Getting into leather working. Been pretty fun so far. Started because I got tired of leather stuff wearing down (wallets, belts, dog collars) and I got free time. God damn, leather is expensive. Make it right and it lasts basically forever though. Any other anons do leather work? Talk about what you like and don't like about it.
>>2987374looks pretty simple, just the same piece over and overjust lay out the pieces before you start riveting, take notice the the middle row overlaps both sides
>>2987475do you think I should use rivets or the leather cord a lot of videos suggest using? I have some rivets but I had a hard time getting them through 10 oz leather.Oh I also meant to ask, what weight of leather I should use? I used 10 oz for my helmet. I was thinking maybe 6 to 8 oz would be better? But I don't know. I don't want it to be too thick and bulky, but I also don't want it to be some wimpy little thing that looks like a toy. Would be using veg-tanned in either case, obviously, and good quality stuff. I'd have to buy a roll of 6 to 8 oz for like 50 or 60 bucks but that's fine as I will definitely use what's left of my 10 oz for other projects.
Only on occasion to make a sheath after I make a knife. The results are nothing fancy but they please me, and I do 90% of the work with a leatherman, an ice pick and a broken ruler because I'm a poorfag. Picrel, my first sheath.
>>2987043Dye doesn't "rub off". Leather absorbs it. Makes sense when you remember it's dried out skin with a bunch of pores. Stuff like antique finishes can flake off because that doesn't penetrate like dyes.To help you out though. Finish any tooling you are going to do, apply a light coat of oil (neats foot is common), dye, then a top coat like resolene (or whatever finish you like). You got two main types of dye, alcohol based and water based. Both are good, water penetrates better but can bleed into other areas if you are trying for two tone looks. Alcohol doesn't bleed but doesn't age as nice if you are going for a petina.Note, you cannot dye chrome tan leather for shit no matter what, you need to use veg tan. Chrome tan is soft, cheap, and has a lot different colors to pick from, but you are much more limited in terms of stuff you can do with it.
>>2987570have you ever worked with leather before or did you cut straight to copy pasting an ai reddit response
Frens,How do I kill a tree without using girdling or glyphosate?I also have some type of Jumanji-like vine that won't stop growing on my fence and I've tried killing it for years. Can I drill a hole in the tree and put some kind of chemical in it? The roots of the vines too?
>>2988284We have the most insane fans, its part of the charm. Fuck Auburn.
>>2988299>I like driving in my truck>Auburn sucksThe only fanbase that is shittier and more toxic and spiteful than Auburn is LSU
>>2988190>Can I drill a hole in the tree and put some kind of chemical in it? The roots of the vines too?yes. glyphosate.
>>29881901 copper nail in the trunk. several if it's larger
>>2988299>>2988301go buttfuck each other and get it over with
I'd like to make my own chess set. I have zero woodworking knowledge.
>>2983472why wood? why not toenails or something unique?
I was born today. How do I kill myself?
i think it would be cool to have small magnets in the center of the tiles and pieces, so that the pieces snap to.if you wanted to could even make all white squares 'north up' and all black 'south up', with all pieces holding neutral, unmagnatized metal, except the bishops so that they cannot move from one color tile to another.
>>2983507not nearly the same thing. a chess set can be anything. shotglasses and shotgun shells make equally servicable chess sets.
>>2988255Make all the pieces one pole and the board the other.
living legendshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaphZ1jP9fI
>>2988236>fall protection while framingNot gunna happen. It's nothing like Honnold. Temporarily deck or scaffold where it's needed.
>>2988237Barefoot is retarded. I had a boss that would walk 20' 2x4 walls in cowboy boots.
Why's he shaking like that? Is he a meth tweaker or something?
>>2988174Is this what the cool kids call ragebait?
>>2988233you just listed it all, bruh
Anons design my apartment
>>2987059not OP but I disabled or covered all leds that I can see from my bed
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>>2984050Based
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>>2984935I like your layout
We are seeing the start of the pushback against the "millennial gray" interior design philosophy thats been so dominant the last 10-15 years. Where do we go next? Do we overcorrect with gaudy colors and loud decor?What are you doing in your house to add personality and make your space look less like a corporate hotel lobby?
