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You're killing me. That just isn't right. I'm sorry but you need to pick one and drop the other -- awesome living/work space or unlimited free top shelf wine, your pick. My musician buddies and I used to say the same thing all the time about Vince Gill -- you can't both be a monster guitar player and have the voice of angel -- gotta pic one and drop the other. lol

Oh man, that is so inviting. Wow, just gorgeous. Great pic, I feel like I'm right there in the moment. I think the first thing I would build would be stage and wire it up with a PA and stage lighting. Imagine the possibilities after that.

Gray, you have an original, unique style that's readily discernible in all your work. To my way of thinking, that is as impressive as the work itself. Actually......? it's more impressive. Not to impune anyone else's work, just saying it's a fairly rare thing to see.

I dunno man, it looks pretty damn good to me as is. Your tooling is awesome. For me finishing in general is voodoo. I don't have a set approach at all. I just wing it. If it turns out awesome, I don't write it down or remember it . If it doesn't work out, I dye it black, I've gotta lot of black projects.

YinTx, have you seen this Don Gonzales video? Just ran across it and as such haven't tried it myself, but it seems like a good antiquing approach.

A leather fetch Frisbee for my dog.

It started off just making a new seat...then I kinda got carried away.

Nice... you come up with the coolest stuff, I swear. Is that Horween from the Northstar batch a zillion years ago that you turned me on to? Man I wish I had pile of that. God it was nice leather.

No prob. Here's the template for anyone else interested.

Haha...yep. I wonder though? Is it that the craft itself sucks you in, or is it the irrational belief "I can make anything"? I think I'm more heavily weighted toward the latter. I suspect a lot of folks here are as well.

I have a crude template that I'll pm you here in a while along with some tips.

And one more...on her maiden walk with the new harness. And the harness cured her pulling! Cured my dog's pulling as well. It's the strangest thing, you would think that a harness would encourage pulling, but instead it discourages it. It's counter intuitive I'll admit, but it was explained to me that the pressure a harness exerts on the chest feels like pushing to the dog, and they don't like to push. Hence, no pulling. Now how those Huskies overcome that...? Beats me. Different sort of harness? Breed specific thing? I dunnno, just know that it worked for me and my friend.

Here's one pic. My buddy sent this one as soon as the package arrived. I asked for more and will post when he gets off work So pleased that it fits like a glove and all I had to go on was a few measurements and the hope that my own dog was close in size as a stand in model.

Those are excellent stamps. I've been wanting to make some myself for quite some time and now seeing what is possible with yours ....well, looks like I'm off to Home Depot. So many projects, so little time.

Looks ferocious

A dog harness for a friend's pit bull

Those look great! I like how you've covered some in leather and laced them up. :-) Hard to resist, isn't it? I'm currently covering an entire bicycle. What an odd lot we are. :-)

Man, now that's an airbrush set up. How about showing us an example? Didn't see anything in your gallery but the internet yielded this. No doubt you have better airbrush examples, but these are impressive nonetheless.

Sanch, excellent point that I had not fully understood until just now, an "Aha" moment that kinda feels like an-out-of-body experience. lol serious dude. It's so clear now -- I don't know anything about airbrushes and don't even own one. Instead, I have a Miniature Sprayer that is used primarily to spray acrylic finishes and it's great for that, certainly much better that using sponges, brushes, or rags. I don't spray dye much. Occasionally I'll spray a single color dye fade on a piece, but I never spray paint. I could but I don't want the sprayer clogging up and brushes work just fine for what little painting I do. This sprayer is straight forward and easy to operate as you would expect a sprayer to be. And here's the thing. Had there been a Miniature Sprayer available 10 years ago, I would have bought one and so would lots of other folks like me who were (are) intimidated by airbrushes as being too complicated But now I see more to that story. An airbrush is an overkill tool for someone who only wants a simple sprayer. There's a bidness opportunity here. It's all about perception. Generally speaking, people don't buy tools, they buy process, they buy outcome. I'll bet simply repackaging and a name change is all that would be necessary. Although a design review could yield a simpler, cheaper. more focused product. Who wants in on the ground floor of this?

Danngit, I'm torn between seizing a juvenile humor moment or honoring the sanctity of a Granddaughter/Who moment. Shoot....All right, Grandkids win.. Man it's hard to walk away from that meme.

What a sweetie. The leash is nice too! :-)

Man those are sharp looking! I answered this in another thread...

I've searched a lot on this topic. Not just for strap lengths, but also of ergonomic standards/averages for feet in general. I'm certain this information exists but I've not found it. Closely guarded secrets so it seems. In the case of strap length, I would think there is a standard ratio of strap length to sole length, like 75%, that can be applied to any sole size. It would be relatively easy to test that hypothesis by measuring a full run of sizes of a particular style or two or three of Flip Flops. And Walmart always has Flip Flops for sale on its shoe racks. Hmmm? Ok, I just measured two pairs of mine and the ratio is ~ 60% (6.75"/11.5") But they're also the same size (10) so that's not much of a statistical sample. But it is a data point that you can compare to your own size. Also keep in mind 60% is just to the sole. You would have to add another two inches to that for going underneath the top sole. So the formula would be (60% * sole length) + 2" I'm assuming you are asking the question because you want to make a pair for someone who isn't readily available for a custom fitting, or perhaps it's a surprise gift. In that case, I would definitely take a trip to Walmart and at least measure that particular size. Let me know what ratios you come up with.

The DYT Pro performed as advertised. Expirements confirmed that the DYT Pro accurately and reliably finds the true center point weight Lab Results ======== A WIP Dog collar wth uniform weight was placed on the aluminum balance bar. A stick pin was then pushed into the prediction position to compare with actual test results. As shown in this photo the actual results were identical to the mathematical prediction. ns. a The second experiment involved adding a weight to the lab test collar, a tin of WOW! Leather Dressing. The tin, weighing 47 grams was placed on the left half of the balance bar. Again a push pin was set in the position predicted by Scientists and ...YEP, the results are identical. There's no doubt about it. The DYT Pro performs as advertised. Truly a triumph for Science today boys. Special thanks to Science Contributor and Inventor of the patent pending DYT Pro, Mr. Dwight. Thank you Sir. Nicely done! EDIT: I can also confirm that it only took a couple seconds to find the balance point in both cases. Very efficient and very effective. Excellent solution Dwight. I need to send you a trophy or something. This is great. Thanks so much. EDIT 2: Tomorrow we'll test the Jiggler 007 from the friendly folks at BikerMutt. The question that everyone's is pondering is "Can you really just jiggle to the middle? The BikerMutt folks so you can. Stay tuned and we will it to the test tomorrow. Until then, goodnight everybody.