After All These Years...............

[Horsewright]

After all these years, I still end up using all the keys on the top of the keyboard:!@#$%^$#&()%^&*(#$%%!!!, once in a while. Say bad words loudly and toss my sandbags around the shop etc.

One of these is going to the customer and the other will get strapped to one of our saddles cause I screwed up and had to rebuild the one for the customer. Can ya tell which one?

Course it happens when you are almost done too. Not at the beginning, so ya got some time invested as well as a pretty big chunk of leather on a scabbard.

Heck it's not like I haven't made this scabbard before. I've probably made two or three hundred of these guys. Ya see it yet? Yep it's the bottom one:

Yep look close, slipped while I was trimming the excess leather after sewing. !@#$%$#^&(!!! Well Nichole said she wanted a scabbard for her Uberti 1873, so now she's got one.

Ya got any epic failures lately?

 

[SVTFreak]

Most people would have just sent that out hoping the customer didn’t notice.

 

[Dusty One]

That's to bad...Doesn't look like it even touched the thread.

 

[Robber58]

I have cut leather on the wrong side because I forgot to label my pattern and did not carefully check. You would think once would be enough but, oh no, I did it again a few days later. I attribute it to bad gin or it might have been tequila. I have also made one or two left handed holsters that should have been the opposite. That was just plain not paying attention.
Good you know how to hold your knife Dave or some fingers could be a might bit shorter.
Randy

 

[JonBishop]

I think I can one up you by some level of magnitude. This was going to be a scoped rifle case. I couldn’t tell while sewing but the odd shape of the thing caused the machine to kind of “pull” things out of whack. Compounding the problem was a very uneven poor skive on the edge. I’m still new. But please, have a good laugh on me.

Happy leather working, Jon

 

[co556guy]

I guess I either don't know what I'm looking at, but I don't see what you messed up on.

But..... that's the mark of a good craftsman that takes pride in their work. What I can't even discern is such a glaring screw up that the whole product must be remade.

Nice scabbard, by the way. I can't even draw a line as straight as your stitching.....fwiw

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Dave, you set the quality bar extremely high and the damage that was done, which had to be blown up for us common folk to even take notice of, is quite small but, I understand and can sympathize with you for sure. Defects can and do drive us crazy, but each one we catch does make us more careful moving forward, at least that is the hope!

G2

 

[JonBishop]

Just wanted to say, my post in this thread was meant as joke. Feel free to make fun. Someone with decades of experience and me with a couple years of experience, what’s an epic fail? Dave’s mistake would not have even came to my attention in a finished piece. I bite off more than I can chew sometimes and this was the result. Can you guess who I was trying to emulate? That’s the level I want to achieve.

Love this forum, Jon

 

[Horsewright]

Most people would have just sent that out hoping the customer didn’t notice.

Yeah couldn't do that. I kept kinda wishing it would go away. It didn't.

That's to bad...Doesn't look like it even touched the thread.

It din't that I could see. Kinda strange.

I have cut leather on the wrong side because I forgot to label my pattern and did not carefully check. You would think once would be enough but, oh no, I did it again a few days later. I attribute it to bad gin or it might have been tequila. I have also made one or two left handed holsters that should have been the opposite. That was just plain not paying attention.
Good you know how to hold your knife Dave or some fingers could be a might bit shorter.
Randy

Yeah Randy I've got a frienbd who was cutting fringe on a pair of chinks. He now has a square thumb instead of a round one.

View attachment 1391845 View attachment 1391846 View attachment 1391847 I think I can one up you by some level of magnitude. This was going to be a scoped rifle case. I couldn’t tell while sewing but the odd shape of the thing caused the machine to kind of “pull” things out of whack. Compounding the problem was a very uneven poor skive on the edge. I’m still new. But please, have a good laugh on me.

Happy leather working, Jon

That looks like a pretty tough project Jon. I use to make a scoped rifle scabbard but quit doing em. Just tough to get right all the time. Also difficult to fit right, just so many variables out there.

I guess I either don't know what I'm looking at, but I don't see what you messed up on.

But..... that's the mark of a good craftsman that takes pride in their work. What I can't even discern is such a glaring screw up that the whole product must be remade.

Nice scabbard, by the way. I can't even draw a line as straight as your stitching.....fwiw

Thanks. Look close at the third pic. Just below the bottom straight stitch line is a parallel slice through the leather.

Dave, you set the quality bar extremely high and the damage that was done, which had to be blown up for us common folk to even take notice of, is quite small but, I understand and can sympathize with you for sure. Defects can and do drive us crazy, but each one we catch does make us more careful moving forward, at least that is the hope!

G2

Thanks Gary. Yep we just keep truckingI guess. Ya try not to do the same screwup again.

Just wanted to say, my post in this thread was meant as joke. Feel free to make fun. Someone with decades of experience and me with a couple years of experience, what’s an epic fail? Dave’s mistake would not have even came to my attention in a finished piece. I bite off more than I can chew sometimes and this was the result. Can you guess who I was trying to emulate? That’s the level I want to achieve.

Love this forum, Jon

Ya've got a great attitude Jon. Just keep on putting one foot In front of the other and ya'll get there. Sent off 8 roundknives to heat treat the other day.

 

[pugs75]

Man been there a few times as well, and started over cause I knew it was there. I applaud and appreciate your attention to detail and unwillingness to compromise for your customers. After all, our standards are what get us the work we love to do!!

 

[believerjoe]

I looked for 5 minutes and didn’t see anything until I zoomed in. The slice is there. I would have pointed it out and offered a discount more than likely. However, I can’t fault anyone for shooting towards top quality. I made three sheaths for a knife once with much more glaring issues! Lol. You could also have just added more scratches and called it rustic!