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That's fantastic stuff but I can only look sideways at it cos I've got enough on my plate building my hot foil machine. Seems like you're only limited by your imagination. Well done.

Looking good. That's the kind of work that is not only harder to do on a machine but wouldn't look anywhere near as good. Well done.

I have another question Mike. I swear the way my mind works sometimes is a curse. So - My "shop" is upstairs in the front of the house. My big boy compressor is in the shed in the garden. I have a very long air hose on the compressor. I know the hose expands quite a lot. Now I'm thinking noise here at night, Would there be enough air in the hose for small airbrush projects without the big boy going off in the night? I appreciate I'm asking how long is a piece of string but do you have any idea?

Love it! That pirate can board my ship anytime. Well done.

To be fair there's not a lot in em to go wrong. Of course if you want production runs you have to pay for uprated components but for occasional use almost all of em will do the job. Most of em come with temperature control that yhat you can set but In practice, because different leather/foil will be slightly different you'll work out the best temp for that project and jot it down for the next time. You have to factor in the cost of the stamps/ alphabets which can be surprising. A lot of people have one letter twice in their name which means two set of letters and sometimes that's not gonna be enough and do you get upper and lower case letters in which case that's four sets. I've just bought a set that meets half way and comes with multiples of the letters that are usually used twice. That cost me £218 GB and I've no doubt it won't stop there and we haven't talked about different fonts or stamps yet. I'm in the middle of building a press (see other post) and I'm excited to see what I can do with it. Let us know how you get on and welcome to the forum.

I've always liked the "Ol boys" screw topped glass jars screwed underneath a shelf. Takes up no extra space and you can see at a glance exactly what's in em.

Here's where I'm at with the box. Which will be mounted on the wall.

OK! Here's where I'm at. Took a while to work out how to do it and make the parts with what was available. The bits underneath are waiting for the letters to arrive before I work out how to mount them to the aluminium block. The back side showing the 50mm holes for the heaters. Showing it tilted so I don't have to fumble around underneath to change the letters. Have to work out how to accomodate stamps and letters.

I don't know about the politics but the footfall that you're reaching has got to be worth something. There are three things that are important to me, cost, delivery and ease of use. Amazon rocked the boat with "Prime". I was skeptical at first but now I'm loving it. You have to balance the cost against how much you want it and how long you want to wait. With Prime You WILL get it next day often even on a Sunday. What I can't stand about Amazon is the search engine. Put something in and get a pageful of stuff you don't want. Ebay on the other hand is wonderful Put the search term in "" and that's exactly what you get and it get's better. Put "leather" in and get all sorts out. Put leather bag and it won't get much better but if you pu in "Leather bag" - faux -clutch -backpack and you won't get any of those in the results and you can put as many -s in as you like. From a sellers point of view Ebay is much improved. At the moment the only thing I sell on Ebay fits in a A4 envelope. My phone goes kerching, I click print shipping label, up it comes £0.96P. Print the label, pritstick on the back and if I so wish I can have it in the postbox within 15 mins of "kerching" Ebay also seem to be doing more and more deals like £1 total selling fees. I'm only an occasional seller but I think my account is a business one but no one bothers me. Probably because I don't turn over enough.

Thanks for taking the time Mike. It'll have to go on the back burner for now. In the middle of building my hot stamp press at the moment and loving it.

Good to know. I'm liking mine so far but haven't used it in anger. If it doesn't hold an edge I'll be looking for an upgrade.

Thanks Mike. I do have an airbrush somewhere but have never used it, Been thinking about getting a quiet compressor for it. I have the smallest of the big boy sprayguns that I have used for dyes with my big boy compressor but that's in the shed. So, I see it used on veg tan, do you "prep" the leather first to take acrylic? Do acrylics work on chrome tan or oil tan? Does each layer have to dry before the next? What kind of finish to make it "fast"? On bigger applications like a bag flap etc, will it crack if flexed? That'll do for now. Thanks again.

You do get me Sheila.

I'm not sure you're supposed to sharpen the inside curve . There's no edge of any kind on mine but of course there's nothing stopping you. I imagine it's a bonus for people that like to pull.

This is something that interests me a lot and there are so many questions but I don't wanna corrupt your thread any more. Is there somewhere I can go for the answers?

J Wood sells shearling. https://www.jwoodleathers.co.uk/

Welcome Jim. Looking forward to following your journey. Don't leave out ALL of the swearwords.

Welcome Jonas. Love how you've sorted things so you can do them on board. You must have long periods of waiting for something to go wrong and it's far better than crosswords. Look forward to seeing some of your projects.

Is that a self portrait after half a bottle of your favourite? No one can doubt what it's for. Good job. Acrylics have always mystified me. I used to think Acrylics were Acrylics but apparently not so. Some are expensive and some are pennies and I'm still not sure which ones will stick to leather forever and which ones won't. Maybe someone should give the sub species names like with dyes? (although dye names could do with an overhaul also.)

Love anything that's practical, especially when it's for yourself. No pressure and so more enjoyable. Good job.

Maybe spray glue it to the leather prior to cutting the panels out? Just have to worry about it showing at the seams.

I wasn't kidding. If you can turn it into a beer stein you'll sell loads.

It is kinda spooky but compelling at the same time. How did you do it? Looks like wet formed around a mould? If you waterproof it, smarten up the rim and put a handle on the back you'll sell lots of em. Great stuff. Well done.

Take no notice of me Yin. You're doing good stuff.

Yes, better, esp the croc one. I was blown away by that dino skull the other day but God knows how you would get that on a bag.