JLSleather

Citation book? We got portable printers... comes out like a grocery receipt. Last hiway boy stopped me, tickets for speed, no seat belt, invalid registration (I moved, so address not correct), and a warning for my tail light out, which he removed since he verified my tail light was NOT out. So while it's spittin' out, I asked 'you boys gittin paid by the foot?" He didn't think that was NEAR funny as I did.

Still gotta verify some "stuff".

Sometimes. The first one is W/C drum-dyed chestnut skirting.. comes that way. The chocolate brown pancake style and the black with the elephant I dyed myself. And the black with white stitching came already dyed black (again, W/C skirting).

All of this is sold. Wait.. thassa different category....

And yet, still no actual numbers. But then, it is Saturday, after all.

Avenger style pattern for the 3" XDs now up on cutesy. 1911 .45 double mag is cut out, and I'll be stitchin' that later today wihen I got white thread in the machine. Gotta use the white, so folks can see it on the black scrap and maybe take advantage of the "look" and make their own like it. Think maybe I'll charge $1 for this one -- just think of it as compensating Jeff for the time. Keep in mind, though.. I'm not that bright AND I'm slow, so we're gonna need a LOT of the boys kickin in a buckl

Okay, then.. here's a bit. The squares on teh floor are 13" x 13", to give you an idea. The box is about 10 x 14" and weighs about 9 lbs and change. Just going by 4 floor squares by 4 floor squares with a bit of air space, I'm gonna 'guess' this about 14 sq ft? So you can see why I looked at it an extra time or two to decide where it goes. In the end, as is sometimes the case, it's eating up my time The black and brown shades are W/C skirting leather, and the natural is HO. Biggest piece of natural tooling is about 10" x 14" (I cut it to fit the box). Some smaller pieces still in the box. Oh, for general info and to whomit may concern... the top of the photo in brown is W/C drum dyed skirting "brown" and teh lower right brown is W/C "chestnut". I've got it out ot my way for the moment, but if you wanna look up the best way to ship it that works. Since it would cost $125+ to buy it, I wouldn't kill TOO much time savin' $5 on teh shipping

Well, that aint so bad. The shipping was a bit over what it "could" have been shipped for, but I think due to the type of box, and in the end.... I got what i paid for, just as described, at the price I agreed to, and delivered in reasonable time (OR to IA in 3 days). The box it came in is THE box i was needing, so that 'counts'

IN that neck of the woods, " a lady that knows her business " about has to be Sandy. But I don't wanna make dies... did that for enough years (though back then it was tool steel, mills, and surface grinders). I don't ask die makers to make me a belt and holster, and they don't ask me to make the cookie cutters

Most of the scrap around here will be veg tanned, and usually 7/8 oz or 4 oz. From HO "A" hides, or in some cases W/C "standard" drum dyed skirting (split to about 8). At any rate, this is stuff that shouldn't be pitched out, but not what I want to use on my projects, so ... This stuff IS worth having around, or I woulda pitched it. But how many HOURS do I really want to spend going through a box of scrap to find a piece when I could have cut a chunk off a hide in a few seconds @!!#!#$!@! I found a box, I'll get a pic and a weight for the shipping. Seriously, this is not going to be a little envelope

Yeah, I like neatsfoot. There are other products I haven't tried, so I can't swear it's THE one to use. But it works well. I mean lIGHT coat. Like hold a bottle of neatsfoot in yer left hand, project in the right hand, and TALK about oiling it. Not much more than that. When I was new I completely RUINED a piece with too much oil.

Wow.. checked the tracking. Not coming 'til at least Tuesday? Like 7-8 days from NY... did they send it by mule?@!@~!!

As a former too-and-die guy, I've used all manner of 'stuff'. When I made jigs to feed wallboard (the 'conveyor' type thing used at the gypsum plant) they wanted to pay for 1020 cold rolled. Fair enough. When press broke a punch and we needed to get it running quickly, a scrap of O-1 and a lathe take care of that, with the understanding that was a temp fix. And in the end, I use D-2 for everything if I had to pick (A-2 not far behind). These steels not only don't corrode by lunch time like the cold rolled or the oil-hard, but they have a wear resistance that is to be preferred. Now, I'm not a knife maker, and tomorrow I'll be NOT making knives again. Just a guy who is really tired of YEARS of sharpening stuff, and elects to go with what I dont' need to polish daily.

