Turkish Gambit

Artimus, the rings are made of Aluminium. Hunio, these are some AWESOME notepads! Blue crocodile is my favorite. I have a question for you, when you open the notepad, does the ring size allow you to flip the top cover under the bottom for better writting position in your hand? If you could post a picture of a notepad opened in this position, kudos to you!

I've been wondering about the same thing, so I ran a little test. Here are the items I've used: 1. Test patch of leather. 2. Home brew recipe for wax finish I found on this forum (ratio of 1:1:1 by weight -- neatsfoot oil, beeswax, and parafin) -- darkens the leather noticibly. 3. Heater (foot warmer, or blow drier) 4. Imported fragrances oil perfumes from India (Golden sandalwood, amber liquid) -- these are real perfumes for use, bought at a local store, not essential oils. The salesman at the store mentioned the fragrance will loose its smell if exposed to extreeme heat, so during this process I tried to use moderate to low heat. Here is what I did: Put a little home brewed wax on leather patch with my fingers, to help it warm up. Added a little heat to and spread it well around the area, still using my fingers. When the wax was spread evenly, I added 5-6 drops of perfume on the wax, and began to mix perfume into it. Next, I interchanged heat with spreading the wax. When you add heat, some wax will be absorbed into the leather, then you have to spread the remaining of wax evenly again. So heat, and spread, heat and spread. After all absorbed, let cool, and polish with soft cloth. Here are the results: The leather is sealed very well, waterproof. You can test it by letting dropplets of water sit on it for a while, and checking for dark spots. So the perfume oil is mixed with wax, and this is why you can smell it. Logically, If adding oil perfume on leather, then sealing it -- would seal the smell of perfume too. Also, these perfume oils definitely darken the leather tremendously, so I would guess any oil would, even essential oils. Hence, mixed with the wax, not directly on the leather. The smell of sandalwood on leather is nice, but in my test, 5-6 drops of perfume was too much on a 3x3 inches strip of leather. I'm planing on putting a scented piece of lether on the purse, and definitely will be using half of the amount of perfume. Also, a thing to to consider perfumed leather not interjecting with the person's perfume.