Went to buy an embosser, ended up with a few items....

[Rhale]

Are you selling any of the tools?

[VYO]

What a haul! Nice find!

[mogwild]

1 hour ago, Rhale said:

Are you selling any of the tools?

Not yet, not even sure what half of them are to tell the truth. Found one of these BNIB in the collection:

https://www.tandyleather.ca/en/product/craftool-keen-edge-sharpener

[mogwild]

Clamped to the bench, and properly wet leather makes a big difference. Here's some shots of some of the other (and a few of the same) on raw veg tan with proper wetting and adjustment, now we're cooking with gasoline!

So there's a really thin barb wire roll, this is a pass on each side, one side with medium pressure, the other with much more (too much I think)

 

An unofficial unlicensed motorbike company perhaps?  For some reason there's a double roll (ie, I have two identical ones of this one) if anyone's looking to trade.

I'm not even sure, really not. Religious or just a unique pattern?

Nicer definition of the oak leaves and acorns

 

Properly centered and cased celtic:

 

Properly centered and cased (could have used a bit more pressure) tri-weave, also have two identical one's of this one for some reason, again, anyone wants to trade a roll for a roll I'm up:

 

Got the basket-weave (my fav) centered and on cased leather:

Yeah this one is not my style, but for a biker belt maybe? 

 

And now, not in black, the wildlife scene. Honestly the definition is much better than the photo suggests, just doesn't photograph well:

 

And there was a hand embosser, so my wife tried it out, pretty neat actually, be good for edges and other items:

 

Edited February 5, 2019 by mogwild

[mogwild]

Also included with the purchase was two huge slabs of Granite, couldn't get a picture until now since they were so heavy I coudn't get them out of the car without help. Put one on one of my workbenches, and it darn near fit perfectly! Unsure what I'll do with the other slab, maybe donate it to a local leatherworker, pass it on as they say.

[dikman]

Those photos are jaw-dropping stuff!!! It looks like you bought out a small shop! In your position I would have done the same thing and taken the lot.

I rather like the oak leaves/acorns and the celtic pattern (I'm not one for geometric patterns on leather, just doesn't look right). You've got many, many hours ahead of you sorting stuff out. Well done.

[mogwild]

Yeah, sorting and organizing is taking a while, I haven't really gotten into tooling yet, but when I do...

 

the snap/rivet setters I'm not sure what they are all for, there's 13 or 14 sets, must have labels on the bags, 6 do not. I hope to post some pictures of them and see if anyone can tell me which pair with which and what they are for.

[Scoutmom103]

wow it does look like you bought out a small tandy shop.

I like the belts with the embosser wheels.

Edited February 8, 2019 by Scoutmom103
Large Dog in lap, caused the enter key to be hit to soon.

[mogwild]

Here's some of the die's I'm not sure about. I think #1 is for spiked collar things, it's spring loaded, but I'm not sure which bottom it belongs to. Anyone can identify any of these and tell me which pairs with with and what they are intended for you'll save me a great deal of experimenting  if not, I'll start going through the hardware and seeing what fits what.

[mogwild]

Ok. Got the tools mostly organized, time to dive into the Rivets, snaps, and conchos.

 

This table (8') is just rivets, eyelets, and snaps

 

Table-o-rivets and such:

 

All of these a guy could want, in all sizes:

Same thing with eyelets:

 

Lots of jeweled rivets:

 

From big to small:

 

All manner of spikes:

 

Rivets and D'rings, I'm not going to need to buy rivets for a good long while (I apologize for the camera, phone update and the camera can't take pics indoors anymore):

I dunno even where to start, that's a large ziplock freezer bag full:

 

 

 

Edited February 9, 2019 by mogwild