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beautiful work!!! Thems some fancy spenders lol and just in time for October fest.

i agree they need some refining. They look to perfect or computer generated to me maybe its the flat edges lol. Do you or can you do logos? I'm interested in one.

wrap them in leather?

i think anything you do will only make it worse. But look at it this way your sap would have darkened naturally anyway.

i think for your first one its outstanding, especially considering you had to make the tools and roon also .

need more info friend. what kind , how tanned, how thick, how big?

wow! seems if a company is going to sell something supposed to better made then it should be dontcha think. its sure purdy an high tech lookin though.

usps sucks!!!! if i mail a letter to an address across my 8000 population town it goes 120 miles to Cheyenne and then back. ten year ago they sorted in town now its all done in Cheyenne .

i feel your pain friend fedex does that to me all the time. goes right thru town on I 80 to salt lake then back again to Casper then back here. friggin nuts!!!

from what i read only endangered in Virginia

some folks just lay the belt along the edge of a table and place/clamp/hold a length of wood on top so it doesnt slip then burnish away.

those rock man!!!!!

you could use two pieces of wood slightly shorter than your belt thickness, what ever length you can manage and a couple small clamps. if its shorter than your belt do a section then slide your belt through. how long is a full length belt? i'm doing a 64" right now. i use my lathe burnisher for smaller stuff lol.

got any pics so folks know what your talking about?

when i do brass on my wood lathe i use files, they work well.

have you gotten any business from it?

Darn good tooling you did an amazing job its very nice work i cant do letters lol. On your question a welt in a knife sheath is to protect the stitching it doesn't have to be an inch thick to fit the guard that's not what its intended purpose is but like all things hand made you can make it as thick as you want and i wont tell you your wrong by doing so. I make my welts the blade thickness at the most. Now on holsters i make a short tapered welt ,sometimes, because a revolver cylinder is much wider than the barrel but even those aren't an inch thick.

ok the edge doesn't need to be knife blade sharp but you shouldn't see a large flat on the bottom either if you get it to thin it will just keep bending. The edge bevel should be 30 degrees or even more, like your swivel knife bevel short and fat only on a punch its to keep it from bending. Just about half the length of bevel you see in your picture. i don't sharpen any of my small punches unless they get a nick.

if it was working and now its not...... lol If i were you i would just pop 10 bucks on a new set if you can afford it maybe a couple sets so you have a backup the one you have may have been made wrong. to soft of steel, burrs or what ever but its time to chalk it up as a bad punch IMO, place the order, have a beer!

oh yea now i can see it too the tip is jacked up. actually looks to thin and was flared out which would cut a plug to big for the hole.

A 1.5 and a 2.5 mm punch, `the plugs and holes should show a nice clean cut i bought these on amazon for about 10 bucks for the set. I can punch all day and they just pop out . I tried pushing them out with my round awl and they came out easy which is the way they are supposed to. One good quick rap with a wooden hammer is all you should need if your tools are working correctly.

your punch may just be to dull to cut the leather cleanly or your board is to soft to allow your punch to cut cleanly.

i use the smallest punch that the buckle pin will fit inside the hole. i use Weaver 1/2" buckles and a 3mm punch.

there is something wrong with your punch or your pounding board or both. That's all there is to it, punches have worked for hundreds, if not thousands, of years lol. I just went down stairs and punched 30 holes with my 2.5 mm punch nothing for lube on dry leather and not a problem. My punches were bought off amazon and are nothing special at all. This one i didn't even sharpen i use a 3mm for my 1/2" buckles but 4 would work ok too.

what exactly are you using to punch against? Is your leather damp or dry?