed the outer piece then when dry i flattened it out and created the pattern from that.

wowzers friend that is definitely top of the line work.

That was a great pick up you got a nice deal for sure. I got a piece for free just a couple inches of one corner chipped off but it is large like yours so no problem.

Thank you. i hope my stitching gets better i'm kind of old and shaky but i take my time.

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Here ya go as you can see the back remains fairly flat in fact it wraps around your hip some when you get it formed for the belt loops, some bulge on revolvers but not much. Yes they are two piece and yes the front is larger than the back, i posted a few pictures of the pattern making process i used a quite a while back on an earlier thread.