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The pawn shop tips alone was worth the read. Every pawn shop I've ever been to had sky-high prices (guitars is what I always look at) and I just scratch my head and wonder how they managed to sell anything at those prices and where the heck are the supposed great deals? DOH! Of course. Pawn Shops use the "Tourista" pricing model -- they expect to be dickered down to half or less. I don't why that never occurred to me, but I tell ya what, I'm gonna keep that in mind next time I pawn one of my guitars or get one out of hock. ;-)

Was thinking the same thing. Gorgeous work... envious as hell.

Thanks. Gonna give this a whirl.

I'll take it provided shipping is reasonable. Shoot me an email with shipping costs to 75069. If it's kosher, I'll buy it. Include your PayPal ID. Thx. clyde.seeger@gmail.com

@Queen -- sent you a copy via PM

Thanks, just what I was looking for. +15 "Your Choice"™ Karma Points. Reward Options: (1) Parking Spot Luck, (2) A Minor Miracle, (3) Good Fashion Sense, or (4) Surprise Me! ("Surprise Me" option is not recommended for Households that lack an Emergency Preparedness Plan and a Household Emergency Disaster Survival Kit).

Springfield Leather -- If They Ain't Got It, You Don't Need It

Hi Monica

Ha...

Clever girl...

Attached to super magnets on the arbor press.

I use a 3" thick tombstone which is perfect because try as you might, you can't beat it to death. Get it...death...beat.... The other thing to consider is: Free = Good Tombstone = Good Free + Tombstone = Nirvana

hahahaha -- just won't let it go will ya, even after surrender. Ok, yeah, I'm most certainly old enough to know what I don't know. I've often said and believe that you are as smart as you will ever be when you're 15 years old. At that age, you know it all and it's just down hill from there. I'm 58 years old, just turned last week. I have a hip replacement surgery scheduled in six weeks. Yeah, I'm old enough and then some. Oh, and a dog lover too. You have yourself a good life now, ya hear? And just remember, this is all an illusion. None of this is real...you don't even exist.

Ok old timer. Since you gotta dog...I'll let it go and have no retort. You win. Goddammit, always frickin lose when a dog is involved...

"Boy do i feel lucky !!" Good, glad to help, cowboy.

It means it's a philosophical argument and adding extra exclamation points doesn't make it objective. Just means you're emotional. "I'm old enough to know that i don't know everything." At least you got that right.

Gaze into thy navel, and profound you will be...

The Aesthetic Brain: Why The Brain Likes Beauty

@ George -- on the off chance you might get this despite the seven year gulf, just wanted to say THANK YOU!!!. That was an excellent answer to the question I had while searching on this topic.

@Wanted -- I'm a designer and think in those terms as well. For me, it's all about creating beautiful things, things that are pleasing to the eye. I have my own biases as to what constitutes art and artist, but also know as you suggest that objective standards do not apply to subjective experience. Many years ago an artist friend of mine had returned back to Dallas after getting an out-of-state BA in Fine Arts and we were debating this very topic, what qualifies as art and what are the requirements necessary to be considered a legitimate artist? I argued the conservative view that if one had not studied the craft and put in the time and created the output and mastered certain skills that they really didn't qualify as an "artist". I used the example of Picasso, whom I don't care for at all, as someone who did the apprenticeship and had the qualifications and that legitimized his cubism work as serious art versus [insert your favorite art dupe]. My friend disagreed completely, that there was no criteria for being an artist other than the desire to create beauty and who is to say what is beautiful? Art is fundamental and all humans have an innate ability to create art. He argued that his degree didn't make him an artist, he already was one, it just exposed him to a myriad of mediums and techniques. He agreed that there is such a thing as good art and excellent art and freaking amazing art and that there was bad art and dupe art. BUT, it was all subjective. Of course the debate went nowhere, which is no reason to not continue debating when you like to debate which we both did. Finally my friend said that he had real life example to prove his point. Before he showed it to me he made me swear that I would be honest in my assessment. I said I would. Before he showed me his example he described that it was a project for a photography class. The students were instructed to go outside, gather some objects, anything, then return and photograph them. He said some chose litter, some chose plant material, he chose some ordinary rocks as his subject. Smooth, roundish rocks, but ordinary rocks, around ten or so ranging in size from a basketball down to the size of a golf ball. I'm thinking to myself, "This is gonna be an easy one. Uh, no....pictures of rocks you found out in the woods behind the parking lot is not gonna be art". Then he showed me the photographs, dozens of them. I was floored. They were beautiful. He arranged them this way, and that way, with sharp contrasts and long shadows and depth of field and on and on and he explained the feeling he was trying to evoke using different exposures yada yada. I had to admit, he was right. What exactly he was right about, I'm not sure, but he was right. =============== Those two pieces of yours are amazing.

@Tinkerton, grain side is the outside. The flesh side is inside and the side you glue. Also, it's a good idea to scuff the grain side as it will be a little on the slippery side at first, and maybe that's what prompted your question. Ha, just occurred to me that this is an age old questioned that man has wrestled with since the dawn of time -- flesh or flash? I think the answer has been flash for a long time. Here's one of the oldest pair of shoes ever discovered -- 5,500 years old. Looks like Flash to me. ;-)

@Grey -- Does the upper's leather look familiar? Thx

A must fashion item for the 60s - 70s Time Traveler. Psychedelic accents set these funky sandals apart from the tire-soled huaraches fare and put you right in the middle of the "in-crowd". Whether grooving at Woodstock or throwing frisbees in the park, these sandals are as hip as you can get. If it's good to ya, it's gotta be good for ya. Right on! Keep on trucking, baby. I'm working on a tutorial for these and one other model of Men's Sandals, plus a a minimalist, or "barefoot sandal", as a companion to the Flips Flops Tutorial. Should have a download posted in a few days in the tutorial section. Until then, peace and be cool.