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Working on a potter's wheel and a propane-fired Raku kiln. Basically a 50 gallon drum with 2" of ceramic wool inside, lol, and one of my burners. I have a lot to do before snow flies so all my projects get a few minutes here and there. My daughter has given me another suburban the same year and make as mine so I'll be swapping some parts around, then fixing both up before hunting season and winter it will be nice to have a backup the kids can drive. I'm starting to get back on my feet after my ailment last spring, It was darn hard to get my muscle strength back, I guess old age is the culprit, I feel great now again and am back up at 4am every day starting out the day watching the hummingbirds have breakfast at dawn lol. Take care, my friend, summer is on its way to you now lol.

heres a pic of mine lol they work!!!

Well said Fred.

This is the reality, and i agree completely. The sewing machine is one of the greatest inventions man has ever made IMO and the lock stitch has worked for a long time too.

That's just it a saddle stitch doesnt create a knot while a lockstitch is basicly a series of knots. Visualize your threads. Saddle stitching is basically using two threads spiraling them together with leather in between with no tension built by the threads pulling against each ohter. while lockstitch is two pieces of thread wrapped around each other in every hole, pulling against each the oposing thread on the other side of the leather

take one piece of thread and try and break it then, take two pieces of the same thread and try and break them. I will add saddle stitching into drilled round holes defeats the thread's ability to lock together, the leather slit and the tension it provides is part of the process that makes saddle stitching a stronger and better choice IMO.

Someone knew you needed a vacation!! Go have a good time while you have the excuse, er chance.

If you didn't think of this already. Call him and buy his machines if you can.

Life is good, my friend 🍺 On both sides of the planet. It's been a ride, though, and not one I care to repeat for a while. I am slowly catching up to my chores and starting to relax a bit. Went shooting the other day just for kicks and picked up some more clay. Ive processed about 30 lbs so now i have enough to play with if my kids don't use it all up. A great thing is taking place here now, folks are buying more and more US-made products and more and more small family businesses are making a comeback, finally. I can see my kids actually being able to work for themselves and make a living if they want to go that route in the future. Anyway have a great day and say hi to pops for me!!

Some parts of the hide, like the belly, are softer on the flesh side and beveling just won't work well but then its not needed due to the softness.

IT depends on the look you want or the construction. If you are gluing two pieces together, then only the outside edges gets beveled so that it glues up flush. A welt doesn't get beveled at all. A one-piece belt gets both sides beveled. You can bevel the edges round or more square, also, depending on the use or the look of the product you are making. Nothing is really written in stone about how you make the edges.

a picture is worth a thousand words🙂

if you have a well-worn belt the curve is there for you to copy.

Part of the problem is that you have also burnished it by rubbing on it. My only suggestion is to make a few more around on the wall and make it look intentional, it will add some texture and difference to the background.

My older brother was a Joplin fan, We would listen to her a lot on our weekly skiing trips back in the 70s, lol. I could sing Bobby Mcgee right with you. I love her music Its a shame she left us.

i've seen electric motors break the fan blades located in the rear of the housing They make quite a racket sometimes, i dont know if your motor has one. the blades are usually plastic and can come loose or break.

Janis ROCKS!!!!! I love it, she is an awesome artist indeed.

excellent rig my friend!! That is some nice tooling.

this is a great idea!! or even velcro

i would pull the torn leather together and stitch it back together as well as possible. Then cut a piece of thin leather about 1/4" wider on each side of the original button hole strap sew and glue it on over the original fold it around the outer edge to cover both sides then sew it up around the edges and sew the button hole, then cut it out.

lol I saw the Nuge in 77, maybe that's why I'm deaf too. Couldn't have been those three big waukeshas that would bellar and backfire every time you started out of the hole with about 3 miles of pipe and spewing diesel smoke so thick you couldn't see five feet. A rig is a behemoth of energy, all steel and every part is pumping, turning, Electrified , moving, hot or oily, and slippery, pressurized with steam or 3000+psi mud. And built to drill holes 5 miles deep. And if your lucky you get to work derricks, 90 feet off the floor, latching pipe on a diving board 18" wide with only a safety belt tied to your ass. If you fall and are lucky enough dangle in mid air until someone can get up to pull you in. Oh, and possible poison gas or blowouts to think about while you work lol. Damn, that was fun times if you never thrown chain you missed out on one of life's biggest adrenaline rushes. '

now these are cool!!! Haven't seen one of these in years, in grade school art class, we had some that just had a straw and you blew through them to create the air pressure. Once upon a time, these were in almost all wood shops for shooting stains and such.

I haven't had relativly safe job since i was 14. I broke out in the oil patch at 18 and spent seven years working on rigs, back when heavy drug and alcohol use was almost a requisite for employment, then spent 30 years working in a prison maintenance shop, teaching dried out inmates how to hold a job. The last 15 years as the manager of an all-trades physical plant. I've seen my share of really stupid accidents in my life, some deadly, done a few myself, and luckily survived like Dwight by the grace of god. Really smart people are the worst at safety IMO because they are smart enough to know better but "it'll never happen to them", idiots come in a close second because they just won't do it, followed by the guys that have "done it all their lives that way". I've taught, reprimanded and worked with all of them lol. I could gross ya'all out with the gore, but i won't. Take the small, mundane safety equipment as seriously as the rest of your gear and equipment lest you be half blind and deaf at 66 like I am, its no fun saying huh all the time, makes you feel stupid. And yes, I said idiots lol

Those Rock!!!! you need my address?

you can also glue some leather on your clamps if they are putting out impressions.