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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.

One of the most beautiful places in the world to see the stars, except maybe out on the ocean. LOL i am not far from the mountains but i live in on the edge of the red desert on the continental divide. Its is fun talking to those youngsters who do the hiking the divide stuff they don't realize that the continental divide isn't all mountains, pine trees, fresh springs, and beautiful mountain glades, until they get here, they get about 60 to 100 miles of the great basin desert, burning sun and fierce winds that dry you to the bone in the summer.

its 29 dg F here and we have our first winters snow 3" closed all the roads around. I live at 6700ft altitude. I'll bet that warm sun is kinda nice indeed lol wanna trade?

beautiful rig, the stitching rocks!! and those tools are top notch for the job. I got to ask though why the nylon strap? it throws the build a bit.

So whatcha all makin? "leather work" covers a BIIIG subject. 500 buck budget to makes shoes? 500 buck budget to make wallets? 500 buck budget to make saddles? 500 buck budget to make leather coasters? Pretty much an open ended question isn't it? i will give some of you folks from other places a little heads up not all US citizens are rich or even close to it, many don't have even a hundred bucks to spend on a hobby. I for one have to make my tools, buy used or find a decent substitute i already own.

would be great at cutting coasters out! mug bottoms and the like.

is that for a seahorse? lol Great looking work!

any and all you can find! Here is a cool one https://ia903101.us.archive.org/18/items/thedecorationofl40286gut/40286-h/40286-h.htm or this one https://ia601600.us.archive.org/33/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.155482/2015.155482.Leather-Work-A-Practical-Manual-For-Learners_text.pdf https://archive.org/details/americana?query=leather+&sin=&and[]=subject%3A"Leatherwork" knowledge never gets old.

beautiful work!

now that s funny!!!

letters are the absolute hardest thing to do IMO. reason, every brain knows what they are supposed to look like so any blem is noticed. You are doing a great job.

i've looked all over cant find any except similar, not the exact font, antique on ebay.

a slicker or burnisher of some type? I would say made for a special purpose indeed. looks like a guy could lay a strap flat and burnish the edge and top at the same time maybe

i have two Dremel's and one off brand, one Dremel approx. 35 years old single speed but still runs fine, the ten speed Dremel not used much, my off brand motor , bought at wallymart, is used a lot , it is variable with the cable extension and about ten years old now. BUT i use Dremel bits and all Dremel discs and such. As i posted on another thread about power tools a cheap motor will run good bits a long time but cheap bits will kill a good motor quickly. If you are money tight you can use a cheaper motor but spend wisely on the bits and accessories and buy quality.

or the neighbors crab apples lol. man we used to make a mess. Stewarts pics always bring back the memories.

take them off chuck em up in a drill and use a file, if they arent to hard then a stone.

really nice work!!!