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You welcome Gen. Cheryl

I agree with the above....beautiful work, and great on the one stitch. People will always know it's handmade. Cheryl

Hey guy think I answered that for you, I hope:) Don't discount those old Singers out of hand, no matter what the naysayers might explain. I use mine almost daily. Cheryl

LOL, My poor sister works at Walmart and her life is in danger every year I swear. Once she got me a Harry Potter book for xmas on Black Friday Gen and I swear I still laugh at the story. I am assuming you mean online leather companies. Springfield Leather Company (banner at top like Mike said) has 3 10 day deals every month so I'd check there first. You mentioned the clothing industry and right now the have some shearling and some tobacco lamb that might be right up your alley. I'd just check their sales every 10 days and forget Tandy. Cheryl

Just go to a sewing shop or even walmart and get a package of sewing machine needles in different sized. They are color coordinated and have 80/11, 90/14 and 100/16. I've never used any but the 11 and 14s so far and I sew 7-8oz guitar straps with foam and lining on the backs. Remember, the 15-91 does everything backward from all the other singers. The needle goes facing the opposite way, the thread goes in from behind, not in front, and it threads on the side away from you, not next to you. Have fun with it!!! Cheryl

Oh ok Chad I use a stylus to do that. And we all miss sometimes. If the line is close enough, when you bevel the carved part, that will cover it. If not you can take the spoon end of the stylus and dampen the leather and smooth it with that. However it will tend to 'burnish' (or make that area darker) the leather so you want to use a light hand with it. A picture would still help a lot for other ideas since we can see if it's a place you're going to be matting, etc. Cheryl

You got a steal and yes it will use #69 thread and you'll be amazed at what these 15-91s will plow through. I have one and love it. Cheryl

Jake I'm trying to learn to sharpen my tools myself for that reason. I use an end punch and oblong punch for my guitar straps and it seems like the dull pretty quickly. I don't know if I'm not getting them sharp enough to begin with or if it's the amount of space that needs to be displace especially by the oblong one, but I do quite a bit of whacking, especially with my end punch. My Osborne oblong seems to hold it's edge better. But I think you've answered your own question, if you can do it with two whacks with one, the other one ain't sharp Cheryl

Hi Chad, would like a pic too, don't quite understand what you mean. Cheryl

Ferg, it looks good to me. Cheryl

WOW what you're doing is so far out of my skill set I am having to reread it for the third time, LOL. Yet I'm thinking may be a strap with a dog snap on it to maybe go straight down to belt, maybe something like simple suspenders that hook to a D ring at the top on both sides underneath her armpit and run the straps down that way. I would run them if you use two in a V shape, wide at the top to the shoulder, then past the busty problem and then clipped on a belt loop on each side, say the two loops each side of where a zipper would be on jeans. I hope this confused reply gives you some ideas. Cheryl

beautiful work Andrew. Cheryl

Great bag Andrew, Cheryl

Beautiful belt, beautiful work Renee, Cheryl

Great job. I made one but not nearly this nice. Just started cutting and sewing. You did an excellent first project. Cheryl

Use resolene or mop n glo, either one cut by 50% water. Or that's what I use on all my things, painted, dyed, stained, antiqued..... If you are going to antique, put the finish on first, then after it's dry the antique. Since the antique is thick I make sure it's really dry and then put a second coat of finish. It's best to do these finishes in light coats and repeat....but they don't take a long time to dry. I have no experience with wax so don't know which thing caused you stains to run. Maybe they weren't dry enough or maybe the wax, I really don't know. I don't use wax. Cheryl

Nice job Chad. Cheryl

Chief, I think it's beautiful. Cheryl

Thank looks like regular veg tanned to me Raven with a lot of 'nap' on the back. Cheryl

Raven do you mean both sides look like the grain side, that kinda smooth? Or do you mean something like deer or elk that's soft on both sides? Because I don't know other than those type of skins that are really soft on both sides and I don 't know of any kind of leather that's got a grain look on both sides. ACK I think my answer was more confusing than your question, LOL. Cheryl

Very nice, you do good work. Cheryl

Absolutely beautiful bag. Cheryl