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You over oiled it. The problem is not that the oil leaked out, you do not want too much oul in it. The problem will be finding a way to get the rest of the oil out. Not so easy.

I have to agree with the above. Ed does great work. Both attractive and functional. He also does great tooling, awsome actually. But the reason many of us are here is we like to make our own stuff. Some of us here only want to do a limited amount of stuff, others like to do as much as possible ourselves. I personally will oftentimes spend more money and many hours duplicating something I like but want to make one myself. I would like to know exactly what the brown material is too. Aaron

You can use an extension cord, as long as it is heavy enough to carry the current. Get a12 guage cord and no longer than necessary. They only say not to use one because no is always easy and they think you are not smart enough to understand wire size. Think of it this way, every wire in your wall is really no differant than an extension cord.

Now I am even more amazed.

The Tandy jig works well, but you definatly are on way too course of a stone. Minimun 1200 and should be pushing 2000 grit. Wet/dry sandpaper glued to glass works if you do not have a proper diamond stone.

Definatly YES! We have had many threads on here about the crappy quality of designer purses. People are not buying quality, but are buying a name. If my work did not excede the quality of mass factory goods I would see no rerason for doing it. I did interpet the intent of the question a little bit. It proper answer to the question is, "Dampen the leather and hit your mark with a mallet". I don't think that was what he was asking though.

I'll have to think of this for a bit. I have always felt that we signed our work similar to signing art. Maybe we are not making art but rather luggage. Luggage is not signed, but identified with a logo. Kind of sad thinking of it this way. Aaron

Dwight, I find it odd that you seem to think your work is bland short of your mark. You do good work, quality and artistic ability stand on thier own. The question was not if you should not mark your work (you should), but if it should be subtle or obtuse (at least that is what I understand it is). I guess the subtle verses obtuse thing is like a fine painting verses grafiti. Thomas Kincaid signs his paintings in the corner, taggers sign their work boldly across the middle.

You need a wood stove. I can not imagine working with it that cold. It would take all the fun out of it. My shop is the happy place.

My first question is what you are using for a stone. Stropping is only done to keep it sharp, sharpening makes it sharp. You sould be able to sharpen a blade in just a few minutes, never more than a handfull. What grit stones and what kind of stones? What are you using on the stone and is the stone flat on the top? Aaron

My opinion is marks should be subtle and unobtuse, similar to signing a painting. Back or inside area is best, generally not visible without looking a little. I see a lot of work on here that is good looking work with a ugly blemish stairing at you when you see the pictures. Aaron

If it is creaking against the gun I would use Dr Jacksons. Good for the leather and likely will help the leather slide instead of squeak.

awsome. How many hours does it take you to make one?

It is best to have 3 lamps when tooling. One overhead and two desk lamps, one on each side. This helps a lot by eliminating shadows and dim areas.

You do not want carbon paper. You wet the leather and trace the pattern just as if you had carbon paper. The damp leather will "dent" with the tracing. Cut on those lines. Aaron

I will look tomorrow at hat sizes are left. I clicked this one with one of the dies.

Seems like a good idea. Baseball gloves are for hanging onto balls.

Welcome and pretty area. I am in fovor of you posting pics of your knife work. Also, it looks like you live a few miles from the leather store (or wood store or grocery store). What do you have available for leather? Any exotics available? It may make some awsome looking sheaths. Aaron

Of course volume may dictate how much you spend, but you want a clicker press and then have a die made of your shape.

Toss them in some paint stripper or barke fluid and it should peal the coating right off. I would question if they are solid brass though, likely coated or an alloy mix.

I missed the part that it was a bike seat, focused in on double loop lacing. I agree that on a bike seat round holes are the way to go. Also, double loop is bad, Mexican round braid is good. Almost always when you are using Mexican round braid you use round holes. I do not agree though about the backside issue. I will post up a few pics showing the backside of a couple projects. I have something in my possesion that I am relacing (not my origional work) that round holes were used on so I will have the backside of how I lace and how it looks when done with holes. The "cleanness" issue is just as big of a deal to me on the back as on the front, To me, slots always win. Also, ALWAYS use Kangeroo. If you want your work to last, use Kangeroo. Calf lace is good for practuce and not a lot more.

I would just use a large soldering iron.

I use 1/8 inch lace all the time. Always use 3/32 holes (slits), it looks better.

I have a lot of old craftaids. Trying to clean things out and raise a few dollars. I will post more and more as I get things sorted and get pics uploaded. I want $3 each and I pay shipping. Min of 3 purchased at a time. Paypal is prefered. If you are looking for one in particular post the one you are looking for and I will look for it. Aaron 4010 4030 2170 2240 2130 2110 4110 6527 3970 2960 2660 2550 2540 2500 2170 2181 3840 2811 2681 2641 72073