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Very cool I love the colours

Hi Milisandia, Here's the way I would go about it using something like 9oz leather. Work out the internal diameter for your tube and cut a piece of leather to this size. Then I think to work out the main tubing width it's the circumference plus the thickness of the leather. So for a diameter of 100mm you have a circumference of 314mm plus the thickness of leather 3.5mm 317.5mm. But check this with a scrap of leather before cutting to make sure it's right. Crease and burnish the top and bottom of the tube. Mark your stitching on the bottom and sides and using a awl make the holes. Then butt stitch the sides together. Mark a crease around the circle of leather for your stitch's to sit in. Then make the holes with the awl on a angle coming out just above the bottom corner. Use a box stitch to stitch them together. It will help if you have something the same diameter to put on the inside to keep everything rigid. The cap is the same but your internal diameter is the external diameter of the tube. Tips If this is your first time doing the box stitch or butt stitch practice on scraps first as they are not the easiest to master. When marking out the stitches for the circle pieces make them slightly smaller. I hope this helps and doesn't confuse you further Tony

Thanks for all the compliments, it was a nice project to do. I really liked the look of the camera except it didn't have a view finder which I thought was a bit strange and it was smaller than I thought it would be when the customer sent me a picture. By the time I had finished I was glad to send them to customer my fingers felt raw from stitching the corners.

Recently I made some camera cases and thought I'd share the results. Made with 3.5mm (8-9oz) veg-tan leather.

Hi Ray, the only place I know that sells them is http://www.attacc.com/acatalog/Attleboroug...HERWORKING.html which are rather more expensive that abbey!

heres a link to a post that shows how Peter Main does some of his lettering http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=8208

That is so cool, your famous

One of the spray painting forums I visit has a very similar thing. Each month a thread is opened for submissions and then at the end of the month another thread is opened for voting with a poll. http://airbrushtechnique.com/forums/f258/

Thanks Kathy I've just started making some things out of copper and didn't like the idea of lacquer to keep it from tarnishing.

A tip I have used successfully in the past is to melt the block of rouge in a double boiler and add a small amount of olive oil. Just enough so that when it's at room temperature it's not as hard and goes into the leather easier. I remould in a small yogurt pot.

I get most of my fonts from these guy's http://www.dafont.com/

How about this http://www.axminster.co.uk/sessionID/JPW/c...rage-208058.htm the modern plastic version. Havn't seen it anywhere else, try google

Thought it reminded me of something from woodworking. Would something like this work? http://www.axminster.co.uk/sessionID/JPW/p...lates-20396.htm Used for making doweling. Shouldn't be to hard to make. Next time I go to Axminster I'll have a look at it.

I had one of those this morning exactly the same. Did a quick google about them and read your letter on your blog. Thanks for posting this as I was going to ask the same question.

I've always dyed first then stamped after. I'll normally work with the leather as it's drying out so I don't have the hassle of re-wetting it. But if you do need to re-wet it then I found hot water does the trick. But it's definitely easier to use as it's drying. Once it gets to a workable stage I'll wrap it in plastic and store in my fridge till I'm ready to use. As I've found out best to do a test first, as leathers can react differently. Hope that's been some help

Hi Steve, welcome to the forum. I'm also a neighbor living just across the border in Dorset. We just need someone from Cornwall now and your surrounded.

Not many pictures of me around, but here's one from me and a buddy messing around after taking some photo's for my website. I'm the one in the shirt and tie.

You can't stop people stealing your images, but you can put a comment in them. When an image is taken or saved it adds information like camera used, date taken, camera settings etc. I use the Gimp for editing my pictures and try to remember to add a comment in these settings like "copyright 2008 - A Peters" You can do this by going to image properties. It can of course be deleted but most people wouldn't think to check.

I too downloaded chrome last night, but I don't like it. It has some good points, I like the option to clear all my cookies up for the day and even all my history. But it doesn't do it. When I open a new tab, there's my web pages that I have been on. I can't find a way to remove them. If you save passwords with your browser, where are they kept? What if I want to view them. For a basic browser I think it may work fine. but its less customizable than Firefox and I don't like blue. Personally I use a lot of Google products and if they keep going with the new browser then hopefully they can get people away from IE. But I think Firefox is still a better browser with a much better logo.

Thanks for the help mike, the piece is still drying so haven't oiled it yet. Sorta hoping it stays blue now. But for next time will definitely test out the tea method. If it works then I have two dark colours up my sleeve.

Was asked to do a black belt for a friend. Having had really good experience with vinegarooning in the past, finished the belt as normal then brushed on the vinegar mix. Instead of turning black it has turned blue. A dark navy blue. Looks very nice though. Same vinegar mix as I have used in the past, so the leather must have been tanned differently. Anyone heard of this or know why this happened.

Wow I am sooo impressed, anyone know how to do the "Bentley cross-over hand stitch"? I think if I really tried hard I could make one for Rolls Royce with my special "Rolls Royce saddle stitch"

I've been experimenting a bit with taking more professional looking photo's of my work. Started off by building a simple light box from a cardboard box. Then was thinking of other way's to show off my work. So a quick modeling session with myself and then a hour with the Gimp and I came up with this. So what way's do you have of showing off your work?

I use a duplicate receipt book and for everything I make it gets a number and is written down in the receipt book with brief details about each piece. I also mostly write the number with a fine sharpy on the leather. When i sell a piece I mark it down as sold and take out the front copy. For a market etc this can then go in with your float. This way I can keep track of everything sold and have a record for the future.

Was messing about with my camera and thought I'd take a picture of my home made creasers. The first one is my most used, made from 11mm (7/16") mild steel from a old rusted out gate. It creases a line about 3mm from the edge. All file work so very easy to make. The second i use for any free hand creasing or if I need to use heat for my creases. Again made from an old gate.