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dang i like that. its sits a bit high for my taste but who cares, I can see it definitely will work well and it looks great.

Its going to be an interesting experiment.

the county i live in at one time was the largest wool producer in the US, we have old shearing pens all along the railroad tracks. In school every year we would take a field trip out to watch the shearing process. Most of the herders and shearers back then were of Basque ancestry. I still have my great uncles sheep wagon, which i really need to paint before it turns to dust. It was built after ww1 when he returned from the war. A funny story when my wife and i first met I took her for a drive out in the country. We came upon a flock of sheep being docked and i was telling her how the Basques would cut the bag then pull out the testicles with their teeth. She was giving me the blues for bullshitting her then as we got closer to the process and as we went by i said just watch that guy over there and sure enough he did right in front of her lol, cut the bag pulled em out and spat them in a bucket. She about died right there and started gaging and i of course laughed my butt off, she never forgot that one. Btw sheep nuts are some fine eating!!!

lol only because you were never issued one. Seriously though your right it doesn't need one but the scoped version did because of the way the scope was mounted to prevent ejected shell casing hitting it. Mine is just because I can I really need one on my 54 cal bp.

so are you going to submit the test pieces to any form of natural variables such as the sun, the rain, wear, flexing? i have seen a half dozen discussions over this subject on the forum usually we end up talking apples and oranges. One person using such and such on a belt he uses only on Sunday going to church and it lasted forever and another saying he full of because he tried it on his motorcycle seat that he's rides out in the Arizona sun every day or some such. We are talking about a lot of variables in what, why and who owns and uses that particular piece of animal hide. its not a simple conversation IMO and no one is absolutely right and one oil or conditioner isn't going to work for every application. I apply a heavy water proofing type of product on my outdoor gear to keep the leather in proper order but not on my wallet.

did you read what i wrote?

lol i was a roustabout also only it doesn't mean the same, here it is a job in the oil field usually building or cleaning up oil rig locations digging trenches and basic hard labor. Once at the age of 18 my first job as a roustabout. me and two other guys were sent out to a location to make some repairs it was thanksgiving weekend and a storm blew in closing the roads, we made it to the nearest town the first night and were able to find shelter at a friends parents house but the second night our vehicle battery died and we were stuck over night in sub zero temps about 40 miles past nowhere. We made it by keeping each other awake and finally had to wrap our feet together in an extra pair of coveralls to keep them from freezing. The next day there must have 6 inches of ice inside the cab from our breath lol.

My dogs collars are still soft and flexible after three years of being dogs outside playing in the water, rain and dirt the only additional oils they have received since I made them are from the dogs themselves and the threads haven't rotted either. lol So my deductive reasoning kicks in and says animal oils would probably be best for conditioning animal hides. Any one ever have a dog collar that needed re conditioned?

i would love that!!!

my actual knowledge of oils comes from years of work not only on leather but construction, automotive, and various types of maintenance. I'll give an example i used to work in a prison, Many chemicals were not allowed for obvious reasons. Lubricating oils being one of them. the food service manager could not get oils needed to lubricate his meat slicers so he instructed his inmates to use vegetable oil for lubrication. In less than a month the veg oil had dried into a literal gum that could not be removed by any ordinary means of cleaning, it had to be soaked for hours in our garage in the parts washer. Not only that it was rancid as well soooooo........ its not for leather either it will dry out and stink,its for cooking only and only if you have decent health care coverage. neets foot oil comes from cows put it back in and you wont have a problem.

veg tanned leather has no oils applied after tanning that is what we do its called liquoring and it is the starting point of re adding oils to the veg tanned leather. What you may not realize is that liquoring is what we do when we apply oils on veg tan, until we do that no oils have been applied after tanning that is what we do and it is the long term.

To think the effects of various oils on leather has never been considered is silly, its been studied for centuries, you just have to look for the research its a multi billion dollar industry. Here is one i found in about ten minutes. I will add you will have to find old studies for reliable information, any new info will be tainted by the climate change agenda so I'm sure fossil fuel derived oils will not be on the top ten list in any new publication. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339328369_Leather_and_Textile_Uses_of_Fats_and_Oils I have more but my links were dropped when i re-set my box.

That is a very cool idea for a brush for any critter including people don't stop thinking at the barn door. You do need more practice making and to refine it. the background isn't to dark for your sunflower but it is for the pig as there is no contrast. I would suggest you use two pieces of leather, top and bottom, the bottom would have a oval hole for the bristles and come up tight around them then laced or sewn at the the rim of the handle to the top piece so that no plastic handle shows at all.

You made a very nice case!! but 400 bucks for a pry bar and who in the heck carries one every day? jeez I'm doing something wrong.

i knew when folks started asking if i could make them one of my holsters. Then it just grew slowly by word of mouth.

yuuuum!! that makes me hungry, fried zuchinni sticks tonight and Elk steaks with maybe a few fried green tomatoes all out of the garden or off the land. Here's my prize carrot for the year lol it would make a meal by itself.

I'm not a procrastinator, I just like to plan ahead.

What Joel said is a good idea. The bottom line is to teach them to do it correctly so..... you just cant do some things in 4 hours correctly. They could also tool and apply acrylic paints then a sealer in 4 hours with the help of a blow dryer.

Holy cow that was a tight fit and a big chunk of iron to boot. That is one cool tractor my friend!!! i notice the alternator instead of the original generator lol. i remember my dad teaching me to rebuild generators as a kid and starters lol.

years ago, 20+, a tree fell in my yard and tore out a fence smashed my canoe, took out part of my roof and bent the mast on my service. I was given bad info from the state electrical inspector at the time who said i would have to have my whole house electrical updated which would have been several thousands that I just didn't have so i have lived with the problem until this last year or two when the power lines started wearing on my eaves causing a real dangerous problem. I have saved up all year got an estimate and was really relieved at the relatively small cost but damn am i pissed at that jerk that lied to me. I have missed a lot of sleep over this.

lol you be careful haven't heard of the lever its the greatest invention ever. if its to big to move by your self then lever be and go get help. lol.. You had to pull the radiator to get to the water pump? it must be pretty tight clearances. I appreciate the compliment i have gotten a bit shaky hopefully i can get better. as time goes.

That came out really nice your going to make alot of work for yourself when folks see that.

and i have taken up sketching again, man am i ever out of practice lol. hopefully I'll get better i plan on doing one every morning.

because you can cut off an ear tag a steal the cow sn also what Bruce said.

i use em folks like the look here.