BlackDragon

I have a green sling made out of nylon but want to make a nice leather sling. That may be my next project. And to keep on topic: I'll burnish the edges

There are a few different braiding techniques so it would depend on how you want the finished product to look. There are round braids, double loop, diamond, Mexican, on and on. Are you butting the two pieces together or are you laying them back to back and lacing over the seam?

I have an M1 Garand, I used to shoot in competitions many years ago and fell in love with the borrowed Garand I was using. After that I bought one of my own through the CMP. I tend to only burnish. On the flesh side I buy my leather already finished so I rarely do any slicking. My first post was tongue in cheek because the 9mm vs .45 debate gets heated sometimes. I threw in a the clip comment as it riles some people up. lol

Great topic!! Next can we discuss which is better in my clips, 9mm or .45?

Ok because I didn't see it here either I thought it wasn't showing up.

I made a post about rebinding a Bible in Books, Journals and Photo Albums but it didn't show up when I clicked on New Posts(mobile). I was wondering if that section doesn't show up for new posts. It does show up if I click on Activity when I'm on my laptop.

I looked at SLC but they listed them as "all Metal" but when you call them they are aluminum, only the sleeve is stainless. I actually asked the customer if they wanted a quick change buckle and they said no. So I was limited to finding 2" buckles to match their old one. I looked at their site but I needed 2" buckles and they don't have the brass ones in that size. Also they didn't state in their website what type of metal their other ones were. I reached out to them but they never got back to me.

In a rebinding thread I made a post about starting a rebinding project on a Bible. This is the before and after of that. I had an old Bible laying around. It's actually the first Bible I ever owned, bought back in the 80's. It's got a few loose pages and the last page is torn near the spine. I carefully tore off the cover and was able to save the end pages which I'll reuse. I had to remove quite a bit of glue off the spine. I'll take the title page and use it to repair the torn last page. I gave the text block speckled edges with a maroon base to hide the browning of the page edges and added some bookmark ribbons. I remade the title page using vellum, had some soft 3/4 oz brown leather I acquired some time ago. 3/4oz is a bit thick for rebinding but since it's a soft cover it'll work. I just have to skive the edges so I can fold them over. I used heat transfer vinyl for the lettering. I have a Silhouette Cameo 4 for cutting the vinyl.

I looked for stainless but I couldn't source them. The websites would say all metal but when I inquired they would tell me they were aluminum.

I got a saddle in the shop a few weeks back for cleaning and some repair. The biggest issue I found were the Blevins buckles. Since they are made from aluminun they oxidized quite badly. Have yall ever seen them this bad?

It took me a bit to find them https://a.co/d/91CJigZ

I'm currently doing some book rebinds. My plan is to rebind and sell a few books from time to time. Generally books are rebound in 2oz leather and good quality binders boards for hardcover books. Going thicker than that makes it difficult to fold over the edges, going thinner means the leather will wear out faster. On my bench at the moment I'm rebinding a soft cover Bible. I'm going to use poster board and 2oz veg tan. You can probably do 5oz you'll just have to mitigate the curling of the leather after tooling.

Nice work!

Welcome to the forum! These are neat designs. They would sell fast at local fairs.

Nice work! Welcome to the forum!