With a little help from a friend.Score, cut and bevel. 1/8".A 3-in-1!Someone said the handle looks like a hot dog! This is one of the most viewed posts! Thanks for the visits!
Sheep Bones!
14/02/2014 28/02/2014
Shall keep updating with a new post dated Feb.26th,2009 http://asailorsleather.blogspot.sg/2009/02/birth-of-stitching-pony.html
24/03/2013
Extra fingers to hold leather in place.
For measuring bracelet sizes.
Dog Comb?
23/01/2014. In progress, a leather covered stitching pony with a leather hinge!
Instead of skiving, beveling with the French skiver then glue them together and beat the hell out of it with a ball hammer just to attach the male snap, I now use a 3 mm bolt & nut. Save me tons of times!
Expired Silicone! 01/05/2014.
Birth of an aluminum mallet and maul. Shall update later.
Hi,
I am Opel Mok.
It was back in 1970 that the ship berthed in Karachi ( West Pakistan then ), three young boys merely eight or nine years old came onboard with a piece of leather under their arms, some jerk needles made out of nails, a pen knife, pencil, can of glue and some threads asked me if I want to have a pair of sandals made. Placed my feet on the leather, he drew the outline, cut and stitched. I was watching them during the whole process and obviously got me hooked!
After they left, I made a jerk needle, took the leather off the eye of the mooring rope and started making knife sheaths for myself and shipmates!
It was not until 2001 that I took up a course on carving from Hidecrafter, Texas. Wanted to give up after the second lesson with all those red crosses and circles that Mr.Harry Resinger sent back! But he is one of a kind! He can motivates you thru his e-mails using words like....you should have seen Al Stohlman's work when he first started, his is no better than yours! He fooled me into it! LOL!
I am still learning!
Leathercafting is not my bowl of rice. Maybe when I'm tired of the sea. If you want anything made when time is not on my side, I can always refer you to my friends, local or foreign. Opel The Sailor.