Whacha Been Up To......

[sbh06]

Very nice work!

Thanks Dave, I have already had a couple of opportunities to use it in public. It works so well for me.

 

[Horsewright]

Yes I’m a complete amateur as evident but it doesn’t stop me from trying. My current wallet is disintegrating and I figured I could try to make a new one from a piece of scrap leather. Place for my drivers license, my credit card and a small Texas toothpick. All a gentleman needs

Edit: can’t have this thread hijacked by the pros can we… I shamelessly show off my amateur contraptions

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Looks pretty darn good to me. Clever idea on the knife.

Lately did different things, one bullwhip, one cossacs whip, sheat whith clip for pocket knife, torch, fischer pen on the side with additional pocket at the back for money and made new typeof necklace, so it was fun



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You've been busy my friend!

Some recents.

Did this sheath for a customer's knfie:

Mitchy is getting big.

Goes off to kindergarten on Dec 1. Here on the right with his mom on the left:

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks Dave, I have already had a couple of opportunities to use it in public. It works so well for me.

Ya bet! Those hourglass basket stamps aren't as easy as a straight one. Ya did a good job with that stamping.

 

[sbh06]

Ya bet! Those hourglass basket stamps aren't as easy as a straight one. Ya did a good job with that stamping.

They aren’t, but I like how they look when completed better than the straight ones.

Also, mighty fine work you’ve put out recently (as usual).

 

[Horsewright]

They aren’t, but I like how they look when completed better than the straight ones.

Also, mighty fine work you’ve put out recently (as usual).

Thanks Yeah the hourglass is my preferred basket too. Thanks.

 

[baxtrom]

Looks pretty darn good to me. Clever idea on the knife.


You've been busy my friend!

Some recents.

Did this sheath for a customer's knfie:

Mitchy is getting big.

Goes off to kindergarten on Dec 1. Here on the right with his mom on the left:

Thanks, you must either be an exceedingly polite person, or you forgot your glasses
My stitching skills need to improve. I use fork punches but still cannot avoid some amount of turbulence in my stitching. I would be very happy if I could achieve stitches like yours. Maybe I’m just not patient enough…

 

[Horsewright]

Thanks, you must either be an exceedingly polite person, or you forgot your glasses
My stitching skills need to improve. I use fork punches but still cannot avoid some amount of turbulence in my stitching. I would be very happy if I could achieve stitches like yours. Maybe I’m just not patient enough…

Maybe a lil of both!

So while the stitches look pretty well spaced there are a couple of crooked ones. I assume you are hand sewing? Some guys will used a chuck upped awl needle in a drill press (not running) to punch their stitch holes through. This gets them straight. Premark your holes and give the drill press trick a try on the next one.

 

[baxtrom]

Maybe a lil of both!

So while the stitches look pretty well spaced there are a couple of crooked ones. I assume you are hand sewing? Some guys will used a chuck upped awl needle in a drill press (not running) to punch their stitch holes through. This gets them straight. Premark your holes and give the drill press trick a try on the next one.

Aha that’s an interesting technique. I have a drill press, I just need to find a “chuck upped” awl. I googled the chuck part, it came back as “to vomit” (informal) in British English
I’m guessing it means discarded or something?

Edit: or are we referring to the chuck of the drill press?

 

[Horsewright]

Aha that’s an interesting technique. I have a drill press, I just need to find a “chuck upped” awl. I googled the chuck part, it came back as “to vomit” (informal) in British English
I’m guessing it means discarded or something?

Edit: or are we referring to the chuck of the drill press?

Och lad, I dinna ken you're from that side o tha wee bit o water. Can ya tell I sat my Highers at Waid Academy, Anstruther Fife? Anyhoo, back to the cowboy me. Yeah I was referring to the chuck on the drill press. So mount the awl needle in the drill press. Remember its not running and you want a relatively soft backing under your leather, say a smooth pine board of some kind. Ya want it to be smooth so it doesn't mark up or scratch your leather. When ya said you were using a fork to mark your stitches I assume you are not talking about a dinner fork? A pricking iron they are often referred to if you are using what I think you might be. Lots of folks think that they are to be pounded all the way through the leather to make the stitching holes and really they are to "prick" the leather so you know where to set the awl.

 

[baxtrom]

Och lad, I dinna ken you're from that side o tha wee bit o water. Can ya tell I sat my Highers at Waid Academy, Anstruther Fife? Anyhoo, back to the cowboy me. Yeah I was referring to the chuck on the drill press. So mount the awl needle in the drill press. Remember it’s not running and you want a relatively soft backing under your leather, say a smooth pine board of some kind. Ya want it to be smooth so it doesn't mark up or scratch your leather. When ya said you were using a fork to mark your stitches I assume you are not talking about a dinner fork? A pricking iron they are often referred to if you are using what I think you might be. Lots of folks think that they are to be pounded all the way through the leather to make the stitching holes and really they are to "prick" the leather so you know where to set the awl.

Thanks I will try this approach. I have previously tried with drill bits with the drill press running. It sort of works but I imagine the stationary awl procedure may constitute an improvement! And yes, I mean pricking iron. Don’t know where I got that fork term from, English is not my first language… which perhaps also explains why I can’t decipher that part about Highers and Anstruther Fife…?

