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    Up until May 8th I could have gotten a season pass for $90.00 which ran from May 12th to some time in Oct. It was a $10.00 savings. However my VOW ( just consider it work counselor) counselor suggested I wait. He knows $10.00 is a big deal to me but realizes I soon will have grant money and my business plan isn't finished yet for the grant, and also I needed to see if I was going to be able to get out of the house to go every Saturday. All good points. Well I needed to do some local market analysis so been trying to get there for 2 weeks. Missed the first Saturday and Tuesday, but went this last Tuesday in the rain, and no one was at the rain or shine farmers market :-) So went today, an absolutely beautiful day so I could finish my market analysis before Monday to send to an agency that's helping with the business plan. I had the online Market analysis, just not local. Well found out some great things, and three people readily talked to me about what they're prices ran and knew what I was doing so 4th person was guy who runs the farmers market.

    They don't have any openings left. I can send in an application (for TWENTY-FIVE BUCKS) to go on the list of people who get called if a regular doesn't show up. Which is absolutely one way it would never work for me. Because of my panic disorder the only way for me to add some place to my 'safe' places is through repetition. If I went one Saturday, and didn't have a spot for two Saturdays, then got called the next Saturday it would be like me starting all over as far as the panic. However from Oct. to May they have it indoors and less people set up so I'm looking to getting a winter season pass now and I know this happened for a reason. I wasn't even thinking about starting until some time in June because of products I'm working on, and paperwork I'm still doing for the grant. My VOW counselor is willing to take me on local sales calls to places I've been scouting out like boutiques and gift shops for my jewelry, and local barns for the rhythm beads. I'm going to take the money I'd spend (15 bucks a Saturday) and make my website fully functional for 19.99 a month. It was free for the first year which isn't up yet, but you only get three pages and no way to sell from it. If you want even 1 more page it jumps to $19.99 a month but that's cheaper than the farmers market, and will allow me to have a 'store' on there plus a lot more pages. and make up tons of product. I like doing website stuff, may switch to go daddy now so I can use my Office Front Page which I know so well, and even if it doesn't have FP extensions for uploading anymore, I have, can't think of the name, but a program that is made to upload website pages, changes, etc. OH FTP, LOL, I have that program in 'lite'. So look out world, I'm still coming after you.

    Also wanted to say if anyone needs website help I'll be happy to help anyway I can because everyone has used their skills to help me so much. Cheryl

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    When my SLC order came today and I saw my strap end punch was ALSO a Tandy, I got a little sick. But it doesn't take the same amount of force for these and after I stropped it, I can practically push it through with my hand, although I am using a 1x3 I had up here in the house as a maul :-) Man I love it when things work like they are supposed to. So I guess this one I can keep. It got an edge on it from me stropping inside and out so shiny it could blinf you in bright sunlight. OK, for the 50th time off to call Bruce about a vintage oblong punch.

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    Sorry Art, I should have known that. I'll see if Bruce has one for the first of the month. I have a nice person who read this and is sending me a mallet to borrow for a few months. I just got my strap end punch from SLC, and again went a few bucks cheaper and it's GUESS what.....? Tandy. But since it won't need the brute force the oblong takes, and also can be sharpened easier, I'm going to try it on a belt I'm starting. If it doesn't work the first time, will strop it and try again before I send it back. Know I have some wood up here in the apartment already I can whack it with. If I send it back, I'll get one from Bruce too. I like vintage everything, all my household things from furniture are vintage or antique. Also if Bruce doesn't have the oblong, I think SLC has Osborne and I'll ask them what number it is before I order it. Thanks for giving me the guts to say, 'it's not me, it's the lousy tool, send it back.' Cheryl

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    Wow all cool stuff. Didn't get to see the pyro but Luke your handle is cool, and I'm on my way with Mike and I'll even bring a few beers. Aaron that is so cool that you're teaching at TLF. I don't do anything worth teaching YET and don't have a TLF here but have offered to do a very basic class at the local MH facility across the street using some kind of Tandy kits for the people that sign up. Everyone had good days as did I. Always it seems like when leather is involved! Cheryl

    Chief I'm sorry I just got up and forgot your beautiful wallet. I started a checkbook cover before I went to sleep, and I am on disability so I know what you mean when you forget to take any days off, they do start running together.

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    Thanks guys, I am sending the punch back, have been in touch with seller who asked if I took the plastic off the outside of the head head_hurts_kr.gifOK I'm an idiot, but I didn't even have to, it was INSIDE the punch itself instead of protecting the head as it should. So I'm taking everyone's advice....Send it back, get a good punch and make myself a wooden maul for now. I have plenty of wood available from my favorite store, my landlord's things in the basement. He always has tons of things he has left over from doing repairs here. And I have a saw and sander and I'll make a wooden deadblow type of thing for now. As it is now I have to sell the guitar strap for a bazillion dollars just to recoup and still don't have any good tools.

