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28 minutes ago, bladegrinder said:

I've never used anything like that, I use the PID oven I have for tempering knife blades, it holds a temperature within + - 3 degrees. at 150 for a couple hours it really hardens up the leather, when you put the gun in it almost snaps in place.

Yeah I want to make a PID knife oven as well, just had not really had the funds. Them good PID controllers are not cheap. 

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I just use a cheap Walmart toaster oven. It works just fine, low heat for an hour or so. No problems .Perfect control of the heat is not necessary. These toaster oven hold the temp pretty close to 150 :yes:

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The one I have had a minimum 30 degree swing depending on the outside air temp before I wired it with a PID. I’m guessing any oven would do but this was set up primarily for tempering hardened knife blades, which require pretty accurate temperatures. When I gutted this thing out I found the temperature sensor wasn’t even in the oven, it was just behind the controls. frankly I have no idea how they thought that was going to regulate the temp at all, it was exposed to ambient air.

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What can I say ,I've done dozens of knife sheaths and holsters never had a problem. Just use low heat setting .

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Never said there was a right way or wrong way, just the way I do it. A light box would probably work to, just take longer I suppose.

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Very skilled stitch work. I recall you saying you used a Cobra Class 4 - it looks like at the beginning of your stitch line you must start with 2 or 3 stitches backtacking to the beginning?  Both ends appear to be double sewn, if you started at the beginning, backtacked and then went forward again, you'd have a bulky triple stitch.

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I back stitch two stitches then switch to forward, continue to the end, then back stitch two stitches, there’s no triple stitch.

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