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I get the same thing and figured it was from the knurling on the tool?

Thanks for sharing your link . I had great fun checking out your gallery. You do some amazing art.

Since the original poster is in northern Ontario, Canada, I think the shipping costs would be pretty expensive from an american supplier. I could be wrong though :-)

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Very creative. Just a question. How do you breathe in it? Are there other perforations besides the grommet holes?

You could go to a thrift store and purchase an old leather coat or two. Normally they are pretty cheap and the leather fairly thin and supple. It would also have some wear which might be a good effect for your steam punk look. I did that for the first leather corset I made. You could even incorporate buckles, pockets and straps from the existing coat for design accents. It sewed fine on my machine and was a much less expensive way to make one. With leather, anything that may get too thick for your machine, like the binding ,can be glued on. Hope this helps.

Thanks for posting. I have tried to get in touch with them by email with some questions and did not get a response, which I thought was odd.

I second this. Any paper crafter will tell you that the ones with the plastic rail move and you end up with a straight cut that is off a little from one end to the other, even with card stock. I don't think they would be good for anything heavier. The more expensive metal ones might work but most of them are set up for paper or photo cutting so might need some tweaking for heavier materials.

I am always happy to see you post. There is just such an attention to detail in your work that makes it really special. If my tooling ever gets that good, I will be ecstatic. Thanks for including the older pic, it's always an inspiration to see how much people's skill grows with time , practice and experience.

That is what I was afraid of.. I am new to all this and don't know what happened with Hidecrafters, other than a big dustup but it seems that a couple of the pattern books went into some kind of neverland, including this one and the Cross one.

Would anyone happen to know where I could order the Chan Geer center patterns book from? http://proleathercarvers.com/sheridan-style-new-center-designs.html I wrote this company and they are not expecting to get them anymore. Thanks

That is a kind of unusual combination but I love your artwork. Thanks for sharing.

Johanna Could you please turn off the time online feature? I can't find anywhere to edit it so I think it must be a moderator item. Thanks Rosemary

This feature seems to have returned.

Mark, I did some looking at the ones for sale and this is my version. I deliberately made mine with a front and back side but did see some where both sides are exactly the same so I think it would be your preference. I kind of rushed through this so there are tooling mistakes etc but it still turned out ok I think. Hope this helps. Rosemary

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing it with us.

very nice! I'll bet she is thrilled.