JLSleather

Hype and ignorance.

That's a nice color. No pics of the back?@!

Been there. And I don't mean once

If I ordered it straight, and it came not straight, they'd be getting it back. If they expect me to do work on it, they should have sold me a KIT.

Since that other stuff costs more than the embosser, I'm gonna say you did okay

Being north o' the border, your shipping maybe more than many of us in the states. In that case, unless you're in a real hurry - I like Alex' work (his link is below, am-leathercraft).

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Anybody else see any trouble with selling / banking yesterday? The web site wasn't working, or rather the payments weren't working, so I got checking around. Turns out that banks and ATMs all over weren't working right. I guess that's what -50°F does to electronic stuff?@!

'Bout 10 years now I been thinkin' I should check out those videos everybody goes on about. I haven't done that, but I haven't ruled it out so that counts, eh? Hammer handle does sound like it would work... and a fella could use one end to form a burnishing tool!

http://wickett-craig.com/leathers/skirting/ Split it to the weight you ask for.

Might also check this one. Takes a few minutes. Well, 12 and 1/2 actually https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PdKDmcmu8k

That's a great point. Sometimes, a guy kin learn even by seeing something done wrong! I sometimes upload a pic of my mistakes, maybe help the next guy avoid making the same ones! Every so often a fella will ask me how long it took before I stopped making mistakes. My answer still is always "i'll let you know"! Okay, I admit I had to read this part twice. But, I 'git it' .. yer makin' sense Since that video is over an hour, maybe have to check it out later. Thanks for tellin' us where you got yer info - - you'll be amazed at just how many don't want to do that simple thing.

TWO YEARS since the original question ... Ah, there's the problem. You think it's about the video. It's not - it's actually about the INSTRUCTION(s).

You mention "the video" repeatedly, but you didn't say what video you are 'winning' from. I'm one who has always found videos to be little more than mindless ADVERTISING 'photo ops' for the video provider, with very few exceptions. I have seen people comment on various videos, only to then go make their own video covering exactly the same thing But I'm always willing to be shown one that actually has merit. In fact, I've been willing - more than once - in the past to collect the ones people thought were "good" into one place. I thought, and hoped, that would save people some time sorting through hours and hours of endless dross to find that one narrow sliver of valid information that occurs .. well .. rarely. Last time I tried that around here resulted in some [supposedly] grown 'men' ranting and pouting like teenage girls who thought they weren't getting all the attention BUT .. hey, I'll try it again. You have a nice lay-out there - clean, organized setup for designing. I'm a graph paper guy myself (though I don't often scale in mm). You wanna share with us the "good" video?

That sounds like a plan I might come up with .. put it in teh back yard and then build a shed around it!

There ya go. I base my opinion on the other dye on what you said about it being aniline dye. As a rule, those were used for "staining" wood... the desired result being that they color the wood but don't actually "hide" it like a paint. Buddy of mine used to use them for custom wood work. That said there's a guy around here somewhere from bulgaria who makes VERY nice leather goods using wood stain as color. Like you said, you know the result with fiebings

That was fixin'a be my question too 'Preciate the link, fellas, could be I can't get to it in the time frame either

You might think that a guy wanting to sell by email would provide an email address. But, some folk may not want to display it publicly, so perhaps PM the guy (envelope at top right of page) and the site can email to him. Guessin'?

That's always standard We used to take key fobs.. just a piece riveted to a key ring with a 3d stamp on it - dyed for the kids. Some eagles, horse heads, monogram letters... and we just pass em out. The kids are tickled pink, and there's no mustard on our leather! This time I was late to the game, late even signing up. I did find at least SOME of those 3d stamps, but don't know where the die is for the fobs, or if I even have the rings ... but we took couple BIG bowls of individually wrapped candy, so me 'n' the kids were fine.

and 10 years wear on those guns

Still the same phone no?

