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Put the lace on the needle. Trim off the lace that is wider than the needle. I hate the needles you are using though. I use the ones with a hole and one pin to hold the lace. This style is easily ten times stronger holding the lace. Get one of each, try to pull the needle off, you will never go back. I always use 1/8 lace and 3/32 slits. I want the lace to not have any excess gaposis.

They use small thread and the top foot tends to leave tracks on the leather. Top feed, due to the way they move all directions. You can't smooth out the foot or it will not be able to move forward. If you were closer I would sell you mine, I have a 29K4 for sale.

A patcher sews sideways, great for almost unreachable areas. The stitches are utilitarian though, not as perfect and pretty as we usually want.

I would think the neoprene would be very hot, trapping moisture. You may end up with a diaper rash on your leg. You need a padding that breathes. Otherwise I like the looks of it.

Attention to detail, all detail. If anyone tells you nobody will notice but you, they are wrong. Everyone will notice, just most will not tell you they noticed.

Awesome. Sometimes things go easy.

Very nice. My only real critique would be to cut off the very tip of the square corners. They will quickly roll and smush down and make it like tattered.

The leather looks chrome tanned, possibly oil tanned. Does not look vegetable tanned. If it was vegetable tanned it would be stiff as a board, not soft and supple. The bag is pretty simple, but I recomend practicing before you cut up such a big piece of leather.

Yes you can. I would cut it with a cut-off wheel on a dremal.

Rons tools

it would make a great shirt

Usually chrome. Soft and supple= chrome stiff as a board = vegetable

Very nice looking work. The attention to detail is superb. Aaron

I am sure someone local to you has belts, but if not I have bought new leather belt from rooster rock sewing in Portland oregon.

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Go to harbor freight and buy the orange dead blow mallets. They get down to about $5 on sale with a coupon.

If you attach veg tan to the jacket it will be very stiff and hard. The jacket would be stiff and basically unwearable. Laser etching would be an option. Embroidery would work similarly, but would look different than the picture.

You do not need a hot stamp machine, you can use your oven to heat the plate. Also you do not need a plate big enough to do it all at once, you could do it with a 6"x6" square. Not production work, but for a one time, at home job it would work.

It will work well on chrome tanned. The metal embossing plate, heated, is the trick. It is done all the time to put names and logos on jackets.

This is also not true. I was told it too, so I called Herman Oak and asked. According to the tannery, anyone that wants Herman Oak, in any grade, can get it. I have to agree, the HO hides in the store do not match the quality of the TR hides I usually get at Oregon Leather. But, they are better than the South American hides Tandy usually sells.

I doubt it is suede, but likely is chrome tanned. You can emboss it with a heated metal plate, pressed into the leather.

You were lied to by the manager. Tandy sells junk. You, I and they know it, but the managers are told to MAKE THE CUSTOMER HAPPY. He should have offered to replace it for you, it was an obvious defect. He did not want to do it because it lowers his profit margin and he looses money personally. Complain to corporate and TELL THEM THE REASON THE MANAGER REFUSED TO WARRANTY THE DEFECT, they need to hear what the customers are being told.

George, I commend you on your quality standards. Rejecting substandard work keeps people coming back. If you sell bad work it becomes the standard to judge you by. Aaron

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Leathercraft-Pricking-Iron-Leather-Stitching-Chisel-Leather-Nippers-4mm/331044567858?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131003132420%26meid%3De9facce93c7f46f097df4953828a13ff%26pid%3D100005%26prg%3D20131003132420%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D261610193197&rt=nc I have both, you will be happier with this set.

In production, plastic into a mold. In small scale, laser etched delrin.