Thank you for all your prayers , yes I’m loving it sooo much out here. I miss my family but not much to move back no way . God has me here for reasons I don’t know yet but I’m finding them out more than I knew.
Great video. I am an Economist but I love to work with leather. I've tried contact cement but It's too brittle. I've tried several others including the dual epoxy where you have to mix the two tubes and nothing has worked for me. I use the glue only to hold the pieces together for my stitching. Are you using it as the only permanent way of keeping it together? Beautiful work, thank you.
Thanks for the good words, Javier . . . and to answer your question . . . no . . . contact cement is only to hold the belt together long enough for me to go to the belt sander . . . where I touch up the edges . . . making sure any abnormalities are flattened out . . . I then sew the belt all the way around . . . then bevel the edges and finish it. That is in my opinion . . . the only way to make a 2 piece belt that is both economical and practical. But then again . . . I'm a newbie . . . only done this for 25 years . . . or so.
Concise and helpful. I'm at the point of ordering my first material for my first belt build. So many different approaches become overwhelming for me as a greenhorn newbie. I like this approach. Thank you.
Wayne . . . if you have a micrometer . . . take it with you when you go leather shopping . . . buy leather that is .100 thick. That (when doubled) will give you a .200 thick belt . . . which I have found down thru the years is just about the optimum thickness. A belt approaching .250 (or thicker) can be unmanageable in some belt loops . . . much less than the .200 and it can become a bit flimsy. But have fun . . . your first belt is always a special product you will treasure. I'm wearing mine from back in the 1990's.
Thank you for your helpful replay Sir. I still at the point of gathering tools to supplement a pretty large kit I've ordered. Yesterday, I managed to get a sack full of Starrett Machinist dividers of various sizes from a retired machinist friend. They are rock solidly built and provided I can shape (dull) the points of a a few of them to be suitable, it looks like they will be quite useful. Just trying to learn and have some fun. Thanks again.@@dwightcimino1040
ST. JEROME: THE ONE TRUE CHURCH WAS FOUNDED BY THE APOSTLES AND CONTINUES IN THEIR SUCCESSORS TO THIS DAY; HERETICS CAN’T USE THE BIBLE AS AN EXCUSE TO REJECT ITS TEACHINGS “We ought to remain in that Church which was founded by the Apostles and continues to this day. If ever you hear of any that are called ‘Christians’ taking their name not from the Lord Jesus Christ, but from some other, for instance, Marcionites, Valentinians, Men of the mountain or the plain, you may be sure that you have there not the Church of Christ, but the synagogue of Antichrist. For the fact that they took their rise after the foundation of the Church is proof that they are those whose coming the Apostle foretold. And let them not flatter themselves if they think they have Scripture authority for their assertions, since the devil himself quoted Scripture, and the essence of the Scriptures is not the letter, but the meaning.” St. Jerome, “Dialogue with the Luciferians” (§28) (AD 379)
"I'm going to leave you with a book. But the average person won't be able to read it for 1,800 years until literacy becomes more common. And then they're supposed to decide for themselves what it means." ~ThingsJesusNeverSaid
My Uncle's all 6 of them served our country with 100 yrs from WW 2 to Vietnam. My Grandmother prayed earnestly for her son's and they all returned safe except for 1 son who died in Germany 💗
That's ok, but what if you want the stich the 2 together instead of glue. Not a butt joint but an overlap of about 2 to 3 inches... Would you still do the glue where the sticking is? And, don't think you talked about the type of glue you used for the belt... Belt is used for a ceiling fan so it will be being pulled sideways not up/down...
Hi, Kevin . . . I would still glue them together . . . and I only use Weldwood Contact cement . . . have never had a problem with it. If you stitch them together . . . only stitch along the outside edges . . . DO NOT stitch across the width of the belt. It produces the same effect as the perforated holes in cardboard . . . and it will eventually rip at that stitching. Gluing it together actually will make it just like one solid piece of leather. If you glue two pieces together with contact cement . . . come back the next day and use a vice and pair of pliers . . . you can pull it apart . . . but when you view the pieces . . . you will see that you did not break the glue . . . what you did was tear the leather. There will be torn pieces of leather on both sides of the tear.
I appreciate you Pastor Dwight. Sad to hear that Jim and Sandy will be leaving. God always has a better plan. Praying for the church and you and Lorrie 🙏
We had a good talk about all this . . . they may be coming back . . . maybe even this coming weekend. Frustration can cause a person to do things . . . God bless you Sis
Believe you are right Sir. As some smart fellow said one time..."If God dont destroy our wicked nation..He might want to apologize about Sodom and Gomorrah." Think Pastor John Hagee said that a few years ago.
People put faith to skin colors, political parties crooked officials so on so forth some are so foolish that chose people solely because of the color of their skin totally jumping out of a window putting all their eggs in one basket only to be disappointed. They were under the delusion that the "he or she is one of paradox" in the battle between good and evil there is no on of us in this battle. Evil is multi racial so is good
There are who have love for the truth and those who's ear have been tickled so much they lost their sense of hearing they been swept off their feet so many times that they continue in the cycle of being sweet up and dropped. The fact is that truth is hated they don't want to hear the truth because they so use to the lies they are in denial of the truth.