Too bad there isn't a pattern somewhere, like we could all see it, and then some of these die guys could give us a ball-park idea of the money we'd spend having that made. I mean, say like somebody put up a pattern where we could all look at it, and agreed to the free and fair use of it by anyone, then a die guy could - theoretically - say 'that pattern right there could be done for $Xx in Yy weeks in 11pt steel at x/32" precision. Maybe if somebody had a pattern that came without guarantee, then somebody could produce a 'mock-quote" that came with no guarantee. You know, all ballparky like. Oh, hey... there's that loud bald guy... always givin' away free patterns for somethin'. Maybe we could use ona them. Like..." this design right here would be $49.95 .... " Nah... never happen, right? I'm just dreaming here. Not entirely my fault. I have dies that aren't quite what I drew. I have dies which are very much exactly what I drew, but came dull as a butter knife. They seem to ALL come with a wonderful flowery story Maybe this post will be the last in the thread for a long time (?). Call this an invitation to add something relevant and useful to the discussion. If you have a quote (one not set in stone) then post away. If not, then I guess no answer sometimes is an answer? Personally, I've contacted enough people by now that I simply cannot be bothered with another "contact us for a quote" line. In the time I spent on the phone, I could have cut out 1000 parts with an x-acto ... No, hey,... I 'get' it. Nobody wants to be compared any more. Everybody looks good when they're not standing next to someone else, right?

Always got scrap. Always cleaning up (never done). I know some people who can't throw out anything, but I'm not one of em. I save enough scraps for assorted tasks, but always still have some. I'm not talking about stuff 2-finger size, that's already in the trash. Some pieces are more that a square foot. Some with scratches or wrinkles, some cosmetically okay but from teh edge and thus not that firm, etc. I mean stuff that could be used for testing dye / stain colors trying out new finishes setting sewing machine tension and stitch lenght (and thread color against a given leather color) embossing fillers exotic leather backers testing patterns (first dry run only -- if it was firm enough to trust for the pattern, it would be firm enough to use!) chew toy for the dog chew toy for the wife whatever else you think of The leather is FREE, just either pick it up or pay the shipping. Here's the one 'rule'... I want this to go to the new guy. Some you folks been at the leather bench for 10+ years got scrap already.. don't ask for this just to packrat it away with some you already have This not in teh "for sale" area, cuz it aint for sale. There will be more time to time... not gonna "schedule' it. Best place to list? Shortly I'll get a quick picture of what currently needs to go away. If it's been a week since i posted this and you're now seeing it, the leather is gone... somebody took it,OR I pitched it, but it's gone.

Thanks, Boss. I'll tell the wife she was wrong, I DID do something that worked

Thanks, can we ask what products you prefer? Personal reviews are good. Anybody can write a check and buy an ad.. but let's hear what the people who "been there" (even if they haven't actually been there) think

And while I don't think it's the same issue, I can't be the only one who thinks it's not okay to have wrinkles on there.-- no, not even on the back.

Whatcha mean by "clean"? You talkin' bout the stitch lines up close? Cuz that's stitchin' BEFORE moldin'. and then a good bonin' tool.

I have a facebook. Basically just so nobody else can open one and say that they're me. Hey, don't laugh -- I've had it happen. Bout 11-12 years ago I got a call from a lady lives about hour anda half from here... wanted to know when we could start work on her house. And we DID own a contracting business. Seems she had a estimate from "Jeff" for an $8k roof repair. I drove up and met the lady -- nice gal who showed me MY estimate sheet, but that aint my signature. Turns out, somebody had put a logo on a truck, and was driving around with MY software and a portable printer,signing up people for "jobs". We had the office number on there, but always had the boys doing the estimate put their OWN cell phone number on the sheet, so if the home owner had questions about the job, they could call and get someone who already knew that home. Apparently, on this one, the guy forgot to clear the phone number area at the bottom, so the lady called and got ME. I generally wouldnt' travel that far for a job that small, but I told her I'd do it for that price (which didn't leave me rich OR broke), and I'd give her $100 out of myy own pocket if she can get that guy to show up to discuss the job on the day we start Now, somebody is gonna git thinkkni''' hey that's a funny story, but what you telling US fer? Well, honestly, it did happen. And I did create a facebook to avoid that happening again. And it was my turn to fill the page with a bunch of stuff that don't really matter.

See, now, this is good stuff to hear.

Even with many of those being duplicates for me, that's STILL a good deal. Let me know if you change your mind and take PayPal.

Ahh.. the good ole days.. when customer service meant giving you what you paid for the first time Glad to hear they got ya fixed up!

I should be seeing some of it shortly

Fair enough. I just ordered some smaller stuff which I'd been getting somewhere else.. but found they had the same thing for about half the money (ish). So, we'll see how this goes? I did get an email invoice and a receipt saying my card was billed, so maybe we're 'in the works' now.