JLSleather

You're overthinking it. Take a card, trace it on heavy paper, and cut it out. Make 8 or 10 ... simple. Or, even more simple -- photograph the wallet with cards, and then use software to blur the cc info.

Tha's purdy durn close to Fiebing's walnut.

Looks like you got the right idea, but maybe need a cleaner piece of leather.

Come on over... just call early enough so I know to get coffee or beer

I deleted a way-too-long response No matter to me what a guy charges or why -- guy just tell me the price and I'll pay it or I won't. More important, though.. any call for a cobra burnisher around here? I'm buying a lathe and don't imagine I will be needing both. Hardly used -- still on the original sanding sleeve. If picking up, come get it all. If you want it shipped, it won't come with the stand (seriously, the "stand" is a piece of pipe ). CC to the FS area ...

The RATE is fine, but the RATE is not the AMOUNT -- the 2800 sq ft pour doesn't pay the same as the 28,000 sq ft pour. I don't charge someone $5,000 for a hatchet cover because I could be making saddles. That guy should have remembered I was talking about a sidewalk, not a parking garage I wanted about a ton of good clean black dirt to raise a spot and level another spot. This requires having the dirt, and a shovel, and a wheel barrow isn't required but would be helpful. There is no speech 'fancy' enough to tell me that something any 6th grader can do in half an hour is worth the $50 he wanted. And if it WAS, I prefer to give the $50 to the 6th grader who actually did it. In the case of the sidewalk, the $700 cost of the concrete includes materials and delivery. Permit is $35, but I already had that. So, I'm not paying HIM $2100 so he can give two guys $50 each and pocket the rest. Just not smart. Plus, that's nothing more than a low-grade scam (couldn't' come up with anything unique). I'd much rather just call those same boys myself, tell 'em show up on their day off and put my sidewalk in.. and hand 'em $200 apiece, each. Pay for the concrete delivery, and leave the other $1700 in my pocket?!@! They're happy, I'm happy, and the only guy not "happy" is the guy who thinks he should get money "just because". I do not reward people for being lazy (they probably come up with other names for NOT doing what they are charging for). But, I got no problem doing it myself. BUT, I also have no problem with the next guy doing it HIMSELF as well. In fact, I might just GIVE him a pattern to do it with. In some cases, I've even sent them the leather and told 'em 'merry christmas' and have fun. IN short, asking to be paid for what I do is not the same as expecting to be paid for what I DON"T DO.

Hermann Oak too.

This is why I do most things myself ... I'm not paying ANYbody $100/hour, just because "they're a business". That guy came to "estimate" my new sidewalk said $2800. Since I know that's $700 worth of concrete, and can easily be done by two guys in 3 hours (I've done it alone, so I know two guys is more than enough) - I told him to get off my lawn. Other guy said he'd bring me a load of black dirt for $50 for the dirt + $50 for the hauling, which I thought was fair. But I'm not paying him $50 to spread it, when he's going to pay some poor sucker $10 to do it, while he takes the rest. Naw.. thanks anyway,buddy... I'll take care of it myself, and give the $50 to the guy who's ACTUALLY DOING the work. In fact, usually works out where me and the guy on about "being a business" don't even up talking much at all Strange how people convince themselves that it's my responsibility to pay their overhead... But, this was about hatchets, 'n' stuff ...

I generally don't do these, but I been known to make small projects of this type from the scrap bin. If it's during a slower time, then it may go for a sandwich from your restaurant or some appropriate bait when I see you at the fishin' hole. During busier times, folks generally understand that you either 1.) wait until the slower times, or 2.) pay the rate I would be making on the project you're taking me away from.

YIKES.. at $22/foot, that better be some SWEET looking leather (like not all those wrinkles shown) and I would have to need it real bad! Nobody around you with a splitter? I can probably find pieces around here big enough - I'll check shortly - in dark brown and med brown, no belly leather. But it's about 9 oz.

Well, I have seen that design before

What -- no laser ?!@#! That looks like it should work, but a second stitch line MAY or MAY NOT be an improvement depending on where it bends. I never cared for that type of thing myself.. could never figure out how to pull the mag and the gun with the same hand! Nice color!

I don't have a pic of it, now we've moved and don't have a "shop". You can make a rack -- like I did --- with a couple of 10' long 1x4, which are about $3 each. Cut them each in 3 pieces, about 4.5', 1.5', and 4'. Cut 'vee' notches in teh short pieces, something like this... Then line 'em' up, drive a couple of screws in the top ends, tying the three pieces together. Do the same with the other 1x4, so you have two the same, and place dowels (closet rods) in the vees, and hang your leather over the dowels. You'll have three rows as wide as the dowels (usually about 6-7 feet), high enough that the leather wont drag the floor when draped over the rods, and offset so you can see what is on each "rack" from the front. You could 'tie' em together with one more across the back, but prolly not needed. Total investment, $10 and 30 minutes.

