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    Duane Carleton is our best known musician/songwriter in this area. He agreed to wear my strap at gigs and hand out business cars. Sorry, the pics are big so will take a bit of posts to upload them. Thanks guys for looking, c

    Another, rest are so big have to upload alone.

    And my snake strap debuted in Arlington VA last week.

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    I have an Etsy shop although I didn't keep up with it very well. Last week I updated it, added more items although I, like a former poster hate doing the tags, descriptions, etc. and I sold my first item the very next day. You can't beat a 4 month listing for 20 cents. But you will never sell anything without a Paypal account, no matter how you feel about them. I just sold a sewing machine for $150.00 and Paypal took 5 bucks off the top. That's not being ripped off, that's the price of doing business and making sales easy for your customers.

    I haven't had Aaron's experience but I don't like messing with mailing the payment and waiting to get the item. I wouldn't shop online if I wanted to wait two weeks for something, and I like the protection Paypal affords me. It's your choice but emotions and business are poor bed partners. Just my opinion. Cheryl

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    Barge all purpose cement Mike. And I glue my backs on my straps before I sew them, or the overlays, etc. You of course want to get the edges of the BACK well, but not the edge of the leather, or your bench. When it stretches out or runs over the edge I had some wadded up painters tape next to me and was trying to wipe the drips up with that and accidentally touched a sticky part of the painters tape to a drip, and it slurped the glue right up. I got this because ik saw a video of making guitar straps and the guy used 'shoe glue' so I ran a search and this is what came up. I do NOT like it so will get some of what you are talking about. Cheryl

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    Hi Cheryl. This is the first piece I ever antiqued, and didn't know to use a resist so it went every where but washed off :-) Well mostly. I used another coat of tan, then two coats of resolene over about 28 hours and THEN felt safe enough to try again. I used Angelus med. brown acrylic antique. I practiced on here before using it on my guitar strap I was making. I'm pretty happy with the results but it's a pain to work with. Strap is looking good too, tooled the edges to have a border to shove some antique in, LOL.

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    This stuff is supposed to be good, and I guess it is but it always makes a freakin mess. Accidentally tonight I found out painter's tape will pick it up from your bench and the edges of your project while it's still wet. No more wiping with a cloth and making a bigger mess. Now if there was just a solution that easy for rotary cutting......Cheryl

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    I don't understand why it works sometimes and not others. But I don't know Jack about these new machines. I got my top thread caught in a wad down in with the bobbin thread and thought I'd never get it out, but it did, and went right back to working. How can they make something so simple really when you think about it so easy to mess up? Needle goes up and down, dogs move at the same time. If it was 75 years old Kevin I could help, but not one of these. All I can offer is IF IT'S BROKEN, FIX IT whistle.gifThought maybe I could get that part of it out of the way for you. Maybe Wiz will have some more ideas. c

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    I am Sylvia. I've had that scene in my head for a while, it's the one I tried to draw. Well I tried to draw the actual place where Sienna is which is very similar but didn't have a picture of the exact angle I wanted on it. But the picture I downloaded came close, and the pic of Sienna came from the barn a few years ago, loved the angle of her head, and how pretty she looked just brushed and everything all where it was supposed to be :-) Now I have several memories all on one 'canvas,' I fish in that brook all the time, bass fish in a little trout stream, but you know fishing ain't about the fish. It's about the sun, and water sounds, and a happy horse munching behind you and a dog trying to jump in the water after the tadpoles, and well this IS summer to me. Captured for one moment in time when all was right with the world. I don't know if Mike knew what he might cause some of us to stretch to do, but this is better (to me) than any picture I could have taken.

    Thank you Sylvia. c

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