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As I sewed a long time without any clamp or pony I bought one of these "cheap" Tandy stitching ponys and was satisfied with it... for about three to four months... as an improvement to "nothing" it works quite fine, but in the end I started to modify it to fit to my needs, but actually I still wasn´t that happy. So there had to be the next step: I needed a good new stitching clamp. And for sure it would be selfmade So first of all here some pictures I like to work with pretty tools and maybe I want to use it on some Larp-events, too, so I decorated the leather parts on the jaws a bit and used an old chest-hinge I had remaining from my traineeship as a woodworker with some iron nails. For the hinge and the leather parts I deepened the wood so they are flush with the wooden surface so there isn´t any possibility the thread could get caught by any parts of the clamp. Hope you can see that on the pictures. The clamp itself is made out of white-ash, oiled and waxed. Hope you like it

Looks great! And you have used a simple and clear design. I like that!

Thx a lot for the link. saved it immediately. I´ll give the same brand acrylics a try, but keep angelus in mind.

Thanks For sure I´ll have a look at that section. Actually I´ll have to browse the form in general I think ^^.

Hi I´m from Germany and started working with leather as I started doing Larp. While I visit just a few LARP-conventions from year to year my fascination for leather is growing bigger and bigger. Actually I think I managed to achieve a skill level I am quite satisfied with, but I still see a lot of points in my work where I can improve and techniques I want to learn. So I think this might be the right place to ask questions and get some feedback from professionals and maybe get one or two hints to improve my work Looking forward to it! As a first impression I´ll add my first selfmade costume for Larp. It´s sth like a guideline through the first three years of my leatherwork newer and more detailed will follow in the "show up" section (because that´s the place it should be i think)

Hi there, I am from Germany and this is my first post here so please excuse if my english isn´t perfect, but I´ll do my very best ^^ I´ll introduce myself later on with some pics of my stuff, but this problem right now is more important to me. I´ve got some problems with a project I used Resolene over some cheap white acrylics (no Cova Color, just acrylic paint). I used a (higher quality) golden acrylic over Fiebings royal blue before and sealed it with resolene -> had no problems at all, everything was just fine. But now I used a (cheap) white Acrylic paint over the same blue, added some details with the same golden Acrylics and sealed it again with resolene: First problem was the colour changing from white to some red-like spots. But I have already found some topics on that. The more interesting problem is, that I can rub off the resolene itself in the areas I used the white acrylic paint. Even the areas where I used gold over the white are no problem at all, just the white ones. It looks like some glue-remains on a table you can easily rub off by using your fingers, in some areas you even can pull it off like a very thin skin. I never had such a problem before and also didn´t find it in this forum by using the search engine. My idea right now is to buy a acrylic paint from the same brand as the golden one, put one or two thin layers above the white areas and try it again. Do you thinkthat could work? I have already looked for shops, selling Angelus and Tarrago over here but i dind´t find anything I would pay shipment costs, so for one bottle of acrylics I would use so often it doesn´t make sense to me at all A usefull information I might mention is, that I let everything dry for about 24 hours after every single step of the coloring process. So there shouldn´t be any problems about that. looking forward to your opinion.