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Growing up, we had two types of tea. Lipton's hot tea or Lipton's iced tea, lol. A funny sheep story about when my wife and I first met. We were going out to see my folks one weekend, they lived in ranch country anyway, we were driving along, and we passed a herd of sheep, and it was docking season. So I started telling her about how the Basque shepherds castrate the sheep with their teeth, they slit the bag with a knife, then pull the testes out with their teeth. She, of course, thought I was pulling her leg and wasn't going for it a bit. Not two minutes later, we came around a curve in the road, and there they were lol Two old Basque herders castrating sheep, and just as we went by, the one guy bends down and pulles em out with his teeth and spits them in a bucket. Jeez, the purest look of OH MY GOD what did i just see on my wife's face you could ever imagine. I had to stop i was laughing so hard. She turned about half green and didn't talk much for a bit, but she believed my stories after that, lol, for a while. At one time, the county I live in was the largest wool producer in the US. The wool would be stored in huge Quonset huts here in town, then loaded on the train and shipped out. I still have my great uncle's sheep wagon, built after he came back from WW1. BTW, Rocky Mountain oysters are the bomb man sheep,beef, or Elk!!!

lol I can believe that after opening a tea bag to see. Thats exactly what it looks like.

So the other day I was at the store, I'm the grocery getter, a daily chore most of the time. The wife wanted some teas, herbal mostly, but i saw a box of Earl Grey, and it reminded me of my dad, he had tea with his supper every night. He was raised by his grandparents, and his grandfather was an Imigrant from Ireland, so maybe that's why. Anyway, I bought it, and it was ok but not anywhere near the good stuff, so I ordered a pound of loose leaf, and it arrived yesterday, Ahmad brand, london based co. It's really aromatic and has no bitterness. I compared it to the tea-bagged stuff, and jeez, it doesn't even look like the same thing with Bergamont scent about every forth bag its ground to dust. American food processors can f up the best things.

Help those kids!! That's what life is about. It looked like a great time. There is a ton of good contact info you just can't find in an internet search. I still can't believe the amount of inventory you folks bring to the show.

I just posted a link to the Las Vegas leather show, check it out, there is a lot of contact info for leather supplies of all kinds.

Another very well done video with tons of contact info.....

I start with my closest pattern, then use various measuring devices to adjust for the differences, usually keeping the top stitch line of my design as a constant. My most used holster design originated with a 1911 pattern that I made, and I have altered it to accept anything from a Colt Anaconda to a Taurus G3C. The basic methodology was taught to me in grade school, lol, back in the day we were taught to use rulers, compasses, protractors, and such in Geometry class and i didnt forget how i guess.

I checked out a couple of YouTube videos. seems its a little hammer-like deal that just puts down the impressions then uses regular acrylic paints to color the impressions so its not really anything like a tattoo at all. No ink under the skin. Kind of gimmicky if you ask me, BUT its a way to learn, use and gain some real artistic skills and would look better IMO than a cut and paste laser image no matter how well executed. Sorry folks, I'll take the human effort over machines any day. If money weren't an object i would probably try it out but it is so i might try to recreate the idea with homemade tools. LOl a thick pointed stylus and a mallet. LOL after I wrote this i searched YouTube again, there is a video on how to make one out of a 60 dollar tat gun. so if you have the urge to try and don't want to spend a lot of money.......

Don Gonzales has some videos on saddle work if you use you tube.

lol i asked my daughter about this, she is a tattoo artist. She laughed and said, can I make 200 bucks an hour doing it? She wasnt very impressed but did say it would be good practice for the real thing. I think if you're already an artist and have some skill in painting and such, it could be worth trying.

I will add that firearms have to be protected from their environment. Here in the high plains desert of Wyoming, the culprit is dust more so than humidity; we basically have no humidity to speak of, so oiling my weapons is diferent and much less than in more humid environments like down south. If I oiled up my gun and inside the holster i would come home with a gun and holster full of dust and dirt.

Yeah, you're the man!! those are the coolest books I've ever seen. Your work is master-level for sure. I can't stop looking at them lol.

It was also dependent on location; the southern and plains tribes utilized Spanish horses first because the Spanish were in the South and West for 200 years before English folks came west. I'm sure the native Americans in the east had predominantly English bloodlines, then the trading and mixing began, the Plains tribes had huge herds of horses that they traded and sold from what i have read.

