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  1. toxo

    For the hunter gatherers amongst us.

    by toxo

    Can't stop watching this girl. She builds shelters, catches and traps fish takes em to market and lots more. She makes me feel inadequate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWpYPfRTQ9I

    toxo
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  3. toxo

    South Pacific Island Mystery

    by toxo

    This has been bouncing around in my head for a long time and without access to intelligent people who might be interested you guys are it. Sorry. A PATTERN OF ISLANDS By Arthur Grimble This book has intrigued and fascinated me for years. I’ll be brief here but if there’s any serious interest I’ll gladly get into the detail. An upper middle class white collar worker gets sent to some Pacific Islands as a young man to assist the Governor of a group of islands. Some years later he gets promoted to Governor. The big chief of a group of islands, on hearing the news, feels his biceps and declares that he’s not fat enough to be a chief and n…

    toxo
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  4. Sheilajeanne

    Why Is Your Handmade Product So Expensive?

    by Sheilajeanne

    This is why! A very different craft than leatherwork, but equisetly beautiful! https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=3848821205352487

    $$hobby
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  5. Beehive

    What leather craft has given me in life.

    by Beehive
    • 3 replies
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    I wanted to send this out to the internet. Call it the leather community or your pick. When I was a young Texas kid. Every stereotype that has been projected onto Texas. It's pretty much true. Cowboys, cows, and the occasional goat. A specific, definable, culture. One aspect was leather. Through my life, I've stood and stared at gun belts and holsters displayed at the Texas Ranger museum. Other influences was cowboys themselves. Leather and conchos are a poor man's jewelry. I've never made things to sell. I made/make them out of need. I've made holster after holster. Knife sheaths. Spur straps. Handcuff cases. Flash light holders... Then lif…

    Beehive
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  6. fredk

    A warning about making payments via paypal

    by fredk
    • 2 replies
    • 1.9k views

    This is not about paypal itself but your payments to others using paypal Hidden in the 'agreement' that a lot of sellers use is a clause for automatic payments via paypal Who reads that 'agreement'? We just click the box that says we have then we proceed to make the payment Recently I noticed that two payments each of 16p was taken by Royal Mail from my paypal balance. Not much, but I had not authorised these payments ~ but yet I had No explanation from RM why or what for I tracked the payments through to the 'automatic' payments in my paypal account settings It appears that on two occasions when I bought parcel pos…

    Synicsel
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  7. AEBL

    Estate sale advice.

    by AEBL

    A friend of a friend is a widow of a fellow who had a small business doing leatherwork. He mostly worked in tooled belts, wallets and sheaths. I'm very new to leatherwork, and I don't really have a good idea what to offer the widow for the tools. There are shelves full of all sorts of leather, and a workbench full of tools. Some of it I can price right off of an internet search (such as the poly mauls, which are like ~30 USD. Then there's hardware (Chicago screws, rivets, etc.) and a few large (concho?) punches and

    AEBL
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  8. fredk

    Walsall (England) Leather Museum

    by fredk
    • 1 reply
    • 272 views

    A BBC report that the Museum might move https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gxyye2080o I didn't know it existed

    Beehive
    Last reply by Beehive,
  9. Chaoswolf

    Introduction Chaoswolf

    by Chaoswolf

    Hi, It's Chaoswolf. I'm 39 years old german hobby leatherworker. My English skills are slightly bad, so please bear with me. I try to read and write without a translator so far it is possible. Unfortunately, there are no active german leatherworker bulletin boards. I'm new at this hobby, I do it since a half year. I started with belts and laptop computer bags. I'm working at a bag back for my wife at the moment. My other hobbies are woodworking, webdesign, hiking, Anti-Terror Streetfight, games (Videogames, tabletop and pen & paper). I'm looking forward to learn and share skills with you!

    Mablung
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  10. fredk

    2024, for fun 1 2 3 4 7

    by fredk

    The God of War rode out one day Upon his mighty filly. "I'm Thor!" he cried. His horse replied, "You forgot your thaddle, thilly."

    OliviaWildson
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  11. Brooks125

    Show Your Shop - It's been a while!

    by Brooks125

    It's been a while. 2018 was the last I could find mention of the thread from a few years ago. If you are so inclined, post a picture of your shop, with: ONE photo and, ONE thing you Like, One thing you Don't Like about it. Like: It's small and everything is in reach. It narrows the search for tools ... sometimes. Don't like: It's small, and I'm running out of room, especially for Mold Guns

    BlackDragon
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