Am I the only one?

[doublehbar]

I am beginning to believe that I attended school on the day of measure once and cut twice.  Working on a different sheath today. It's a right handed sheath and I made sure to label my pattern as to avoid cutting it for a lefty. Don't ask me how I know. I cut it the first time. Thankfully it was cut for a righty, so I had that going for me. Then I realized that I cut the belt loop portion too short. Grr. No biggie. I cut another one. Make sure that I adjust and cut the belt loop larger this time. Awesome. I sand out imperfections on the edges, then bevel, and crease what needs creasing. Meanwhile I am impressed with how much my time and work is improving. I honestly can't believe how fast it's all coming together. Then it happens. I start folding it together to make sure that it is all good. Everything looks great until I realize it is for a lefty. Doh!! So yes folks. I have now cut two sheaths out of my pretty piece of Hermann Oak that I can't use just yet. Hey, look at that. It's 5 o'clock....

[Retswerb]

Oh man - I was definitely at school that day too. I feel your pain!

[doublehbar]

19 minutes ago, Retswerb said:

Oh man - I was definitely at school that day too. I feel your pain!

Thank you for raising your hand in solidarity for my moment of shame. lol

[JLSleather]

Well, I don't want to be found bragging about my less stellar moments, for fear I might WIN, and I just can't bring myself to fall for that AGAIN~

Enough to say that no, you are not alone.

[doublehbar]

18 minutes ago, JLSleather said:

Well, I don't want to be found bragging about my less stellar moments, for fear I might WIN, and I just can't bring myself to fall for that AGAIN~

Enough to say that no, you are not alone.

Oh, come on. Do tell. Help us newbies out. lol

[Mattsbagger]

That's how I ended up with a righty and lefty G43 holsters made. Lol since they both sold no biggie and got lucky.

[doublehbar]

Lucky? I would say so! I am going to hold onto the lefty one in the event someone needs it in the future. As for the righty that I messed up, I will either come up with a way to fix it and use it as a learning experience, or I am going to use it for tooling practice. Either way, it is all a learning experience. Or so I tell myself. lol

[terryHHI]

I’ll play.  I was made a pattern for a backpack. During the build process I decided to increase the size of a pocket by 2 cm.  I changed the dimensions on my plans except I missed  one place.  I made the pocket piece and realized I missed the change.  Work on something else for a couple minutes.

Go to plans.  Get dimensions. Cut piece.  2 cm short again. How is this happening?  Go to plans confirm I have right dimensions. Yep, exactly the size per plans.  Now I have two short pieces. 

Finally realized I had changed the plans but missed changing the number in one place.  Cut piece again.  By this time the wrong dimensions were firmly engrained in my brain. Cut it short again. Now I’m sitting at bench and laughing out loud and looking at my 3 mistakes.  

4th time was a charm.

Do you need a pocket or 2 for your holster?

 

[billybopp]

I'm pretty much convinced that you simply can not work with leather for very long without making exactly that sort of mistake.  Here's a picture of one of mine.  Notice that the strap for the top center Gomph knife goes opposite the direction of the CSO at the right -  The wrong direction.  Since it's just for me, I didn't re-do it ... at least not yet.

-Bill

[Rockoboy]

If I had $1.00 for each time I cut something out left hand instead or right hand, or 2 backs and no front, or 2 fronts and no backs ... you get the idea ... I could buy a couple new sides of leather I reckon!