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  1. Couldn't ask for better advice thanks Tom.
  2. thanks for the knowledge and help. I know that 120 mesh screens are the ones used in youtube videos most often. Are there any more that are even finer? I am willing to make one with finer mesh. Would angelus paint - I think its not as thick as the garment paints. can you flood the screen with angelus paint like you can with garment inks without the paint falling through the screen. The screen doesnt allow the paint to just fall through unless its like water consistency? Would such a thin paint be a issue? On a printing machine for t shirts the board where you lay the shirts can they be replaced and swapped out. I am looking to place wooden guidelines on the board for wallets or tags and a flat replacement if I choose to do t shirts instead. It could be a standard on all machines or special model? Does primer need to be added to things like shirts or leather? and finally for the complete set of forced air, emulsion light, and small portable 4 colour printing press how much should I be looking at in price?
  3. I think il go with Canada post or USPS thanks. Il have to relook at UPS/FEDEX/ DHL because on paper they seem like a good deal, but the fees are on the high side.
  4. Thank you helps and your support. Also helps to get an idea of what overseas shipping will be like from customers point of view. Almost the same as in Canada where the brokerage by UPS is high but unusually high like 60 percent. The point about the invoice on the outside is also very helpful. I can also use USPS by a service where another company brings my parcels across to USA to ship. Are you buying from overseas or from within Germany with UPS? I was quoted from UPS Canada that the fees that UPS adds to the package are $10 (or 2.8 percent) to Overseas by using express shipping and nothing else other than the government imposed VAT/Tax or duties. Are you saying that UPS has the exact same VAT and duties and the UPS fee is more expensive. Can you provide an example of one of your purchases invoice so I can get a better idea of the break down of the fees.
  5. Im looking for a way to screen print on veg, pre dyed chrome tan leathers and horween leathers. 1. Angelus paints can they be used in screen printing? First I want to establish if screen printing on veg is possible with leather paint like angelus acrylic? I am sceptical of this as the paint is very thin and may just bleed through the screen unlike the thicker acrylic paints used for screen prints. I have no experience with screen printing and maybe the mesh is fine enough for angelus paints. 2. If angelus paint is too thin are there after market additives to thicken paint without losing its colour? I assume that angelus paint mixed with something to make it thicker or screen printing paint (wouldn't prefer this. may have to do extra step like flash the paint and then heat it) would work . 3. How would I remove the finish of horween/chrome tan? Looking to also screen print/ paint with acrylics on horweens and chrome tanned leathers. Would this be possible to remove the finish on the leathers without losing the colour of the leather while screen printing and refinishing to look like the leather was straight from the factory w/ it printed on? Requesting the horween leather or chrome tan without the finish added is one thing, but the chrome, oils, and dyes how do they effect acrylic paints? On an unrelated note, fiebings dyed veg tan, buffed between coats thoroughly with atom wax rubbed in as the finisher would a heat gun lock the dye in permanently and prevent rub off ( sometimes its hit or miss whether the dye rubs off, usually only after touching water)?
  6. appreciate the insights. Bruce and Denise. Denise - are you saying Europe only accepts Xpresspost or that only large packages can be sent with this option only . How expensive are the parcels you ship through are they over $60 I think is the cap for duties and tax free, I have packages over 150 come tax and duties free though from USPS because Canada post doesnt have delivery vans in my area (or I haven't seen on before) so they come in through the mailbox. Items $300-800 dollars do they need anything special other than insurance, Is this something to be concerned with customs with expensive items should packages be split up in multi packages? Im trying to find the best option without overcharge in duties and brokerage fees. I get huge fees in Canada but Canadians may be the exception. UPS or USPS, Canada post which are better for expensive 200+ shipments in terms of less brokerage fees into isa or abroad. I know USPS has 90% cheaper fees shipping into canada than UPS. I guess that UPS america does the paper work as it passes ground border (ex. UPS to canada 100 parcel + tax + 40 dollar brokerage fee + duties = 164) To sum it up if its too much reading I have a few options - 1. Carriers - UPS/Fedex/DHL - 2. postal office - Canada post (expensive), USPS (I can send items that are $200 or less through a service that charges a dollar a parcels plus USPS shipping). Under 199 goes through USPS The issue is if I start selling items that are over 200 (The service that brings goods over the border only allows items under 200 for USPS) or multiple items totalling over 200 the fee for shipping from Canada would be some where like 40+ for UPS and Canada post. USPS on the other hand would be $20 for a small sized parcel and maybe like 35 for a box to fit a bag (could be wrong). In your experience expensive or larger items UPS/fedex/DHL, Canada post or bring the item myself over the border and use the USPS?
