Thread: What are you working on?

9.6 is really high. It's hard to get beer much higher than that

My son asked me about helping him make a cartridge belt for one of his pistols so I did a bit of research and asked him if we could make slip on cartridge holder to start with and he thought that was a great idea.

I picked up some tools and some leather and decided that if I was going to spend money on his project I'd pick up some things to make strops with.

I ordered some leather that I wanted to try and then went to a well know website that caters to wet shaving as they carried 'replacement hardware' for strops and purchased 4 swivel clips. They were $4.00 each plus shipping.

I 'was' going to make leather handles but decided to use D-rings instead. The well known website didn't carry any D-rings so I went looking.

I found a place called Strap Works in Eugene OR and found what looked like nice quality hardware so I ordered their welded 2" Heavy Duty D-rings and just for shites and giggles I ordered their 2" swivel clip.

Here's one of the clips from Strap Works and the well known website side by side. Can you tell me which one cost me $4.00 and which one cost $1.68??



Strap Works 2" clips were $1.68 and the D-rings were $0.70. The shipping was $5.80. I weighed and the contents weighed in at 9 oz. Shipping was $5.80

I found their customer service very informative and helpful. You'll find them here:

https://www.strapworks.com

WHAT! NO GUESSES!?!?!?!?

The one on the left is the less expensive one.

Originally Posted by RezDog

The one on the left is the less expensive one.

Thanks for the response my friend--but you are incorrect. The heavier duty one was the $1.68 one.

Here's all four of the $4.00 snaps that I got from Brand X's website and the $1.68 one on top.

Originally Posted by PaulFLUS

9.6 is really high. It's hard to get beer much higher than that

There's a couple guys in Scotland that have a brew called snake venom, its 67.5% alcohol by volume.

The worlds strongest beer.

Was it just the snaps that had the big price spread or were other things like Chicago fasteners that had a big price spread? I am venturing down all kinds of rabbit holes and likely should not look too closely at strop making.

Is there any difference in the pivot, Roy? Both look decent.

67.5% beer? Hard to call that beer. More like beer flavored wine at that point.

Originally Posted by Gasman

Is there any difference in the pivot, Roy? Both look decent.

67.5% beer? Hard to call that beer. More like beer flavored wine at that point.

Wine?! At this point it's stronger than cask-strength whisky. It's stronger than your average moonshine!

Originally Posted by cudarunner

Thanks for the response my friend--but you are incorrect. The heavier duty one was the $1.68 one.

Here's all four of the $4.00 snaps that I got from Brand X's website and the $1.68 one on top.

The $4 Look of better quality? They are thinner but is that bad?

I would buy thee quality ones once and forget about it.