    Art I'm sorry, I am an idiot about somethings, who is CSO or is that their actual name? I don't mind sharpening it if it's going to do the job afterward. Sylvia even download a video on here from youtube that shows how to use the whetstone right. Thanks all of you, Cheryl

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    Wow I just woke up and what a wealth of info. I'm going to have to read this all again. Although Sylvia is right, I'd use an AS right now if I could afford it. I had already contacted Bearman before I went to sleep and asked about his mauls because I wanted one of his awls and asked if I could change that to a maul. I haven't checked my messages yet so need to do that to make a decision. Now I have to decide what SIZE because I need something that will do oblong punches, and strap end and could use my silly Tandy wood mallet for the little amount of tooling I have a chance to do these days compared to the other things I do. I'm going to probably write Sylvia since I'm still 1/2 asleep from being up so long yesterday before I laid down to let her just tell me what I need, LOL. GREAT info. Cheryl

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    This is such a cool challenge and I love working on my dragon. It's teaching me patience and that not all projects are finished in a day, two at the most. Trying to do these scales, and lava, etc. from looking at a picture is hard, plus trying to do what I thought Allen meant. Only one thing worries me now that I've committed to and following a certain style of doing the details, COLORING the details. head_hurts_kr.gifPicture didn't scan well but I think it's clear enough for people to give me suggestions while I still have time to take them.

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    Thank you Jax. It all made sense and I'm whining but the thing is I have enough of everything to make four straps not just one so I'll get at least my investment of these tools back. You first suggestion isn't really an option for as far as 'carefully cutting' anything. My hands just work when they want to and they never want to do any careful cutting. Over run by 2" yes, or undercut, or zig instead of zag, but never a nice neat cut. I have no idea what a dead blow mallet is but I can try one. I saw that mentioned a couple places and it even SOUNDS cheaper than a 2# maul :-) And I will move my marble next time too and see if that helps. I'll try anything at this point so I can start on the strap; I've been planning it out for about 3 weeks and I'm chomping at the bit to get started. I watched the youtube tutorial twice already PLUS took notes. Thanks so much for your help, Cheryl blush.gif

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    Oh yeah I used it on a concho tonight just to practice using the punch and doing an inlay before I start on the guitar strap. No it's all black except at the top and and the part of the silver that shows, isn't painted I mean, is angled where one end has more showing than the other and I just wondered it that was a guide for punch dummies like myself, end with most silver goes left or right or whatever. I'll scan a picture Bruce and show you, I am talking like an idiot. brb. Below is concho I practiced on.....

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    Mike you are a real sight for sore eyes. No, I'm using an oblong punch on a guitar strap I WAS making for a friend, but trying to decide if I really like him THAT well :-) I have a strap end cutter coming, probably tomorrow that Bruce figures will need sharpened too. The maul I've needed, I've been using a cheap Tandy wood mallet for about 2 years now. Time I move up to grown-up tools. I just can't this month. I already got the leather, 2" end punch, 1 & 1/2" oblong punch, 1/2 lb exotics, contact cement (I've been using leather glue) beeswax, rotary knife; the list really does go on a while head_hurts_kr.gifNow these aren't perishables, well mostly, but even those I'll use before they do, but the whetstone and maul has to wait until next month. I can't squeeze anything else in this month.

    I'm not talking about you Mike because you know me and my situation better than most, but people don't understand at times when they say 'you need to get this, that and a few more things to do ONE thing' that someone like me might try, and plan but when you have nothing but cheap tools, conchos, and dyes, etc. man you should see how fast it adds up. I've been buying what I had to have for my 'eyes' and little else and I have a lot to catch up now that I realize I am not going to be able to use 7 tools and a wooden mallet :-)

    I saw a frog doing research for something online and immediately thought of you. Welcome back buddy grouphug5vj5.gif

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    Yup, mine is 1 & 1/2 inch too, and using a strop didn't seem to do a thing, and I had to bash my way through one of my thin conchos. I was trying to do an inlay on it to practice. It didn't do too bad after the bashing but when I decided to sew the concho, lizard and suede my 15-91 got away from me, LOL so it's my eye now. I haven't ever made me a new one, still wearing the last one I made by hand. I wanna tell you Sylvia, I don't look forward to bashing out 5 more of these in a guitar strap. And I can't get a maul right now, so it's either wait to get that and two kinds of whetstones or bash my way through.

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    I checked Springfield and got this one a few bucks cheaper than theirs on eBay. You get what you pay for, what can I say. And I'm just now starting to buy what I'd call good tools. Fortunately I did get my end punch at SLC. Now I need a maul. My fault, I should have been picking these up a little at a time but hindsight is 20-20. When I decided I wanted to make a guitar strap for a friend, all these tools I needed to get hit me pretty hard but of course they aren't gonna disappear after the first strap. But no making it now until the first of the month because I just can't spend anymore this month Glendon.

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