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If you got that set that pops up first on the google search most of the stamps are pure junk and you wont ever produce a nice product with them. What i did to start out is i made a design then figured out what tools i need for the project and bought just those tools after awhile i had a good set designed for my style and knew what each did.

And why every person needs to buy locally if possible so these cottage industries will restart. Everyone bitches about the rich upper crust having all the money all the while giving them their money instead of giving it to their hard working neighbors and community based businesses.

I used one of those sites once then one day i asked myself, why would I give someone else access to my property when i can easily keep it on a flash drive, don't need an update every week don't need another password and don't need someone using or stealing my photos because i have to agree to some fine print that so i can use something i don't really need. Guess what I unfkd myself lol. I can now just reach in my desk drawer and pull out my thousands of pictures and use them anywhere anytime.

Antler bling my favorite lol. Beautiful work as always.

Thank you again!

I've gotta make me one of them vacuum machines, both for leather and my knife handle blanks. Been eyeing the wifes food vac sealer machine but she eyes me back and not in a nice way. You have the process down pat Dwight Thanks for sharing.

Cuir Bouilli is a very old way of hardening veg tan. I have no idea about hardening other types of tanned leather but is a good place to start your search. If it wont harden you may be able to glue or sew it to some veg tan underlay. Good luck.

I love archeology and always laugh at the surprises it holds for the experts. For some reason they know modern mans brain is no larger or smarter now than then but they always think its some kind of miracle when they discover ancient products that are so well thought out and built so well.

Very cool article. I look all over with my metal detector and all i find are beer pull tabs from the 70s maybe i should look somewhere besides my backyard lol.

Used to be a fellow here that had free patterns and instruction's for builds. JLS leather i believe. You might search the site.

i just use scrap leather strips cut to the width and height i need.

nice looking sheaths.

Search oil tanned goat hide, leather or some such it may help, Kobicha is a Japanese word for brown. Oil tanning is a process of tanning hides.

nice looking work.

swivel knife on lathe 2.0 put this phrase in the search function for some good info by mmason who also machined one

cool What is the reasoning for the two piece bottom, main body and second shaft, ? The one i have is built with the thumb piece has a tube attached that slips over the shaft on the main body. There is a pressed dimple or punch mark on the tube if you will that keeps the finger rest tube from coming off the shaft. There must be a groove the the dimple rides in hidden inside the tube. I can post you a pic if you would like, a set screw would/ could do the same thing. The construction methods used on my swivel knife are Knurled Main body with the blade held in with a set screw, A second threaded shaft which screws into the top of the main body for length adjustment with a jamb nut to keep it in place then the finger rest and tube that slips over the top of the second shaft that is held in place with a pressed dimple riding in a groove on the top of the adjustable shaft that allows for the pivoting action.

Right as i understand the earlier smelting processes of bog iron, a typical hearth would produce bloom of about the same size every time as it would hold only so much ore so then after forging to get the impurities out they would have comparable size pieces of iron, my mistake calling them cast ingots.

Or you can try printing out your font then case your leather as you would to tool it, use a stylus to outline your font lightly onto the leather then either emboss it and paint it or just paint it without embossing.

painting Initials without stencils takes practiceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....... A ton of it. Start with basic calligraphy on regular paper then advance to script liner brushes on smooth surfaces. then you can use regular acrylic paints on leather. Many books on the subject it is a very old form of art.

Thank you.

A guy learns something new every day. Thank you. i would think maybe also the knives were forged from cast ingots so would all would be about the same size and even very close to the same shape from each blade smith making this easier than we might think.

Thank you.

the bottom of the knife with the blade should be the part that doesnt't swivel. The thumb and middle finger are used to turn it on the pivot/swivel that your thumb rests on. It appears to me you have the blade on the part that will be the thumb rest. Is that what i am seeing?

Thanks i was wondering if sewing and forming them then using a blank inside the sheath when tooling them. Of course if it were metal it would have to be covered with plastic or something to keep from staining the leather. Your way sure works very well.

no i saw it lol knew what you were thinking when you deleted it.