  7. thanks stelmackr. Not shipping into Usa is not an option however. I can can find good rates for small shipments but over 200 dollars I have to use UPS ground or express.
  8. Has any one have any first hand experience in USA placing an order from UPS ground shipping from Canada or Mexico? Are there any large fees like duties/brokerage, bond fee, ect? How about other lw members from places like uk,italy, norway? In canada we have to pay upwards of 30-80 percent on just the COD fees which include taxes, duties, brokerage fees from outside of our borders. USPS is not bad as it is handed off to Canada post. Is this the same large fee when sending UPS ground to USA ? From UPS air shipping the fees are dramatically reduced and is the only way besides FOB to send overseas. But to use the reduce ground shipping from a UPS business shipping account the fees from the border are hard to determine and are sometimes very random and the rules and limits of duty free cap. are different country to country. (Huge headache) My other option is to send items through a mail forwarding service in Canada and then they ship through USPS. Does any one use Fedex, USPS or DHL for their international shipping? and why did you end up choosing that company?
  9. vegtan/bridle is stiffest, next is combination tan of veg and chrome, pull-up leather then chrome. It depends on the tannery as to how the leather will come out. kangaroo veg and horween horse front are stronger than regular veg, so is goat vegtan too.
  10. Im with joe on this one, I'm interested in what you come up with.
  11. Thats fair enough. I do suggest that you could give it a shot if you don't like the look then you can pin it down to whats the best technique only once you try all the different ways and incorporate what works for you as everyone has a different technique. Maybe you may use an iron for the very last step to melt beeswax at a very low temp and before that you burnish with a electric burnisher ect. Once you find a your technique you will use it until you find something better but (hide pounder) probably tested out his technique and perfected it over the years until its down to a science, so I'm suggesting to just spend sometime to just experiment with heat, burnishing, waxes, different dyes and whatever, before just using hide pounders technique so that you can tweak his technique based on first hand experience.
  12. I've done both ways and spent at least a few hours burnishing and recently started trying the heat tool. In my personal opinion I prefer the heat tool and the burnishing (hide pounder technique) is the way to go in my opinion for saddles and heat tool when working with chrome, and pull up and thinner veg tan which are nearly impossible (except the veg) to burnish without the heat tool and is a more versatile. Burnishing requires a lot of time unless you have an electric edge burnisher, but the results are good. In a production atmosphere edge painting shouldn't be ruled out and burnishing with an electric burnisher is equally as good (apples vs oranges), but when it comes to being able to use one technique throughout your whole line of goods heat burnishing can be used for everything. Although vegtan can burn so you have to adjust the heat to about half and work slower or a pre step has to be take to saddle soap the fibers down. The difference between the soldering iron and the proper tool is that one is 150 dollars and the other is 2 thousand. The soldering iron provides 50% of what the proper tool can do it can heat up to exactly the right temperature and stay hot, but the real tool is the better equipment if you have the cash-flow or are willing to spend the extra amount. Otherwise an iron is a starter tool, it can however regulate the temperature as they are made for soldering expensive components and need to be at the exact temperature without dropping. At the end of the day I'm not going to recommend the 2 thousand dollar tool as its possible to get it done with the iron, also louis vuitton or prada has used a soldering iron in one of their youtube videos. Il try to find it but the only thing necessary is the exact temperature and a hot tip, you could if you are serious about it get someone to machine a part like the flat fan type tip to fit into a hakko soldering iron. personally I spent at least 200 actual hours try to perfect what I'm doing, most of which was saddle stitching, construction, and now recently I have been moving on to the "extra" parts of leather working which are edge finishing, sewing piping, handles, designing the patterns to that the pattern is perfectly aligned for turned edges, working with exotics. I think 3 or 4 years away from getting every little detail right and several more years from perfecting the art so to speak. There are things I'm still learning as I'm moving along since i don't have a mentor or have the money, but I understand the fundamentals of leather working to a certain degree.
