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they look really great! I think I would have ran a strap through those slots, like bullet loops to hang the bells from is that how you did it?

LOL I don't if its the fastest but it sure is one of the coolest I've ever seen. I just had had to google the correct answer LOL so I typed in = The fastest singer in the world? Carl Terrell Mitchell, stage name Twista from Chicago, Illinois, is an American rapper known primarily for his Chopper style of rap. He is the most famous for holding the Guinness world record for being the fastest rapper in the world in 1992.

there ya go! Just like any art form there more tools and techniques than a guy can imagine, you simply cant buy all of them at once nor do you need to. What I do whether painting, leatherworking , gunsmithing , etc. Get a plan for the project then you can get the tools and materials you will need for that project, do that project. Next project, get a plan get the tools and materials, after awhile you will develop a tool kit and all the materials suited to what you like to do. So you're on the right track and answered part of your own question make the decision on what you want to carve or tool then everyone can help you pick the tools you may need.

Thank you.

very cool! just like ridin a bike.

Oh ok sounds like a fun experiment indeed. Its gorgeous here to if your a penguin that likes 40 mph wind storms with gusts to 65 LOL I live on the edge of the red desert but we have had well over 30 inches of snow this year. But not bad today it was above freezing we went out and had to dig up some of our drifts so the deer could find a bite to eat that wind packs the snow in like cement. May god bless you as well.

how about some spur straps or a quirt pretty straight forward and not a safety risk if you want to go all cowboy or maybe Hat band or belt. Something she will be able to use and show off to her friends will keep her interested.

I can see that now, they must have been painted or finished to match the leather, is that a worn thread from a stitch above the rivet on the left still cant figure how the bottom and top wouldn't pull away at least a little bit without being sewn did they glue also back then? yes not a lot of pressure so they would easily hold on their own.

Actually blacksmith apprentices made washers, rivets, and nails among other mundane parts, as part of their apprenticeship learning process and as busy work back in the day. me too! and am wondering how one rivet in the center would hold down all the outer edges of the loop strap, seems it would pull away or cup at the top at least after awhile it has to be stitched also I would think.

Thank you I will check that out this sure isn't a finished pattern by any means but a good start I think.

Thank you . You said it perfectly I,ve used the rivets and Chicago screws mostly because its a work in progress and they let me modify any problems much easier than rippin stitching, as I get the pattern worked out and measurements more solidified I will get out the thread and do em up right. I am also leery of the snaps and if they will stay snapped after some break in. The back strap I am toying with is a 3/4" strap that attaches about midpoint of the back and I am stiil playing with the final way to tie it down, its funny but the same length strap can be tied a bunch of ways, across the chest and back to the front strap which makes really secure, down to the opposite belt loop in front like suspenders , or around under the arm and back to itself.

The leather belt loops are exactly what I use for my suspenders also. Thank you.

Thank you.

I will!

Thank you.

Well what do you guys think? This harness is what I came up with to utilize my holster as a shoulder holster also. Originally I was going to hang it from the front strap in a vertical position but found this to be much more comfortable the weight is much easier to carry and is spread more evenly over my shoulder. I still haven't decided on where to place the strap / straps that will hold it on my shoulder but am leaning towards just going down suspender style to the opposite belt loop. I built the holster with a 15 degree cant so really any holster with that cant could be adapted to this.

or just a round nail and a washer.

rivets back then could have been made by a blacksmith out of mild steel or bought they also had copper rivets. The one in the center looks like a copper rivet with a soft steel washer. On May 20, 1873, Levi Strauss secured a patent for his denim jeans with copper rivets so rivets were available for use.

the multi pronged chisels work very well and are probably the easiest to get good results with. there are other ways also I would also suggest as you are new to leather working to get on the Tandy website they have a ton of free ebooks on leather working that literally covers everything you will need to get started. https://www.leathercraftlibrary.com/account/signin?ReturnUrl=%2Fcategory%2F79%2Febooks%3Fpagenum%3D1

ok I went and looked, lol, at three of my machines noting these are all domestic sewing machines, two newer models and one really old one . I have taken a few pics to show the cam you are talking about also the bottom end. on All three the rod and cam provided about a 16th to maybe a 1/4 rotation of the shaft that directly moves the feed dogs. In the old royal it had nothing to do with the dogs but instead ran the shuttle back and forth, the main connecting rod ran the dogs. in the Ken more it provided back and forth movement while the main connecting rod ran the up and down movement of the dogs. the other machine I just photoed so you could see plainly the cam, it doesn't have any lower mechanism. As you can see It is a triangular cam placed off center from its main shaft almost at the point of the lobe but not quite, very similar to your simulation. The stops come from the lobe shape going over top dead center, the flat part of the triangles, just as the cam of an engine does. At the bottom the shaft is just going back and forth where as in an engine the motion is used up and down . The difference of a cam on a shaft as compared to an offset shaft, such as the main connecting rod, is that the cam can be tweaked to provide a momentary pause in a continuously moving assembly as well as different amounts of lift at different times, the offset shaft can only do one thing up, down, in, out, etc. Very cool and interesting thing to think about this morning.

interesting, that's why I asked now i gotta go see what is the brand of your machine. The cam in an engine also turns at a different speed from the main crank via the timing gear, yes its use is just to go up and down and at much higher speed hence the springs, or hydraulic lifters, to keep the lifters in place on the cam.

very similar to the cam in an engine it also moves the feed dogs up and down doesn't it? Shouldn't the cam red drawing be pivoting at the center as it is an offset lobe on a round shaft? Just asking as I cant remember I took a sewing machine apart a year or two ago to build jigsaw. Very intricate machines, I was amazed at the mechanics.

Great idea !! I 'll keep that in mind.

Don't try and melt the hole with the lighter, get a nail or screwdriver, something metal and heat that up with your lighter really hot, itll go through like butter and make sure its the same size as your rivet so you get a tight fit!

are your burnishers contaminated with wax or something so when you first burnish you get the edge contaminted? I just used edge kote yesterday, burnished with water then applied with the wrong end of the brush a light coat then when dry very lightly burnished and buffed.