>>2986922There's two tva because you couldn't actually use old rear projection tvs like that during the day or for some programming because it would either r both be too washed out by sunlight or the news khyron or score tracker would burn in
>>2984966Not really, this board is fucking dead. Whatever thread died for this was equally dead.
>>2985376>>2986755>>2986922>>2986943>>2986962Back in the '70s that is how they thought the future would look. Anyone remember Picture-in-Picture tech? It was the answer! All you needed was two sources and you could do PiP on one TV! I literally know of no one that ever used it. Modern TVs and receivers can still do it. Mainly because it is trivial with modern tech, but it has a very specific use case that few people actually use and literally no one ever sets up in advance.The first sets hit the market in the '80s, were obscenely expensive, and generally flopped. When TVs internals went digital the cost dropped and it became standard on most high end sets and even some mid range sets. It still required two separate sources in most cases. When cable got its own box instead of hocking directly to the TV you would see some units that could do PiP in the cable box regardless of what you TV could do. Again though, very limited use cases.
>>2987031everyone i knew used pip to watch the preview channel
>>2984958Beige/brown/green for meBut, I live at the lake, so it is not being rebellious or anything
I want to buy a 3D pen for general repairing purposes but I don't know any specifics or details about the different types of pens/ plastics they use to be most efficientanyone got any experience they don't mind sharing?plastic weight load strength would be most informative
It's a literal scam, don't be a moron
>>2984662They suck, even plastic welding kind sucks
>>2984938There's a woman on insta using these and then standard wood burning, hot knife, soldering stuff to smooth them and make very realistic fruits
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>>2984662Yeah don't bother. I tried using mine to repair small trinkets and they fell apart in a couple days again. Soldering iron is way more effective, just be careful not to overheat the plastic.
hehe
>>2985395lmaoooooooooooooo
>>2985395kek
>>2984008He "put the hammer down", which means going as fast as possible. "Cash me now" is a deliberately misspelling of "Catch me now". Which is harder to do when going fast.It's like Belgians taking a knife with them in the car so they can cut corners.
>>2985395oof
>>2985395you need to rotate and squish first
How feasible is it to turn a 12 foot box truck into a tiny apartment on wheels? I can afford this and a few thousand for materials and work on it myself, the problem is I live in a city and work in an area that may or may not be ok with having me bring in a box truck everyday. But if they did it would blend in well for the area. If monthly insurance isn't too expensive I would consider living in this full time. I don't own a company and am not sure if insurance companies
>>2987935Speaking of Mercedes/Dodge Sprinter vans, here's an idea. Since those things get used all time as courier/hotshot vehicles they're seen parking in the 4 wheeler sections of truckstops all the time (they park over there so as to not piss of a trucker by taking a truck parking spot). They usually look like hell but the main tell is they'll frequently have a generator chained to a receiver hitch mount and some shittily installed a/c unit hanging off the back of it, or on top of it someway. Go blend in with them.
>>2987898Nah im pretty sure the guy living in a box truck is devoid of a life from drugs, booze and foods inducing diarrhea at 4am.
>>2987791Just go to Canada and ask for the Canadian special at the nearest hospital. It's far better than living in a box truck.
>>2987791Don’t toss a small truck camper. You’d be surprised by how little you actually need. Cops for some reason don’t really seem to notice trucks with campers but will KNOW you’re living in a box truck…everyone will. Park outside of a Walmart or under a tree at a park. A little something I did after my divorce was find a park, picked the lock to the bathroom (actually made my own key; I’m a locksmith) and that way I had 24/7 access to a bathroom. I cut keys out of my truck and cut down on overhead by doing jobs that would normally cost $300 for $100….man, I had a fucking line of people outside of my truck, until a mechanic rented me a spot in his shop, which is where I live now.
>>2987827>The other issue is that driving a truck, you have no car.>one ton truckAs a matter of fact, you do have a ca in this case. A very small car, such as a Nissan Micra or Honda Logo weighs about one ton.
https://youtu.be/5fe3rP92hjYWhy aren’t more people just building their own homes for $300? The story on why they tried to outlaw this building method in order to raise profits is fucking absurd.
