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You're a machine, John!Sheaths are both stitched, wet forming next.
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Sheath Trivia
• 4 pieces of leather (8 oz. Hermann Oak)
• 7 feet of thread
• 191 punched holes
• 67 stitches (13 backstitches)
• 12 layers of Barge cement
• 1 drop of Elmer's glue
2 per side. There's 6 surfaces glued together.John, do you use 3 coats of cement per side before mating them together?
2 per side. There's 6 surfaces glued together.
At the end of the saddle stitch, the two ends get tied in a knot on the backside and the remaining ends thread back through with a dab of glue on them. Then they get snipped off on the other end.What's the dab of Elmer's for?
I had to think about that when you asked, I thought, wait a minute, there's only 4 pieces, shouldn't there only be 8 layers, how did I count 12?? But four pieces sandwiched together gives 3 layers, 6 mating surfaces, 2 coats per. Divide that by Pi, multiply by the square hypotenuse of the flux capacitor and you should get 1.21 Jigawatts which equals a bakers dozen minus one divided by 2 plus 6.
I had to think about that when you asked, I thought, wait a minute, there's only 4 pieces, shouldn't there only be 8 layers, how did I count 12?? But four pieces sandwiched together gives 3 layers, 6 mating surfaces, 2 coats per. Divide that by Pi, multiply by the square hypotenuse of the flux capacitor and you should get 1.21 Jigawatts which equals a bakers dozen minus one divided by 2 plus 6.
I use thinner with it. I had problems with it being too gummy.Exactly what I thought!
Do you dilute / thin the cement, Or use as is?
Sorry if'n I aks too much and whatnot
I gotta file this one under "weird things you find stuck to a file that's hanging over your workbench"
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The worst part is that I can't remember the last time I used that file but I used that needle last night... WTF?
Now I'm confused.lolI had to think about that when you asked, I thought, wait a minute, there's only 4 pieces, shouldn't there only be 8 layers, how did I count 12?? But four pieces sandwiched together gives 3 layers, 6 mating surfaces, 2 coats per. Divide that by Pi, multiply by the square hypotenuse of the flux capacitor and you should get 1.21 Jigawatts which equals a bakers dozen minus one divided by 2 plus 6.