The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Great job....
This is my take on a Makers Leather Supply Travel/Duffel bag pattern. I generally followed his pattern but did add in some lining with a pocket. I am pretty pleased with it although I managed to dislodge a zipper stop when I turned the bag out so I need to figure out a way to fix that. This is the most hand sewing I have done on any project in all the years I have been doing leatherwork. Took awhile.
Randy
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Showed the pics to Nichole, she was very impressed!
This is my take on a Makers Leather Supply Travel/Duffel bag pattern. I generally followed his pattern but did add in some lining with a pocket. I am pretty pleased with it although I managed to dislodge a zipper stop when I turned the bag out so I need to figure out a way to fix that. This is the most hand sewing I have done on any project in all the years I have been doing leatherwork. Took awhile.
Randy
I slick everything that is smoothout. Holsters, sheaths, scabbards, belts, can't think of anything veg tan and smoothout I don't slick. Got this deal from a local saddle maker years ago. Dampen your leather and when the color comes back and then slick.
I think rounded edges also last longer on a product. I've been thinking on doing a wip on finishing edges so I will here shortly.
I use Osborne edgers for the most part but am very fond of a Ron's Tools edger a #2.
It's simply the best edger I have ever used. Period. But they are spendy at $100 a piece. We keep talking about getting the whole set but haven't yet. Very easy to resharpen they package it with a rod that fits in it perfectly to use for sharpening with 600 grit. Then half a second on the buffer and its a laser.
I use a #4 Osborne for most sheath work on an edge that is multi layers. On an edge that is single layer like the throat of a sheath I use a #2.
Please tell her I appreciate that. She is an exceptional bag maker (among other things) so it means a lot to me.
Will do buddy!
Very nice! Are these the ones you got laser cut, Lorien?
Dug up Dave's tutorial for how to 'bake' his sheaths, I asked a mod to please put that thread up in the Tutorial section and they were kind enough to do so, many thanks to them and Dave.
This was what drove me to look for that thread as it's been a while since I baked a sheath, the ZT knife comes with a very robust...read unwieldy...sheath that doesn't really retain the knife very well or place the handle when mounted vertically to be able to reach and retrieve the knife so I needed to make a new one that is a bit trimmer and have the handle a little further down into the sheath, it is retained very well now and the belt loop is a swivel style so I can swivel the sheath up and out of the way when I go to sit down.
Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr
Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr
Here's a slice off the thread side, there are three welts, one that follows the sheath all the way to the bottom and the other two to keep the opening of the sheath wider to help get the knife back into the sheath. Also the welt has a slight convex shape with a cutout section that the guard snaps into, a cam like action to aid in retention.
Untitled by GaryWGraley, on Flickr
And no, I don't take in fixed blade sheath orders, just when I have to will I make one for myself
G2
Horsewright
My #4 is a Osborne, Western Style Bent Shaft Model #133-B4. I do have a couple of Weaver's edgers but they are smaller, a 0 and a 1. The Osborne edgers are available directly from their website.
I was looking at your tutorial thread and decided I absolutely need a weaver #4 beveler, except when I look at the website it appears to only go up to #3. I'm looking for a beveler that removes a larger corner, preferably rounded. Does anyone have the tandy #4?
Here is what the tandy #2 is getting me:
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The bevel is there but it's a bit more subtle than I want:
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I'm thinking about getting rid of my wood burnisher all together and just using a piece of canvas waxed in snoseal.
Ya bet my friend!Haha, that makes perfect sense! Guessing I misread it, thanks Dave
Nice jobQuick dirty sheath mod for Hultafors GK. I cut the plastic belt loop off and riveted a leather one in it’s place. Also I put strap to secure and stabilize the knife.
Don’t mind the hasty burnishing, I will finish it later as I had much other things to do.
.... Should serve you well......
Looks great and great pics too!Quick dirty sheath mod for Hultafors GK. I cut the plastic belt loop off and riveted a leather one in it’s place. Also I put strap to secure and stabilize the knife.
Don’t mind the hasty burnishing, I will finish it later as I had much other things to do.
I needed a new shoulder bag so I've spent the last while developing this one. I saw a bag I liked and worked up a pattern using a photo of the other bag for ideas and figured out how to make it.
I used a scrap of about 10 oz. veg tan belly leather for the back and some firm chrome tan for the front and the top. All were dyed, heavily oiled and treated with a bees wax finish. All straps are water buffalo.
