electrathon

Ebay has really gone down in the last few years. They primarily want stores with hundreds of listings, far less of what it used to be as the garage sale of the world. Also though, looking at what you have listed, your prices are starting the auction as what I can walk into the store and buy things, many people are hesitant to pay full price when they could go to the store and get it there.

You changed the color of the leather, similar to vinageroon.

If it makes your tooling look better, do it. There is no such thing as cheating. There is good and bad work, do the good work. Aaron

Thank you. I guess grumbeling can count on doing someting with leather too. LOL

Today I finished the wallet I had been working on, YEA.

I can not help you with the removel, but if neat-laq cracks it is likely you put it on too thick.

Thank you. It is really hard to convince people that such small shape changes make a night and day differance in the quality of the finished work.

You will not find any bette rthan the new DVD's that Chan Geer has out. They are exceptopnal

Clear-laq or wyo-sheen. It used to be called neet-laq. Try Sheridan Leather Outfitters Chans video is probibly the best out there for learning Sheridan. He is a great teacher.

Keep in mind, just my opinion. I am not a moderator here (I am elsewhere). Cross posting on a forum is generally considered to be spam. What you are wanting to do is a good idea. By section of the forum I mean if there is a large number of submissions they would be best kept on the forum in their own section. Look at the top and you will see there are other areas that information is. It would be good to have a section for nothing but patterns.

I agree this is a good idea, but they need to be in a section of the forum so they remian in the public domain. And, you spamed the forum, bad idea.

Craigslist is free. The only thing they charge for is "jobs" and "homes for sale", and I think that is only in certian cities. Craigslist is where you sell local, ebay is where you sell things you are going to mail. The Craigslist scammers will offer to send you money and you send out a product in the mail, usually over sea. They send you too much, to cover shipping and then have you refund back the extra. the cretified check will bounce, after about 2 months and then the bank will pull the money back from your account. You loose your item, the shipping you paid and the money you sent the person as a refund. The only thing the scammers want is the refund. I have both bought and sold thousands of dollars worth of stuff on Craigslist, I have never had an issue. But, I do it locally. It is not a good place to try to sell crafts, it is a good place to sell your used bicycle.

Like this?

He teaches all over, about one class a month. I am not aware of this list being online anyplace (Chan is computer resistant). I know he will be in Spokane this summer. Likely best to give him a call.

This is Chans work. He is coming to Portland OR in September. He sent me these pics of the folder we will be making.

Loose the maul and get a dead blow hammer. Harbor freight sells them cheap. Push down on it hard as you are hitting it. Hit it hard. Move your stone to the cement floor for this stamp. Hit it hard. Aaron

Today I worked on a female wallet. Finished most of the floral tooling, then moved on to covering the rest of it with basket weave. Aaron

Great use of salvage. If it was me I would cut the plate smaller it is mounted to so that you could work off the back side of the wheel and not have to support the leather over the top. Aaron

Your tooling is looking great! Very nice work. Aaron

If people are having trouble finding these, I will send you 4 of them for a $4 paypal. I recomend you buy them locally, but if you can not find them it is an option. I have both #6 and #8. Aaron

Will, Did you do any testing with abrasion? I tried the waterstain and it did look OK on the leather. I did a similar piece in Fiebings dye. I rubbed both pieces on the concrete to simulate rubbing on something, the surface was slightly rubbed off on both pieces. The waterstain piece had no color left at the wear area. The dye piece had no missing color, just the damage to the leather. Sort of soured me from trusting the durability of the waterstain. Aaron

Bottom line is unless you minimally tripple that number you are not going to get a machine capable of doing what you want to do.

Ah-ha! That just blew the part in your profile where you are "not tellin" about your gender. It is really amazing how many people do not know the differance. Even more amazing is how many people think that they can cut properly with a dull knife.

Sharpening a hollow ground blade is no differant than any other blade. The hollow grinding just makes the leading edge of the knife thinner. When you strop the knife hold it just as you would any other blade. BUT, stropping is not designed to sharpen a blade, only to keep it sharp. A high quality blade is tougher to sharpen though than a soft blade. The steel is harder, so it is both harder to sharpen and stary sharp longer/better. Aaron

I think 4 was done with this blade: http://www.tandyleatherfactory.com/en-usd/search/searchresults/8029-00.aspx