Johanna

Okay, Jarl, how long have you been sitting there with candy? M&Ms are my favorites. I like peanut and plain, all mixed up is fine. Exciting discoveries, you know. Hugs to you and a gentle one for your mom. Smart of you to try and find something constructive to do while under stress. Some people fall off the wagon, others build them. What kind of classes do you take in school? Anything you can combine with your other leather and wood interest? Johanna

I have a Verizon card that rips in most cities, much faster than the regular cable connection at home. I only use the Verizon card at home when NKTelCo goes down, or when leatherworker won't resolve dns with NKTelCo like this past weekend, otherwise I use a generic network card to connect my laptop to my router here at home. On the road, my Verizon card is convenient and easy- no logging into public networks, no waiting for connections, no limits on bandwidth or times. I can jump on the national network pretty much everywhere but some parts of WV. The connection here in farm country isn't very good, and with only a bar or two, it's fastter than dial up, much slower than cable, and it drops sometimes. Johanna

It's okay, freak, you can use a chicken instead. Just not a beaver, or dear, no. If we make any beaver deity angry, we have to put tinfoil on all the cow's horns in Texas to make the board work, and we would still get doughnuts unfit for human consumption. I need to have a word with the refreshment committee! Seems to be working here okay now. Any better there yet? Johanna

It was doing it to me, too, which was hard because I am 2 members on here, especially as messed up as things have been this past week. Stupid computers. I just turned off the "stronghold cookie" that makes our browsers get jumpy. Another symptom of the stronghold cookie is when the member gets a pm notification, the browser warns you that a page "out of its control" is attempting to access the page. duh, it's the notification from another part of the board! So we should see an improvement. Clear temp files, click "delete all cookies on the board", reboot your computer, and walk 13 counter clockwise circles around a dead cat at midnight with an amulet and sacrifice of your choice. And nobody better touch Beaverslayer's hat. Look what happened the last time! Johanna

http://leatherworker.net/frapprleatherworker.htm Is your pin on here? Johanna

I set the forum to combine posts made within three minutes. Changing the allowed number of pics per post now. Johanna

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Bill, I can't duplicate a back button problem on either IE or FF. Check your mail later for ftp info- I'm slowly but surely getting caught up. Johanna

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It's a setting that needs changed. I'll get it. Thanks for the heads up! Johanna

Fixed. The default setting was only a skimpy 500K. Leatherworker now has the room and power to have UNLIMITED image hosting ability! I did leave the 2MB per one upload limit intact for the people who forget how big their pics really are on their T1 connections. Anyone needing more than 2MB to post one attachment, PM me. Thanks for catching that quickly! Johanna

We had to lose the pics that were uploaded yesterday. I am hoping folks upload them again. We took the board offline late last night to make some final changes so that the board stays stable for a long time to come, but I had to sacrifice the pics uploaded yesterday. We only managed to save pics from Oct 2007 back from the old board, so it would be great if everyone would repost their newer work while we're working on restoring the old posts. Johanna

We took the board offline last night to correct some problems, and we think (fingers toes and eyes crossed) that all is okay now. Kate deserves a gold star and an Olympic Medal for her heroic efforts. What we need now is for you folks to use the board, so we can see that everything is a-okay. Thanks everyone for your patience and understanding! Johanna (we had to zap pics uploaded yesterday- please re-upload!)