This guy's stuff wasn't the cheap crap you sometimes see. Just basket weave with a name stamped, so not "intricate" or what i would call "tooled", but still solid leather and nice looking - don't doubt it would last for YEARS. Buy this today, your grandchildren will hunt with it. Think his name was Ed.... maybe he's around here sometimes? He came over to raid the candy dish more than once, and I tried to get him to take more so I wouldn't eat it ALL Well, actually you do. Maybe not because YOU care to, but OTHER PEOPLE WILL compare you to all of the above. That can be a GOOD thing (when people pick up your item and say "it aint like that cheap crap on Ebay", that's COMPARING). I INVITE people to compare my stuff to other stuff. I ASK them to. But DON'T just compare it to low priced items on (to use the most used cliches) ebay or amazon. One of the more popular CONS these days is to price your cheap crap about 8x or 15x what it's actually worth, hoping that people will then "think" it's worth more than the "cheap" stuff with the lower price tag. So common there's a name for it. But then, there's a name for those boys who "date" boys too, so ... I ask 'em to compare my stuff to ANY you find. I'm not afraid to learn something .. SHOW ME something better, and I may buy it myself OH.. 2 recent examples of exactly this: There's a guy in South Carolina (he says, though I didn't verify that). Posted some pics of holsters made using my designs. Clearly low-rent materials, and pretty obvious LACK of skills. So, you have basement grade leather, done poorly, with a pattern given to him for free. Priced about double what I would have charged for that holster, done right with Grade A materials. So PUH LEEEZE compare the goods... I WELCOME it (incidentally, a guy asked him why he was passing my designs off as his own, and he claims he's never heard of me, so you can almost guess what his "warranty" is worth ). AND... I had a guy show me a pic of a holster on Ebay, for a model of gun I make holsters for. Wanted to know what I "think about this one". Well, I think it's a hustle. I think IF that material is actually what it says, it still doesn't make up for the lack of regard put into making it. Somebody clearly "banged out" what they called a holster and were hoping somebody would get sucked in. Only point here --- I don't let price tell me what's good and what's not. But this guy at the show didn't have those issues. Nothing wrong with those slings. Not quite the way I do it, but they were solid, decent stuff. He wasn't "competing" either, since I think my boy was the only other one with leather, and that wasn't slings. I had one in my hand.. felt it, looked it over, and I know a bit about leather myself -- and I would have priced those about 25% higher than he did. Oh, long as i'm on the soap box.... I don't care to hear speeches about how long they've been doing it. I DO NOT CARE if a guy made them since 1947, or if he made them since 7:00 am this morning. I'm looking for GOOD quality leather, done with GOOD skill -- folks can SAVE the stories. If it's done WELL, I'm interested. I've personally seen people do things for YEARS and still SUCK at it. Not just leather either. One guy at the gym telling people what they should do, and how they should do it.. his "selling point" is that he's been doing it for 15 years. Uh.. EXCUSE me.. if you were doing it RIGHT for 15 years, you wouldn't look like you do, and you wouldn't need to hang around gyms talking at people who don't know you! On the other hand, I once hired a kid for our construction business who admitted he can swing a hammer straight but doesn't know a lot of stuff. Gave the kid a shot. I think by the time he was 3 months in I'd told the accountant give him a raise TWICE. Wife asked why I like that kid, and I said cuz he LEARNS. He might ask a question, but I couldnt' remember when he'd ever asked the same question twice! And he didn't ask questions while he was being payed to do something else - which I dare say many HERE can't say. We don't even do that any more, and last I heard that "boy" is now in his 30's and owns his own contracting business (and unlike so many, he actually DOES the work - not just "sub it out" and take a cut of the next guy's pay - meaning, he's a man - which has become rare these days). But, I've gone on way too long. Perhaps soon Pastor Dwight will chime in and simply say that "wisdom comes not from age .."

It does seem a bit strange that they would list the weight of the machine but not the needle you need. Since they sell them on the site, seems like a link to the needles would take about half a second ...

That page shows STRAIGHT line stitching, with holes made with an awl placed so that the FLAT SIDES are in line with the stitch, NOT the pointed edge running in line with the stitch. The "angle" he's talking about is rotating the awl so that the "cut" from the awl isn't torn when the STRAIGHT stitch is pulled tight.

YIKES ITS GETTING WORSE... Everywhere seeing "tooled" leather, that clearly isn't. Apparently, a knife is a " hand tool", so if you cut the leather with a knife it's "hand tooled".