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Wow you understand some of the words your wife says. I can never understand my wife. She says something like blah blah blah nag nag nag

I understand every word I say. Then again I have to listen to myself every day. Ah such wonderful harmonics.

I now have 45 videos on mu uksaddlery youtube channel

You never know I might do a draw next year . More chance getting info on my Facebook. The name I use on there is geo Dunoon and uksaddlery . I don't come on this site as often.

Yes still not cheap when you add flight hotel and food

I use the 125/a when I make saddles. I Have never used their other glues. The 125/a is not super strong it holds the work well and allows me to take apart if I place my work wrong.

I have a prize draw on my Facebook https://www.facebook.com/uksaddlery https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100010749131931 WIN A PLACE ON OUR SADDLE MAKING COURSE Value of this prize is £1200 The course will be held over 12 days starting on 11th July 2016 and ending on 23/July/2016 www.uksaddlery.com ... All you have to do to enter this prize draw is like this post on my page on Facebook and comment (I can attend) You do not have to share this post to enter but it would be nice to share to give your friends a chance to win. This is open to anyone from anywhere in the world as long as they are over 18 and have some experience using leather tools and working with leather. THE PRIZE will be 12 days training this includes the materials used. It does not include your travel or your accommodation. The course will be held in Dunoon Scotland Terms & Conditions 1. This prize draw is open to entrants 18 years of age or over. When contacted the prize winner may be asked to provide proof of age. 2. Entrants must have experience working with leather and leather tools. 3. The closing date for entries is 01/May/2016, 12.00pm GMT 4. The prize is a place on our 12 day saddle making course to be held on 11/July/2016 till 23/July/2016. 5. To be eligible to win you must like and comment on our saddle making prize draw post on Facebook 6. No purchase is necessary to enter this prize draw. 7. The winner will be drawn at random on 02/May/2016 and will be notified by Facebook message. A direct response to confirm their details is required by 13.00pm 08/May/2016 with their full name, email address and a contact telephone number is required. If the Facebook account/winners email is unreachable or they fail to respond to UKSaddlery winner notification within the above time, UKSaddlery reserves the right to randomly draw another winner. 8. The decision of the judge is final and no correspondence will be entered into. 9. The winners agree to their name being published as the identified winner in UKSaddlery Facebook status. 10. Entry instructions and prize descriptions form part of these terms and conditions. 11. The Prizes are as stated, non-negotiable, non-transferable and there is no cash alternative or different option. The promoter reserves the right (a) to substitute alternative prizes of equivalent or greater value and ( in exceptional circumstances to amend or foreclose the promotion without notice. Your statutory rights remain unaffected. 12. UKSaddlery accepts no liability for the prize or for any loss or damage arising from its issue. 13. This promotion is in no way sponsored by Facebook,endorsed, or administered by, or associated with Facebook. 14. Facebook can't be held liable for anything related to this promotion

Adam I have a prize draw on my Facebook uksaddlery courses . It might also be on my own Facebook geo dunoon. I am giving one free space on the course.

I am sure more people than armitage has made hand stitching videos. I think the more the merrier. Keep at it Yin. I have not done one as yet and may do one in time. I have about 6 hand stitching videos showing it in a diffrent way. If someone was do do videos like mine I would see it as a good thing. Because some people might not get my method. . They may understand it easier with a diffrent person showing it .

Nice job . And welcome to the forums

I tried to connect it to my laptop but I could not do that. I have just sold one of my houses so I might move the tv from there to my workshop and try it....The little screen makes the job hard so I need to try something. My next problem is deciding what to video next......I might have to start taking requests soon. I have done 31 videos so far

Thanks Bill I did do another video this week but never posted on here. I can't cut and paste text in this. This means I have to type the link code in by hand. And that is a pain in the ........... All my videos are on my YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3QZ1tHEvSU This is a video that shows you how to hide your stitches. I was not going to show this video. Because I did not do the cut to my usual standard. However I decided it will show you how it is done and you could take your time to do the cut. When I was doing it I was trying same time as watching the camera to make sure you could see what I was doing. The camera was also in my way.

lol I worked in Walsall for years . I know about strange conversations.....they don't like teaching you anything. you can imagine the comments I have had . I teach anyone and everyone. The trade is dying it is the only way to keep it alive We are all the same we want to become millionaires in six months. Wish it was that easy. it took me 12 years to become a millionaire . I should also point out been a millionaire does not mean you are rich these days it is only an amount that makes things a little easier. I retired from the 9 to 5 thing last year at the age of 55 and aim to share what I know as often as I can. I do this through teaching in my school and traveling the world teaching now and then. I have about 25 youtube videos and aim to do a lot more . I also aim to do saddle making videos that I will sell. Videos like making a saddle from start to finish. Then doing add on videos showing how to do mono flap saddles' seats with insets. and anything else that people ask me for.

I have been teaching leather work for a lot of years. When I teach in the USA the company I work for rents space from colleges. Great place if you only do a course now and then . They can feed and accommodate your students at the colleges . I bought the building my school is in I have never seen the point in renting. I have several properties and thought if I get fed up teaching I could always push the building over and build a couple of houses. As to finding students the local paper is a waste of time . Unless you want to do simple belt making courses. Leather worker sites are the place to look. In order to do a saddle making course you really have to be able to use leather tools.to do this course. My past students have all been leatherworkers . I do teach beginners to make simple things like bags, wallets, belts, briefcases, basic horse equipment etc. They come from all over the UK Advertising in the local paper would only get one person now and then.

I tried to get saddlers from the UK to go. They all expected silly money . Their idea was to go to America and come home a millionaire 6 months . I gave up on that idea. I tried to get someone with some leather experience of this forum. I had no replies. That is why I went down the route of training them myself. All your well known large saddle companies make high end saddles using a saddler to make5 or six saddles a week. I know of a lot of saddles in America selling for 5000 dollars are made on a system like this or on a production line. The production line is becoming more common. Guys like myself who can make the complete saddle from start to finish are disappearing. The new way is to show someone to make a part then send it down the line. You can train someone to do part of the saddle in a month or two. This makes more sense as it is faster to train someone to only do there bit. Where as someone like myself took 5 years to train. I much prefer My method where the saddler makes the whole saddle . I have done a few courses in America. They run for 10 days and are always full. Last one I did for a company had 16 people this was to many people to teach 10 people is plenty. ADVERTISEMENT TIME.....Anyone who wants to organize a course pay me I fly all over the world doing this......Think of it as an act of kindness to me. It gets me away from the wife for two weeks

Best of luck finding someone. I took a contract in America in 2013.Training and organizing the production. I was after a few saddlers and found it impossible to get anyone. What you could do is find a local lad and train them to do the simple jobs like staining the edges, running up stitching, casing stitching, gluing etc keep the skilled bits for your self. Things like setting the flaps pulling the seat on flocking etc. You will train someone in a few weeks to do a lot of the simple tasks. When I worked in Walsall I was making 5/6 saddles a week. I had the leather cut for me and the machine stitching done for me. When I made the complete saddles In my own workshop I could only manage three a week. So a little help doing the simple stuff from someone will bring your production up. Alan I am in Scotland if you came on a few of my courses you could nip over to Canada and help.

Forgot. To add we are in Dunoon Scotland. Easy to get to only 45 minutes from Glasgow airport

I have added course dates to my web site www.uksaddlery.com Learn how to do saddle repairs, make a bridle, flock/stuff a saddle or make a complete English style saddle.

I'm glad it worked for you monkey. It is one of the ways I train students in my school