The Spanish conquistadores introduced horses into North America they then became wild horses that the natives Americans caught and utilized.. You can Google them to see pictures. They roam free here in Wyoming, but are an invasive species and do a lot of damage to the winter ranges of the native animals.

welcome back!!! That's nice work.

Good luck man, you got this!!

The first thing I learned to cook besides a marshmallow, lol. Cooking the lowly hot dog on a willow stick was the greatest achievement in my child's mind at the time. Gently simmering, sizzling, and turning brown over a smoky fire, man, i couldnt wait to get a bite of that meaty goodness wrapped in a bun and smothered with ketchup, mustard, and that sweet pickle relish!!, Sitting by the campfire in the brisk mountain air, smell of the pines and the quiet little stream we camped at every 4th of July. Hot dogs have a special place in everyone's memory lol.

So pure water is good for your guns? Its pH is 7. See what I'm sayin, PH is only part of the equation. your trying to protect your weapon from ????? oxidation/rust and abrasive action/wear more so than ph. A razor strop, for example, is oiled leather just like your holster, and the oil can be ph 7, it will still polish a blade or wear the finish on your fine firearm if done enough times. But someone had to try it to see if it worked, so we don't have to now !! Lol, Guns and leather, and oils of every kind have shared the world far longer than either of us, and those who shared the world with them through the ages have found the answers long before we ever drew a breath; that's why you know about the problems with chrome tan, it isn't a new discovery either. To answer your question. I use balistol on my guns, really good stuff and highly recommended by Hickok 45 lol, I'm sure I'm as picky about my firearms as you or anyone else is. I don't use it on leather because it's not a gun and its to expensive. You can if you want to its just an oil. so might make your holster soft if you use too much because that what oils do to leather, no matter what type of oil it is. Life is good!!

they must be good tools.

If the site's origin is not really as it implys it is i would also question the integrity of their products. On the "about us" page, it seems that Kevin speaks Chinese prolly better than English. We are specialized leathercraft tools in : Prickin irons, Punches,Knives, Edgers,Pliers, Hammers,Custom cliker dies, brass logo die and other custom great selection of quality tool. We were selling lots of products over 60 countries and region. Main to Europe and North America markets. Company Name：Kevin Leather Tools Company Address：Guangdong China

Damn nice IMO.

Thats a good holster!

Cmon man dont overthink this lol. There are no problems with nfo its been used for centuries on holsters with guns of all types of bluing. But you can use almost any oil, as time and human history have proven. I use a light brushing of nfo then a good helping of Feibings Golden mink oil for conditioning and water resistance. Olive oil is also used regularly also so use it if you want. Boot waterproofings and dressing aree relly good for any leather gear, used outdoors or inside. This is off the net and provided by Artificial intelligence if you have decided to believe that over actual written human history. AS you can see, NFo is less acidic than the leather you are putting it on. "The pH range of neatsfoot oil is typically between 5.5 to 7.5, which is slightly acidic to neutral. This characteristic helps in conditioning and preserving leather." "The pH of vegetable-tanned leather typically ranges from 3.5 to 5.5, which is slightly acidic. This acidity helps preserve the leather and contributes to its durability and aging characteristics." Free acidity is a defect of olive oil that is tasteless and odorless, thus can not be detected by sensory analysis. Since vegetable oils are not aqueous fluids, a pH-meter can not be used for this measure. Various approaches exist that can measure oil acidity with good accuracy. ALso, The acidity of olive oil refers to the level of free fatty acids present, which is an important quality indicator. Extra virgin olive oil must have a free acidity of less than 0.8%, while virgin olive oil ranges from 0.8% to 2%, and higher acidity levels indicate lower quality oils

Put your mind at ease by testing out your myth, tool scrap, let it dry right on your tooling bench, then re-wet it and tool it and see if your worries are even real. OR I use one of these. They work well for a few days and will keep your leather or whatever you put in it moist until it actually gets moldy. https://www.dickblick.com/products/masterson-sta-wet-palette-seal/ They come with a pad liner you wet, then place some plastic wrap between that and your leather.

I have some of those I didn't think anyone still made them. They work really well if you turn your hook rigs end for end and put the sharp ends inside the opening with the line loop on the springy thing.