You're a sweetie, Luke. Any member can contribute through the site using Paypal by clicking "My Controls" and the "Subscriptions" link on the left of the page. Paypal contributions can be made to "Johanna@nktelco.net" directly or send a check to Johanna Schroer PO Box 103 New Knoxville, OH 45871 If you don't use the forum to make your contribution, send me a note so that I know who to credit. If you want to keep your gift a secret, send me a note so I don't accidentally turn you blue when I do the bookkeeping. All monies will be used to maintain the site. This site expenses are about $75 a month, so every donation in any amount is a help. Johanna

The "ultimate workshop" kit Tandy sells is a good value for someone starting out. Everything but the rotary hole punch is useful. Johanna

I went for the last surgical consultation today, and there isn't going to be any surgery. My choice. The surgery wouldn't restore the range of motion, anyway, and that is one of my top complaints. I have an "ulnar abutment" which means two bones are rubbing on each other, and the area is swollen and irritated. They could shave the lunate bone in my wrist, but the surgeon warned that it would ache for a long time, maybe forever. It does that now, so I don't want it to be worse! There is nerve damage affecting three fingers that cannot be repaired surgically, either. Neither can the "vascular osteo-necrosis", which spells eventual doom for that little lunate bone. The consensus was that I should accept the limitations and learn to manage the disability, except for the bone surgeon who wants to fix that lunate bone. He put up a great defense for his surgery, but it isn't expected to fix enough of the problems to be worth it. They did agree that I need to baby this wrist. No one ever suggested that ever during any of the first year's physical therapy. None of the professionals in the PT office ever cut me any slack or showed any mercy, and four years later I learn that I probably made things worse every time I forced myself to stir cookie dough, start the lawnmower, sweep the walks, whatever with my right hand, trying to toughen it up and work it out. Ugh. Now I'm in the management phase of the injury, which means making a conscious effort to be left handed, and ease up on burden on this hand. I really miss playing guitar, swimming and writing with a pen, but I guess I need to be thankful of all the things I can still do, like bore my friends to tears feeling sorry for myself on my ergonomic split keyboard. I'm just disappointed that there isn't some kind of magical solution, and to "try wearing a splint on bad days" was the extent of useful advice I got for the money. Johanna

Guys, I never used any dummy guns, but it certainly would have been more convenient. What can someone expect to pay for one? How many models does one need to cover regular requests? Are any of them interchangeable? Do people doing production work order a dozen of each at a time? Do you use them for the whole production process, or just to get the basic shape, and finish with the real gun? I'm curious, because it seems like a big investment in inventory, but then I've never been working on too many holsters at one time. We did custom work, and the customer gave us the gun. If we would have wanted to get ahead and make up some generics, dummy guns would have been handy. We could have done them assembly line style in slow times and sold them easily. The holster market was always there. Cheers from a balmy Ohio, Johanna

I used a circle of leather shaped like a Cheerio, punched holes all the way around and lashed it on with kanga lacing. I suppose it would easy enough to add padding underneath. I would probably try the hobby foam you can get in fabric stores because it wouldn't bunch up like batting would. Johanna

Bill- I would be happy to help you get the site like you want it after the holidays. Of course we'd be delighted to cross link with you, too. It's great that so many of our members are willing to share a link with the board. Johanna

Welcome to leatherworker.net, John! Glad to have you here! I'm originally from Washington County Pa. Isn't Blairsville to the east, down the road from Monroeville on the Wm. Penn Hwy.? Hope you enjoy yourself here- there are lots of great people and experienced leatherworkers contributing to the forum, and we're always glad to say "Hi!" to another one! Johanna

Hmmm...if you leave a rawhide mallet laying around, your dog thinks it's a lollipop. Hardware is sold by weight, not count. This explains why you will often be one short to finish the project. Dull knives will lead to stitches in the ER and irregular scars. A cowhide rug makes an excellent bedspread. You can't convince some people that their shoelaces are not made of rawhide. If you hold the stamping tool for someone, they will miss and whack your hand. Most people are better off buying the leather they need and forgetting splitters. If someone gasps and reaches for their wallet, you set the correct price. If the radio is on while you are carving, you will tap the tool in time with the music. People really do believe that commercial that says you can iron on a patch to repair upholstery leather. The first time you assume a gun is unloaded, you will shoot a hole in the floor. Neat Lac will dissolve fingernail polish. If you ask 10 leatherworkers the right way to do something, you'll get twelve reasonable answers. Johanna