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Your story brings to mind this they also supplied the UP shovels, picks and such, after they got into power they made millions. can you imagine how many shovels it took to build the panama or the UP. Oliver Ames was the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, while his brother Oakes was a Massachusetts congressman. But before they assumed their respective positions, the brothers ran a successful business selling axes and shovels to gold-seekers in California, and making millions in the process. The duo later supplied shovels to the government during the Civil War, for excavating the Panama Canal, for mining Pennsylvania coal fields, and for digging the New York subway system.

i think i will go with beeswax as i trust your knowledge and experience, i have absolutely none on this. but my hard Spirits will stay in glass with maybe a leather cover lol. i have plenty of homemade chokecherry wine for this project lol. So how do you get the beeswax inside evenly and the remainder back out ? Heating the leather as well as the wax? If so on the leather how hot?

thank you i sure hope so it maybe it will drum up a little business for me.

just in time! those are cool as heck

just my two cents on tools example= You can buy the best drill and it still wont drill with crappy drill bits or you can buy a crappy drill and it will drill well with high quality drill bits. This is where i have seen most folks new in trades failing. they gotta have the right Color power tools on site as you pointed out to look pro and be one of the guys but then they buy the crap when it comes to the bits, blades and such. i've never owned upper end power tools but i buy only upper end wear parts bits blades and such they save the tool no matter how well made from destruction from overwork.

man your knife work and tooling rocks!

that is a cool gift idea great tooling

thanks thanks it sure did come out nice i managed to get the pattern pretty straight. thanks thanks i may be using this pattern now with my knives. pretty easy build and it would look really good with an antler hafted knife. Thanks lol yea i know his sisters are. thank you yea mine is plain jane compared to his i may have to make me one now.

that is a great idea

dang nice job there, ima gonna have to build mine after huntin season.

maybe these would work https://www.mcmaster.com/rivets/hollow-rivets/

most look like eyelets, probably more heavy duty than modern ones. Friggin cool project indeed i love that kind of stuff.

My first try at snakeskin and crossdraw, made it for my son, he will be the talk at elk camp this year lol. bison brown with prairie rattler.

very nice job!

great use of scrap for sure and nice design.

very nice!

ole rooster Cogburn woulda loved em. at least the new ole rooster would have lol. So do I!!!

Heck yea or some smaller pokes i have seen the smaller ones that hang around the neck. It also makes a nice liner material for belts, guitar straps, and the like. Im looking for ideas too my son has brain tanned a few deer hides so they are similar. A nice pair of gloves would work too. or some moccasins.

really nice work !!! have you thought of putting a chain or maybe a lanyard similar to a truckers wallet so it wont get dropped in the creek an float away. Don't ask me how i know lol.

Awesome tool!! I've found the older tools often are about the best at what they do.

very cool Those will work awesome in my green house.

try on scrap first.

from what ive read in about five minutes the jobmate are lower end tools sold by Canadian tire Seems Canadian tire outsources their tools and have a few different quality brands made for them. No personal knowledge of them just info from the net, that being said doesn't mean they wont work for you, i have hundreds of auto tools of every quality and use them all equally i.e. till they break lol.

It would be a toss up on which was better made as the Pastor said just selling points. Who manufactured each set? keep both sets sounds like your handy man will need replacements, let him use the crappiest ones first.

practice with it, use it for mockups or new pattern making