 

[Horsewright]

Gotcha. When ya mentioned British English I thought you were British. From what you've typed I'd of never guessed English wasn't your first language. Anstruther is a small fishing village on the coast of Fife, a county in Scotland, so part of Britain. The Highers are basically an exam sat in your last year of high school. These determine what ya do later on in college etc. So basically for our US friends its a high school diploma. So I have four Scottish Certificates of Education one in English, History, Art and Modern Studies but no American diploma.

I've heard of people using dinner forks to mark out the spacing on leather projects so it could be done, I guess.

 

[baxtrom]

Gotcha. When ya mentioned British English I thought you were British. From what you've typed I'd of never guessed English wasn't your first language. Anstruther is a small fishing village on the coast of Fife, a county in Scotland, so part of Britain. The Highers are basically an exam sat in your last year of high school. These determine what ya do later on in college etc. So basically for our US friends its a high school diploma. So I have four Scottish Certificates of Education one in English, History, Art and Modern Studies but no American diploma.

I've heard of people using dinner forks to mark out the spacing on leather projects so it could be done, I guess.

Oh we are marinated in English here in Sweden (and in many other European countries too I guess), we are constantly exposed to it. I think the Dutch are better, but we are pretty good considering it is not our 1st language. The Germans on the other hand have US/British tv series and movies dubbed so they are less exposed, we swedes only add subtitles, which I think is a good thing. And it’s interesting to observe kids nowadays, they are watching a lot of YouTube et c they become very good in English (as a second language) at an early age.

That was a bit off topic. Still, thanks for the tip re stitching, I’ll try it out, I’ll just have to find a lonely, misplaced awl somewhere

 

[Horsewright]

Oh Sweden is where you are. My first car was a Saab. My dad was a Saab fiend he had like 30 of them. Had them stored on my ranch and his property. He found the one for me way out in the desert herein California. He called me up and asked me how much money I had. Ended up buying that car for $235. Brought it home and completely rebuilt it, engine and transmission. It was a 1972 Saab model 99 one of the first fuel injected ones. I called it the Millennial Falcon after Hans Solo’s ship in Star Wars. A bucket of bolts on the outside and it ran like heck! When I lived there in Scotland there was a lot of traffic back and forth across the North Sea with Norway but not so much with Sweden.

I’m sure many of the leather supply houses there in Europe will sell just awl blades without the haft or handle. That’s what you are looking for.

 

[baxtrom]

Oh Sweden is where you are. My first car was a Saab. My dad was a Saab fiend he had like 30 of them. Had them stored on my ranch and his property. He found the one for me way out in the desert herein California. He called me up and asked me how much money I had. Ended up buying that car for $235. Brought it home and completely rebuilt it, engine and transmission. It was a 1972 Saab model 99 one of the first fuel injected ones. I called it the Millennial Falcon after Hans Solo’s ship in Star Wars. A bucket of bolts on the outside and it ran like heck! When I lived there in Scotland there was a lot of traffic back and forth across the North Sea with Norway but not so much with Sweden.

I’m sure many of the leather supply houses there in Europe will sell just awl blades without the haft or handle. That’s what you are looking for.

Haha the Millennial Falcon
The 99 was a pretty well respected rally car for some time, I seem to recall. Didn’t it have a freewheel clutch? Like a bicycle?
EDIT: sorry that was the 96. But the 99 is also sort of an iconic car. I never owned a SAAB but I know they let their engineers come up with odd solutions, sometimes borrowed from the aircraft branch of SAAB.

I can buy awls like this one. I’m sure it will work in my drill press.

 

[Horsewright]

Haha the Millennial Falcon
The 99 was a pretty well respected rally car for some time, I seem to recall. Didn’t it have a freewheel clutch? Like a bicycle?
EDIT: sorry that was the 96. But the 99 is also sort of an iconic car. I never owned a SAAB but I know they let their engineers come up with odd solutions, sometimes borrowed from the aircraft branch of SAAB.

I can buy awls like this one. I’m sure it will work in my drill press.

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Yes sir that looks perfect.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Both knife and sheath…

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Also dialed in the squeeze sheaths for the BF HumpBack Congress. This will be my third year offering a special sheath for the yearly BF knife.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Thanks guys, that one border stamp is quite handsome to use, glad I picked that one up for sure. The one with the double was dyed light brown, using that air sprayer really helps to apply a nice even coating of dye, but they are a pain to clean up afterwards, which is a must to prevent cross contamination of dyes or clogging up the mechanism.

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These look great Gary! Nice and slim and full of character!

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

A couple more slip sheaths, this one is for my Bladeforums traditional folder for this year.

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and this one is almost to it's owner out west in Colorado

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This one was supposed to quote in my previous post as well…not sure why it didn’t.
These look fantastic as well!

You’re getting real good with your airbrushing!
You’re leatherwork is always top notch.

 

[Sharp & Fiery]

Yes I’m a complete amateur as evident but it doesn’t stop me from trying. My current wallet is disintegrating and I figured I could try to make a new one from a piece of scrap leather. Place for my drivers license, my credit card and a small Texas toothpick. All a gentleman needs

Edit: can’t have this thread hijacked by the pros can we… I shamelessly show off my amateur contraptions

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Super stoked to have you posting your stuff in here! Sick! Keep at it. Dave has some great advise here, as always.

Lately did different things, one bullwhip, one cossacs whip, sheat whith clip for pocket knife, torch, fischer pen on the side with additional pocket at the back for money and made new typeof necklace, so it was fun



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Very nice!