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Source For Chicago Screws Please!
- Thread starter Gene
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Thank you Blademan but it didn't really help out that much. I see no source on Tim's Website for them.
To the rest of my fellow forumites, thanks for your overwhelming responses. Are sources for Chicago screws and rivets for making Kydex/Concealex sheaths a big secret now?
To the rest of my fellow forumites, thanks for your overwhelming responses. Are sources for Chicago screws and rivets for making Kydex/Concealex sheaths a big secret now?
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http://www.blade-tech.com/sheathmaking.html
if the SS screws in chicago style on that site are not chicago srews, then i have no idea where to buy. same for the rivets as blade-tech also carries eyelets.
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Ray
if the SS screws in chicago style on that site are not chicago srews, then i have no idea where to buy. same for the rivets as blade-tech also carries eyelets.
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Ray
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Try e-mail to wegnert@blade-tech.com
There are other items offered by blade-tech which don't appear on the website or in the catalogue. The screws and posts are on the website though.
Roger
There are other items offered by blade-tech which don't appear on the website or in the catalogue. The screws and posts are on the website though.
Roger
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Hi gang...
Chicago screws are best found at leather supply houses like www.tandyleather.com...
Blade-tech sells screw-posts and SS screws I think...a different product than the Chicago screws, a two part, flat screw for leather work...
Biggest problem for me is to get them with short enough posts...
Running Dog
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I use three primary sources for Chicago Screws.
Blade tech, mentioned above, but they sell aluminum posts and black stainless steel screws.
Texas Knifemaker's supply sells black stainless posts with black stainless screws (but they're expensive). http://siteblazer.net/texasknife
I also found this place (Fastener Supply), http://www.fastener-supply.com/navigate.htm and you can get a TON of screw/posts there for cheap (starting at $13.95 per 100) and in a bunch of different lengths.
Fastener supply only sells brass, however, which many people don't like because it's too bright. Well, I have a little "tip of the day" about that. Take your brass screws and posts and sand the heads of them briefly and lightly to scuff them up a little. Then take a bottle of cold blueing and pour it into a glass dish. Set all of the screws and posts inside the bleuing solution. After a couple of hours the brass screws and posts will turn black. The black corrosion on the outside will come off easily, just take the screws and posts out of the blueing and put them into a strainer and shake them as you pour water over them. Then dry them off with a paper towel. The brass becomes antiqued quite quickly at that point, leaving a very pleasant looking patina (or, shall I say, I quite like it).
Matt
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Blade tech, mentioned above, but they sell aluminum posts and black stainless steel screws.
Texas Knifemaker's supply sells black stainless posts with black stainless screws (but they're expensive). http://siteblazer.net/texasknife
I also found this place (Fastener Supply), http://www.fastener-supply.com/navigate.htm and you can get a TON of screw/posts there for cheap (starting at $13.95 per 100) and in a bunch of different lengths.
Fastener supply only sells brass, however, which many people don't like because it's too bright. Well, I have a little "tip of the day" about that. Take your brass screws and posts and sand the heads of them briefly and lightly to scuff them up a little. Then take a bottle of cold blueing and pour it into a glass dish. Set all of the screws and posts inside the bleuing solution. After a couple of hours the brass screws and posts will turn black. The black corrosion on the outside will come off easily, just take the screws and posts out of the blueing and put them into a strainer and shake them as you pour water over them. Then dry them off with a paper towel. The brass becomes antiqued quite quickly at that point, leaving a very pleasant looking patina (or, shall I say, I quite like it).
Matt
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Waxes Eloquent, Leader of the Terrible Ironic Horde and Mighty Brain Spewer
Waxy's Custom Concealex Page
Waxy's Custom Shirts for Concealed Carry Page
Waxy's Coveted Knives Page