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Always try to get a bit of nfo soaked into dry straps like these or they may crack when you try to undo them from the buckle. Apply let soak in a day or so to get some moisture back into the leather.

Here is my project for the next few days, its an old swiss army rucksack I bought a looong time ago and have used and abused it. Its time to restore the leather and clean it up for another round of livin in Wyoming. You know I think I paid about 20 bucks for this and now they are "in" and worth much more to some folks, I still have all the straps but the leather is dried out and if you look closely the harness has been repaired at some point but I like the repair so will just attempt to restore the leather and fix a few stitches here and there. I have already saddle soaped the bottom and a few of the straps and the leather seems to be coming out of it pretty well.

great looking indeed.

https://www.fdjtool.com/53189-bezel-setting-punch-set-18pcs-plus-handle.html

Awesome and its a beautiful thing to bring back to life.

could be needle thread combo. ice been using my 401 for some light leather sewing and it was skipping due to wrong needles, when I got the leather needles and right thread it works great now.

https://archive.org/details/Encyclopedia_Of_Rawhide_And_Leather_Braiding/page/n1 Here is the link to the free ebook by Bruce Grant

great find at a great price!

give it to your 18 year old son to wear for about two months.

Make a wooden frame like they used for stretching beaver and then hang it on your wall, its mighty cool work! https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&id=78A7426524364F7ED0EF390B927F99FEF2E54B9D&thid=OIP.v-3SPzZE0ZxPokXU3wItuwAAAA&mediaurl=https%3A%2F%2Fauctionimages.s3.amazonaws.com%2F63030%2F50792%2F43080922.jpg&exph=480&expw=391&q=stretched+beaver+pelt&selectedindex=22&ajaxhist=0&vt=0&eim=0,1,2,6

Dears Santa is it to late to change my mind? LOL yea for sure I'm going to be watching this guy he knows his stuff and is exactly what I need to know. I've done most of the mechanical issues but now i'm into the body work and the interior this is going to be a great help thanks for the link. After doing some testing I think my old 401a can handle light upholstery work if I go easy on her.

I gotta keep this There's a 75 mgb in my yard begging for new seat covers, and door panels, and , and , and, ……. very cool that guy has done a few seats in his time.

Which one? Definition of buffalo (Entry 1 of 3) 1 : any of several wild bovids: such as a : water buffalo b : cape buffalo c(1) : any of a genus (Bison) of bovids especially : a large shaggy-maned North American bovid (B. bison) that has short horns and heavy forequarters with a large muscular hump and that was formerly abundant on the central and western plains

very cool idea!!! Merry Christmas!

lol thanks! Yea when you buy it you learn nothing, when you build it you get to learn and keep and use the knowledge, sometimes you even learn you should have bought it to begin with lol. I love this maul it comes from where I have hunted and fished my whole life and where my ancestors put down roots well over a hundred years ago when Wyoming was a territory its much more than just a piece of wood to me anyway.

Sweet!

my maul is scrub oak from out in the woods company lol! When it wears out i'll just make another. This is the one of hardest woods growing in these parts.

This info it should help you, seems the uberti is a colt clone so any pattern for the colt single action army could be adapted. "This is the ideal concealable revolver for today’s Western enthusiast. The bird’s head grip design has been incorporated into Uberti’s Cattleman series of 1873 Single Action Army revolvers in both standard and Stallion designs."

LOl we had a guy worked on our inmate crew, for fun he would pick up the front end of our farmall tractor! One tough cookie had 6 nice scars in his chest from a 357, perfect group about 4 inches around, yea it didn't kill him but it did stop him after he bled out and passed out, he knew how strong he was. Here we would send the crazies to the state hospital and they would send em back, they weren't sentenced to the state hospital so couldn't keep them! But we had just as many "window lickers" we used to call em as thorazine makes people kinda goofy, but it does keep em from killing other people, had one beat the cell window out of his door with his fore head, it is about 6"x12" and 3/4 inch thick tempered glass. You don't wanna know the gross stuff some of these poor souls do to them selves as well as others. I worked on the maintenance crew so daily I was in a cell block usually alone or with one other fellow employee with my toolbox full of tools and about 150 inmates, first thing my boss said to me when I hired on" your life wont open those block doors son sure you wanna work here?" He was an old prison guard from the old days and was on the thump and drag squad before aclu and all that stuff, when he walked into a block he was greeted with yes sir and no sir from the old timers who knew him, I was in the max yard once and an inmate asked me to tell him hi and wanted a job when he got to trustee, I asked him how he knew Ray and he smiled, no front teeth , he said Ray smashed all my teeth out on the cell door one day when I was being an ash*&le.

lap = overlap, underlap, two pieces of leather skived so the thickness doesn't change when they are lapped together. each piece of leather is usually skived at a taper. Skiving or paring is a basic term for thinning a piece of leather.

That's a cool cap indeed, for some reason I connect it with riding bicycle, it would make a great looking bicycling hat.

so if you make a wallet out of kangaroo will it have its own pocket to keep itself in?

That is awesome!!!

great looking work!!! I find it amazing how in just a couple of generations we lose so much information on everyday life ,our grandparents probably could have told you how to finish that strop off the top of their head as almost every household had one back in the day.

great info yea I think it helps those who want to help themselves out of that drug or booze induced hell they put themselves, and many others, through. Most are decent when they get clean, some need to be there forever. You would be surprised where I have seen ex inmates that I know, almost all get out sooner or later and never forget when you are standing in line somewhere probably three out of ten behind your have felony records.