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i doubt highly that your nail files will punch through leather as easily as the plastic they came with at least the ones over here wouldn't they have a very blunt point unlike a knife.

use a welt in it. sew in a small thickness of leather into the bottom about 3/8ths" wide so the tips will hit that instead of the bottom of the roll.

Dang I haven't tried them yet that will be todays tinker lol.

definitely a beautiful job of it.

yes it is and a model 1891 Argentine Mauser. Gotta love old iron!!!!!

what i did was use your pattern in conjunction with the gi pattern which i did trace from a flat photo on my monitor (yup) to get my pieces . I do know the original was for a scope and the history of it but i built this for iron sights and it is much different in how it fits. My pattern has the cheek piece higher on the stock , like yours, and is also thinner then the original. I also used your idea of formed leather inside. I used the gi shape but it isn't the same at all it is just looks similar and seems a good idea so the pads can be adjusted for thickness. i also lengthened it so it could use the sling loop to hold the rest in place, the originals were screwed to the butt. In essence it only resembles the GI model. But tracing an outline from a monitor only gives you a picture , no actual dimensions so that was the hard part actually getting the thing the right size and in the right place.

yup did just that.

oh heck yea!! very nice

thank you guys..

it is for his you tube channel lol. and probably Halloween too.

Well here is my sons first dip into the leather pool with my help, its a work in progress and a first for me lol. Its a bugger teaching someone something you have no idea how to do. There will be modifications!!!

Thank you right now i have some 3/8th closed cell foam in them i have a set of pads made out of leather that Dwight showed me how to make but i'm not finished forming them. whats nice is i can change them out. The GI type used felt pads in thiers.

i was going that route but i also have in mind making a better foot with shallower teeth. The biggest problem i see with them is they are so rough they tear the top layer of leather all i have done so far is finish them better so they arent rough and sharp. the tension is at the very minimum

buy it.

thank you Dwight or the great instructions and pattern here's the result, a bit of your pattern and a bit of the military pattern and my weird brain rolled into one lol. Its ambidextrous but my new pattern can be either side.

after finishing i think they look like any other machine stitches. the turkey tracks are virtually unnoticeable also all i have done to the foot is smooth them off so they don't tear the leather, they were as sharp as sharks teeth lol. i will be fixing the foot more however.

your making a matching belt and holster right? lol

really nice work friend i need to get going on my old shooter.

great idea !!!!

thanks i will check that out.

just thier catalog lol. i love a good catalog.

thank you And they have a free book!!!!

they are for the home machines 130/705 H LL 110/ 18 on the box. i can go up to the system 135 but haven't yet i saw they had some different shapes for the larger system and i will be doing that as i get the bugs worked out. I am shopping and researching on the thread exchange.

thank you Wiz i had hoped you would add a word it is a Schmetz leather needle, i believe it is a tri point needle. thank you for the tip!! i was taught to sew on a machine as a boy but that was a looooong time ago so have have forgotten most of what my mom taught me and it wasn't leather lol. Once i wet formed it to the stock they pretty much closed up.

here is my first try aside form the turkey tracks what do you think? the thread looks small for the hole but i haven't pounded it down. I used a shmetz 110/18 leather needle with tex 90 thread.