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The original ones pop up on ebay often and usually fetch $150 or less

WyomingSlick you got a pretty good deal on those stamps, less than $5 a tool... good eye. I wish I would have noticed them. The tools look easy enough to clean up especially all of the stainless Hackbarth tools in the collection. I'm always looking for the diamonds in the rough and looked right over them. It always amazes me when people are selling old tools and don't even take the time to type a few of the names into the google search page. Good thing Bruce scaled back his bid and let you get them that cheap, but if he did not spot them with his eagle eye you could have stolen them for $60. Well to answer your question I would have kept a few and sold the others so if I was in the bidding action I would have bid around $250 which would have allowed me to keep the ones I wanted and recoup most of my cost when I re offered the others for sale. Congrats on the tools and if you feel inclined I would love to know what other makers were in that lot.

#1 and #3 are SOLD

Two more plates

Small and large embossing plates for sale. The dimensions and prices are on the plates, shipping cost will be actual cost to your location. I will accept paypal for payments. PM me if you are interested in any of the plates. Thanks Christian

I would love to purchase the set, but feel uncomfortable sending a $1,200 money order. To me that like stuffing cash in a envelope and crossing your fingers. If you decide to take Paypal or other payment let me know. This is an impressive set of stamps, why are you getting rid of them?

LTC - The stamp is made from metal and I assume it is stainless. Quirtevans - All the stamps he has made for me were from sketches.

It's one of the older craftool 3/4" stamps

I have never dived into making my own stamp, but there is a guy from the Czech Republic that makes custom stamps. I have had several makers mark stamps and other custom stamps made and the turnaround if pretty fast. Normally my order arrives in about 10 business days. For my large "brand" stamp I got some pretty high quotes here in the united states, so I sent my artwork to this maker and the price was less than what some of the guys here want to charge for a derlin plastic stamp. I think it was around $60 to my door and I have made at least 500 impressions with the stamp and it looks just like it did the day it arrived. The website is http://www.toolpaw.com Just an option

steadybrook thank you for your interest, but they already sold. I have several more plates that I will just post in the for sale section instead of putting them on ebay. Hopefully I can get them on here in the next few days.

King's X, I hope you get the one you have your eye on. They make amazing impressions, I just don't know when or if I will ever be able to put them to use.

Thank you northmount the links are very helpful and should help me figure out what to do. This piece will be treasured and I feel luck to have found it. Christian

I picked up a pretty amazing piece of art made by Charles Heschke a few months back. I have it hanging on my studio wall and want to possibly clean the picture. The picture is a bit dusty and I would love to clean it up but i'm unsure on the best/safest way to do it. 90% of the time I work with finished leather so I was hoping someone out there would know the best way to clean the picture without damaging it. The picture is detailed with a lot of crevasses so any help would be useful. Also I was wondering if anyone knows much about Mr. Heschke. I have some of his doodle pages and would love to know more about the man who created this wonderful piece. I tried the old internet to find some information but came up with very little information. Thank you

Its a great auction depending on what you are looking for. I have been the last two years and have picked up some treasures and good prices on odd color leather (pinks,greens,etc). The auction is two long days with the first day focusing on mainly leather. If your looking for something odd that most people are not looking for, you can get items at a steal, but you have to remember that almost everyone attending the auction is involved in the world of leather in one way or another, so the sought after items go for a premium. So if your going to make the trip make sure you have a lot of money to spend

I acquired a box old metal embossing plates for journals, notebook covers a while back with plans to put them to use. They have been sitting in my garage collecting dust so i'm starting to list them on ebay so someone else can put them to use. If your interested you can bid or shoot me a pm with a offer and I can pull them off ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=161325624241&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

You picked a pretty difficult first project. Excellent Job!

for the $30 wallet with $6 shipping Paypal Fee = $36 - (2.9% + 30cents) - (4% conversion rate to Canadian) - (1% border fee) Ebay Fee= $36 - 10 percent = $3.6 fee And you still have your shipping cost. Personally I have free shipping on all of my products and just build that into the price. I use to ship all over the world but started running into problems so I only ship to Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, but use the ebay shipping center for all other countries. I don't know if they offer this in Canada like here in the United States, but ebay owns or works with shipping centers all over the US. If someone wants to buy something from me that is not in Canada, USA, Australia or the UK then they make their payment to the shipping center including the shipping cost from the shipping center. The order goes through the shipping center and they purchase the item from me. I ship it to them and they repackage it and ship the package to the end user. In the US we can only get tracking when we use premium services that cost 500% to 1000% higher than airmail. My international problems disappeared after I started using the shipping center. This eliminates the conversion rates and border fees since the payment is made in country. Hope this helps

