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Should I dare say I use Pledge with future shine lol. on the VERY rare occasion i use any acrylic sealer on my leather products. i use the stuff mainly as a resist when staining. I've also got charcoal drawings I made in highs cool ( lol spellcheck actually suggested that) 50 year ago that I used aqua net hair spray instead of matte finish to seal the work. Don't tell anyone.

I dunno never tried it but the ky jelly my wife bought the other day sure wasn't very good.

Great your experience and knowledge can be well put to use here. welcome!!!

Leather works fine. Here's a Glock 43x holster i just finished. i took a different approach than Hags not that it matters. Mine fits the pistol so it slides in and out easily but is tight enough to not move in the holster and wear the finish. I feel i want my pistol to come out easily and fast if i need it. My retention is the strap as you can see. The trigger should be covered so you don't accidently stick your finger on it while pulling it from the holster. I use 10 oz. wet molded and no stiffener they get very hard and have never had a problems with any of the weapons I've made this style holster for. I cant see the top of my holster even fitting inside the trigger guard to cause a discharge. Having a worn or ill fitting holster that causes a discharge is the owners fault making sure you are safe goes farther than just checking your pistol that is how you eliminate risks.

I find it interesting how conditioned folks are to consumerism and the illusion presented that you don't have to think at all you just blindly accept what the "expert", paid actor, on tv is telling you. Pt Barnum said there is a fool born every minute, Big business ran with that thought.

that is nice work all the way around, maybe a bit thick but that doesn't matter much it will last for years .

That is very cool info. You should consider doing a few video's , if you haven't already, of you work so your lifetime of knowledge isn't lost my friend. I for 1 would love to see how you make your shoes.

Reminds me of the time I had to prove to our IT guy the $4.00 per 1 oz. bottles of cd cleaner he was buying was really just isopropyl alcohol which is about $1.00 per quart.

Holy cow those are huge!! And very yummy looking from here. they go well with those steaks there in the background lol. Fire up that barbie and grab a brew.

i love watching birds of all kinds they each have their own ways and i look forward to each spring when they start coming back first the Robins then later on the hummers signals spring is here. As i till the garden in the spring the Robins will set on the fence and watch then as soon as I'm gone they are down in the fresh soil pulling worms, then they get in the routine of a morning bath and breakfast when we water and after a while they don't fly unless we get really close.

darn fine work my friend. he should be very proud to wear that.

neither do i have dog in this fight, I didn't consider it a fight, i was just trying to enlighten the man. Wont do that again.

i practice tooling on them, use them for pattern making and brain farts that may or may not work. Liners if they are thin enough game boards, key fobs and such that softness doesn't matter much on.

you keep me grounded friend thanks for that.

Thanks Bert

I understand your point friend but the difference is I did have extensive past knowledge of what vegetable oil does and how it reacts with time and oxidation. With that knowledge based on years of working on equipment that it was applied to I deducted reasonably that I didn't want to use it on leather . I still haven't used it on leather and yes I'm testing it also with a couple folks on here but i wont use until I'm satisfied and that will be years from now not two or three months. Mop and glow has been tried and proven for years already so there is no debate on its worth as a sealer imo and so that's how I based my comments to him. However that's apples to oranges here my friend I wasn't suggesting he even try it. I can re post my first comment if you didn't understand it. "The mop and glo solution he suggested is used by tons of folks nowadays you really must have been gone a while. Its an acrylic sealer just as most of the modern "leather " sealers and works the same. But you can pay more at the leather store if you feel the name on the bottle changes its properties". good luck. Now I will say this I'm not gonna argue on the forum with him, you or anyone else. I will surely address any personal problems you or anyone on this forum may have with me or my comments via private messaging. But back on topic the guy said he wasn't trying anything but what's on the shelf and he knows the names of the products and he obviously doesn't want to hear any discussion on alternative solutions so this discussion is closed IMO.

You shut down the discussion with your second comment , re read it, here I'll be glad to re post it for you " Thanks, but I'm going to stick with traditional leather sealers like Feibing's, Angelus, or Eco-Flo, etc." That means no one need offer any more suggestions doesn't it. I came in your thread to try and help you to understand why Dwight said what he said. Acrylic floor wax is a much used and actually quite good sealer in the leather craft world if your to hard headed or just plain stupid to understand that I don't much care. I don't come on here to screw with people or to run them up some bullshit tree neither does anyone else, Dwight tried to help you so did I. Have a great day!!

heck yea buy it and fix it up!!!!!

I'm using the cactus juice I've done a few different types of wood some work some don't. I make a few knives myself and elk calls and about anything else I can think of lol.

have you ever tried stabilizing sage brush? I tried it didnt work well but maybe my stabilizer is getting bad.

i had to sand down the curl on the magazines a bit so they didn't pinch my fingers together and switch the mag release to left but now shes a keeper.

Thanks man, I hand form them. I was thinking seriously about a vac bag but these little square guns don't have much form to form lol. i may buy one in the future i have a vac pump i use for wood stabilizer.

thanks

Your not silly because you haven't "smeared" floor sealer on leather, your silly because you don't know shit about it but you blew it off. I used silly as way to be nice, because i wanted to say your really ignorant about acrylics in general not just leather sealers and your showing your ignorance to everyone here. I really don't give a crap what you smear on your leather. I also said don't waste peoples time, if you don't want a answer don't ask a question, search the forum most of us trying to make a living too.

the only dif between my last one and this one is 1/4" on the stitch line lol and the side its carried on.