FYI - Adobe houses are also prevalent in Europe and especially the Balkans, especially in my region of Dobruja (Romania). Overhung rooves, a raised foundation and external coats on the walls prevent rain from eroding the adobe (or Chirpici). The traditional way to build them is via "Clacă", where the entire community forms the bricks and then builds the house for one family voluntarily and without pay, and in turn that family does the same for other unhoused community members.Pic rel. 3 examples within Romania
>>2981043dirt just melts with the rai-ACK
>>2981058Doesn't know what a roof is.I made a rocket stove with this and it lasted the whole summer without any problems. It's the repeated freezing-thawing that breaks it. Not an issue on walls, but generally you want a roof to cover your walls from most of the rain.
>>2981043Gets power washed away
>>2981069Nice
redpill me on soviet concrete trussesseems like an underutilized technique for the savvy /diy/ builderconcrete is cheap and easy and you could use whatever for reinforcement steeljust form up a mold and make enough to build your fallout bunker quonset hutwhy didnt this soyuz shit catch on more places?
I have made an anti-grav device in my humble shed.
>>2969908>I have made an anti-gravy deviceWhy?It is the best sauce
>>2987518anti gravity...it was just some explosive diarrhea that achieved escaped velocity from the toilet bowl
>>2987518He just wants the cia to notice him so they'll heat up his hottub for him
>>2970753They do this on /fit/ too with Marc, and there’s also that terrible 35 but look 17 meme guy.. demoralization… diy is insanely OP, dollar store Bryan Johnson has legit deaging protocols, hell looksmaxxing itself was a derivative of anon science. Fit produced valuable culture too. There is consistent gold in this dumpster site, and the military finds it threatening enough to spend taxpayer dollars to kick you nerds in the teeth mentally periodically so you don’t cause the revolution in institutions the blackmail elites fear
went to get 1 1/4 ID poly tube got 1 1/4 OD poly tube, reamers post your tips.
measure max depth, add tape to outside at this depth, make a small slit in the pipe the tape should arrest the tear from going too far; stretch the pipe on.
you nigger rig fix is bad and you should feel baddublyso for samefagging this retarded threadenjoy your future catastrophic failure asshole
>>2988120>dublysoprops on sixesfully saving a few letters, i am hopeful; i have been heating the pipe and reaming with a plastic screw driver handle.
Thinking about building a small cnc mill for small steel and aluminum parts. I’d like to make the thing mainly out of aluminum extrusions. I was thinking that a fixed gantry design like picrel would be the most rigid, except I’d like to mirror it so there are diagonal braces on both sides and to increase the depth of my work area.Is this the most rigidity possible given the size and format constraints?
>>2986891look at that cute lil' engraver, very sleek design
>>2986891who are "they"? certainly not dmg mori or matsuura which was the topic
>>2978241this swiss dude keeps designing new machines and the only cutting video he has on the bloq4 is drilling 4 holes with an endmill.
>>2987155>who are they I think we know who they is
How light could one make a CNC if you just wanted to carve light stuff like foam?
Just realised you can buy a shit ton of bricks and just build stuff with it. Like literally whatever you want lol, shit's crazy. My power level is about to become absurd
>>2986498You need space to build, so land. And if you're in the city you need to deal with that. And if you live in the HOA they need to approve it.
>>2986498>literally whatever you want lolnot really just box type structures on land my power level went up when i realized you can build a lot with wood and everything boils down to a handful of basic operations before that i thought you had to buy aluminium extrusions and all kinds of bolts and joints to do anything mechanical like those microcontroller idiots
>>2986502They did make concrete boats during WWII when steel was in short supply. A few of them are still around. Not in use, but used for breakwaters and shit like that.
>>2986558Source
>>2986677I don't know about the other anon but the Grid Beam book shows how to make reusable bits out of wood 2x2s and steel signpost tubing that can be used like aluminum extrusion. Which seems like a neat idea, but it's a lot of work for a small cost savings unless you're either using a ton of it or you have a line on free/cheap wood and signpost tubing.
