DoubleC
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LOL, I don't have a handle on anything other than knowing what the machine will do if I ever learn how to control it :-)
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I use 2 a month :-) I use my ATM card for everything else. But being 20 years behind you we get charged if use that for electric or phone. Cheryl
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An EIN can get you wholesale at a lot of different places, and since your gonna lose money hand over fist when you start, why not get a free EIN? You won't be paying taxes for a while, and SLC where I get most of my stuff tells you right with the item how much you saved. And you do save because if I do a quick search there without logging in, I see the retail prices. Cheryl
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New and I hope a little improved checkbook. I didn't finish sewing the guts in, they're glued and it's sweltering here today so Lucky decided he needed a different needle and thread to do the last. I said no, and took my marbles and went back to the computer :-)
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I think I'm going to do the whole thing in red/orange then go over the big parts with their colors. Hell Sylvia, I may just antique it, LOL.
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Thanks Sylvia. Let's just say it ain't over until it's over :-) Might be a chapter or at least epilogue left to this story. Stayed tuned to the inlay reality show, LOL.
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Well Nick the hole is gonna be pretty big. I don't know if I should do that either. I just washed all the conditioner off of it so it wouldn't be slick. I also have a square can of bag balm that I use to condition that will fit over the horse. I think I could use me rotary easier on that with out cutting off my arm, but I think the circle might be stronger in the ,long run, I really don't know. I wish I understood geometry. Cheryl
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Not stupid, just too much too soon. As I say, get the basics down well. I did my first inlay after 30 or so years of making holsters. Mike
I'm getting ready to whomp a coffee cup down on it and cut out a circle. Will that work or be too big an inlay?
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Well since I have a ton of lizard, and still have plenty of scraps I can practice on those. When I practice I always want it to BE something, but maybe I'll do key fobs or something with snakes, squares, circles, etc. and sew them. I can still make that into a square and remove the deformed horse, and have thought of doing that. Or circle, oval, rectangle. It's salvageable, but no more checkbooks for me until I practice, really. Cheryl
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You really are upset with me aren't you? Probably not as upset as I am with myself. I'm the jackass that tried to do the stupid thing.
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thank you for your kind offer. Mine was $54.00 but $29.00 of that was shipping. I have already sewn leather on it, I know what the little bulldog will do, or part of it's potential. I'm not sure I'll ever want to move up unless I suddenly change my whole life and areas of interest and start making logging collars for Belgiums :-) Love to see a pic of yours. cheryl
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Busted.....but Mike i can explain. this was a practice run for the strap kinda because it's on hold, my oblong punch wouldn't, have to return it, get another one some where else, and it was just plain idiotic for me to do it and even more so to try and explain. Why do you think I didn't send you a p; picture or ask for some help. I already knew it was a dumb idea (well after the horse turned out deformed....) and I didn't want you to think I'd forgotten what you said.
The good news is I'm going to use it, and tell everyone in VT. you made it for me
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I decided to pick a thread that would 'pop.' Although this sewing went better, I should have picked a thread that would hide :-) This thing is so fast that I still can 't control it because the feed dogs move instead of you feeding the material, but I swear I love it. I still look everyday on eBay because i want to buy one in a bent wood for a mentoring I have coming up (OK, actually I want to buy all of them; Singers are addictive. Anyway I use #30 thread, and a regular needle and you can see it chewed right through this bison and suede. I'm thinking about double loop lacing the checkbook but I may save my roo for another project since I'm making this for me, and just let ole Lucky sew the guts in after I glue the suede to the cover.
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All that wasted time you put into trying to see I 'got' it. I'm going to make a guitar strap for the first time after I play musical tools now, planned to have it started by now. I got a piece of leather from some different things I bought from one of our members that was a perfect checkbook size. So I decide to make me one and practice inlay at the same time. So I picked what looked like such a simple outline of a horse since Katass has been helping me on the strap and looked at a horse picture I already had and thought it would be too hard to start. Well this is a fairly easy outline except I didn't think about NEGATIVE space. I won't even show it to Mike (Katass, we could use a few different names around here :-) because I'm too embarrassed. A friend of mine's going to try and help me with a solution of inlay/overlay.Am I the only person that makes mistakes everyday, posts their mistakes, or wait, am I on the right forum, LOL. I'm kinda tired, worked on this all night. I really feel badly about the time you worked with me Mike, well and Kevin that one night on negative space.
Rotaries will cut leather, suede and your thumb when you forget you're holding it as you turn your leather for another cut and bump your thumb against it.
The good news is I'm sewing on my 15-91 a little better....bad news, again lack of foresight, I wanted thread that popped. After first inch I realized at my skill level I wanted thread that hid.
It isn't QUITE so deformed looking up close, but bad enough. But I'll use it because it's better than the last one I made from pieces and didn't do right. But I've been using it. gonna take it apart and use those ;pieces I like so well AGAIN on something else, don't know what yet.
