Pip

Thanks so much!!

Nice work, it is enjoyable!!

First attempt at Sheridon style, bizarre order changes had me foxed but got there in the end!

Gone for Blackraven Leather! Thanks for all your help.

Hi Pete, welcome !! a note, get yourself some paper suits and a good respirator!!

Great work, I too wish I ha started younger!! Well done keep at it you got talent!!

Nice, thank you!!

Great stuff thank you!!

I had a long think and a sleep and as I work in the public eye, and my name gets used a bit locally, I kinda want to detach from work and my name for my leather creations. A non name name, would be best, I think....., sorry guys! or am I just being fussy??

Pip is my leatherwork name, Not my given name, I tended not to use it on line to guard against fraud, and its become a habit. Well hello there (possible extended family), texaslady. Our surname originates from Oxford, England (at least that is as far as I traced it) where Thomas (one of our family names) Harding was Mayor........ oh and executed for heresy. Sounds like your Hardin's are methodist stock with John Wesley names being recurrent?? They sound pretty cool to research!! It is a fascinating name, in uk ancestry our harding I was told by a historian meant 'of kings', (probably illegitimately if the rest of our history was anything to go by). We always seem to end up on the wrong side standing with our principals and suffering for it, hey ho, this apple did not fall far from the family tree. I lost track all the paperwork on my side of the family years ago and my dad and I are the only surviving Harding's of our line. I am not having kids, so its broken pillar time (a broken pillar in a British grave yard is symbol of end of family line). We have a family crest which is quite cool, three stags heads diagonally descending across a field of blue. I will ask my dad about it and see if he has it, and look and see if we have a connection, somewhere. Don't think we ever escaped Britain much except My Uncle Lee but he was mums side, but it did get really tricky to follow around the 16th Century. Pip

Welcome to the forum bud, lots of good peeps here, ask away, lots of experience too! Pip

Take a look at some of my gear

I like crows nest too!!

I am glad you still have it, twin oaks, its got to be a few years now! Do they still do pay it forward?? Tried pip-squeek , they make kids shoes, vamp make ladies shoes, Pip Harding is too formal for me I think. Hardleather not sure it really suits the jewellery aspect maybe a biker market, Liver leather another great suggestion and one I landed at first but it also reads liver (as in the body part). A friend thought of Jackal and hide but that's gone too, they make bags. I keep checking on the computer to fin the names gone Thanks so much for your help, it is such a difficult thing almost as bad as pricing!! Pip

Hi Everyone I am launching my hobby into a craft business, small at first then growing. I am looking for a name!! I used to be slash converters when I made armour, but I don't really make armour now, except for commission. I make small usually carved leather goods and jewellry, but mainly carved bracelets, pouches,belts and bags. My surname is Harding Nickname is chief (as in Chief Brompton from one flew over the Cuckoos nest) Leatherworker name: Pip (as in Pipistrelle bat) (I rescue sick bats) I am a wanderer on the darker side of life but this doesn't always show in my craft, and have a connection to nature and teach outdoors/bushcraft/forest school. I am really struggling, the only thing I can think of is at my first show to do a naming raffle, where people can think up a name for me and the winner wins a prize?? Thanks in advance Pip

Tom thank you again

Thanks Tom, I will have a go at this one!

Close as I can find!

Ok the letters on the face say GMT and have a large N above them, thats as much as I got sorry guys!

Hi Dra6n and welcome. I had a similar problem a few years back, lived in a terraced house, I put sleeping mat under my slab, it was fine for a while but be careful not to get stuff trapped in the foam as it eventually led to my granite breaking, but it was a cheap kitchen piece and I got given a wrongly carved gravestone by local memorial insciptors, it's huge and heavy but makes very little noise.

Thanks Jo.

Always had good service from these guys, pricking irons are good, I have a few Dixon tools, some are quite old, and well used. A good sign! Pip

Beautiful!

I can't find a make on the watch, it was sold by next and is only branded for the store, I will take a closer look at work as I think I see something but needs magnifying. I love it, would love some more but..... Dbanks, Thanks for the chance but I am just starting with straps, not really at a point I can confidently make them over distance, (I am in UK) too many variables I don't understand yet. Sorry, some much better guys on here, they might fancy a bit of lizard. Feel free to jump in guys. Pip