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Leather is pretty flexible when it’s wet. When you stamp leather, it spreads. The more you stamp … like in a basket weave pattern, it keeps spreading. By the time I stamped the diamond pattern, the stitch lines n the back of the holster no longer lined up. They were close, but the front absolutely spread out. If you masking tape the back when you stamp, it holds the leather in place, and keeps it from spreading out.

I’m kinda confused. I don’t recall ever saying the antler was cut off. Doogmeister asked if this was mule deer. I said I didn’t know.

Thanks! Not 100% sure on the antler. I bought it from a maker on Etsy. the seller didn’t say.

Thank you very much sir. Now I’m planning out how I want to design the possibles bag. Thank you very much.

I’ve had this knife laying around for a year … maybe two. I’m planning on making a possibles bag for shooting muzzle loaders, and I’m going to attach it to the strap, when I make the bag. Figured I go ahead and get the sheath knocked out. I gotta learn not to be in a hurry. There’s a couple little mistakes in the stamping cause I was going to fast. Also, I didn’t tape the leather before stamping. I figured it’s so small it won’t make a difference. It makes a difference, and the leather still stretches. I was able to make some adjustments, and it works fine. I gotta learn to just stop working when I get to a point where I just want to be done.

I normally pour it in a big Tupperware container. I dip the leather in it. I’ve noticed that if I let the leather sit after dipping for 5 to 20 minutes, it continues to get darker. Also, when you put some neatsfoot oil on it, it also gets darker.

That’s good clean work. Well done.

It’ll still blacked the leather, My guess is, if you look close, you’ll probably still see the markers. From a distance, you probably won’t see the markers. The lighter green will probably be masked more than the darker purple. Hard to say 100% until you try it.

Thanks. I didn’t think of that, but now that you say it, they absolutely look like stock checkering. Even better

Absolutely!

Quick little project. Made of pair of handle covers for small iron skillets for a Friend of a friend.

thanks, my friend said the same thing. Happy little accidents

So, I have a replica of a medieval handgonne. It’s basically the first iteration of a handheld firearm. The term literally means hand cannon. We were firing it using a linstock, which is a pole that holds a slow burning piece of rope. It was really windy. When we were done shooting, the match didn’t get fully extinguished. The constant 15-20mph winds stoked the match, and it sat there and smoldered against the linstock, and burned about a 30% percent the way through it. To fix it, I took my chisels, and cut the burned section out in a squared off channel. I glued in a new patch of wood, and reshaped it back to match the handle. I sanded off as much of the burned wood as I could without changing the shape of the handle, and then I put a leather wrap around it, and baseball stitched the seam. Looks good as new. Back in business.

Thank you very much. It’s been a really fun project, that I’ve been slowly adding to for a couple years, One little piece at a time.

Thanks Dan! Last weekend and I went and shot trap with my friend. He was super happy with it, and it worked great. I had a lot of people looking and asking about it.