bimbo's leather work

bimbo · Post by **bimbo** » Fri May 08, 2015 9:24 pm

trevort wrote:James how do go about this?

Bring the knife to Yass?

yeah for sure, or send me the knife a month or so before hand and some pictures/drawings of what you want and I will deliver to the missedathon

Not shooting relate but I must when dressing my 4yo the other day I put a dress on her that had little belt loops and I asked her if she had a belt to put on. 'Nope' was the reply. Well she does now

all of 2 foot long and 12mm wide

LoneRider · Post by **LoneRider** » Fri May 08, 2015 11:26 pm

i got a leather strap ,some kind of horse gear.
pretty thick,as wide as a good mens belt,i kept it for just that purpose.
one day i'll get around to making a couple.
preoccupied with tr shooting ATM.

bimbo · Post by **bimbo** » Sun May 10, 2015 9:29 pm

Pair of belts done over the weekend - one for the misses and one for me

Also finished off the pocket knife sheath

Camel · Post by **Camel** » Sun May 10, 2015 10:29 pm

Bloody unreal James, very nice work indeed.

kickinback · Post by **kickinback** » Mon May 11, 2015 8:11 am

bimbo wrote:
trevort wrote:James how do go about this?

Bring the knife to Yass?
yeah for sure, or send me the knife a month or so before hand and some pictures/drawings of what you want and I will deliver to the missedathon

Not shooting relate but I must when dressing my 4yo the other day I put a dress on her that had little belt loops and I asked her if she had a belt to put on. 'Nope' was the reply. Well she does now all of 2 foot long and 12mm wide

And she will tell all her mates. "Daddy made me this"

bimbo · Post by **bimbo** » Mon May 11, 2015 8:14 am

Thanks, it came up pretty well I reckon, there are a few things I would change or not super happy with - there is a couple of stitches that didn't sit right (OCD much?), been doing a bit of stitching practice and watching a few good detailed videos on youtube which helps a lot. Also got some new thread which makes a massive difference to how it lays down - never thought I would get excited about sewing thread

The belts also came out really good I think and are nice and simple to make - Wore mine to church on Saturday morning and now have a couple of orders for them

For anyone wanting to give leather a go it reckon making a belt is the way to go. Nice and easy but look pretty smart when you are done and most leather supply places will sell straps of leather cut to width for various belts and you can even buy them pre dyed, then just pick your buckle to suit and sew or rivet it on.

For anyone interested and thinking about doing anything similar here are a few youtube videos that I have found really helpful

Folded Knife Sheath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykhcHMpqE28

Pouch Sheath and some info on wet forming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZKxHdNIiP4

Saddle stitch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGuiha5S2oE

Next project is going to be a leather notebook cover - should make me look all fancy like when I go to work meetings

Cheers
James

bimbo · Post by **bimbo** » Mon May 11, 2015 8:18 am

kickinback wrote:And she will tell all her mates. "Daddy made me this"

Yep she wore it to church on Saturday and she was telling everyone and so was her mum

Now child No.2 wants me to make her one as well

bigfellascott · Post by **bigfellascott** » Mon May 11, 2015 8:48 am

Beautiful James - well done mate.

B4408 · Post by **B4408** » Mon May 11, 2015 5:56 pm

Bimbo, lining the pouches really adds some class to them, definately worth the extra effort. I will have to try that next time.

Bruce

bimbo · Post by **bimbo** » Sat May 16, 2015 12:44 pm

B4408 wrote:Bimbo, lining the pouches really adds some class to them, definately worth the extra effort. I will have to try that next time.

Bruce

Yeah I reckon it does too, if you want to try some pig skin I have a whole hide here i can cut a bit off
Made this up for the 'Cheese and Kisses' for her birthday tomorrow. Buckle strap notebook cover to fit A5 notebook.

Stitching done in one run which meant starting with just over 4 meters of thread makes it a bit of a handful at the start and took a good hour in front of the telly to get it all stitched up.

Cheers
James

Rigpig · Post by **Rigpig** » Mon May 25, 2015 4:44 pm

I am inspired and going to give that a go. I hope it comes out as good.

bimbo · Post by **bimbo** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:02 pm

Well I have said before that I was looking for a solution to getting more of the plastic inserts for the ammo pouches and I looked high and low for something I could just buy off the shelf/interwed that would fit the bit but turned up nadda. So if you can't buy it, build it

Introducing Mr 3DPrinter

Printed up a bunch of calibration test pieces that you can download from the net but this was my first attempt at printing something I had draw up in cad myself. Never had anything to do with cad before so I was stoked that it somewhat resembles what I am after.

Needs some tweaking but should work as planned.

Cheers
James

trevort · Post by **trevort** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:05 pm

Bloody fantastic. Let us know if you need any empty shells for measurement

bimbo · Post by **bimbo** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 11:57 pm

Take 2

Post by **MISSED** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 5:09 am

Wow

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