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Another very good reason to source leather closer to home may stop this from happening to other tanneries. https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/90986-tasman-tannery-closing/?tab=comments#comment-623818 Hope this helps JCUK

This may help around the 3 minute mark, I don't use this method myself just hand eye co-ordination have to confess i do get it wrong at times if my mind not on it. The other thing is make sure you strike the punch hard and square, that's goes with all punching too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMfsEmcn14w Hope this helps JCUK

I have had the misfortune to do some repairs to horse tack made from Indian leather and leather from countries nearby awful stuff the smell is horrible i will leave it to your imagination as to what the hides may have been tanned in not nice at all, this was when i was working in the Middle East so a lot of my repairs were made from that leather so had no choice, but the work was repaired with good English tanned leather which i had imported kind of a waste i use to think, even if they gave me Indian tanned hides for free i would have refused them and if that's all i had to work with today i would stop tomorrow. So if it was me i would source good leather closer to home. Hope this helps JCUK

Love the banter between the English and the sweaties so miss the home internationals and yes have many Scottish friends its all in good fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yw0bLHTOb0 https://genius.com/Andy-stewart-donald-wheres-your-troosers-lyrics We also have older houses. JCUK

Oh i was lead to believe it was The Sex Pistols or at least Punk Rock how wrong were they or maybe they just lied. JCUK

How do you know that i am not Scottish myself. Yes check his others videos out, no planning goes into them no thrills just honest videos that may help some and i know from first hand knowledge how good at this craft he is. And no i am not Scottish was going to use the rhyming slang term but would have confused you even more. JCUK P.S. just another use of the round knife save a lot of pennies buying punches or other tools you may not need if you learn to use one.

Church window point /English point you don't need all the sizes i only have two which i got when i first started out all those years ago than learned to do this. Hope this helps JCUK

Yes i get this with webbing or Biothane horse tack that's needs to be repaired webbing tack cheaper to buy new in most cases, Biothane tack once it is starting to crack the customer often think you can repair it no, replace it in both cases the old tack will often end up in some land fill somewhere and will not break down. JCUK

No worries JCUK

Put them somewhere in plan sight or somewhere you have to make a point of going to get them, again not a good idea reaching around for sharp tools. JCUK

Sorry about this but there is another option, when working with sharp tools rule one always remember which is the sharp end. Hope this helps JCUK

Sorry can't resist, Who Killed Bambi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu_0h2GZXJQ JCUK

Ι will kinda go against the flow here, and I know many people won't agree with me, but don't buy more tools. Trust your hand and your eye, and if you don't, keep practicing until you do. It will give you confidence to do many things throughout this (and any) craft and it will often get you out of tight spots. I firmly believe our hand-eye coordination is the most important tool and just like any other tool it also needs honing from time to time. By all means try different things if it's easy and practical to do so but keep in mind that the perfect cutter might actually not exist Thats the rule with most leather working hand tools, try not to over think things, being a southpaw i have a lot of tools that are right handed so took a lot of practice and wasted a lot of leather along the way but sometimes that the nature of the beast. Hope this helps JCUK

Maybe something on this page may help. https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/papercraft/die-cutting/die-cutting-machines Hope this helps JCUK

Again a bit off topic yes the expression cut the corners off s 50 pence piece but nowadays people are trying to cut the corners off a 10 pence piece, cutting corners where there are no corners to cut shoddy working practices at times just to get the job done as fast as they can with no care or attention. JCUK

I have the the Texas rosebud only mistake i made was should have got the full fat version the Texas rose. Playing around to day skiving lighter weight leather usually use a english style paring knife found i could better and easier with Terrys knife. JCUK

I was searching for some leather earlier today leather that i don't usually need or use so went to a web-site of a supplier i don't normally use discovered this. It's maybe of interest to some this side of the pond. https://www.aacrack.co.uk/tanneries/wickett-craig.html Hope this helps JCUK

Thanks for that i was wondering too. Hopefully everything will being up and running for him sooner rather than later. Fantastic knife i got from him 4 years ago never been near a stone yet. JCUK

We all should know by now there is always one. JCUK

All you need to know is here, https://leatherworker.net/forum/topic/36221-how-to-make-a-strop-for-knives/ Funny enough i have just made myself another strop using pretty much the same method only i used Tandys saddle skirting leather managed to run 4'' width through my pull through splitter and no did not give myself a hernia, just did not try to take to much off in one go, made it a double sided strop.Only i loaded mine the traditional way for saddlers in the uk Hope this helps JCUK

These may help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbQZt_VduEI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dej8BH1DFgs Hope this helps JCUK

I have a routine with my round knife, before i use it i give it a good strop and at the end of the day no matter if i have cut one strap or a hundred i will strop it again. With any of my cutting tools i strop them before i use them, very rarely sharpen anything on a stone apart from my splitter blade which i sharpen on a stone and strop and polish when ever i feel it not cutting how i know it should. Tools like a Skirt shave/French edger really do need to be sharp to use at best they will mess up your work if dull at worse might mess up the user. JCUK

No in the 25 years i have had them must have only used them 25 times. Use my round knife for most things for some lighter leathers i use a clicker knife and yes i find them better than X-acto knives as well. The only thing i use my Stanley knife ( box cutter ) is to cut old stitches out for repairs. JCUK

I have a set of X-acto knives that are 25 years old never had to change a blade they are as sharp as the day i got them would you like to know the reason why ? JCUK

Hello You can use sheep nappa leather, i line with neoprene. I also have lined with patent leather too 0.8mm to 1.2 mm with either leather. Hope this helps JCUK