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  1. chuck123wapati
    don't forget the old masters. Any Al Stohlman books are excellent reference and pretty much led the way in western style holster making for years. Which leads to what type holster will dictate what info you need and from who.
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    Life isn't always about perfection that's the joy of working with products made naturally. I think that looks great !!
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    What weight leather? Are you getting your leather damp all the way through then letting it case properly? To me it looks like your leather may have been to dry to tool well.
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    answer = Laura Lee
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    i think they may be a very unique repair job. they appear to be nailed on so the saddle wouldn't have to be taken apart to make the repair. same with the rawhide on the cantle, i have an old one in that condition the cantle leather has been worn off along the top . Its has a lot of good stories if it could only talk.
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    i was thinking more on clean up or when you need to change colors. how hard is that? lol i keep a whole jar full of them babies. They are multi taskers.
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    that is cool!!! what does air pressure improve? I mean couldn't you do the same with just gravity feed?
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    according to Al Stohlman "Leather craft tools" cuts should be about 1/2 the thickness of the leather.
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    That's way cool, how do you manage different colors. My products aren't all flat straight belts so it wouldn't get the use from me. I use the back end of a paint brush.
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    Same for me my folks brought me up in a tent, hunting and fishing was a family endeavor, my mom was crack shot and fisherwoman as well as an awesome campfire cook lol BUT! i would give up the rest of my life of outdoors to have back one day with my mom and dad. You're the lucky one my friend enjoy every minute you can with them.
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    those are nice indeed!!
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    very cool and just in time for holloweenie.
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    thank you Bert
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    thank you very much . nope it doesn't come up on my posts at all.
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    lol no biggie friend i will if i can delete it. my edit button has been gone for some time. I thought your message was good.
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    Hey Tug do you take the same precautions with buying processed foods or even your water? I ask because there are more dangerous chemicals being introduced into our bodies than just from breathing. Read an msds for fluoride for example, and as its put into every water supply its in every processed food and beverage and we don't have any idea how much we consume. Its important for sure to be proactive and trust no one. Just for fun sometime read the ingredients on a package of processed health food. Recently, epidemiological studies have suggested that fluoride is a human developmental neurotoxicant that reduces measures of intelligence in children, placing it into the same category as toxic metals (lead, methylmercury, arsenic) and polychlorinated biphenyls.
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    i cant wait to tell you the truth I need some quiet time under the stars, a nice hot fire and a cold beer all at the same time. I made up some hunting gear to show off while visiting friends up there, we call it camp hopping, stop by and have a beer and BS a bit. Some of them i only see out there once a year lol but its a lot of fun. My winter chores are starting, fix some storm windows till in all the rabbit fertilizer, get the vehicles ready and fix up the green house roof. Jeez maybe I'll just stay in the mountains lol.
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    thank you Pastor.
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    it is pinned to the pommel like the newer kabars are constructed. i should have peened it, would have been easier lol. i shimmed it up about half a hole off so the pommel would be forced down and tight against the handle.
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    thank you! the stacked handle was easier than i thought, punched and fitted them to the tang then glued each layer with contact cement, after it dried i took them off soaked em and put them in a vice between two pieces of oak, cinched em down let them rest cinched em down again until they wouldn't cinch no more lol. let them dry over night and they were harder than rock lol. cleaned out the tang hole and stuck them on. Thanks Mike no I should have, its a full through tang its 5/8"th wide 3/16"th thick, made just like a ka bar lol 1095 steel 6"blade. drop point fighter.
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    lol sooner or later you will need them all. the bevellers for example are used for floral and figure carving. What i did at first is figure out a design i wanted to try then buy the tools for it. Most patterns will tell you what tools are needed then as you try more designs you acquire the correct tools and also learn their uses as you go.
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    thanks man it took some brain work for sure. In ww1 The US army rucksacks were built similar that is where i got my idea.
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    thanks nope thats a whole new knife.
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    a couple more and my first sheath with contents.
  25. chuck123wapati
    I started working on this sheath design months ago, finally got time to make a knife for it. Stacked leather handles, if you ever try them dont watch you tube vids, i looked at a few and they are mostly regurgitated forged in fires idea of handle and knifemaking which is far from good. The sheath is 10 oz back , 6/7 front and the wings and flaps are 3/4 oz. Its made to hold survival gear or whatever you feelt he need to carry. I had a thread on the idea months ago and this is much better looking lol.
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