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I'd just leave it and call it character.

Welcome to the forum. Nice work your doing there.

Looks good and it's a good start. Actually I think this would fit in well with this thread http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=63332 and believe you should post it there as well. You may have to connect some dots as you seem to have issues with the display of pictures.

If it's based on Wikipedia's software it has a discussion page for each article as well.

Nice bag kaerkes. But more than that I thing you've done a great job on the tooling, literally no walking marks. Thumbs up! Hey since you're living in northern Spain which should be well visited by the nearby French and all the Germans, you could target a bit towards the richer tourists. The Spaniards really aren't paying for your efforts. BTW. Are you getting your leather from the tannery in Andalusia? I'm looking for a contact into there. They have some really nice veg tan leather.

Just 2 cents here as everything else has been said already. We're using brass hardware on horse halters and lead snaps. Never had one break and that's an awful large pet with up to 18 hands and up to 1,700 lbs for a draft horse. Don't think you'll run into strength issues with a smaller animal, just don't buy the Chinese crap.

Very nice idea. The only thing that puts me off right from the start is that one has to register to even read and I will never do this.

If you take a very close look at this rose https://www.flickr.com/photos/gildbookbinders/4976392214/in/photostream/ you can actually see the spray pattern, cause the person screwed on 3 different spots Looking at this one https://www.flickr.com/photos/23916720@N08/2268644205 where the artist states that is acrylic and airbrush I would think that the airbrush isn't too far off.

All of these 3 points are false statements. If a person heard of red rot before it's obvious that this would not be true. If one really scratches leather it doesn't matter whether it's veg or chrome tanned. That scratch is to stay. Minor scratches may be buffed out, but that's no concern. I'm just thinking of box calf leather, which is a chrome tanned leather and if you add some finish cote there's no difference in smell at all. This statement would only be true in regards of untreated leather. In that case we would be talking about unfinished leather. For the chrome, this is again not true if reviewing box calf leather. It really depends on the tannery. There are on the other hand veg tanned leathers which will not really show any fibers. Please review anilin, semi-anilin leathers and so on. I agree with Mike that more sources should be participating in this. A simple Google search will help already and you'll find articles like this one http://maxwellscottlm.hubpages.com/hub/chrome-versus-vegetable-tanned-leather https://www.google.de/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8&client=ubuntu&q=chrome%20vs%20vegetable%20tanned%20leather&oq=chrome%20vs.%20veg&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.8865j0j7

Besides the fact that tanning and dyeing are two different things and we differentiate at the least between coloring or dyeing the surface or dyeing through the whole and the processes for each are different I find the intro too long as well as the first sentence would put me off already. It may sound funny at first, but what it truly is, is telling the reader to be dumb. It's common knowledge that leather has been tanned. The few people that don't know that are probably not even interested in that fact already. Mike, isn't Horween using veg-chrome tanned leather (I don't know). That would mean it's chrome tanned an re-tanned using vegetable tanning.

zuludog, he's suggesting that someone writes or collects all the stuff and he'll be happy to pin that post or thread.

Looks like airbrushing to me.

It may sound like a dumb question, but isn't 16 oz. and 18 oz. even a bit overkill for a gun belt? Shouldn't 10 to 13 oz. be sufficient?

Now I'm missing the voting feature again. I'm all for that suggestion.

Very interesting! Thank you for the info. That sure is an inspiration.

LOL, sorry I missed the 0. and thought it's a 5 mil. Okay so here's a thought. Since it's only a 50 cm long piece, did you think of a paper cutting machine? Not the ones with the lever type style, but the one with a straight bar. If it's that thin of a leather, it's probably chrome-tanned and that tends to stretch no matter what you do.

Reason being water soluble. Review the properties of the products you're using, please. And as always, try your stuff on a scrap piece first. I wouldn't buy a messed up item. Back to scratch or giving it away if you can't strip it well and do it again.

Is that second knife made from a circular saw blade? What material is the handle made of?

Either a strap cutter or a draw gauge would be the right tool.

As usual your tooling is simply outstanding Vitaly. I think you should start your own book series.

How nice. I've been just reading an article where a guy had a saddle maker built him a saddle just for that occasion.

Nice stamping pattern.

Cool, have been looking for something like this already. Thanks for sharing. Just one question. Do you glue the pieces before stitching or no? It looked like you didn't and if so I would be curious to know the reason.

How slick. Thanks for sharing!

Well you've given yourself the answer already. If you don't want to take legal action suck it up. Telling someone that he stole your design and not telling him to not do it again and what you expect of him/her isn't helpful. There are at least 2 long threads about copyright infringement you can read up on. For as long as we are really just talking about a design and not a functionality the effort isn't worth it. Unless that design is part of your corporate identity, it be really hard to proof you have righteous claim.