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They are know as a "bloody Mary" to carpet installers.

Chrome is soft (uphpolstery) vegtable is hard and stiff and usually tan.

The hides are chrome tanned, you need vegtable tanned.

From what I am seeing you are wanting the end of the ram drilled out so you can slip in a tool holder for holding stamps? If so it is easy to do, just needs to be put in the lathe and drilled. I really recomend walking into a small shop with cash in your hand, someone will do this for a few dollars. If you can not find someone I can do this for you for $25 plus shipping. Aaron

Fiebings paste. Tandy does not carry it, not sure why. The gell is all runny, the paste is more like shoe polish. Just seems more controlable to me.

I tried gell a couple times, always hated it. But with paste it is ready to go as soon as you finish wiping it. Aaron

Darn, whenever I think my work looks good I see something like this and tuck my tail.

If you make it to the show I think you will definatly get the award for farthest traveled!

I have a hot press foil machine. I have never actually used foil with it, just dampen the leather and pres it in, works great. It looks burnished.

For follow up information: I have now tried the 4 differant computers on 3 differant providers. It apears that the side bar box signifantly slows down the loading on the main page. It more than doubled the speed on my main computer that I use (from just over 4 seconds to right at two). On my work computer it went from 16 seconds to 12 seconds to load. All 4 showed significant speed increase. If you do not this site loading slowly try closing the sidebox and see if this helps.

Great job, I like it.

If you are going to dye your item brown with Fiebings dye use a red ball point pen. It will disapear when you dye it. Aaron

If you only want your initials I would suggest getting a few letters of letterpress print type. Clamp them togeather, heat them in the over to 300 degrees and push them on the damp leather for a half second, done. Aaron

Whoever did it a huge thank you! The useless side bar down the right that robs screan space and horibly slows down load times is gone. YEA, and thank you! The main page is loading in 2.5 seconds on my computer now, it usually takes 8-9 seconds to load. I am excited to check my work computer, it has been takes 16-18 seconds to load . I never know for sure if it was the side bar but it was what would lock things durring loading so in my less than computer smartness I did blame what visibly stopped it. Leatherworker has been the slowest loading site I visit (I am online a couple hours a day) since the big crash. There was a very short time that it sped up after the update, untill it was "fixed" and the brakes were anchored down again. Now it is not only average, it loads fast! THANK YOU! Aaron

I have one of his knives (Chan is selling them all over apairantly, LOL). I like it.

I am not a fan of skulls, but your work is great. Aaron

Thank you everyone for the kind words. I do like the way the leather looks against the marble.

I like the idea of the bullet casing inlays into the handle. Thing I will have to try it.

Are you using a needle? The tighter the holes are the cleaner the look. I usually use 3/32" holes and 1/8" lace, I have to often pull through with pliars.

Hmm, you sure picked a tough area. Summer tourists and winter skiers. Nice area though. I grew up in Anchorage. Aaron

I like to use glycerine saddle soap to edge with. Comes in a bar at the feed store. A wooden dowell will work better than the plastic. Aaron

I have a marble coaster that had cork in the middle. It has aged and got all grose so I had an idea. I had a rounder I made up for a class I did a few months back, trimmed it to size and it looks pretty good. Aaron

One more for dip dying. Fast, easy, consistant.

There are three threads, Each thread does every third stitch. You are sewing one thread at a time. Move over and do it again, next thread does every third stitch. the final thread fills in the final space. the back does not look as good as the front. It is easier to demonstrate than to explain. Aaron

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