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I agree 100% its not about the quality of the tools or products. Its about who makes them and how they are treated in China. Slave labor is what is happening over there and no country can compete with them when they have no labor cost. They captured the world economy while everyone slept now we buy Chinese because there is nothing else in our stores.

I love it too. you did a great job for the first project, its a complex piece.

That is beautiful work! collars next?

very cool!!!

that may be the answer.

eek hmmm this gonna take some thinkin lol.

yes and also homemade chokecherry grape Brandy among other goodies. lol

here, USA, in most every town there is a local VFW, veterans of foreign wars. If you have these in the UK go there and talk to real vets ( the boots on the ground) they will know someone I'm sure who would benefit. I will add you are an awesome and wonderful person to care that much about your family as well as those who may get the benefit of your tools. God bless you friend

https://westernhorseman.com/culture/flashbacks/don-king-s-sheridan-style/

so I have three swivel knife blades i measured the total angle of each to see if they were close to Stohlmans instructions which say to sharpen the edge at about 30 degrees which is 60 total degrees. My three blades were all different angles 55, 65 and 75 degrees and i haven't changed any of the angles from factory. Two are tandy one is ? The 55 being my favorite to use. Also noticed the point angle on my two 1/4" filigree was different also.

Bout spit coffee out my nose LMAO great one!

Woot! I'm in But it wont be fer water lol.

i scanned two pages from the Leather work Manual by Stohlman, Patten & Wilson THey are over the limit so i'll post twice. swivelsharp1.pdf swivelsharp2.pdf

its a question puller..... and it works lol.

looks like a manufacturer, they can build anything you want from what i read.

great info friend i use that method a lot. you brought up another fuzzy part of the problem beginners have how about explaining that blade angle for those unaware why a swivel knife has such a flat angle but other knives don't? also I don't think a swivel knife has a secondary bevel so that info could be confusing to some.

i'm sure the story does and that is sad indeed. You should have asked the barber lol. I'm over 60 my dad taught me to sharpen knives my granddad taught me to sharpen everything from a hoe to an axe. I guess i was lucky i came from a poor family that were alive back when people learned from each other, that's how it was here back in the day just like learning to cook or sew it was part of growing up.

My lil rant I would bet there isn't a house on this planet that doesn't have a cutting tool in it. why so many don't know how to sharpen them even at the basic level is beyond my comprehension. i do my best to help those who ask and have spent a lot of my time and posted many times on sharpening questions. Please don't get me wrong i agree with you comment about the net being an awesome place to learn but then you still have to apply it by your self. Myself my family taught me back in the day from my dad to my grandmother all knew how to sharpen their tools. but in the end i still had to lay steel on stone. absolutely!

yup i agree my daughter has a tee shirt it says" "i can explain it to you but i cant understand it for you" my twist i can show you every step but i cant teach your muscles memory you have to do that part.

awesome tooling friend

Sharpening is a personal thing like leather work everyone finds their own best way. that's why so many opinions on how to do it. the end result is what is important not how you get there. The idea is a a straight, even on both sides, highly sharpened and polished edge. Of all the things i have cut in my life leather is right up there as hard to do, you need the polish or the knife drags and you need the sharpness or the knife doesn't cut its really that simple. Many overthink the process going from one way to the next but never really getting good at any one way they have tried. Pick a style that you and your hands and eyes can handle and perfect it. My self after the stones i use sandpaper spray glued to my pounding stone up to 2500. No need for the stones for a long time once the edge has been cut unless you nick or damage the blade.

re drill and tap with something you know.

I don't know about Covid I've had it and it didn't make me stupid. I'll bet it surprised the guy like jaws too. I use a few layers of painters tape over my blades when i send them and that is inside the sheaths. Bubble wrapped tight. Anyway i hope you can fix them up easily that tip will need some work for sure..

that's crazy !! what is wrong with people nowadays?

Seems your kind of ignorant about running a business, before you judge them or me start a business of your own with employees pay all the social security and insurances, overhead, etc. for them then have the gubmint tell you to shut the doors because your business isn't essential. you need to remember businesses didn't start this mess the gubmint did and they wouldn't have needed any handouts if left the hell alone either, same as the employees, and also spent the money they got how they needed to same as the employees. Don't know why you ranted on me friend but crawl back under ok I didn't make your life miserable either. And BTW millions of people still getting free money form this, food stamps for one. Good luck!