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Very nice work.

Superb! Unbelievably beautiful. Not knowing too much about whips, what is that white area above the handle? I can't see what's going on there in the photo?

ditto all the above

No experience with blacksmith aprons per se but with shop aprons. I would give some real thought to how you do the neck loop. The simple loop around the neck can become uncomfortable and irritating. A much better design is where the top straps come over the shoulders and crisscross on the back and attach to the waist attachment. The weight of the apron carries much better with this design.

Not North American but African. I play a djembe in a couple bands and have marveled at the construction. The website associated with this video offers literature on refurbishing drum heads..may or may not be useful.

Not to beat a dead headless goat here but it's strange how things often travel in groups. Tonight I was over at a friend's house having a cocktail, another friend, a film maker, was also there and said his latest film was selected in three film festivals around the country. One being The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival in Missoula. I lived in Missoula for a few years back in the day. I go home and search on Big Sky Festival site for his film and the first link I click on is another film about Buzkashi..this one is a feature length. I can't believe the ferocity of the sport. It's pure craziness. http://www.oxusfilms.com/buzkashi.html

Very very nice! Superb!

Wow, looks like very well put together units. I'm impressed with the craftsmanship.

It's funny, last night I went to see all the Oscar nominations for live action shorts. I had been trying to come up with the name of game that originated throughout Central Asia that probably polo and it's related games came from and one of the films was an Afghan one called "Buzhashi Boys". Exactly what I was thinking about. The sport that the players carry around a dead goat and score with that. Interestingly, the film was mainly funded through the US State Dept. http://vimeo.com/34778382

That tanning video was fascinating. Look at this one in Fez, Morocco. One of the oldest tanneries in the world

Rufusjames, What's the difference between polocrosse and polo? I could google it I guess. My wife and I moved to Santa Barbara in '79, she to start her PhD and I to start photography school, we rented a place to live on the Santa Barbara Polo Grounds. The owner of this particular condo was also a member of polo club. I don't know why but that afforded us a lower member status as well. I watched a lot of matches during those years there. What an exciting, thundering sport it is. Paul

very nice! I like that two tone you've got going on with it.

Striking.

WScott, You on a Mac without a photo editing software? Open the pic in Preview and adjust size through there. Use SAVE AS if you don't want to resize the original

Great project and helleva good looking footwear you make!

Sure is a good looking saddle. I really like the metal hardware you chose.

Why yes I do. Check out the second item on my BUY page of the website for my latest piece. Although, and let's cross all fingers and toes, I think someone may be buying this in the next few days. http://cargocollective.com/makerunknown/BUY-1

Here's mine and the shop. And no, it's not curved...

Thanks Jason, Yes, the liquor cabinet is more or less a conceptual piece that flows tightly around a loosely based concept of liquid..waves, ocean, fish. The two side panels feature woodblocks that come out for printing as well as putting in others in the future. It's for sale by the way... San Diego is close enough I'll hand deliver it.

Thanks everybody. My girlfriend who works in journalism thinks I'm onto something with the branding my brand thing. She going to try and push it out to her contacts. So I re-shot it to create a bit more excitement to it with a bag that didn't pass muster. I wet the leather to get some "action" out of the shots. I would edit the original but can't at this point.

Knipper, Hi. If you look back on the first page of this discussion, I posted a couple photos of a plane I finished. It came in a kit form with 95% of metal work done but left up to me to put in the wood handles and do the final opening of the throat. It's a Ron Brese kit. He sold the kit I think for right around $700..maybe 8, I can't remember really. A finished one by him runs $1742. The difference is he did not stamp his name in the blade on the kit for just the reasons you quoted. You have to maintain the integrity of your brand and you can't if you're name is on it. I think offering a high quality blade without the rest of the bits might be a good idea.

Very nice!

mmmmm....A medium format digital back that can fit onto various makes and models. I can't remember but maybe it was on the Fuji 680lll at the time.

I've been using a bike for 99% of my transportation around San Francisco since the mid 80's. My bike was stolen and I purchased a used 1982 Schwinn but didn't like the handlebars. I laminated up some bamboo, turned it to size and sewed some grips on it. The seam may appear to be out of place but in use it fits right into the joints of the fingers and provides a positive structural element for gripping. The bamboo had a catastrophic failure one time during an emergency stop. I've built a second one using Ash which is proving to be much more resilient to breakage.

And I totally agree with you too. Here is an infill plane I made...well, I did the wood part of it. I was using the metal blade vs the wood handle as an analogy for where the importance of a tool lies. I don't mind paying for good tools, in fact it's a dogma of mine to buy the best I can. I don't cheap out. But I agree with the OP as far as some things don't need to be overly fussy.