Good news? This cost me maybe 10 cents total, leather was free, so paint, dye, resolene, thread and a thumb. Lizard a small, small piece from a bag I got from SLC that keeps growing in the dark :-)
I learned a lot, much more than those projects that seem touched with magic and go right all the way. I think we should have a mistake thread for everyone to learn from. I could post everyday.......Cheryl
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YES i WAS MAD BECAUSE THEY WERE ADVERTISED AS STORAGE BOXES, AND ABOUT THE ONLY THING YOU COULD STORE IN THESE (sorry 'bout caps on) might be a medium sized book. one, LOL. But I put my fid and french beveler in it to upside down and the wooden handles keep them from going down and hitting anything. Eventually I hope to have all my metal tools, like basketweave, etc. in the box with the small holes. Putting stuff in as I run across them. Buy clementines, LOL and you'll get double duty!!
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I learned just because you think 40 bucks is expensive doesn't make it true.
Just because you expect a tool to work doesn't make it true, or expect it to come sharp.
15 minutes ago I learned just because you're a little sour on tools at the moment doesn't mean you should run amok with your new rotary cutter after opening it. Yes it's ok to laugh manically when it says use caution, very sharp. It's ok not to believe it will cut anything. HOWEVER it wasn't so much OK when I tried to cut out suede around my checkbook asleep at the wheel and found out a rotary knife will handle suede AND leather with ease. My checkbook is going to be 2 inches square if I keep making mistakes.
When life hands you lemons, forget freakin lemonaid, open a cold beer and go sit and drink it in the sun with your dog.
Your first dragon you carve and tool probably shouldn't be the hardest picture you could find free on the internet.
When you do inlays remember NEGATIVE SPACE dummy, not just the outline, sigh.
OK, anyone else? I learned a lot this week. Cheryl
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I just found out the clementine boxes (remember the display I did on one of them that was too busy?) works great for all different sized. One of my boxes has big and smaller holes so the strap end cutter went right in the larger hole, and the other box has the smaller holes which are perfect for stamps, my horse shoe, rose, oh and exacto, several things fit upright in those.
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I wish I had some sharpies or SOMETHING for when I start to color mine. By the time I use paint to do this I may have to be hospitalized for a very long time, LOL. I know I picked this one and design not only because it appealed to me but to keep stretching and reaching beyond my comfort level, but I may have over-reached myself finally.
Yours and JayJay's turned out really well.
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Ed I appreciate you explaining that and clearing it up. You already know I want one of yours as soon as I can afford it. Not that yours are expensive; they are right in line with the other ones but I mean until I can afford any maul. And you've been so patient with me changing my mind 12 dozen times. Someday I hope to have every size you make :-) Cheryl
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Hello, all. My name is Joe Sabine and I own a small company in San Angelo, TX where we make custom pistol grips. We have been working with a company for over a year to get a pat pend holster made but have received nothing from them but heartache and a thinner wallet. We have decided to manufacture our own holsters but we are unsure of what machine we need. We, obviously don't want to buy something that isn't stout enough but we don't want to spend money for capability we won't use. We have tried looking on the internet and are somewhat in awe of the numberof used machines out there but we don't know what any of them are capable of. We will be sewing 0.60" Kydex between two layers of leather ( about .125" for the two) or a total of 3/16". We will be sewing 4-5 stitches per inch.I would appreciate any advice you could give me.
Thanks,
Joe
Hi Joe. Glad you joined us here at the forum. If you look further down you'll see a thread just for sewing machines and those guys will tell you everything you need to know. They are really expert and friendly. Cheryl
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You GO girl.....that's awesome work you have there. Cheryl
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That's gorgeous. My checkbook cover I'm working on needs serious help which a friend is going to do tonight. I found a horse pic online that had a pretty easy outline to cut out because I want to do another inlay for more practice. Outline, true enough but I didn't think about the negative space and my horse looks crippled at best. I was going to sand the cut marks now it's completely dry but going to wait and see exactly what my friend suggests tonight before I touch another thing
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I went to the free demo of the CP, always do when I'm looking to build a website. They have a good one. I bookmarked the main page. Thanks again Sylvia. Cheryl
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Oh I don't think godaddy would cost that, it's just if I kept my current site for now so I didn't have to go through transferring everything at this point that's what it would cost. But I'll check out hostmonster anyway. Thanks Sylvia. c
This One's For You Mike (Twin Oaks)
in How Do I Do That?
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Everything I've had up until now came from a box of scraps I got from someone on here :-) The horse you helped me with on negative space was a scrap piece, and I see it every day because I use it as a mouse pad. Nothing gets thrown away around here and i like to see where I've been and hopefully where I'm going. I still have the first 4 eyes I did where they slowly changed from a deformed amoebae into something almost recognizable as an eye. Since I live alone, well with my ever faithful Skadi, most of my feedback comes from here so I have to keep things I guess to keep encouraged and motivated. The old, people who forget history are bound to repeat it stuff. Not that I haven't repeated it anyway a time or two.
But I've been so luck to meet people here that are willing to look at a 1000 (or so it seemed) eyes and give me feedback, or horses or talk about negative space like you. I just 'renewed' the end of my stick background tool for this :-) Cheryl