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What type of sling are you making 72 " sounds pretty long to me? I have made a few most are of the old military type they are two piece. I have also made the cobra type, those are typically one piece, no where near 72", but i have done them two piece as well.

Great tips Toxo thanks I think i have enough 2mm right now for 1 and maybe a snakeskin hat band lol.

Thank you i love this hat style its now officially on my bucket list. lol.

those are nice what weight leather and type is best?

not your ordinary card holder for sure. Beautiful work friend.

Man i love your stuff! it is always so honest, inspiring and uplifting. Seeing it just makes my day a bit happier.

wow not bad imo!

your right about not knowing the steel or tempering techniques for sure but the way i figure it is if the tool is junk it may be worth the try and you may get lucky. My self i make my own cutting tools, awls and even some of the basic stamps, my mill is a set of hand files lol. If you do buy Tandy stamps then try and get older ones as they were much better quality, same with the cutting tools IMO. Once the mass producing world turned to relying on minimum standards for manufacturing stuff the quality went way down they simply don't test every tool for temper but rely on the sendit back method. I think there is a niche for leather tools made well with no frills but it may not be big enough to pan out.

thank you for the link.

back in the day tools , even knives didn't have much info on the steels used nowadays the trend by consumers is that every detail of an item is considered before purchase. As for steels the relevance of steel type isn't as important as how the steel was tempered during the construction process but most folks dont realize this aspect and tend towards opinions rendered on line by the most votes. As for stropping, polishing, sharpening whatever you want to call it depending on method of choice of leather tools i will say leather is very hard on edges so the process is needed more frequently than some tools less than others. If your tools seem to soft tempered you can re temper them if you still have your knife making equipment. My beef with the tool selection is the quality of stamps and the quality of the imprint they leave, some you buy are the direct result of the manufacturing processes now a days i feel most mass produced tools are the product of people who never use them or understand just what they are trying to do with them besides making a buck selling them. If you want quality tools your going to have to spend the money for quality tools i haven't found a middle of the road good leather tool company as yet.

For me its a couple of things, one is to much cost to justify. I would have to make hundreds of products a year to even come close to paying off the investment plus the time taken, from leather work, to learn another program, updates, tech problems etc. I do this to relax i spent almost 30 years working with computers and sitting for hours at a desk and am just tired of the tech crap to be honest.

i feel the same friend and meant no disrespect.

Thank you for posting this!!

it would take me seconds to cut my pattern at one of the straight sections and lengthen it with another piece of pattern paper, scan it and save it so i could reprint if needed.. A pocket is a pocket you just make two instead of one with your pattern. The point i was making is that after you have your pattern the money you have spent is just setting there, you dont have to redesign every time you make a watch band. But if you have the dough to blow then go for it

i love how we went from making a nothing to it card holder to the most intricate work possible to prove the point how many watch bands or purses does it take to pay off an autocad program, a computer, a laser cutter, printer then all the updates and rebuys, personal time learning and relearning? If i had to use this to create i would pay some teenager, buy my patterns, and pocket hundreds if not thousands. but yall don't have to convince me to buy new toys lol my toys just aren't computers I've played that game.

i can understand using a computer program if you have computerized machines that run off cad programs to cut patterns and such but for the hobbyist or one man shop its just more time and money investment, especially for wallets , card holders and such once you've made the pattern there just isn't a need IMO. it may take an hour to make a card holder pattern by hand then you have it forever, scan it save it and print it whenever if your old one wears out. I'm of the age that i have learned every darned operating system including dos bought thousands of dollars worth of computers operating systems and programs that are/were setting in my basement because they are no longer "supported" meaning they just want to make more money off of us not that they weren't adequate. Just hauled a milk crate completely full of floppy discs and old cds of programs that no longer work to the dumps, INCLUDING a couple expensive autocad programs But to each his own folks spend that money, take that time learning a program you will have to relearn at the next update or simply repurchase because its unsupported while i use my pencil , and paper template and do leather work. Me, i like simple!

i use polyester wadding like they use in quilts and such it doesn't break down like foam will.

not difficult just time consuming to resew it i would clean it up and sew a liner on the back or just resew the stitching and use some saddle soap and conditioner on it.

Very nice rig i like that color!!

cool knife !! and sheath!!!!

make your self a skiver! if you can make a blade you can make a skiver.

Thanks ! gonna have to check it out.

I understand you like it and don't mean anything about your tastes or likes personally it is some cool easy to do technology indeed. But you have to agree that wallet looks like something from Walmarts closeout section, the stitching, the machine marks and then a laser printed picture from some computer image program. It just is nothing I would want on my stuff it makes it look cheaply made IMO i wouldn't want my name on it.

amazing what a guy can do without a computer, a special cad drawing app, a 3d printer........

why? Anyone can buy that kind of product at Walmart.