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I was glad to see you win, Tobin. Congratulations!

If it feels like a leather couch it's probably chrome tanned.

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Hello everyone, I've been busy with both leatherwork and life in general lately, so there are been a distinct lack of apocalyptic postings! Here is an EDC sheath I finished and shipped last week that holds a JK Handmade Knives "Mentor EDC" and a BIC pen (or ceramic rod/firesteel of the same...

Are you cutting a stitching groove first?

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This is a sheath I just made for a JK Knatchet. I just need the stupid buckle and clips I ordered to make the shoulder strap for it and it's done. This is an open-spine design with an integral belt loop/retention strap/baldric anchor setup, and there is a leather wedge reinforced by...

When I contacted them the ONLY had the oil re-tanned stuff, haha. It would be coming from the Horween Tannery in Chicago, but they want you to order 100lbs or more from them directly. I would say you should just go with some oil re-tanned cowhide, or some sort of veg-tan or brain-tan that's...

Are you asking about Shell Cordovan or horse butt strips? Shell Cordovan is very high end and expensive, horse butt strips come from just above where they take the Shell Cordovan from on the horse and is generally just really dense veg-tan. You can get oil re-tanned horse butt strips from...

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If your knife has a finger guard or choil of some kind then this can be done. The kydex just gets pressed around it and you have to loosen it up a bit so you can get the knife in and out, but it still snaps. The kydex melters in the forum will have more detailed instructions, I imagine

I totally forgot about this thread! Here are a couple non-knife-sheath things I've made lately:

Check out the forum over on Leatherworker.net, they have all sorts of interesting stuff you can learn from :)

After you sand your edges, dampen them a bit and rub back and forth along them vigorously with a scrap of canvas (I use a piece of old jeans) until it starts to feel like tennis shoes sticking to a linoleum floor, then keep going for a few seconds. That should burnish your edges. As far as...

Really I think you did pretty well. Has the one on the right had a finish coat put on it yet? Also, have you burnished the edges?

I can try--I don't use a single one of them, honestly, but I'll do my best :P The spoon tool with the French edger has two uses, since it's two tools. The spoon tool is for accenting your boning and tooling--for instance, you can use it to smooth out bevels or open accent cuts. The French...

I have no idea what the metal plates or the brush are for. The long tool in your first picture appears to be a spoon tool with a French edger on one end. The stamps are something too small for me to identify, a beveler, two backgrounders, a bar seeder, a basketweave stamp, and a geometric...

Looks good to me! 2thumbs As for clips, I just get mine from Tandy, and there is a Tandy in Peoria, I believe.

Well guys, this is it--the raffle closes this Saturday! If you haven't gotten your tickets, you better do it soon because you only have a little over two days left before we pick a winner!

Looks pretty good to me! As for the glue on the belt loop--that can happen pretty easily. Try putting a coat of dye under where the belt loop will be glued before gluing, just in case ;) By the way, your belts are next in line after the sheath I'm currently doing, but I may have to order a...