There are no more hidden fees that i'm aware of, besides the final value fees from ebay. It averages out to about 10% final value fees from ebay. So ebay charges a listing fee past your 50 free listings and around a 10% final value fee for the final cost of your item plus the shipping cost you charge, so if your item sold for $100 with shipping they get $10, then Paypal charges their fees off the same $100. They have a monopoly going but depending on your volume of sales and feedback they do give final value fee discounts. I have been selling on ebay for a long time and they usually stick me for $500 to $700 a month in fees, but I just chalk it off as a cost of advertising. I don't know where else I could get this kind of exposure for a relatively low cost. For me it works but if your doing low volume etsy is the best place in my opinion if you are just selling finished leather goods.

Since the beginning of time there have always been swindlers and scammers trying to get something for nothing. In the current times it's even worse because people seem to want to push the blame away from themselves and in most cases truly believe that what ever incident occurred had nothing to do with their own stupidity or neglect. But it also goes both ways, usually when a company or person tries to cut corners. About 8 years ago I took several business law classes and we did extensive case studies of previous judged cases and reviewed a case against an actually small batch leatherworker. In a brief summary the case was over a man who purchased a dog collar for his purebred high dollar dog from a local leather worker. The plaintiff was walking his dog and the dog got anxious and tried to run after something it spotted. The dog was pulling away from the owner and the collar broke apart resulting in the dog being run over by a car and eventually dying. The plaintiff found a swanky lawyer who was also a pretty well know saddle maker in that area. As I recall the collar maker used a single jiffy rivet after the dee ring and buckle. The lawyer was able to demonstrate that at low stress pulls that the low quality jiffy rivet would pop off and they also had an advertisement from the leatherworker which stated that he used the highest quality hardware in his dog collars and that they should last a lifetime with normal use. If I remember correctly the plaintiff was awarded well over $30,000 for the dog, hospital bills and damages. With the famous McDonald's case they kept their coffee 30 degrees hotter than the industry standard so the coffee would last longer resulting in less pots being pored out and being remade. I only mention the cases above because it shows that in some instances that saving a few bucks and cutting corners could really cost you in the end. In my opinion anyone who produces something that will be in turn sold to the public should have some sort of liability insurance. The man who made the dog collars probably sold hundreds of them with out incident but when one of his collars broke it cost him big time. Also who knows, maybe the dog ran out of the house when the man opened the door and got run over. Possibly the man got home and realized that he will be getting a vet bill for several thousand dollars and noticed the recently purchased dog collar on the shelf. Who would know if he picked the collar up and pulled in opposite directions around the bend popping off the jiffy rivets.

A few months back I noticed several sets of the Tandy runes pop up on ebay and etsy. I recall that they were priced between 50 and 100 dollars, I know that the lower priced sets sold pretty quick but i'm not sure if the higher priced ones sold. However they do still come up, but I guess if there is more than one person who wants them, they will sell pretty fast.

Some of the descriptions are wrong and there are quite a few missing but this list covers a large majority of the old Craftool 2D/3D stamps. http://leatherworker...attach_id=52695

This is an old thread with some links to lists for the craftool 2d/3d line that might help you fill in the blanks http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=32941

Craftool made a horse shoe and they come up on ebay regularly. The stamp number is Z460 and its about 3/4" tall. Occasionally I see a custom horse shoe stamps come up , so there out there. The link shows the page with several different z460's on ebay http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_odkw=&_sop=10&_osacat=28133&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR11.TRC1.A0.H0.Xz460&_nkw=z460&_sacat=28133&_from=R40

I'm looking a clicker die that punches out a comb case for a cub scout summer camp. If you have one available please send me a picture and price. Thank you

Barry King, Robert Beard Pro Series, Jeremiah Watt Horse Shoe Brand are probably easiest to get your hands on since they have websites. There are other great tool makers, you just need to get their contact info and most of them will send a catalog. It's one of those things you just need to try for yourself. Pick a couple of the tools you use the most and buy the ones Barry King makes and see if the difference is worth it to you. Personally I waited years before trying one of big tool makers and noticed a huge difference with the first strike of my maul. I have picked up the tools I use most and have never looked back. If you plan on carving leather for the rest of your life you should consider it an investment in your craft. The better tools are time savers, but they don't make you a better carver.