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    Howdy fiolks,
    I am in search of the actual pattern to the satchel bag of an old Harold Arnett Doodle Page. I have the doodle page and it has the carving pattern, but not the satchel pattern.
    Does anyone have an idea of where to find that satchel pattern?
    I have combed all through what Tandy has to offer to no avail.
    Thanks in advance,

    J

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    I worked as a stamphand for different saddleries and leather shops around the southern part of the US. I got paid okay but never killed any real fat coons. I usually got paid by the piece. I also did a lot of freelancing.

    Tooling a saddle paid 12 hours regardless of design in most shops. So if I tooled a basket weave I could knock that out in 4 to 6 hours, but if someone needed something like a pin oak that could take upwards of 20 hours. Hopefully you would get less intracate work most of the time. Hourly rate then was 15 to 30 DPH depending..I was always contract worker never a real employ. I never recieved any benifits. Being a veteran I always had the VA for health issues so no bennies was no biggie.

    I got out of the leather business completely for 25 years or so and now I am wanting to dabble around a bit, and maybe have a little leather shoppe. We'll see how it goes but I don't expect to see any big money. If I can knock out some nice pieces that people love then I would count that as a good deal.

    I also believe that if you do the best you can and if your quality is there, you'll get paid what your worth. There are some fantasically talanted people in the leather business now.

    Marketing is important.

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    Maybe I should draw up some plans for that box? For some reason I was thinking that box was in one of the old make it leather magazines. But I can't find it in the issues I have.

    You have some incredible pieces in your gallery.

    Welcome to the forum and greetings from Central Texas. I really like your wooden tool box.

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    The tool holders that you see in those pictures are the plastic ones that Tandy has sold since I can remember. The ones in the photographs are probably thirty years old. And that cool wooden box was made for me to haul tools that I need when I worked outside of the shop. It has a small drawer for carrying items such as knives or awls or whatever. I don't recall where I got that large wooden tool rack. Since those pictures were taken, I got two of the wooden racks from Tandy because they had a good year end sale so I took advantage of some of their specials.

    I will post a few pictures in the near future. Thanks for your comment.

    Stamphand,

    I had a look at your site and am interested in the boxes and tool holders you have on your bench. Can you post some pictures here and explain more about them?

  9. Posted · Edited by stamphandj · Report reply

    What a wonderful site you have here, and I want to say thanks for allowing others to come and share ideas. I am amazed at the skill levels of some you folks.

    I found this through a google search I believe.

    And am currently in Fort Wayne, In. But I consider Louisiana home.

    Anyway I had done a reasonable amount of leather work years ago and had worked as a stamphand for a few saddle and custom leather shops in Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. Then I put the tools down for a long time and because of this site and a couple of others my interest has been rekindled.

    I stuck up a website to journal this new leather excursion if your interested.

    http://www.stamphandj.com/

    Again Thanks for being here to help us out.

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