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04-25-2008, 01:56 AM
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| bringing back the dead  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: pensacola, florida | you have a point WT, holsters need to be a little pliable and water/wax hardening leaves the leather hard, save that for armor...you know you're a scadian if: you dig in the couch to find the remote and find a piece of roundmaile you forgot you made...happened a couple nights ago  ...on a side note, when i make holsters out of modern materials i usually just use 2mm funfoam from wally's art dept. as a stiffening and padding material...
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04-25-2008, 04:07 AM
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| Seasoned Member  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Here and There | If you don't mind me asking while you guys are giving away tips for leather; What are you using to stitch the leather together? Do those awe with a hole in them tools work and if so are you pushing them into a foam surface or how do you drive the awe through the leather?
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04-25-2008, 03:09 PM
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| MCB Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: People's Republic of Massachusetts   | I don't think rivets looks all *that* bad lol... I made a few things using nothing but rivets and they came out all right. I posted pics in some threads... Link to Bandolier Link to Gauntlet Link to Holster Sewing leather is a pain that's why I used rivet, however I did just get a sewing machine that can sew leather, so soon I'll be making some more stuff. All these things I made were basically practice. I learned a lot, like sometimes you havce to shave down the rivets if you're using thin leather or they'll get all cockeyed (the stuff I used was thin but still very strong) My advice is to go to Tandy Leather if you have one around and pick out some cheap leather to get going on. Just go ahead and make some stuff...and get creative. If you don't have a sewing machine use lacing instead (sewing by hand gets real old real fast lol).
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04-25-2008, 04:19 PM
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| Banned in 37 States  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Peterborough, ON, Canada | I use an awl and then i use a seperate needle and thread to saddle stitch. unless it's a Tippmann sewing machine Jaan, i wouldn't trust the 'leather' claim. they usually mean garment weight leather.
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04-26-2008, 02:53 AM
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| Thrillin' Heroics  Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Whitehorse, Yukon/Windsor, Ontario | I've going to give making a scabbard for my vest a shot out of this waterproof, nuclear-apocalypse-surviving vinyl we've got leftover from making some drysacks for backpacking a few years ago.
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04-29-2008, 08:34 PM
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| MCB Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: People's Republic of Massachusetts | Quote:
The machine I REALLY want belongs to my boss. It's an old Singer treadle machine that he got from a shoemakers shops years ago. I've used it before, it'll sew any thickness. It just has a small bobbin since the arm is slim enough to fit inside a shoe. I would recommend that machine to anyone if you can find one cheap enough.
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