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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2008 15:12:50 GMT
Here are some pics of the sword belt I made for my DSA Squire. And a question for you experienced leather workers out there (glances over at Brian from DBK ). This was my first real leather working and dye job. I used Carnauba Creme (Tandy's Eco Flo, water based, emulsified wax/conditioner) as a finish, but I am still getting a little bleeding of the dye. Not a ton of transfer, but I don't quite trust it. I probably used way too much dye. I don't want to get blue dye all over myself from the belt rubbing on my clothes or if I get a little sweaty. Got any ideas about what I might use over that to fix the color a little better? I was thinking maybe one of the acrylic based finishes? Or just polish the heck out of it, until it stops turning stuff blue, then wax over it again? Thanks- Buff The belt isn't really this electric blue, just overexposed the shot) closer to the true color kind of shows the twisted silver wire I added to the white collars to mimic the twisted wire of the grip. The wire is actually very shiny ;D I cannibalized the buckle from a 1$ belt I got at Goodwill. traditional?, required? shot with cat helping
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2008 16:14:19 GMT
kudos & +1 karma on the construction. I want to attempt to make a rig for my Windlass 15th c. longsword in the near future. Again well done...sorry can't give any advise on the dye aspect Cheers, Bill
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Post by ShooterMike on Sept 11, 2008 17:39:34 GMT
Nice job, Buff!
I like using something like Tandy's Leather Sheen to apply over dye to seal the dye. It does a good job of locking the dye and preventing it from coming off on hands or clothes.
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Post by Brian of DBK on Sept 11, 2008 18:05:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2008 2:30:32 GMT
Buffjrod, I am glad your sword problems were all worked out!
Very nice work on your scabbard! +1
Debbie
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2008 16:40:53 GMT
2 questions, if I may buffjrod.....
1) what width leather / belt did you use?
2) any pics of the back-side if the straps around the scabbard?
Tandy leather is long gone from my area....so I may make a trip to Goodwill to srounge up some test belts before I attempt the real thing.
Thanks & Cheers,
Bill
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Post by jpfranco on Sept 12, 2008 16:57:21 GMT
2 questions, if I may buffjrod..... 1) what width leather / belt did you use? 2) any pics of the back-side if the straps around the scabbard? Tandy leather is long gone from my area....so I may make a trip to Goodwill to srounge up some test belts before I attempt the real thing. Thanks & Cheers, Bill You can go on their web site and order from them. They also can sent you a catalog to order from.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2008 22:18:16 GMT
@ ShooterMike and Brian of DBK - Thanks for the tips guys! Those ought to help. I was going to buy that leather conditioner, but my Tandy was out of it. The Carnauba Creme I used does have some kind of conditioner in it... the leather got nice and supple. Letting it cure for a good long week is probably also going to help. (Patience grasshopper, patience!) @ billiam - www.tandyleatherfactory.com/Tandy is incredibly helpful with advice, too. or www.bearcreekleather.com/these nice folks have a lot of the same products as Tandy, ship fast and I thought were a bit cheaper. Tandy has a membership club that will save you a lot of money if you are going to be buying a lot, though. I did cut up some goodwill belts just to figure out the configuration I wanted. But you can only really dye unfinished leather (veg tanned, not chrome tanned). The belt was made from two 1-1/2" (actually 1/16th under that to accommodate buckles) belt blanks of the 8-9 oz veg tanned cow. That left me with enough extra to experiment a little with the dye. The white collars are from some scraps of calfskin. I skived (thinned, but ooooh look at me and my technical jargon) down the belt areas that are involved in the buckle and wrapping around the scabbard, but I left the rest in the thickness it came as. Pictures of the back. Oh god, you want to look in my closets - How embarrassing It is not nearly as nice as the front. My excuse is that I am waiting to see how the leather stretches before I finalize it (sounds good, right?). To get me started, I looked at Christian Fletcher's custom integral belts and Brian's belts for inspiration - You definitely want to go stare and drool there first. www.dbkcustomswords.com/handmadescabbard.htmlwww.christianfletcher.com/Christian_Fletcher/Sword_Belts/Pages/Integral_Belt.html#1This is one of the collars - the 2 sides fold in and get glued to make a "tube" that wraps around the scabbard. the back. Mine starts out pretty much like Brian's or Fletcher's, but then it becomes all about what you do with the ends. I didn't cut a lot of slits to interweave mine on the backside because that felt like it made it bulkier. But I may change my mind. I think they would help keep things tighter. I will eventually come up with a tidier, more permanent solution - like a small rivet or 2, even. Interestingly, the short ends from the buckle, that are just wrapped around the outside and cross over, don't move at all. The trick there seems to be to make sure the holes just barely big enough, but there is quite a bit of surface traction going on there. For now, I have pretty much just tucked the long ends of the upper part in/tied them off. I wasn't comfortable cutting into the actual scabbard leather to make little slits - it is all glued down to the wood and I was afraid of getting it wrong. The edges of the white collars didn't meet as nicely as I would have liked. My next attempt will either drop the collars, or completely redesign them. There are some funky angles going on in that upper piece on the backside because of how it wraps around on itself. Good luck. I had a blast playing around with this and learned a lot Buff.
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Post by Brendan Olszowy on Sept 13, 2008 11:49:29 GMT
You rock. Great job! Real nice and creative.
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