humperdingle

I remember the ham radio cards (or CB - Citizen Band) radio over here... used to be a cool thing to collect. Must have been early 80s? Might get costly transatlantic but i'd be more than happy to swap a fob with UK leatherworkers

Lol same here... in fact, better than the 10th thing I made!

Shame you can't get out... i'm in the UK, too, and found B&M (Home Bargains, too) selling slabs of granite approx 14"x10"x1.5cm for £4.99 ea. Look the same as the one in your link but thicker. I sandwiched two together. Not with glue, but with a thin sheet of silicone mat. Works very nicely.

Sunny (!) Scotland! Shame about the leather. It's an expensive enough hobby as it is, but spending on leather we won't use is a pain. Put it on ebay? Maybe recoup some of the cash.

It 'looks' like a split/PU to me (From the pics). I got some a while back - a huge bit! On retrospect, I should have bought something 'better', or at least a smaller piece of something better. Where in UK are you?

It might well be a split with some sort of PU coating?

I use a Merkur 34c with Feather blades these days... lovely shave Did I read the OP correctly? You use the razor to cut leather? If so, what's the technique?

Oh I see, sorry, I misunderstood what you were asking!

Sam Browne?

Just a note to say Studio-N (Nick) made me the stamp I asked about above... it's great! And at a very reasonable price, too.

Try here: http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=60848&hl=

Nice! Was it turned on a lathe?

Just remember the iron content in the steel stamps may discolour leather when it is damp. Might be a good thing in some cases, I suppose?

Hmm... can you do a Star Wars stormtrooper helmet? (And how much would it be, shipped to UK?)

Lovely - any chance of a pic of the join?

Not much of a workshop, but this is my 6ft long workbench I constructed in the garage.... needs a good bit of re-organising!

Our Border Terrier ate a small leather treat bag I made for my wife to carry whilst walking him. Obviously he ate that because it reeked of - and contained - treats. She'd dropped it somewhere, and she found the tattered remains of the cord used to close it. Otherwise, he eats or even sniffs at any of my leather stuff. Was a tense time and he was x-rayed, which showed it was still in his stomach, so the vet induced vomiting. Luckily all was well, and he recovered fine.

Buy a load off him and shove them on ebay?

I use a woodworkers' vice... nice and cheap.

Maybe try here: http://www.intercover.co.uk/bonded_leather.html

For me, the problem seems to arise as the tool stops and the workpiece needs to be moved. If you can have an 'island', like a workbench you can walk around, then the workpiece stays stationary so the tool can keep moving. Works for me

Would you ship to the UK? I have a logo 1" x 1" which i'm needing a stamp for... If so, how much shipped?

Thick luggage tags.

Take on the project. If it doesn't work out, he doesn't pay. Either way, it'll be excellent practice experience.

I know someone who can make something similar. He made me a drill burnisher and it's great. Could copy the one in the photo no problem, I reckon. PM me for his details.