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https://ohiotravelbag.com/collections/artisan-snap-hooks try here.

In my town two things hamper this, rent is friggin crazy for a business 2 k a month+ and just to small of town. Right now most of my work comes from word of mouth, FB, or online. I do plan on expanding this year as my kids are now old enough to help but the storefront is still a no go, most will be going north to the touristy folk in consignment shops and such my basement gets an overhaul for leather and my garage for knives lol.

Great looking work indeed.

Great job! I built mine out of recycled pine from an old shipping container. two square shank machine screws, two wing nuts two washers and two wood screws and some leather of course.

stropping works well for really hard blades like razors and will break off and smooth that wire edge, that's why they call them razor strops lol. I don't see it doing much good on the milder steels or blades with high angles, as you said it rounds them due to the flex.

Now that you mention it yes. Thank you! a guy could sew a faux strap around it to enhance that look I'll bet Thank you. The two tone will even out I rubbed it down good with Feibings golden mink oil but and it sinks in faster where the leather isn't flexed Thank you!

wow that is some fine work indeed. That belt took some time I'll bet.

You're right its unneeded info, my biggest peeve online besides all that other covert crap is that little box that pops up wanting your location. I grew up when your address was in a little book called a phone book and anyone that knew your name could find it, no big deal really to me if folks know where I live. In my previous occupation Ive had some very bad people tell me they were going to "look me up" when they got out I've always responded with, names in the phone book but if you come over i'm gonna let my dog on you and if you hurt her then I'm gonna shoot ya and that sentiment applies to anyone I don't know coming to my home. but I understand completely when folks don't want to give that info out its personal and completely up to them IMO.

this particular brand, as well as others, has two thickness blades one very thin flexable and one heavy/thicker and much more stiff get one with the heavy blade that doesn't flex.

What's so ironic is that their exact location and what they are doing is being tracked in multiple ways every minute and they don't even care about that, cell phone, vehicle onstar, every time they run a card, their computer id. LMAO!

LOL yea I used to run up along side of the Antelope and pinch em to see if they were fat enough if so I would just slide a noose around their neck an lead em back to the truck. I really appreciate your opinion of my work and hope to get close to your quality one of these days.

Thank you for the compliment its basically my 1911 pattern lengthened to fit . Yea the dark thread probably wont happen a gain lol. But its pretty stiff due to double thickness on both sides. I wet formed it and the back doesn't show much from the cylinder. Its about 10 oz leather The fat flap might warp a bit and the snap configuration is still being thunk about as it does double duty as a shoulder holster or belt holster, I guess time will tell, after next Elk season I'll know for sure.

Just finished this for a friend. Used my Anaconda as a pattern but its going on a Taurus The only dif is the Taurus is 3/4 " longer.

2500 grit sand paper on my pounding stone, I just squirt some spray on adhesive on the back and stick it down next to my work but a I have a 2'x2" piece of granite I don't use a strop much on my swivel knives but use the sandpaper the same way. keep in mind that a strop that has say 3 micron= 6900 grit abrasive would take a very long time to polish out a scratch from say 2500 grit while your eyes wouldn't even be able to see the progress, all it does in this case is take off any microscopic rolled edges or burrs. Its very important to know what grit your stropping compound as well as your stone grit if you decide to use it is as they can easily be more course than the stone or sandpaper you just used so if in doubt just use plain leather.

a punch and a straight edge. offset each row by half of the distance of your spacing,

I love your work !

Welcome and good luck.

He musta went to the same school as my Grandpa lol.

I asked my grand ma what going through the depression was like one time, she told me well we didn't have much before so it wasn't much different, lol my dad born in 1924 was a mechanic and yea if I couldn't fix my stuff then he showed me how he didn't throw it away and get a new one. I still have most of his tools in fact he was a certified Chrysler Master mechanic and every year would be given a set of gold plated tools of some type, punches, wrenches, etc. Guess where they went, yup in his tool box. not a bit o gold left on any of em.

Lol that is a great story I did something similar with an early sunbeam mixer at a yard sale the guy says it was my grandmothers but might make a good paint mixer or something, I says its gonna make a good food mixer it has run for almost a hundred years and it will run for another, I slapped in some new brushes a cord and some new food grade gear lube and she is good as new and still running strong 10 years later all for five bucks. Not to mention all the attachments I have picked up for pennies. Gotta love the throw away generations mentality.

My sentiments exactly. Some of the older stuff is so far ahead in quality of the new disposable crap it isn't even funny.

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That sounds like a great experiment indeed but your wallets will still be machine sewn so showing them off as handsewn? I guess I don't get it, machine stitching looks ok, it is what it is.

Great find That will be a fun and worthy project to work on indeed.

I will give that a try also thanks for the suggestion. you could at least use a gi joe LOL.