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Once you’ve picked and decided, see if you can’t find a ‘nearly new’ used one...
Mine came today too guys, and I'm pretty smitten... This Starry Night G-Carta is something else, looks absolutely amazing in person!
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Wow! Just WOW!!!
Thank you! I was stunned upon pulling it from the sheath. Turned out better than I had imagined.Absolutely stunning!
The Blue Denim is gorgeous, it's a really dark blue and this looks to be a really nifty little knife.
Thank you! I was stunned upon pulling it from the sheath. Turned out better than I had imagined.
You are an artist John! Definitely not a mangler, by any stretch of the term.Thant's music to a mangler ears
Now that I'm finally pleased with my hand stitching skills I'm going to look into a machine. I know, Boo, Hiss, Booooo, but if it's good enough for Paul Long @sheathmaker, then it's good enough for a schmuck like me
Thanks for posting that Ray, I hear you about hand done work, it's like it gets imbued with a presence that can't be duplicated. The current Dibs will be hand stitched as that's how they were offered. I doubt I'll have a machine anytime soon, the model I'm looking at runs around $3200 shipped. I'm a "Buy Once, Cry Once" guy and all about investing in the right machinery but that's a hard pill to swallow. Hell, my HT Oven and Mini Mill cost around that much combined
Having said that , I do recognize that leatherwork grinds my productivity to a crawl. Stitch layout and prep is over half of the overall time involved in a sheath for me. The result though is a stitch that looks the same front and back and that's important. If a machine can shave hours (literally) off each sheath though and maintain the same quality of stitch, I'm in.
My Grandmother used to build Goodyear Blimps in the early 1950's. She'd talk about the huge amounts of fabric laid out in a humorous hangar, giant needles and how much fun it was working there. Your story reminded me of that, which I haven't thought about in years.
Mine came today too guys, and I'm pretty smitten... This Starry Night G-Carta is something else, looks absolutely amazing in person!
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Wow! Just WOW!!!
Now that I'm finally pleased with my hand stitching skills I'm going to look into a machine. I know, Boo, Hiss, Booooo, but if it's good enough for Paul Long @sheathmaker, then it's good enough for a schmuck like me
(Re-reading this, I realize it sounds like I'm kissing ass. But I'm not, this is the honest-to-goodness truth. )