daveottawa

I got three from Beary a few weeks ago and they work like a charm. edit: for Dremel.

I make mainly belts, guitar straps, banjo straps, masks and some fetish stuff. My confidence level is pretty low with my sealing process. I think of it as a crap shoot and dread getting a complaint that someone got dye running all over their clothes. Hasn't happened yet though. So I usually overkill with many thin coats of whatever I'm using, whether it resolene, tan-kote, etc and hope it holds.

I received my 3 burnishers from Beary today and they are beautiful! FYI for anyone else in Canada, they came in the regular mail, no holdup at customs, and no HST taxes to pay. They only spent 6 days in the mail system. Woo-hoo.

Yeah, I used to have problems like that Kayak45. I solved it though. I call it marital realignment ..... single now. I don't have 45 kayaks, but I have 4. I wouldn't have been able to pull that off under the old regime! I can whip up a phoney webpage you can show your wife called "Martha Stewart shows you how to redecorate your home with these basic supplies from Barry King, Herman Oak, Tech-Sew, and more."

Even better ! Thanks!

Thanks, that clears it up. No, I didn't use a machete, it was just a Tandy swivel knife (insert drumroll and cymbal crash here).

That's something I also never understood... 'tool up to the cut line' vs 'tool in the cut line'. Stohlman tech tips book says to put the toe of the beveler in the swivel knife cut and strike. Is that 'up to' or 'in' the line? Is one of the positions in this drawing the best way? ('Scuse the artwork!) The left side is what I understand Tech-tips to mean and what I think you mean by tooling 'up to' the cut line. Is the right side the ' to the line' position?

I have the same problems with mine. Those bars are too short to be parallel enough for thicker leather. Unless the Tippmann bars are a lot longer than Tandy's, there'll be the same parallelity problem. (Is that a word?!) Right, a tapered bushing for the bottom roller would be the way to make the bars parallel. And the height adjustment wheel needs some registration marks. (See attached pic for my high tech solution.) I suggested this to Tandy a few months ago. I hope they add some markings to the wheel if they're still in production.

I love it!

Right, the Food Inspection Agency people are the ones I was told by Customs to call to check about about exotic/restricted skins before trying to import them. edit: and on the 'allowed' list is just about every hide I see in the catalogs like bovines, snake, alligator, kangaroo.

The HST will be the same no matter how you cross the border, but I bet you'll have to pay for it as luggage. That'll cost you a bundle! Maybe carry-on?

Yup, just like you all said, I called Canada Customs today and they said that leathers from the USA are duty free unless it is a restricted species (I doubt bovines are on that list!), and if it comes by USPS/Canada Post there will only be a $9.95 processing fee plus HST if applicable.

Thanks! Did you have to pay a broker fee to clear the goods? Last year I imported a unicycle duty free but had a $55 Broker fee from the transport company for processing it at the border.

I've been trying to figure out that too. So far I found that Bovine vegetable pre-tanned leather had a 5% base rate (whatever that means) up to 1994 and is duty free after 1994. It's code 4104.21.00 in the NAFTA agreement with Canada. Leathers are all coded in the 41.01 to 42.01 in this monstrous book. I tried calling Customs and didn't get a firm answer, but that was before I found the 4104 code. I'll call them tomorrow again and see if I can get a firm answer whether there's duty or not. I'll post up their reply if it's any good. To avoid broker fees, I want to have leather shipped to the UPS store in Ogsdenburg, just over the border in New York, a short drive for me. I've picked up tools and some machinery that way and only pay the GST at the border. Combine it with a nice drive on a sunny day and it makes for a nice outing. Time and gas considered, I still come out ahead. Here's the wretched NAFTA document I found. I couldn't copy just the parts about leather so shoot directly to page 174! http://books.google....epage&q&f=false

I'll pipe in and say yes, based on my 4 Tippmann rolls that work with my Tandy Embosser.

Yup, so I've noticed! Nice target shooting pic. I used to do a lot of competitive shooting in my younger days, mostly .22 free rifle.

I joined a few weeks ago and so far I'm reading as many of the forums as I can. No comments to post yet, still keeping my eyes and ears open, and my mouth shut for a while!