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yes you can!! you dont really need a skiving knife at this point any knife will skive, you can use a lot of different household item to burnish also, denim, canvas, glass, come to mind also you can use a regular cutting board from the kitchen to replace the mats If you plan on staying in the craft buy all those things! if you don't just search your home for good equivalents. finishes can be as easy as nfo and a good clear shoe polish, mink oil water proofing is what i use. The natural color will darken with age and amount of sunlight it gets, a lot of folks just use the nfo then lay it out in the sun to darken naturally.

or maybe skive it down to nothing and fold it in or glue it together.

to me it looks angled(cut at an angle) so you see more of the cut edge could you simply angle it the other way or cut it straight so it doesn't show as bad from the top

take your sheath pattern( forget the loops at this point) and lay a ruler across it at the angle you want your belt put your belt loops at right angles to your ruler. the sheath in your first pic wont lay at the same angle as the second sheath pic it will ride at about 45 degrees and most of the handle will be way above your belt line.

That looks like the perfect holster for a white tie affair !!!! Very cool indeed. i could see James Bond wearing that.

what is interesting is that bitumen is used for lining the bottles, cups and such.

great looking tooling!!!!

it would be gone by now! good luck friend!!

oh yea now your talkin!!

I used to feed my dogs rawhide chews they aren't unsafe to eat unless they plug them up, some are bleached with nasty stuff however. my male would unravel them and swallow them lol they don't digest so came out looking the same!! we switched to carrots believe it or not our three bullies love carrots. organic or not lol. i do have some truly organic hide, we tanned it our selves! brain tanned wild elk and deer. sustainably sourced and ethically harvested. need any more buzz words lol.

ok organic milk is processed just the same as non organic milk. organic beef is processed exactly the same as non organic beef. hides from these organic cows are processed exactly the same as non organic hides are, with the same chemicals. get it? so that being said then veg tan is about as close as your going to get. to "organic" leather. if you buy and pay more for organic leather than regular you are buying a pig in a poke.

Good luck to you and i am impressed by your willingness to look out for others in such a way. one would assume that but i highly doubt it. 1. most have them made by a third party. 2. they just don't care its not an issue people don't eat shoes so they don't need to be organic. Now you need to think about the conditioners polishes and other nasty things your going to smear on them lol.

sweeet indeed!

I don't enable people to be scared of their own shadow, its become the norm since the phony pandemic. I try and show them there is still some common sense in the world. how many billions of shoes have been made in the history of the world with how many leathers, plastics and "man made materials"? how many children have you ever heard have died from chewing on them? do the math. I've raised six kids they don't eat their shoes! some worries are just stupid. sorry.

simply beautiful!! both are very nice.

those are really nice!!

i would worry about the sugar in their processed foods first, its the main factor attributed to all the health related diseases they will endure for life. And it is a toxin they do put in their mouths and LOVE to eat. Did you know it is in infant formulas at twice the amount as in soda pop in some brands.

yup what they said, i will add your forming is great!!!! tape something to your pistol from the back sight to the front sight so a channel is created when you mold it. I usually use bamboo skewer sticks or a thin strip of leather about the same size as the front sight.

beautiful work on both !!! That spalted Maple looks great imo.

i doubt you can find any leather different than what toddler shoes are already made out of. I don't think its a worry. As a father ,grandfather would worry more about them eating the stuff off them they step in.

i've never used the info but i have read it and know it is very good he is a master craftsman. Thank JlSleather for it. Holster_Theory.pdf

some more IWBa-1.pdf

dont know if this will work but here is Jls info.PancakeLayout.pdf

same to you Frodo have a great day.

not here but the cc purses are lol.