  13. It was a machine style splitter like a fortuna. Is the piece the same thickness throughout? a picture would help.
  14. I have some good pieces made with a cheap iron and I don't even have the edge paint yet, who doesnt mess up while they are practicing? Edge painting is actually easier in my opinion since its hard to mess up the face of the leather because the only liquid touching is the edge paint vs saddle soap, glycerin, ect. A mid - high level soldering iron like a japanese hakko brand (90 dollars) can set the temp. exact to the degree and has flat tips. Some european brands (either louis vuitton or prada) use a soldering iron (probably $100-150 with pointed tip and temp control) .Campbell randall also sells a soldering iron for 200 made specifically for heating the edge. Different styles to leather working. Just like there are different styles of Fighting like western boxing or karate, ones not better than the other, which ever one you prefer is up to whoever it is. I prefer using whatever works well and it tends to be different techniques that are either japanese, western, european as long as the results look like I intend them to be.
  15. I wouldn't rule out soldering iron and edge paint its a legit way of finishing edges (especially since you already have a soldering iron). Its totally up to you though, the european way (edge paint + soldering iron) works on all types of leathers from veg tan to chrome and pull up, where the traditional way of burnishing does not, which is what you have ask for and works well for me. The soldering iron route does not need any paste of any sort, no paraffin, or duck canvas, just sanding, edge paint (or your own recipe of natural dye and something like wax), light brief sanding then touch up that the paint didn't set properly, and add beeswax (optional) and rub with fingers. Cuts down on my time and never had an edge go bad so far.
  16. Beeswax is a finishing step after the paint. The tandy pro Fenice paint is available through tandy. glue plus reg. edge paint could work. I tested out reg. transparent glue only and its melts the glue to give it a smooth transparent edge. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Nitz/182186731147 halfway down there is a video.
  17. It replaces the edge slicker and burnisher part of the process and replaces it with special edge paint thats part wax(?) part dye and the heat from the iron smooths out the wax and the edge is smoothed out. It may or may not be able to be done with a edger, I don't see why it can't.
  18. paraffin and glycerin are natural products I believe. you can use it if chemical base stuff is an issue. Look into heating tools (soldering iron) and Fenice edge paints they are what I'm looking at and they don't mess the face of the leather. A sponge with water or the paste spread on with the wallet held above the sponge/ rag and dabbing downwards is an option.
  19. I use my pricking iron to go all the way through leather no thicker than 4 ounces, 6 you may be able to get away with. The holes on top will be enlarged but I take my fingers and rub the marks until they go away and stitch without an awl. I've had good consistent results and I stayed with this technique. Many will say its not the right way but even professionals in italy and france I hear do it the same ways. They also do prick the iron half way and do each one at a time depending on the artisan.
  20. heres a video if you haven't seen it with the machine for reference
  21. I know waterhouse leather has glazed leather at 15 dollars a sq foot and they thin for free. leather glazing I've only seen on youtube and it was done on a big machine that moves back and forth(could of been heated) and I don't think they used any oils or liquids. Maybe a slicker with cotton wrapped around it may work? I also have had cheap transparent glue end up on dyed vegtan and it looked shiny so you may want to try that but I don't want to lead you in the wrong direction or mess up a lot of leather so try it on some scrap first.
  22. yes, I meant to write an s to the end. I wish tandy had some savings tho .
  23. no problem jay. The contrast makes it come to life. I can imagine it selling in a store actually.
  24. I prefer leathercrafttool.com for japanese leather tools. Prices are cheaper by sometimes 30% on the exact same item. If your buying one item from goods japan its a good deal since they add the shipping cost onto the item. If your buying 5-6 items your are paying for shipping X3 compared to leathercrafttool. Savings aren't that much but they add up if you own a business and are constantly buying tools and supplies. Also if you want to go straight to middle-high end tool dixon pricking iron from abbeyengland was where I got mine for I think 70 dollars for a size 7 - with 8 prong (I had to shave down the teeth with a stone tho. They need a tax id to open an account but I wrote down a random name and they still okayed the package.
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