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I'm totally subscribing.

I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with.

Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day.

From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.

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That's pretty much my bread and butter style on holsters.  I have found that a 50-50 mix of beeswax and neatsfoot oil rubbed on and heat gunned to soak it up really evens out the irregularities.  It leaves enough to look good, but not enough to look bad.  If that makes sense.  Plus those colors and a wax finish are a nice combo.  The application is easy, I use a wool dauber and swirl it on.  I'm not going for the starburst look though.  The hard part is convincing yourself you are not going to screw up a perfectly good product.  

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Thank you everyone for your input!  I hope to post a pic from the results!

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On 12/6/2016 at 1:18 AM, chiefjason said:

It leaves enough to look good, but not enough to look bad.  If that makes sense.

After reading three times, I aint getting this :huh:

If you're not doing the sunburst, what ARE you doing?  Go on show me... I aint scaret ta learn sumthin'....

 

JLS  "Observation is 9/10 of the law."

IF what you do is something that ANYBODY can do, then don't be surprised when ANYBODY does.

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9 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

After reading three times, I aint getting this :huh:

If you're not doing the sunburst, what ARE you doing?  Go on show me... I aint scaret ta learn sumthin'....

 

application rate of 50/50 neetsfoot/beeswax was what he is referring to i think.

"If nobody shares what they know, we will eventually all know nothing."

"There is no adventure in letting fear and common sense be your guide"

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Tinker has it.  The beeswax and oil helps to blend in any hard lines.  I've had finishes I was initially not happy with that were perfectly fine after the wax.  Mine is more mottled/marbled than sunburst.  But I could use the technique to sunburst if I ever wanted too.  

I actually dislike a solid brown.  Apparently a lot of other folks do too. 

 

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Nice work chiefJason! 

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I did the sunburst, I am good with that, but I like to be versatile.   I will try the 50/50 method  next.

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