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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.

I cant see it ?

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.

excellent job there I like it also, It does make a nice effect. Maybe some antiqueing around the rivets for some grime buildup and just burnish the edges in areas that wouldn't show wear, leave corners rough or maybe sand em to round them off a bit. whack it with a few things while cased to give it some texture.

I can make a holster pattern in less than an hour with wet cardboard and a staple gun, some paper a pencil and a few measuring tools some of this computer crap is just that, a waste of friggin time and a pain in the ass with no better end results. Technology isn't always the answer! Learn how to make patterns by hand, you need this knowledge anyway to make a workable pattern on your computer, and quit dinkin around trying to learn to use software before you can even begin to make the pattern, you will save time, money and grey hair. Just my two cents from a guy that had to learn DOS commands to run his first computer.

Check this out while playing around with my holster I tried my first ever pistol in it, my Fanner 50, it was a bit small and loose but the light came on and I tried my Anaconda wow if it would have been a inch longer at the toe it would have been a perfect fit. This will be my next build.

are they motorized? if so is the voltage the same?

Here is what I am testing out for the back strap of the rig. The same strap can be used a few different ways as you can see. Around the chest and it is very stable, you could ride a motorcycle, four wheeler pretty hard and it wouldn't move. Over the shoulder to the opposite belt loop or belt suspender style would make it more concealable or my least favorite way around the opposite shoulder and back to itself usable but I don't care for the strap in my armpit. I am leaning heavily on this style just because of the ability to change it to fit different needs, swiss army strap lol, But I may use two shorter straps with more adjustable length and a buckle.

I think those would work very well, the trigger snap doesn't really have much tension on it but it does more holding up my pants than anything else, it basically just keeps the harness from swinging around.

There is also a plan for a stitching horse in the book "The Art of Hand Stitching" by Al Stohlman, it is a free ebook on the Tandy web site.

very interesting!!! to me it looks like the sole is stitched over and back down on the zigzag stitch, possibly so you can resole the shoe. There appeaqrs to be a stitch running over the zigzag stitch on the sides you can barely make out in places.

I actually changed my pattern a bit so my strap would go in front of the hammer also but that will be on future holsters. I would sure like some more info on those quick disconnects where did you get them?

3rd pic on the right a soldering iron tip without handle and an electric soldering iron very old. pic 4 is a doozy all I can think of that I could use them for would possibly be to temporarily hold up one end of a stud or board so one person could do the job of two for example setting floor joists or some such.

The smell dissipates after a bit so not a big problem especially after all the other smells from finishing get added, I've used it for years on both wood and leather with no problems. I clean my steel wool with a shot of brake cleaner and a good blow with my air compressor. Its kinda like BLO and beeswax that was used for many things back in the day everything from gun stock finish to oil cloth, I routinely use vinegar to remove rust from old parts and oxidation from old copper switches in my older vehicles. Here is a sheath I did well over a year ago it wasn't neutralized just let dry and finished, After tooling I dipped the pieces completely in vinegaroon and then let dry. The black goes through 100%, it hasnt tarnished either the snaps nor the brass knife and doesn't smell any diferent than any other leather product.

Nice work those look really good! I like the closed toe.

Thank you I made the grips also, I carry with the hammer down mainly because I don't live in a city lol The one I carry daily in my pocket however is a different story.

That is vey nice indeed! What tools did you use?