Cutting shoulders straight in quicker time

[Colt W Knight]

You could always get into that kinky sex harness/whip stuff. I mean, it is already black.

 

[RockyAussie]

8 hours ago, dirkba said:

Hi RockyAussie,

The off cuts could be used for bird hunters game carriers or simple belt key rings.

 

 

 

Thanks dirkba, I have never met any body in Australia doing bird hunting, mostly around here you have either roo shooters or pig hunters. As for the key rings what I am trying to find a use for is the split off the back and I dont think that would look much good.Thanks for your efforts though and nice work by the way

[RockyAussie]

6 hours ago, Colt W Knight said:

You could always get into that kinky sex harness/whip stuff. I mean, it is already black.

 

What sort of designs could you do, do you think? I am not toooo sure what the wife would do if she got her hands on any of this stuff, she can hurt pretty bad without any extra help I recon.

[JLSleather]

If you got fellers stout enough to carry a pig on that strap, he don't need no gun -- just whoop the pig and make him walk to the house. 

I was gonna suggest THE best idea what to do with it is send it to Jeff, but since I don't know what I'd do with it either (and the fillin' station don't take AU yen - or whatever you folks got over there) that's maybe not plan A

 

[plinkercases]

How about rough and tumble belts? throw a liner on it or braid them like the examples here? Sure its not "suede" but.... shame to throw out all that material that's already paid for from the first product.

[RockyAussie]

Thanks for the thought it may have some merit I will look into it and let you know how I go. I would like it if I could work out how to suede it up better.PM me your details anyway if you like.

[RockyAussie]

70 more shoulders to straighten up and here is my latest improvement on cutting method. The main change is is that I have secured the straight edge(40mmx5mm flat mild steel) down on one end with a screw with a 1/8" thick bit of leather between the cutting surface and steel.This keeps one end firmly held while I push in my scribe cut. the other advantage is that by putting a Nikko line mark on the table i can quickly see where the leather has to cover and line up to.I often see people asking how to get straight cutting here and something similar may help. Hope the following pics help explain better. Job was easier to do but the time still took nearly 2 hours.

Maybe I was just bludging!!!

[plinkercases]

Good set-up - thanks for posting the improved version. Nice to see you using a round knife kind of old school like.... and that's a lot of cutting.

[RockyAussie]

Just a note on that point, previously I used to use the the hand knife you see in the 4th picture and swipe through with 2 or 3 swipes. This took a lot longer and I had to resharpen probably about 8 to 10 times to do this amount. I only needed to polish the tip of it once for this lot and the round knife I polished twice. I barely touch the cutting table at all as once the cut is started I pull the strip up a bit and the knife just slides along the scribe mark. This is NOT mellow leather either.

[plinkercases]

What is the material on your cutting table top?