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I've been told the best prescription for glasses is to not be perfect, but to make the eyes work a bit at seeing clearly. When fitted for perfect, the eyes seem to not work as hard, and you go into new stronger lenses sooner. (That's assuming you have not had your natural lens replaced with an acrylic lens like for cataract surgery. Tom

Progressive or varifocal lenses have a much narrower field of view than bifocals or single vision. If not prescribed and designed correctly, it is like you are looking down a tunnel. I've been working through this the past few months after cataract surgery where the natural lens is replaced with an acrylic lens. You go from being able to focus your eyes to being like an old fixed focus box camera. I was very near sighted. Now I have 20/20 and 20/25 vision. But, my focus distance is like the box camera, everything is in focus from 4' to infinity. Hard to read the newspaper without 4' long arms! So I have to have reading glasses. I found a pair that are like progressive lenses good for reading, computer, and out to about 4' so basically 3 zones of view. (Cheap from China, about $45 CAN.) I have since then gone after progressive lenses that would let me work from about 5" out to infinity. But that is too high a gradient to work into the lens. For progressive lenses, there are what they call soft lenses and hard lenses. Nothing to do with the material they are made of, but deals with the width of your field of vision. Hard lenses have a narrow field width; soft has a wider field width. The first pair were hard, and along with that high gradient were not really useful. The next pair were still hard (lab error!), but from about 14" to infinity. But still like a tunnel. Just got another pair today, soft this time. They are better, but not like my vision used to be, and of course not useful at close distances, like tooling, stamping, and threading a needle. Most of you are familiar to some extent with what a bell curve looks like. Hard lenses have a high peak, and narrow steep sides. Soft lenses have a wide peak, not as high, and flatter slope on the sides. So soft helps me to see better, not as narrow a tunnel, but still not like my vision used to be. If you can, I would suggest a pair of bifocals that are for reading distance and for your computer distance, as long as you have your natural lenses in your eyes. That is what I worked with for years in an engineering office, and they worked very well. I could see the dual monitors and my whole desk, all in focus. I had executive cut lenses. The line between reading and computer runs all the way across the width of the lens. Gives a very wide field of view in comparison to 'normal' bifocals and much better than progressive lenses. For those that are far-sighted, I think these would work as well, but I don't have that experience. One of my problems is to re-train my brain. It used to be move closer to see better. Now it is the opposite, move further away to see more clearly. Hard to get used to that. For closeup work, I will need to use a magnifying light from time to time. Hope this info is of some use to you who are dealing with vision problems. Just as an aside, about 3 years ago, I was sitting behind a person, listening to a speaker. Every time the person in front of me moved her head to the right, the image I saw of the speaker suddenly went to being a dark shadow over a lighter shadow background. It got me pretty concerned! I got into see a retinal surgeon within a few days. He determined that I had scar tissue over the retina. Said my vision was at 40%. I felt like it was more like 10%. He removed the vitreous humor from my eye, scraped the scar tissue off, and refilled my eye with silicon oil. And my vision came back quite well, but due to the now irregular surface of the retina, lines are not straight! It did get rid of the floaters in my eye which is great. I had noticed about 30 years before that my right eye didn't see white, it was sort of a cream colour. No one could tell me why. Now my right eye sees white the same as my left eye. So if you notice something like that, go get it checked and tell them about my experience. No one knows why the scar tissue developed. Tom

OP appears to be in the Denver CO area. Guest Howard, I deleted the second thread same subject. Requests in Help Wanted require approval before they can be seen. No need to double post. Tom

Tell people where you are located so they can give you info for your area of the world. Update your profile with your location. Tom

I think the beveling on the point of leaf on the left looks fine. On the top right there is a little glitch where the beveling needs touched up. Like the whole appearance. Good job with the bar grounding. Tom

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I'm pleased that I could help. Your site looks great! Tom

@Bender Moved your post to Leather Sewing Machines. You'll get more responses here. Tom

@OLDNSLOW According to marketplace rules, you should be listing prices, shipping etc. for all items listed for sale. Tom

@OLDNSLOW Reduce your file sizes and you can post lots of photos in the same post. 800 x 600 pixels is adequate and usually results in a file size of less than 5K. Tom

Heavy duty sewing machines are not leather sewing machines. They may be suitable for garment and other thin leathers. See this post Tom

@Rockoboy See above post for a Youtube Link. Hopefully that will work for you. Tom

Edit is only open for a limited period of time. Just add photos in a new post to this same thread. Tom

Use a curved needle. Keep your awl perpendicular to the leather surface. Use a piece of pipe or bar stock clamped in a vice for your anvil, or use an anvil with a horn that is forged as part of the anvil. I see from your IP address that you are in Excelsior, Minnesota, 55331 so should have access to a Tandy store (or others you can visit or web order from. Tandy has brass rivets with burs, #12 x 3/4" long. You might like to add your location to your profile so people know what part of the world you live in and can give you meaningful help for your part of the globe. Tom

@TonySFLDLTHR Can you post this on your Youtube channel and provide a link to it? Tom

Looks like it was shared on Facebook. If you use Facebook, try logging in to it and see if it works for you then. What kind of error or message do you get when you try to view it? Tom

And pictures? Tom

That is good information to know. That may be the cause of other multiple posts that we see from time to time here. Thanks. Tom

@Zsuzsu Moved your post to Leather Sewing Machines. You will get more help here than in Help Wanted. Help wanted posts require approval of a moderator before they can be seen by others. Help Wanted is like the classified ads in the newspaper where you advertise looking for someone to work for you, or if you are looking for work. (And multiple posts are not required to get our attention. It may be accidental if you hit submit more than once. Give the server and internet time to process and return your response.) Tom

Have you done a search here? I remember reading a thread with some recipes. Tom

Seems like the trees go missing, A search for "RANCHO SADDLE LAMP KIT" turns up some interesting photos as well. Tom

A google search "leather saddle lamp" turned up these, plus several others. Tom

The needle needs to rise about 1/4" from the bottom of its stroke. It is still buried in the material. NOT 1/4" above the material. Tom

@christine1ca Moved your post to leather sewing machines. Better chance of more help here. When reverse stitching/back tacking, don't hit reverse until the needle has past bottom and has risen about 1/4" so the loop is caught by the hook. If the hook misses the loop, you get missed stitches and bird's nests. Tom

Location based on IP address is Houston, Tx, USA It would be very helpful if all users listed their location in their profile. It helps to get information relative to your location and might even find someone just down the street that may be able to help with problems. Tom