Search found 28 matches
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 12:11 pm
- Forum: Request For Services
- Topic: Simple leather work?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20357
Re: Simple leather work?
Well, you never know. The industrial heritage look is still in vogue. Clipper lacing would be maybe less for a trouser belt and more for women's corsets!
- Fri Jan 12, 2018 9:11 am
- Forum: Request For Services
- Topic: Simple leather work?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20357
Re: Simple leather work?
Definitely belts for pants. Sorry, of course I️ should have realized I️ needed to be more specific on this of all forums.
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 4:41 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Appropriate fastener?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4163
Re: Appropriate fastener?
Very cool ideas, thank you.
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:45 pm
- Forum: Request For Services
- Topic: Simple leather work?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20357
Re: Simple leather work?
I was thinking of giving it a shot. Reason I was looking for advice is that the last guy I got to adjust some belts was a good cobbler, always great with shoes, but a bit sloppy with the belt work. Bit too rarified it seems!
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:29 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Q: Need some boot purchasing advice
- Replies: 15
- Views: 13279
Re: Q: Need some boot purchasing advice
Red Wings are solid. Their main brand is made in USA, and the Irish Setter line (ditto the Vasque work/hiking line, I believe) is import. If you know what you're looking for and have a few styles and your right size in those styles, you might have a shot at getting the factory store in Minnesota to ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:22 pm
- Forum: Request For Services
- Topic: Simple leather work?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 20357
Simple leather work?
Does anybody know someone who's good with leather, could do some fairly straightforward stitching and hardware and finishing? I have all the materials (leather, hardware, thread) for some belts, but I don't have all the leather-cutting/punching/stitching/etc. tools necessary for this task. It's the ...
- Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:20 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Appropriate fastener?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4163
Appropriate fastener?
Hi everyone. I am putting together a top for a metal stool that has a circular frame 11 5/8" in diameter. (Used to be a wood top that rotted away.) I am using a 11 7/16 x 1 aluminum round that I am going to encircle with a 3/16 piece of brass bar to make a top to fit the frame. The round I am d...
- Fri Oct 09, 2015 2:05 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Mounting aluminum rounds to wood so they can be turned 180º
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2375
Re: Mounting aluminum rounds to wood so they can be turned 1
This was helpful, thanks! I tried the variations both with and without the detent/spring combo.
- Mon Oct 05, 2015 3:03 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Mounting aluminum rounds to wood so they can be turned 180º
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2375
Mounting aluminum rounds to wood so they can be turned 180º
Hi, everyone. I'm working on a small house project that I could use some help thinking through with someone who has a better imagination for thinking about fasteners in 3D. I'm mounting two small fans upside-down to the top surface of a deep window frame. The fans are attached with 8-32 thumb screws...
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:44 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Removing Sharpie from matte-finish titanium
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2864
Re: Removing Sharpie from matte-finish titanium
Takes Right Guard out of bathroom cabinet, moves to utility closet...
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 7:42 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: How to prepare 6061 before using punch set?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2614
Re: How to prepare 6061 before using punch set?
Went back and checked the order and it looks like they shipped 6061-T6511. I'll play around a little and see if I'm doing something exceptionally stupid an re-post here if I figure it out...
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 2:30 pm
- Forum: The Junk Drawer
- Topic: Removing Sharpie from matte-finish titanium
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2864
Re: Removing Sharpie from matte-finish titanium
Acetone got most of it, and MEK got the ghost. Thanks, Harold!