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You might hit up some fly-tying forums too they now use cutting dies for foam bodies, it's getting big fast!!! They may be more appreciative of your offer. Thanks, BTW. Good luck !!!

THAT is a nice car!!!!!!! Damn i love downshifting thru a turn.

I'm wishing you all the best and can't wait to see the outcome. I love mine too a little cleanup and a few tweaks and they run like a clock.

I've used one quite a bit. The biggest thing is to buy a good quality stamp; the cheaper ones don't line up well. Second, don't turn it when stamping.

LMao I read this "Looks nice. "Mule deer antler shed?" then this "Thanks! Not 100% sure on the antler. I bought it from a maker on Etsy. the seller didn’t say." I just figured you knew it was a mule deer. Sorry

I used references from existing ones online in my case it was for an M1 Garand. I also got the best info from Dwight here on the forum. oh mine is for right or left hand use lol I shoot lefty.

thanks, i feel the same as you the one has a date of 3/33 maker unknown on it the other was an old Montague both the wood was in excellent and when refinished they are beautiful. That old workmanship on what was once a lower quality rod is as good as any. I cant wait ti try them out lol the water is still to hard here. New reelseats handles and eyes complety scraped down with ten coats of try oil and japanese silk thread. When you afford cool sometimes you gotta make your own cool. The main reason o got into leather work btw.

sheds are not cut off thy fall off and leave a stump. so they have no saw marks on the end

So anyway I haven't spent the winter totally hibernating. I have a couple of old bamboo fly rods I bought off eBay years ago, last fall while in another town i bought another from a thrift store. It turned out the tip was broken but the silver lining was a beautiful red agate stripping guide a vintage sock and the original aluminum case. long story short I built two rods out of the three. I see some leather cases in my future lol.

its our turn for a mild winter. we had the mega snow two years ago. Its the wet time of spring now and when we get the moist moisture of the season. So we get snow/sleet rain hail stuff depending on the minute lol. the weather changes very quickly here.

Thats a nice little patch knife indeed. I found some small compasses that look nice embedded in the cut end it is an easy way to fill that void if the shank doesn't interfere and the sheath really rocks!! It will look great on a possibles bag.

also 2/3 oz is adequate.

Oils are used to soften vegetable tan. Do some tests with Neets foot oil to find the amount of softness you want in your final piece. It also darkens the leather a bit.

Excellent!!!! he** yea!

could be a lot of things. salt for example from possibly some oils they added as it dried out the salts migrate to the surface and appeare as a dry powder. Bruce has a guess just the rest of us did his method work? he told you how to deal with it. it takes minutes to find out?. That leather product is ruined period. Not all leather is salvageable nor does it need to be. Not all leather tools are salvageable not all belts, saddles, and boots in the world can be fixed that is a simple reality. If you do get out the unknown stuff safely you still have a withered and dried-out piece of leather if you get the oiles back into it it will still be an oiled damaged piece of leather that needs to be re-sewn to be any use on a horse carrying goods. If you ruined your tack deal with it move on and don't do it again. Frankly, if you brought those in my shop unsealed I would kick your butt right out the door and scold you for the damage you did to them. I used to post and help folks a lot here. I don't much now because frankly, most folks who post these types of questions want the answer they want not really a truthful response, and when they don't get that then whomever is the bad mean person. I do not come on here to blow smoke up people's butt I come on here and attempt to help by giving truthful honest answers to the pictures and few words folks try to communicate with their mostly limited knowledge of their problem. You have a great life and I wish the best for you and sincerely hope you can post an I told you so pic of those fine bags made all better.

Do you plan to sew it back together when the stitching falls out?

you are the one who said it was mold, not me? I was answering on your assumption I guess i was wrong for thinking you knew sorry. " some sort of mould or mildew. " and i said it because you could well infect the rest of your leather as you have no idea how to kill it. You have a great day now.

toss em, kick yourself in the butt and make a new pair.

make that belt a real kidney belt, the rest all one color and you have it imo.

Things to do with scraps and waste pieces !!

naw you take the top off the salt and top it off with sugar.

What a tease you are, lol. Now tell him how long you have been tooling. Your work is fantastic and that expertise didn't come overnight.

nope, no heat treatment is necessary. I've even used nails. making the stamps is half the fun IMO plus they can be made for your own specific purpose.

here ya go.

it helps a bunch if you can find an old Tandy catalog I have an old tattered copy that i still go to sometimes.