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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.

That's a nice sling any ar would be happy to have it.

I will when I can get back out in my garage to work this spring its just to darn cold right now lol. That's where I do most of my knife making and antler work for some reason the wife doesn't like the smell of burnt antlers in the house lol. Thank you.

One coat so far and I laid I on kinda thick then heated up the leather till it soaked in then rubbed it down it will even out in a couple of days and may get a bit lighter though not much.

Thank you, I made those grips also Good ole Wyoming Elk antler.

Better put this here now as its done. You can still tell me what I jacked up if you want. Its flat backed and made with 9 oz w&c leather mildly wet formed and burnished a bit and edge koted then I used some Fiebings Golden Mink oil to finish and water proof it. The next change to the pattern will be moving the strap up about 3/4" so it can be carried cocked if wanted.

that first one sure looks like a finger muncher lol look at that gear assembly hangin out there.

that's a good price for a handmade knife they are nice indeed!

I make mine from brass rod its pretty easy to do.

I think rivets would eventually loosen up in fabric then they just pop through the hole that's why you don't see it done a lot , sewing is the best for fabrics and webbing imo You do it right and you'll never have a problem.

The back is what impresses me, those cuts are simple but beautiful, is it a lined belt or are those cuts on the rough ? I couldn't help looking deeper into this man what a humble honest and caring person he must have been his work is amazing.

great work indeed

I think you can easily repair them as well or better than new but any insurance company more than likely would not protect the wearer if he did get hurt no matter if your work failed or not, OSHA wouldn't accept it either. Personally if an employee of mine brought in safety gear that was altered or rebuilt by anyone other than the manufacturer or people qualified to do repairs on their product it would be a get them out of here situation. That is why people sue the repairers because they get these things repaired without thought of laws, rules and insurance companies then when they get hurt they have no other options to cover their own personal negligence of not just buying a new pair. Yes we live in a world devoid of common sense.

very nice and handy , how does it work It appears to be wider than the strap shown is there an edge on the template that keeps the marks a certain distance from the edge of the leather? Will it do multiple widths of belt?

Very good looking set. That's quite a bunch of work there.

I like that color combo. Me id be drawing penguins it isn't so warm here lol.

How thick is the leather you use? those are cool indeed.