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Yeah... The saving grace would be just doing a few now and again with your scraps, tossing them in a bin and then some point down the road using them when you have enough.

Yeah, that's the process I was kind of thinking... just didn't know if anyone had a big secret method.

Ok, I grabbed this guys image off instagram, his work, not mine so I tried to leave his name on there... but I'm wondering if anyone knows an efficient way to make punched beads like this or is it just going to be a bunch of time spent with the punches? One punch and an awl? Two concentric punches?

Well blow me down! (sorry, I couldn't resist)

well they're close but they don't fit my lace cutter, strap cutter, or any of my skivers... so I guess that makes them pretty much a flop unless I start building tools around them.

Just experimenting right now.... tried them in my lace cutter with middling results (in other words I cut myself :P)

I picked up a box of these tonight for 8 bucks... 100 wicked sharp blades, basically the same size as an injector blade: http://www.sallybeauty.com/single-edge-razor/SBS-676102,default,pd.html

I've been digging around the interwebs and I can't find anything about it.

Really? I found this in one of the boxes of old leather stuff I bought over the weekend... a couple copies of it no less. Someone actually bought more than one of these kits.

... I need to take some pictures but I put an add up on craigslist that I was looking for tools if anyone had some around they'd inherited or some such and a woman who'd cleaned out a storage unit contacted me. She sold me 3 apple boxes full of various leather working equipment for 150 bucks. I've done a rough inventory of it just to see what all I got. So far the gem is 100 or so craftool branded stamps. I'm not sure the age on them, but based on other things in the boxes, I'd guess 70s. There's a dozen or two old tandy kits, some half done, some untouched. Cutting mats, 2 or 3 swivel knives, a couple rawhide mallets, and who knows what else. I've only really scratch the surface... There's a lot of garbage, but there's some gold burried in there too.

I had no idea such a creature existed! I want to see too :D

I'd love to get a copy too if that's cool.

Oh, that turned out really cool.