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  1. chuck123wapati
    Here is 1/4" by 1/3"
  2. chuck123wapati
    remarkable work indeed!
  3. chuck123wapati
    Yes as Matt said the native Americans tanned with the brain of the animal harvested. I mentioned those different hides more so you could get a reference on the thickness of the hides used for each part of the moc. The bottoms were much heavier than the tops. If you've ever seen a pair of Mocs made traditionally they are very soft, thin and comfortable tops with heavy soles, each tribe had their own construction designs as well. the Apache even had a toe guard of rawhide for use in cactus. One thing to understand about older footwear is that they were cherished much more than now and native Americans as well as other races would take them off and go barefoot before ruining them in mud or water. Good luck with your project and look forward to some pictures!
  4. chuck123wapati
    I feel much the same The time taken to create a tool is just as important as the work it does. here are a couple tools I made for myself.
  5. chuck123wapati
    Thank you I appreciate that.
  6. chuck123wapati
    beautiful awls
  7. chuck123wapati
    8 oz will be pretty stiff for the uppers. Traditional mocs were made of Moose or Bison soles with deer or elk uppers.
  8. chuck123wapati
    OK i get it! I'll rephrase my comment. If you want to know if you are in danger of ANTHRAX then do you own real research don't try and find the answer on social media or take someone's word on it until YOU read the data FOR YOURSELF then if you cant understand it go to YOUR doctor and ask him/ her to explain. I researched and found its one in three hundred million chance in the US to even get it then there is medicine available to fight it so its not even worth thinking about IMO.
  9. chuck123wapati
    almost done
  10. chuck123wapati
    Lighting is very important as well as seeing i use a pair of reading magnifiers under a magnifier headset lol. Your leather shifting is also a consideration.
  11. chuck123wapati
    A bit more work!
  12. chuck123wapati
    lol literally far less than 20 minutes to this point where I will fine tune it. No computer no 3d printer, no cad program, no waste of time building a piece of plastic that wont last a week. I will go out on a limb here and say all of the older stamps were made just like i made this, with hands and a hand tool. You can see in the op picture where each was stamped as there are places where the stamps didn't line up such as the area right in the middle of the picture.. PS excuse my stamping i didn't allow enough time for thorough casing so the ridges didn't stamp in well.
  13. chuck123wapati
    That stamp is really nice.
  14. chuck123wapati
    Beavertail makes beautiful leather! Anyone would love that.
  15. chuck123wapati
    across the points of the x, the tip of each point is the corner of the rectangle of the stamp. i would bet that the original was a hand made stamp if the chair has any age to it.
  16. chuck123wapati
    let me see what i can do then i'll send you a message tomorrow. Can you measure it for me?
  17. chuck123wapati
    Great looking, That would be nice to have in winter for sure. Looks like Deer hide?
  18. chuck123wapati
    I hold my beveller so its a bit above the work just a hair or lightly on then the force of the mallet drives it down then i move and tap move and tap. Then i go back over it by just sliding the beveller along with some force to smooth it out. But I'm not the best at it either lol. Just takes practice. Do you have your leather held down so it cant move?
  19. chuck123wapati
    I've never seen one for sale but you can make that design with a file pretty easy IMO . I count six file cuts on a rectangular blank. Use a triangular needle file on some soft steel like a bolt head or some such Very cool and I'm gonna make one lol. It could have even been made with/ on a wheel stamp
  20. chuck123wapati
    Welcome friend!
  21. chuck123wapati
    I'll give you my nomination!! LOL looks like it'll cut to me.
  22. chuck123wapati
    oh heck yea that's nice.
  23. chuck123wapati
    That is really good work!
  24. chuck123wapati
    Yup I understand. The difference is probably due to the acetone turning to a vapor or possibly a certain needed sorbent that the A-1 doesn't have. Another thing when picking a respirator you need to pick the respirator that protects you from the worst of the chemicals so in this case would be Acetone and anyone responsible for selling you or picking the right filter will pick that one no matter if there is only one drop of Acetone in the whole gallon/ liter whatever. You will note those are one use filters. Here is the info from 3m on their filters. https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/738488O/filters-for-reusable-respirators-selector.pdf I don't know if it will give you an answer or not but well worth reading.
  25. chuck123wapati
    I agree completely Tug and was the fundamental intent of the first part of my comments they cant compete so have to submit to selling the same junk. Sure they could but at what point is trying to compete with American tool makers that have already a following in a very limited niche market, that being providing tools for professional use, going to be profitable. We have to see Tandy as we see ourselves.
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