Mablung

First off, what tool are you using for skiving? There are a couple of hand-use skivers that help provide consistent edges, using replaceable blades. Regardless of the tool used, practice practice practice is a major part of the answer. I'm not very good at skiving just yet, but that's partly because I use my round knife and am still working at keeping the blade angle of attack consistent.

I've used a sponge to apply small amounts at a time to accomplish the same end. Easier to control the application that way. One can do the same sort of thing with a spray bottle, like the mister bottles Tandy sells.

Hmm. I don’t know a ton about copyright law, but I know a little bit. I’m wondering if he could actually enforce that “10 items per year” limitation. Selling the pattern as one’s own, without any change to it or with only minimal changes that aren’t enough to make it a derivative work, yeah, that’s a violation of the copyright. It seems a closer call with regard to the items one makes using the patterns, however.

One can also attempt to force a size 4 needle through a previous stitch in a tight hole and bend it to curve that way. Results not guaranteed.

I’m not usually huge on basketweave, but I REALLY like the pattern you did on the wallet back. Very nice.

Lol, I gotcha. I was confused by the "flat round" series of adjectives and thought, "I think I know what he means, but I'll clarify anyway to be sure..."

By “flat round bar of wood,” I assume you mean one that is smooth, without additional grooves cut in its perimeter?

I like those, as well as the OP’s. My sister would like something like this (my mom not as much, but maybe).

What kind of mold (blue gun or cast) are the Glock 17 and 34 pieces? Any Glock double-stack 9mm magazine molds?

How long have you hung it? And are you trying to eliminate all signs of wrinkling, or just the main fold lines?

A loop like the one on this belt?

@JTMW, are you asking where to find a essentially a really big roller buckle without the tang?

Beautiful work! The tooling is great; looking at your shading especially, as I'm just learning to do that and trying to get it down. Your daughter's paint work is great as well. Two thumbs up.

What sort of carving? A ornate floral, simple figure, something in between? And how much detail do you put into the wet molding? Every line of the implement, or more of just a general shaping? The detail and whether you want the front piece to be more decorative or to supply more retention make a difference in what you carve and on what sorts of pieces.

Seriously. I didn't realize how difficult it is to pear shade smoothly until I was trying on this thing. Thanks. Hopefully I'll get it at least stained tonight, though I probably won't finish the rest of the construction until either later this week or sometime next week.

Thank you. I’m looking forward to staining it and finishing the construction. I’m going to experiment with some Angelus Gel Antique to stain and antique it; we’ll see how it goes. The sheath needs a little revamping in terms of construction design, so it’ll probably get redone, but I’m looking forward to finishing this version.

Definitely not finished yet and very much in progress and very much flawed. But I rather enjoyed doing the leaf on this thing. I got carried away with the cuts on the acorns, but I can change that on the next iteration. I’m proud of my tooling progress, which is why this one is in the “Show Off” forum, but I’m always looking for suggestions on how to improve, so critique away. (Ignore the bevel line on the right side—that was me practicing with a new beveled, and that’ll get stitched through on the back. This sheath is much more a practice piece.)

Wow, what a concept…I mean, if that’s how you turn animal hides into shoes, where do the leather ones in the stores come from?

The PT92 is really a great gun. I’d not trade my Czech peashooter, but I also have a nice personal attachment to that gun now. I’ve carried this gun the last year and a half, eight years total, soon as I could get a carry permit. Glock, terrible pseudo 1911 briefly, an HK VP9 for four and a half years, another souped-up Glock, which now trades out from time to time with my CZ. Got great personal connections to all three of my carry guns. Like the Marine sniper says about his rifle. I really, really have an itch to shoot…if I lived near Wyoming, I’d go with you, lol.

I have a souped-up Glock 19 I carry as well, in addition to a couple other plastic guns. My 19 looks good, if you’re into hard, angular lines, but it just doesn’t have the same aesthetics as my CZ. I don’t generally think very highly of Taurus, but I have yet to hear anything bad about the G3c. A friend has I think a G2c, and the front sight screw came a bit loose, allowing the sight to spin around backwards, when shot. I gave him a lecture, spun the sight back around, and put some threadlocker on it. That annoyance aside, he said it was fairly accurate, for its small size. Give me my Glock or CZ any day, though. Head shots at 50 yards and body shots at 100 with either one.

I remember hearing about the dangers of cellphone radiation a number of years ago, but then the subject seemed to disappear. Interestingly enough, I was just thinking about it again the other day. Probably a year ago or so, there was some murmuring over the move to 5G networks and their corresponding greater power that would seem to bring along more intense RF radiation, but I haven’t heard anything else about it. Seems there’s a research project in there. I suspect lots of things may be slowly killing us, in ways we don’t understand. This is probably one of them. So maybe I need to go make myself a cell phone holster to inhibit my ever-constant cellular companion’s effects. (The assistant manager of my local Tandy carries his phone in a case attached to the front of his belt, but I suspect that’s more about keeping stuff out of his pockets than anything else.)

Huh, didn’t know that. In terms of plain old distance, the hip holster wouldn’t be much farther away physically. I wonder why it being out of the pocket makes a difference.

Fixed my length problem (most of it, anyway), by cutting the toe stitching and pulling out the toe “puff”—Tanner’s Bond Cement didn’t hold as tightly as I thought it would. Anyway, these little boots are now significantly more comfortable.

Lol. I like shooting .45, though I confess to carrying 9mm. My typical carry gun is a semi-custom CZ 75 P-01 Omega, though, with green and black grips, so it’s a lot prettier than that horrid Ruger.

Good work across the board. That Ruger is an ugly gun…