Sidney Wood

I have issues from the present back to the late 90's for sale. I am moving the shop to a new location and don't want to move them. The pattern inserts are complete and unused. I would sell the whole bunch for $3.00 each. If you want individual issues to complete a collection I would probably ask a little more. I am hip deep in real estate agents at the moment but in a couple of days I could provide a complete inventory to anyone interested. I can take Pay-Pal to my personal account. PM me here or at stwood@taylortel.net Sidney Wood P.O. box 2 Clyde Tx-79510 ps I will attach an inventory here as time allows.

Ron Edwards "Advanced Leather Work Vol 1" Interesting Braids And Flat Plaits, covers just about every aspect of Croc ridges including the "applied" type that will do anything you could want. See Ramskull Press for the source for this book if you don't have it. Sidney Wood

All of Ron Edwards books + Tom Hall's and a lot of other good stuff is available from Martin Coombs at Sidney Wood

I need a couple of 12 inch or so trees for little kids saddles Sidney Wood

I don't think the animal is as important as the tannage. I have used a veg tanned goat that is intended for boot lining for decorative knots for 15 years or so and I prefer it to roo. It depends on the job. 8 oz harness leather makes fine roper reins, for example. There is a guy locally that cuts fine braiding strings from chap leather. The trick is good leather, as there is junk in all kinds. Most commercial lace can vary greatly in quality from spool to spool. The trick is see it before you buy it if possible, or find a source you can trust. Sidney Wood

I have a suggestion and a question. suggestion- don't try it with rawhide, but a couple of trips across a can of white Fiebing's with good roo or goat lace helps the braiding (and tightening) a bunch. Question- How do you folks who do them tight to start with get the interweaves into a tight foundation for two or three pass pineapples of any length (or other multistring interweaves for that matter) Sidney Wood

Hallis; For any braided knot to look right, it needs to be the right size for the circumference of the object it is put on. The number of bights is the determining factor. If it is too big for the work it is going on, it bunches up into a wad, and if too small, it flattens out to a bunch of parallel strings. The optimum finished size is approx, (1.4X the width of the string) X the number of bights. The secret is that there is not a turkshead, but an almost limitless number of them that will fit anything from a pencil to a barrel. Sidney Wood

I just want to say that the tutorial on fid work is one of the best things I have seen lately and the effort is a amjor contribution to our craft. Sidney Wood

About my previous reply. I was in error about the W knot. I miss counted the inner passes. It is in fact a perfect 2 pass gaucho. Had it had the 3 pass inner count that I thought I saw it would been a fan. Actually the gaucho- fan - and headhunter (and some others) are very similar to a family of column coded braid patterns that just differ in details. Sorry abouit that, you were right the first time. Sidney Wood

The W knot by Woolery is what Grant calls the small fan knot. PPs 426 - 427. The same knot is on the cover of "Tom Hall"'s book. In fact you can't get what the purists call a true gaucho with a two string interweave. It can be done with one string, or three strings for an interweave. This matter of knot "names" has led to as much pointless debate as anything I know of. The only way to precisely identify any specific knot is by Parts X Bights and code sequence. This gives way too many possibilities to give individual names for them all. If you look at the gaucho as a color pattern, it can be done in many forms. Sidney Wood

I don't know of anything on line off the top of my head, but Grant shows 4 string version on pps 108 & 109 of the Encylopedia of Rawhide and Leather Braiding. Ron Edwards shows the same knot on pps 28 & 29 of his original Advanced Leatherwork ( Ramskull Press) where he calls it a gumknot button. They are just a crown and then wall and will work with any number of strings. There are several other buttons in the Ron Edwards book that would also work. By the way, my corral hat has a 38 bight spanish ring knot for a hat band. Sidney Wood

As usual I fat fingered the keyboard on the last reply. That is Martin Combs.(Books on Tall Ships etc) Ramskull still lists it on their site. Sorry about that. Sidney Wood

The best thing on this is one of the small books by Ron Edwards titled "The Secret Plait"'. He shows two ways to do the three plait and one method that works for tthree -five- seven---up to thirteen plait and the way to extend it to any odd number. I particularly like the seven plait version. The book is probably available from Martin Coombs in the Us Ramskull Press in OZ Sidney Wood

Does anyone have experience with the file storage sites that will allow public access for file sharing for every type of file, and not just images Any reccomendations or opinions would be greatly appreciated Sidney Wood