She doesn't want to finance it - she didn't say that, just what I got from talking with her. But it's a gift for a young boy (14) and she wants it to look nice. After talking with her a bit, I didn't even tell her what I get for those Coast Guard "charge books" It was actually ME who suggested the laser, since you take much of the labor out of the equation (seconds instead of hours of tooling). What she wants: "Envelope" style folder large enough to hold 8.5" x 11" pages, with a flap on the right side with a tuck-tite clasp. Sew the sides. THE BEST Hermann Oak leather, finish, thread, clasp, -- materials cost is $25. A guy could cut one out, burn a design (or emboss one, whatever), sew about 18" (9" x 2), and be polite to a lady from MN for 10 minutes, in an hour (ish). $75? $100? There were a couple people around here showing lasered designs, but don't remember who it was. No matter..

And - seriously - would ANYBODY "lie still" with a 150 pound dog ripping pieces off your leg? With FIVE armed cops around this guy who hasn't done anything, you STILL needed to tell the dog to "get him"?

4 or 5 times I mentioned a request available -- with no response. No worries. I have too many things going on at the moment to be laying out new stuff (though this isn't very "fancy"), so guess I'll just tell her I can't help.

Yikes. St.Paul agrees to pay $2M (yeah, that's million) to that INNOCENT guy who police assaulted and set the dog on. Permanent damage to an innocent man's leg. Not crazy enough? On the news this morning, they gave back that cop's job. Maybe you can wave to him on the street today ... You can check the details in the news about anywhere... http://www.startribune.com/st-paul-police-to-release-video-of-k-9-biting-officer-kicking-man/400018031/

If you startinta understand what that jls guy said, you got bigger prollems than we thought!

I'm the other shoe (or something like that). I donated once - forever ago. Then I figure that when I see all the other names are blue, it must be about my turn again If I need $10, I prolly sold something that may do that. If I need $25, I hit up the wench wife.. she got a LOT more money 'n' me

Got a call from a lady, wants some 'envelope type' folder for a young fella to put his sheet music in. Its' for a confirmation, so maybe somebody catholic knows more about that than I do? I remembered a guy who did some sttuff a while back with music notes -- I think lasered? ... anyway... she wants basically an envelope to hold 8.5" x 11" music pages..not a lot of sheets, don't need to be "book thick".

The wrap is just a style... and yes, you certainly can make a holster with a belt loop and no wrap around. I personally like a bit (at the top) because the holster is more rigid than a single layer. A slim (maybe 1" wide) strip is enough -- the broader pieces you sometimes see are not required, and often are added just for an area for tooling designs. Something like this works very well.. Aguycould just as easily - and with less bulk -- make a lined holster which would have the 'firmness' of two layers without adding any bulk. Instead of 8 oz leather, use two layers of 4oz. Costs a bit more, but firm and smooth inside and out. So, yes- aguycould also eliminate the wrap, just use a "straight up" belt loop in the back -- wouldn't be the first one

Problem is, there IS NO SUCH THING as 'good customer service" without a quality product. You could be THE nicest fella ever -- but if you send me crap, I'm GONE More than one supplier around here had far too many "chances" -- I'm now out. No point listing names -- if you don't see orders from me, you should already know why.

I like to save money. I like a good price. I'll pay more if I'm getting MORE. I'll pay more if I'm getting something BETTER. But I won't pay more because someone told me a pretty story while I shopped. I do not pay more because you have "awesome" signs and banners on your store. You as a vendor have the right to raise your price at any time you see fit. But there maybe a point in your price changes that I decide to jump ship. SURELY, ANY business considers this beforehand. In fact, about the only way you get me to pay more is having something the other guy doesn't have. Keep in mind that just having something isn't enough--- this 'something' you have needs to be BETTER than what the other guy has. And it doesn't include taking the same thing someone else sells and adding your own packaging. Some guy standing in the isle with me? No - -I'm thinking either he's decided I'm a thief there to rip him off, or in some cases maybe a fruitcake who likes me? Seriously, this is online stuff, largely -- I want exactly what I ordered, at a reasonable price, shipped in reasonable time.

Well, it's true I don't "know" minneapolis. I know the routine, though.. I remember years ago in DC.. you see the lincolm memorial... the washington monument... with a bunch of street vendors surrounding all the above followed by 3 miles of standing-room-only wall to wall prostitutes (course, you never see that angle on the tv). I'm going to 'guess' that MN is the same as anywhere else, basically. The increase in the crime rate is likely not as drastic as it's made to sound --- but bigger statistics look better when we're asking for more money (and we never DON'T ask for more money). But it concerns what that spookey blonde girl calls "downtown"... which I assume is the problem. If people are getting mugged on "shop row", business slows - and we can't have that. But if they're mugged 3 blocks over, not our concern and we don't care! I'm not racist. At all. But that Mexican food restaurant that opened recently on Division Street SUCKS Never goin' back there again.